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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM SIGARCH BLOG: Genesis and Reflections on the Return of Industry Products to ISCA 2020
The following is from CCC Chair Emeritus Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Computing is a field with substantial interaction between academia...
From insideHPC
Chenbro Unveils 2U 8-Bay Rack Mount Server for HPC, Data Center
Chenbro has launched the RB23708, a Level 6, 2U rackmount server barebone designed for mission-critical, storage-focused applications in data center and HPC enterprise...
From Putting People First
Behavioral Covid-19 research in Italy
The Milan-based consumer and health research center EngageMinds HUB of the Università Cattolica has done some timely research on how Covid-19 has influenced the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Spins off Chinese Chatbot
Somewhat surprising, the demos I had seen looked interesting.Microsoft Spins Off Chinese Chatbot Xiaoice by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 14, 2020Microsoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BMW Sees Car as Digital Platform
Interesting regards the breadth of integrated technology, but the reaction of consumers to 'microtransactions' or payment/subscription for many elemental features...
From insideHPC
InfiniBand Powers World’s Leading Weather Forecasters’ Supercomputers
In this feature article from our friends over at Mellanox, we discuss how weather and climate models are both compute and data intensive. Forecast quality scales...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Auto-ID Laboratory
MIT AUTO-ID LABORATORYThe MIT AUTO-ID LABORATORY coined the term Internet of Things (IoT) and traces its roots back to 1999 with the founding of the Auto-ID Center...
From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenAI Monitors Machine Learning Efficiency
For now, the most measurable and definable kind of AI is machine learning, It uses much data and compute cycles. Useful to measure the advances in efficiency...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Tsunami for Network Security Scanning
Here is a new and somewhat unexpected thing I was just introduced to by TWIT. See their generalized writeup below. Note still in pre-alpha form, but would...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Ryan Quick on Putting Together the ‘Prometheus Fire’ where HPC, Hyperscale and AI Converge
Ryan Quick works at the crossroads of advanced technology innovation, where hyperscale, HPC and AI come together. A principal and co-founder of boutique consulting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts on Virtual Conferences - CSTA 2020
The first online CSTA Conference is now about 24 hours behind me. I was fortunate to experience it both as an attendee and a presenter. After mulling it over aThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Avatarin for Healthcare Robotics
We visited Japan in the 90s to talk robotics in retail. Ended up mainly seeing eldercare and related home solutions. Impressed, but did not see that many really...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Home Robotics with a Reaching Tele-Assistant
What looks like a minimalist robot, but with a great reach. Evidently primarily for tele-operation. And thinking about it, reach is a big component of convenience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Decentralized Dependent Decision Problems
Struck me as quite interesting, how do we make societal decisions? Can we learn the right information to support the right decisions? You can usually state sub...
From Schneier on Security
NSA on Securing VPNs
The NSA's Central Security Service -- that's the part that's supposed to work on defense -- has released two documents (a full and an abridged version) on securing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Talks Mobile Holograms and Digital Twins
Piece in Venturebeat talks 6G and says it will fundamentally enable tech like holograms and Digital Twins. Note the date, 2028 is a long way out to predict. Digital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Trys a Re-Emergence of the Smart Cart
We looked at many applications of the smart shopping cart for work in our innovation centers. The idea seemed to fade then, after 2010, and none of them succeeded...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: The Persistence of Memory
In this episode, we drill down on what Intel is doing with their cool Optane memory tech, shooting for speeds that remind you of memory, sizes that look like storage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms for Optimized Supply Chain
An area we spent lots of time in, Fraunhofer provides an introduction. Combinations of available solutions that can be quickly chosen from can be a key approach...
From insideHPC