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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2020 – Detecting, Combating, and Identifying Dis and Mis-information
Over the last twenty years, the proliferation of Internet access, coupled with the explosion of online social networks, has allowed people around the world to share...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $30 Million for Machine Learning and AI Research
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide up to $30 million for advanced research in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence...
From insideHPC
Maria Balcan to Receive Grace Murray Hopper Award for Significant Contributions to Machine Learning
Today ACM named Maria Florina Balcan of Carnegie Mellon University the recipient of the 2019 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for foundational and breakthrough contributions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VentureBeat on AI and Security
What looks to be a good overview of this issue:VB Special Issue on AI and SecurityNote from the Editor:Both AI and cybersecurity are nearly omnipresent in our daily...
From insideHPC
Why WINS Is an Ideal Opportunity for Women in IT Networking
The SC20 WINS program offers a terrific opportunity for women in networking help build the SCinet at the conference, working side-by-side with the world’s leading...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputers Battle Coronavirus
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how supercomputers are being used to battle the coronavirus. "We discuss how the supercomputing community hasPodcast...
From insideHPC
Video: State of ARM-based HPC
In this video, Paul Isaacs from Linaro presents: State of ARM-based HPC. "This talk provides an overview of applications and infrastructure services successfully...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Multimodel Alexa Design for Devs
New efforts from Amazon on toolkits to improve skills. Technical.Design Engaging Multimodal Experiences with Our New Alexa Design System Toolkits for APLAnna Van...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's Sterling Supply Chain Business Network
IBM reports on a new supply chain effort:Build a smarter supply chain for tomorrowDigital business and globalization continuously disrupt today’s business. Customers...
From Schneier on Security
Microsoft Buys Corp.com
A few months ago, Brian Krebs told the story of the domain corp.com, and how it is basically a security nightmare: At issue is a problem known as "namespace collision...![[Paper] The Imaginary Crisis](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Paper] The Imaginary Crisis
As the Covid-19 crisis hopefully comes slowly under control, we ought to attend to a very different kind of crisis, and one which is scarcely visible: the deteriorating...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Decontaminating N95 Masks
Contributions to this post were provided by former CCC Council Member Kevin Fu from the University of Michigan. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused staggering resource...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Preparation is the Most Important Thing
A very good O'Reilly piece, not very technical. Essential thoughts.The unreasonable importance of data preparationYour models are only as good as your data.By ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cobol: Its Still Here
Surprised to see this, but should not be. Its still around in many forms.New Jersey Needs Volunteers Who Know COBOL, a 60-Year-Old Programming LanguageCNBCBy...
From insideHPC
APAC HPC-AI Competition Expands to Address COVID-19
The HPC-AI Advisory Council and the National Supercomputing Centre in Singapore announced today that they have joined the global fight against COVID-19 by expanding...
From insideHPC
HPE Financial Services Offers $2 billion in Financing and New Programs to Help Customers and Partners Weather COVID-19
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced today that HPE Financial Services (HPEFS) is designating more than $2 billion in financing specifically to help customers with...
From insideHPC
Video: What Does it Take to Reach 2 Exaflops?
In this video, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research moderates a panel discussion on the El Capitan supercomputer. With a peak performance of over 2 Exaflops...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Are We Going Back To (bricks and mortar) School?
That’s the question my students asked the most yesterday. We’re in our fourth week of remote emergency teaching and I think it is starting to wear on most of us...
From insideHPC
ISC 2020 Conference Converting to Virtual Event Due to Pandemic
The ISC 2020 Conference in Frankfurt has been cancelled due to the global pandemic and instead will be broadcast as a virtual event. "It is with a heavy heart we...
From Putting People First