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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
Teaching From Home–What about Cheating?
The College Board has been making some moves to make it harder to cheat on Advanced Placement exams. Given that their business plan relies a lot of the integrity...
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for BeeGFS Virtual Community Meeting
ThinkParQ will host the annual BeeGFS Virtual Community Meeting on World Bee Day, May 20, 2020. BeeGFS is a parallel cluster file system, developed with a strong...
From insideHPC
How Your Computer Can Help Scientists Fight COVID-19
Today IBM announced that anyone in the world with a PC, laptop or Mac and an Internet connection could help scientists seek chemical compounds that might be effective...
From insideHPC
2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Power New IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
Today, AMD announced that IBM Cloud is enhancing its global infrastructure with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors to power its latest bare metal servers. Available now...
From insideHPC
Breaking Boundaries with Data Parallel C++
Programming languages are a dime a dozen; throw a rock in any direction and you’ll hit one. Question is … can you use any of them to program data-centric applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts to Text
Continued advances in this space, in this case primarily for patients with inability to to control devices with their limbs. Detailed article.Neural implants...
From Schneier on Security
Dark Web Hosting Provider Hacked
Daniel's Hosting, which hosts about 7,600 dark web portals for free, has been hacked and is down. It's unclear when, or if, it will be back up....
From insideHPC
Podcast: A Look inside the El Capitan Supercomputer coming to LLNL
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some of the more interesting configuration aspects of the pending El Capitan exascale supercomputer coming toPodcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dark Malicious Patterns
A term I had not seen before, but its wide use for malicious activities in smartphones is described here. Considerable detail below.A Vector for Skulduggery Paul...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Detective: Analyze and Visualize Security
Interesting capability released by Amazon in AWS. Intriguing capability needs a deeper look.Amazon Detective in AWS.amazon.comAnalyze and visualize security...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Research at Home
An idea for human-interest interviews Pixabay free src Dr. Lofa Polir is, like many of us, working from home. When we last wrote about her two years ago, she had...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
We released simdjson 0.3: the fastest JSON parser in the world is even better!
Last year (2019), we released the simjson library. It is a C++ library available under a liberal license (Apache) that can parse JSON documents very fast. How fast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Webinar from iRobot, IFTTT on the Smart Home
Recently signed up for this and missed it, of interest: Checking in to see if you watched the replay of our smart home webinar featuring iRobot.It features iRobot's...
From Computational Complexity
Length of Descriptions for DFA, NFA, CFG
We will be looking at the size of descriptions For DFAs and NFAs this is the number of states. For CFG's we will assume they are in Chomsky Normal Form. Sohere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Donates Face Masks, Hand Sanitizer
UPDATE: P&G to make and donate face masks, hand sanitizer in response to coronavirus By Barrett J. Brunsman – Staff reporter, Cincinnati Business CourierMar 26...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2020 – New Approaches to Fairness in Automated Decision Making
The last decade has seen the increased use of machine learning and data science to make decisions—from figuring out which YouTube video to recommend to deciding...
From insideHPC
SIAM Announces Class of 2020 Fellows
Today the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced the 2020 Class of SIAM Fellows. These distinguished members were nominated for their exemplary...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Open Access to ACM Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic
By Cherri Pancake, ACM President As the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic continues, we at ACM would like to do what we can to help support the computing community....
From insideHPC
Russian Supercomputer Joins the Fight Against COVID-19
An international research team of scientists – from Russia, Finland, Italy, China, Japan and Canada is using a recently upgraded HPC system at the Joint Supercomputer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson