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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
SC20 General Chair: We’re Planning for In-Person and Virtual Conference
SC20, scheduled for November 15-20 in Atlanta, is in the throes of planning for this year’s conference amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic – and conference General...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and Spotify, Why?
Was exploring this and discovered one answer in Inc.Walmart Just Made a Surprising Announcement and It's Very Bad News for Amazon. Watch out, Amazon: Small businesses...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Wide-Area Data Analytics Workshop Report Released
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released the Wide-Area Data Analytics workshop report. The workshop was organized by Rachit Agarwal (Cornell University)...
From Computational Complexity
On Chain Letters and Pandemics
Guest post by Varsha Dani.My 11-year-old child received a letter in the mail. "Send a book to the first person named," it said, "then move everyone's name up the...
From insideHPC
Lenovo Launches ThinkSystem Servers with GPU Support, Increased NVMe Storage
Lenovo this morning launched two new ThinkSystem servers, the SR860 V2 and SR850 V2, utilizing 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel Deep Learning Boost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reopening Businesses Safely
Important look by McKinsey on the topic.Reopening safely: Sample practices from essential businessesAfter weeks of shutdowns and remote working, businesses around...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Attracting Robotics Developers with New Chips
Seeing continued directions from Qualcomm.Qualcomm aims to woo robotics developers with new chips, tools in ReutersBuilding robots and drones is messy: Developers...
From Schneier on Security
Theft of CIA's "Vault Seven" Hacking Tools Due to Its Own Lousy Security
The Washington Post is reporting on an internal CIA report about its "Vault 7" security breach: The breach -- allegedly committed by a CIA employee -- was discovered...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Welcomes Six New UA Ambassadors
By Ajay Data, Chair of the UASG The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is proud to welcome six new UA Ambassadors into the UASG Ambassador Program for FY21...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts on an IDE for Teaching CS
Amy Ko posted a slide deck about CS education in higher education from a presentation she made to a group at Microsoft. There is a ton of stuff in there. I need...
From insideHPC
PRACE Awards Hundreds of Millions More Core Hours to Combat COVID-19
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has issued an additional 10 awards of supercomputing resources, with a total of 227.6 million core hours...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comments on the Return of Retail
in His Curious Voyager: My colleague Walter Riker writes:What will the return of retail look like in the coming months - years?Recently, because of the Pandemic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Images Sharper, More secure?
A remarkable approach is described, sharper images for human eyes, but too sharp for the task of recognition? Implications for security?AI Makes Blurry FacesDuke...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Intuitive Language for Quantum Computers
Is it better t have a coding method devoted to an innovation like quantum, or one that provides the greatest accessibility?The First Intuitive Programming Language...
From Schneier on Security
Zoom Will Be End-to-End Encrypted for All Users
Zoom is doing the right thing: it's making end-to-end encryption available to all users, paid and unpaid. (This is a change; I wrote about the initial decision...
From My Biased Coin
Algorithms with Predictions: Survey and Workshop
There's a whole new, interesting theory trend -- Algorithms with Predictions. The idea, spurred by advances in machine learning, is that you assume you have predictor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Enforces Distancing with AI
Somewhat novel application which I assume uses location and image analysis to report and manage distance rules. More details at the link.Amazon uses AI-powered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Takes Auto Echo to UK, Canada and Parts of Europe
Thought I had detected less support to auto assistants by Amazon, but this indicates they are going again, to new regions and likely regulation. Extending in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human Dynamics in Decision Making
Have thought that we need better understanding of our decision making, at least if we believe in useful biomimicry to build intelligent systems. Here an interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle