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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 insideHPC
Never Enough Bandwidth: Optical I/O Consortium Formed to Set Interconnect Standards
More than 20 companies have joined an industry consortium to establish specifications for multi-wavelength integrated optics – the emerging interconnect technology...
From Schneier on Security
COVID-19 Risks of Flying
I fly a lot. Over the past five years, my average speed has been 32 miles an hour. That all changed mid-March. It's been 105 days since I've been on an airplane...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and IBM Announce New Intelligence Offerings
Next steps between SAP and IBM partnership: Digital Transformation towards the intelligent enterprise.In Cision: PRNewswire https://www.prnewswire.com/IBM and...
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SeRC Turns to oneAPI Multi-Chip Programming Model for Accelerated Research
At ISC 2020 Digital, the Swedish e-Science Research Center (SeRC), Stockholm, has announced plans to use Intel’s oneAPI unified programming language by researchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hitchhiking Drones
And had mentioned this novel idea as well in a recent post. Also covered in considerable detail in IEEE Spectrum. As noted will require some considerable design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spot Robotic Dog Now Available
It here, good piece on the rollout in IEEE Spectrum by Evan Ackerman. Been noting some application plans here over several years. Expensive, but if it effectively...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Domain-Specific Supercomputer for Training Deep Neural Networks
Good explanation of the phases of using computing power for these kinds of problems.A Domain-Specific Supercomputer for Training Deep Neural NetworksBy Norman P...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Price of Personal Data
Looking for the full report mentioned here, will post when I get a reference. Back to the our long time looked at question of what the price of private data should...
From insideHPC
ISC 2020 Student Cluster Competition: The Winner Is….
Students from China’s University of Science and Technology (USTC) won first place in this year’s annual Student Cluster Competition at the ISC 2020 Digital conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Slow Neuroinformatics Private?
I have worked with companies which used machine learning image analysis to determine, for example, if a person was 'of age' in various locations. To match with...
From insideHPC
Empowering Edge Cloud in the 5G & IoT Hyper-Connected Era
It is well documented that the amount of data that is being produced on a daily/monthly/yearly basis is growing at astronomical rates. IDC have estimated that by...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Scams
Really interesting research: "An examination of the cryptocurrency pump and dump ecosystem": Abstract: The surge of interest in cryptocurrencies has been accompanied...
From insideHPC
Car as ‘Computing Device’: Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia Team to Build Software-defined Vehicles for 2024
Nvidia and Mercedes-Benz today said they plan to create an in-vehicle computing system and AI infrastructure for 2024 Mercedes-Benz vehicles equipped with “upgradable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Research Director on Science and HPCC
Continued work with high performance computing by IBM.IBM's research director on how tech can push science beyond the pandemicDario Gil, who's been nominated to...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner Talks with Paul Muzio about His Hopes, Concerns for HPC and AI
Industry luminary Paul Muzio, holder of prominent positions in academia and private industry over a multi-decade career in HPC, is bullish on supercomputing –...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones Changing Shape
An example of how defensive activities of Drones are also at play.Research Leads to Army Drones Changing Shape Mid-FlightU.S. ArmyJune 16, 2020Researchers at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Segway's Done
We had a Segway very early in in our future stopping store. It turned lots of heads in those days. We taught incoming visitors to drive them. Were they just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uber Crosses the road
A good example of the complexity of data mining / machine learning data. Via O'Reilly.Inside Uber ATG’s Data Mining Operation: Identifying Real Road ScenariosSteffon...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Request for Community Feedback on BPCnet.org
The following is a guest blog from the BPCnet.org Steering Committee. To the computing community, With this particularly challenging academic year coming to an...
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