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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Schneier on Security
Fake Stories in Real News Sites
Fireeye is reporting that a hacking group called Ghostwriter broke into the content management systems of Eastern European news sites to plant fake stories. From...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Changing How We Teach Computer Science
I haven't been blogging much lately. I'm adjusting to being retired for the most part but I have been reading and thinking a lot about teaching computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is the Pandemic Breaking AI?
This quickly came to mind in an effort underway, if an event is truly rare it has revealed less data, and current AI methods work best with lots of data. NoteHow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SeroLearn Demo
I see that Serolearn is moving towards a version 2.0. You can sign up to see the update, and you can try their interactive demo online.In active use by the DOD....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Britannica Beyond
Brought to my attention, a new way to deliver the equity of Britannica? Click through to try it. surprised at its emergence. Used to know several people who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Safer from Hackers
(See details at the link)A new way to train AI systems could keep them safer from hackersTechnology Review: Blogs: Mims's Bitsby Karen HaoArtificial intelligence...
From insideHPC
Altair Virtual HPC Summit
Altair invites you to join our HPC experts, along with our partners, technology users, and industry peers, to learn about the leading-edge computing solutions that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ant Algorithm for Commercial Fleets
This kind of bio behavior mimicry was experimented with in some yard applications, found to work better for some path variability.Ant Algorithms Help Fleet Operators...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Dashboards for Power Grids
Like the idea of a risk dashboard ( or graph) to address this kind of problem.Risk Dashboard Could Help the Power Grid Manage RenewablesAn ARPA-E project uses data...
From insideHPC
SC20 Drops Hybrid Hopes, Goes All Virtual; HPC User Forum Events Cancelled
Two HPC industry conferences have announced their decisions to change the status of their events: one will go virtual, the other is cancelled. SC20, which was to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numbers, Mathematics and the Reality of Science
Why can numbers do such a good job of describing reality? Can they describe all of reality?Recently republished: https://medium.com/@ruth.ym.ng/do-numbers-exist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BMW Takes Android Auto Forward
Continue to be a student of in-car use of assistants, here advances in Android Auto. Have been using Echo Auto for some time. Disappointed in its lack of advance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant vs Samsung Bixby
We were early testers of Bixby for general appliance assistance. I see less of it there now. But have not since experienced it brould on the phone. Indication...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CNet Looks at Alexa Event
I attended, good overall. Here a genera overview.Amazon's Alexa event shows the future of the Echo's voice assistantAmazon hasn't revealed any major new Alexa-powered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP to Take Qualtrics Public
Another large cloud competitor. Previously mentioned here. A key means of gathering customer data to drive emerging analytics?CustomerThink: SAP Takes Qualtrics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: Creating Generalizable AI
Looks to be a good piece, I am attending, will be available after the talk. August 11 Talk with Anima Anandkumar: "How to Create Generalizable AI"Register now,"...
From insideHPC
Intersect360: HPC Industry Down 3.7% in 2020 Due to COVID-19, First Decline in 10 Years
Industry analyst firm Intersect360 has announced its forecast for the HPC industry for this year and next, predicting a 3.7 percent decline for 2020 with a market...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Conference Track at ACM HT2020
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’20),...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CEO Moment: Leadership in a New Era
McKinsey's look at what the new leadership may look like.The CEO moment: Leadership for a new eraJuly 21, 2020 | ArticleBy Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Kevin Sneader...
From Schneier on Security