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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ron Graham, 1935–2020
Ron Graham passed away, but he lives on… Cropped from tribute by Tom Leighton Ron Graham just passed away Monday at the age of in La Jolla near UCSD. Today Ken...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Webinar: Opportunity Marketplaces
Brought to my attention by Michael Schrage, a correspondent at MIT:Organizations constrained to offer workers financial incentives might consider a new approach...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing Robotic Lab Assistants
Robotic Lab assistants are being tested broadly, here some initial results.Robotic lab assistant is 1,000 times faster at conducting researchWorking 22 hours aJames...
From Schneier on Security
Business Email Compromise (BEC) Criminal Ring
A criminal group called Cosmic Lynx seems to be based in Russia: Dubbed Cosmic Lynx, the group has carried out more than 200 BEC campaigns since July 2019, according...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers for In-Memory Computing Summit 2020
FOSTER CITY, Calif., July 09, 2020 — GridGain Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache Ignite, today announced the call...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Earth: 15 Years and Still Mapping
Been a fan since the very beginning. Used it at work. It has replaced very messy geography. The ability to answer geographic questions visually very quickly....
From Computational Complexity
Reflections on Ronald Graham by Steve Butler
Ronald Graham passed away on July 6 at the age of 84. We present reflections on Ronald Graham by Steve Butler. Getting to work with Ron Graham Ron...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teams Improving Capabilities with Cortana, Stadium Seating
Teams adds group meeting features. More competition putting together useful capabilities for group remote meetings. Transcripts. Like to see what kind of...
From insideHPC
Lenovo Standing Up Liquid-cooled Neptune System at Max Planck Society
Lenovo is installing a Neptune liquid cooled supercomputer at the Max Planck Society, a delivery that began two months ago and is scheduled to be completed early...
From insideHPC
Inspur Introduces Leading Designs of A100 Servers for AI and HPC
In this special guest feature, our friends over at Inspur write about how the company is delivering new servers that address the most demanding performance from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Have People Responded to Pandemic?
Fascinating piece, recall using data from 'discovered' cameras to determine city walking traffic patterns. Also using data from public cameras, with scrubbed...
From Schneier on Security
Traffic Analysis of Home Security Cameras
Interesting research on home security cameras with cloud storage. Basically, attackers can learn very basic information about what's going on in front of the camera...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Lab to Tackle Ethical Implications of Tech
Another effort in the space. Good to have multiple efforts addressing this problem to get competing analyses and solutions.Notre Dame, IBM Launch Tech EthicsNotre...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI gets a Poor grade of B- in Covid-19 Fight
A look about how AI is helping with vaccine development efforts. Sounds like a reasonable criticism, mainly that the event is too novel to learn from. But isKai...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biomimicry for Regenerative Medicine
Could the cells in these simple worms point towards a mechanism for regeneration of organs in humans? Considerable, non technical article with links to more ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM to Buy WDG Automation
IBM linking process to detect AI opportunities to approaches like RPA. And they already have integrated BPL capabilities. WDG Automation is in the process of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart+ vs Amazon Prime
Good expert comments on the just announced Walmart+ vs Amazon Prime. With some more details and comments by experts in the area. Like I have said, the competition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Need for Loaded Dice
I remember having to explain to managers why dice had to be 'loaded' in some of the simulations we built. Isn't that biased? Yes, but being loaded is required...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner and Mike Bernhardt Talk Exascale, HPC Marketing: How the HPC Community Tells its Story to the World
After more than three decades in supercomputing as a strategic marketing and communications executive, Mike Bernhardt has seen the HPC community evolve throughThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle