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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
Towards an Unhackable Quantum Internet?
Interesting, but technical. General implications for personal or enterprise use?Towards an Unhackable Quantum InternetHarvard University John A. Paulson School...
From insideHPC
HPCMP Supports the Fight Against COVID-19
The Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) is using its supercomputing resources to support the federal response to theHPCMP...
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Podcast: Bright Computing forges ex3 at Simula Research Laboratory
The eX3 infrastructure allows Norwegian HPC researchers and their international collaborators to explore bleeding-edge hardware and software that will be instrumental...
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EPEEC Project Fosters Heterogeneous HPC Programming in Europe
The European Programming Environment for Programming Productivity of Heterogeneous Supercomputers (EPEEC) is a project that aims to combine European made toolsEPEEC...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Special Research Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure
Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing...
From Schneier on Security
Contact Tracing COVID-19 Infections via Smartphone Apps
Google and Apple have announced a joint project to create a privacy-preserving COVID-19 contact tracing app. (Details, such as we have them, are here.) It's similar...
From Putting People First
Covid-19 and Social Innovation: Contactless sociability and hybrid communities of place
While some optimists think there will be a lasting positive change in our well-being model, with the quality of relationships and common goods at its centre, Manzini...
From Computational Complexity
John Conway Dies of Coronvirus
John Conway passed away on April 11, 2020 of the Coronovirus. He is the first person I knew (for some definition of `know') who has died of it. I suspect this is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Breaking Down Service Prototyping
Upcoming Talk:ISSIP Service Design Speaker Series: Breaking Down Service Prototyping on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 11.00 - 11.45 AM US EDTIt is believed that a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDonald's Bet Big On a Smart Idea. Now It's Saving Lives
Not only in selling burgers, but also as a medical services model. The very first time I saw a crowded drive-through it made me think of by Queueing analysisMcDonald's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google releases API to train smaller, faster AI models
Interesting development, note small and faster. I assume to make them useful for edge devices.. Also with the ability to retrain quickly.Google releases API to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maintaining Energy Equipment
Very key thing in an industrial world. And a good analytical view of the risk involved.Maintaining the equipment that powers our worldBy organizing performance...
From insideHPC
Video: PHIDIAS project creates HPC data-powered services for the earth science data
This week the EU launched a new portal for PHIDIAS, a Horizon 2020 project for creating sustainable HPC data-powered services for the earth, atmospheric and marine...
From insideHPC
Flinders University targets COVID-19 vaccine with Oracle Cloud
Australian researchers working with Oracle Cloud and vaccine technology developed by local company Vaxine Pty Ltd are testing a vaccine candidate against the SARS...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 11th 2020)
Greenland sharks reach their sexual maturity when they are 150 years old and they live hundreds of years. Some living sharks today were born in the 16th century...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Metadata and Cooking
In almost every piece of work I have done in enterprises, there has been a need to deal with metadata. Metadata can mean a number of things .... like for example...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the spread of the coronavirus in busy indoor spaces
A joint project carried out by four Finnish research organisations has studied the transport and spread of coronavirus through the air. Preliminary results indicate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sprayable User Interfaces
We saw this demonstrated, I believe at the MIT Media Lab,when we visited as a corporate sponsor, a long time ago. Apparent the work is still ongoing.Sprayable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Braille Keyboard
Good to see additional efforts in this direction. Augmenting the senses. Passing the reference on to our friends.Google Launches Braille Keyboard for AndroidVentureBeat...
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