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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Am I Retired Now?
My last class of the school year just ended. My grades and report card comments are in the system. I am not going back to school in the fall. Am I retired now?...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Math Tells
How to tell what part of math you are from Gerolamo Cardano is often credited with introducing the notion of complex numbers. In 1545, he wrote a book titled Ars...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Another Take on the Search for Quantum Supremacy
This has come up a few times since last year with claims from major Tech. IEEE Spectrum looks at the supremacy claim again, intro below and more at the link....
From The Eponymous Pickle
USAF Looks at Blockchain Database for Data Share
Novel approach with implications for supply chain applications as well as other sensor based input of data.U.S. Air Force to pilot blockchain-based database for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deloitte Resilience Podcast
Overall have liked the Deloitte writings on corporate strategic responses and risk analysis.Resilient podcast: How businesses can confront the COVID-19 crisisActionable...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL: Announcing the CIFellows 2020 Postdocs Project
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) and Erwin Gianchandani (Deputy Assistant Director) of the National Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Bionic Eye
New imaging capabilities to improve eyesight.New Bionic Eye Might See Better Than We DoBy Joel Hruska in ExtremetechThe ability to restore sight to the blind is...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx SmartNIC Accelerates Cloud and Enterprise Workloads
Today NVIDIA launched the NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx SmartNIC — a highly secure and efficient 25/50 gigabit per second (Gb/s) Ethernet smart network interface...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Invests in Blockchain Network
More indications of the seriousness of the technologyIBM Takes 7% in Trade-Finance Blockchain Network We.TradeIBM has become a shareholder in we.trade, the blockchain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Significant is Climate on Coronavirus Transmission?
Considerable depth in this piece about the topic.The Trillion-Dollar Question With COVID-19How significant is climate on coronavirus transmission?by Luke ShorsRight...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Albertsons to Launch Virtual Assistant
Details of its use and depth will be of interest. So far, Albertsons has implemented the Nuance virtual assistant and live chat at its Vons supermarkets in Southern...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Drug Screening for Deadly Heart Arrhythmias
Using XSEDE supercomputers, scientists have developed for the first time a way to screen drugs through their chemical structures for induced arrhythmias. DeathSupercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surge of Secondary Brands
Speculation as to how surging demands for new and secondary brands will effect the market and the supply chain. And can be better controlled with digital strategies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Bores Like an Earthworm
Novel kind of robotic task and environment, example of biomimicry.GE’s soft robot bores holes like a giant earthworm by Brian Heater in TechCrunchA giant earthworm...
From insideHPC
Paperspace Joins NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software Program
Today AI cloud computing Paperspace announced Paperspace Gradient is certified under the new NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software program. The program offers proven solutions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Geometry Points to Drug Target Candidates
The fact that geomety and math are indicative of targets is intriguing . Points perhaps to similarity to folding problems, with huge combinatorics.Geometry Points...
From Schneier on Security
Bart Gellman on Snowden
Bart Gellman's long-awaited (at least by me) book on Edward Snowden, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State, will finally be published...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can AI tell Moral right from Wrong?
As suggested moral choices have much to do with context, and are hard to extract from just words. I like that changes over time are being considered. Time is...
From The Eponymous Pickle