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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 Schneier on Security
The DoD Isn't Fixing Its Security Problems
It has produced several reports outlining what's wrong and what needs to be fixed. It's not fixing them: GAO looked at three DoD-designed initiatives to see whether...
From insideHPC
Q-CTRL to Accelerate Quantum Technology Solutions for National Security Applications
Today quantum startup Q-CTRL announced a strategic investment by In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit strategic investor that identifies innovative technology solutions...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Receives Approval to Proceed with Mellanox Acquisition
Today NVIDIA announced that it has received approval from all necessary authorities to proceed with its planned acquisition of Mellanox, as announced in March 2019...
From insideHPC
SDSC makes Comet Supercomputer available for COVID-19 research
With the U.S. and many other countries working ‘round the clock to mitigate the devastating effects of the COVID-19 disease, SDSC is providing priority access to...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Sets World Record Performance with AMD EPYC Processors
Today Supermicro announced that line of servers optimized for 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors have achieved 27 world record performance benchmarks and counting. InSupermicro...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Adoption for Retailers
Have always found that major retailers are ahead in finding and using new tech.What are the biggest barriers to AI adoption for retailers? by Tom Ryan in Retailwire...
From insideHPC
Video: Competence Centres in HPC – their Role in European Innovation
In this video from the HPE Conference, Bastian Koller from HLRS discusses Competence Centres in HPC and their role in European innovation. "The Centres of Excellence...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Task Force on Arabic script IDNs
In our 2014 World Report on IDNs, we reported on the work of ICANN’s Task Force on Arabic script IDNs, an initiative of the Middle East Strategy Working Group.Task...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Kroger Pickup Service
My friend Walter Riker looks at Kroger Grocery Pickup,Our First Attempt at The Kroger Pickup Service - We Like What We Found.This past weekend my wife and I used...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Better Chatbots with Contextual Memory
Another example of looking at memory to establish context understanding for a chatbotDeploying more conversational chatbotsStartup Posh has created chatbots that...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Rounding integers to even, efficiently
When dividing a numerator n by a divisor d, most programming languages round “down”. It means that 1/2 is 0. Mathematicians will insist that 1/2 and claim thatContinue...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ending School With a Whimper not a Bang
The other shoe dropped today. New Hampshire’s governor ordered public schools to continue emergency remote teaching for the rest of the school year. This was not...
From insideHPC
AMD Donates HPC Systems to fight COVID-19
AMD has announced a COVID-19 HPC fund to provide research institutions with computing resources to accelerate medical research on COVID-19 and other diseases. The...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Voxel51; A Means of Tracking Social Distancing
Contributions to this post were provided by the Voxel51 team. Empty parks, X’s taped to the floor in check-out lines, virtual family holidays, these are all part...
From insideHPC
Using Magnetic Circuits for Energy Efficient Big Data Processing
Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have found a way to make the new generation of smart computers more energy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyber Warranties
Warranties for data?Cyber Warranties: Market Fix or Marketing Trick?By Daniel W. Woods, Tyler MooreCommunications of the ACM, April 2020, Vol. 63 No. 4, Pages 104...
From The Eponymous Pickle
One Way Aisles
Will be seeing how this will be implemented at local grocery retail.UPDATE: Walmart, Kroger, Hy-Vee, Giant go with one-way aisles to combat coronavirusMeijer, BJ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Private 5G Networks
Assume we will be getting useful information from these tests.German Industrial Firms to Build Private 5G NetworksThe Wall Street JournalCatherine StuppAutomakers...
From Schneier on Security
California Needlessly Reduces Privacy During COVID-19 Pandemic
This one isn't even related to contact tracing: On March 17, 2020, the federal government relaxed a number of telehealth-related regulatory requirements due to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog