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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 Eponymous Pickle
Alibaba Blockchain Domain Names
Note the similarity to the Cosmos Network. A useful direction.Alibaba Claims Patented Cross-Chain System Is Better Than CosmosJun 1, 2020 at 15:00 UTCAlibabaIn...
From insideHPC
The UK Innovation Corridor: HPC and the Bio-Technology Revolution
Sponsored Content By Spencer Lamb, Vice President, Kao Data The Innovation Corridor is the beating heart of the UK life sciences community, bringing together high...
From Schneier on Security
Availability Attacks against Neural Networks
New research on using specially crafted inputs to slow down machine-learning neural network systems: Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks...
From insideHPC
AI Supercomputer at PSC to Combine Cerebras Wafer Scale Chips and HPE Superdome Flex
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has won a $5 million award from the National Science Foundation to build Neocortex, an AI supercomputer designed for accelerated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Classification of Relational Data
A simplification by classification. Would this work in any context? Application to social networks is of interest.Training Agents to Walk with Purpose ByThe...
From insideHPC
IBM Sunsets Facial Recognition and Analysis AI Software
The biggest news story today in the world of AI is IBM CEO Arvind Krishna’s letter to Congress explaining the company’s decision to sunset its facial recognition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cosmos Network: Interoperable Blockchains
Intriguing direction: A network of BlockchainsCosmos NetworkThe foundation for a new token economyJoin the most interoperableecosystem of connected blockchains...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sewage as New Data Source
A long time promoter of finding new sources of data, especially where they can be predictive early warning indicators. An argument for experimenting with data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Memristor Chips Emerge for Local Intelligence
The idea has been around for a while. Getting closer to real synapses in real brains. But still a considerable way to go. As mentioned a means to produce IOT...
From Schneier on Security
Security Analysis of the Democracy Live Online Voting System
New research: "Security Analysis of the Democracy Live Online Voting System": Abstract: Democracy Live's OmniBallot platform is a web-based system for blank ballot...
From insideHPC
MIT’s New Memristors: Networks of Artificial Brain Synapses for Neuromorphic Devices
A possible glimpse at a future form of high performance edge computing – networks of artificial brain synapses – developed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute...
From Putting People First
Nordic lessons for people-first smart cities
While it is argued that smart city development is at an impasse, we argue that it is at a crossroads. It is possible to simultaneously develop and adopt new technologies...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming CCC Blue Sky at International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling ICIDS 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS ICIDS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with studying digital interactive forms of narrative from a variety...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Reports on Recent Advances in Translate
Google reports measure improvements in their Translate, but there are still contextual challenges. I would be tempted to try to construct a risk analysis regarding...
From insideHPC
Purdue’s ‘Anvil’ to Be Driven by Dell, AMD ‘Milan’ CPUs, Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs
Another in a series of National Science Foundation supercomputing awards has been announced, this one a $10 million funding for a system to be housed at PurduePurdue...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Setting Up To Teach From Home
This past spring semester was my first time teaching remotely but not my first time working remotely. I worked from home while working in industry for jsut over...
From Computational Complexity
The Committee for the Adv. of TCS- workshop coming up SOON!
(Posted by request from Jelani Nelson.) The Committee for the Advancement of Theoretical Computer Science (CATCS) is organizing a Visioning workshop. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Meters not Influencing Electric Usage
Have always been interested in the influence of measurements, and the presentation of those measurements to influence behavior. Many of our smart home experiments...
From The Eponymous Pickle