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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 insideHPC
Supercomputing the Spread of Contagions on Airplanes
Researchers are using supercomputers to model how contagions can spread onboard aircraft. Using Frontera's GPU subsystem, the researchers were able to get the computation...
From insideHPC
Video: NVIDIA to Accelerate the HPC-AI Convergence
Gunter Roeth from NVIDIA gave this talk at ML4HPC 2020. "The growing adoption of NVIDIA Volta GPU by the Top500 Supercomputers highlights the need of computingVideo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards a Taxonomy for Automated Assistants
Like the idea of identifying and constructing tasks for assistants so they can be more readily be challenged and compared. This article suggests this be doneA...
From Schneier on Security
Clarifying the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
A federal court has ruled that violating a website's tems of service is not "hacking" under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The plaintiffs wanted to investigate...
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D-Wave Offers Free Quantum Cloud Access for Global Response to COVID-19
Today D-Wave Systems announced the immediate availability of free access to its quantum systems via the Leap quantum cloud service for anyone working on responses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Tech Disrupt the Virus?
Here is a challenge: Can AI and Tech confront and disrupt evolved biology in new ways? Can we think beyond methods that currently exist? Tech's Next Disruption...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hybrid AI Examined
Big proponent of the idea. Neural methods solve specific problems well, yet we solve many other problems symbolically, logically. Math gives us solutions with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anomaly Response: How we Respond to the Unexpected
Intriguing piece. Made me think of our current predicament as well. Can we model human adaptation to expected and unexpected events? I like the notion of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 11–Is this our new normal?
Well. we’re definitely going to stay online until May. Our last week in April is a vacation week. I am hoping it still is. What will May bring? I have no idea.Teachers...
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Registration Opens for Stanford HPC Conference Virtual Event
Registration is now open for the Stanford HPC Conference. The two day 'condensed' agenda combines thought leadership and practical insights on HPC, AI, Data Science...
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Lifebit Provides Free Cloud, Data Hosting & Analysis Tools to COVID-19 Researchers
Today Lifebit Biotech announced it is providing its premium Lifebit CloudOS license free to all researchers and teams working on COVID-19 efforts, including diagnostics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Rules for Remote Work
Reasonably done look at things that make sense, we have done much remote work for some time now, years in many cases, but now its just lots more of it.HBRWK: Business...
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Xilinx Alveo U50 Accelerator Cards come to Nimbix Cloud with Broad Application Support
Today Nimbix announced the availability of Xilinx Alveo U50 Accelerator Cards on the Nimbix Cloud. "Nimbix has paved the way for FPGA-accelerated cloud computing...
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NCSA Joins Nationwide Collaboration to Combat COVID-19
NCSA is joining C3.ai, Microsoft Corporation, and research institutions across the country as part of the new C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai DTI)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualitics for Insight Extraction
A company of interest for advanced data visualization. We worked with them in the Enterprise.Virtualitics Selected fof the Air Force Strategic $7 Million Award...
From Schneier on Security
Privacy vs. Surveillance in the Age of COVID-19
The trade-offs are changing: As countries around the world race to contain the pandemic, many are deploying digital surveillance tools as a means to exert social...
From insideHPC
UKRI Awards ARCHER2 Supercomputer Services Contract
UKRI has awarded contracts to run elements of the next national supercomputer, ARCHER2, which will represent a significant step forward in capability for the UK...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Logic and Star-Free, Part Deux
A visual proof with no abstract-algebra overhead Composite crop of src1, src2 Dominique Perrin and Jean-Éric Pin are French mathematicians who have done significant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Resources: Our World in Data
As part of a larger project that is looking at Data Sources, Open Source Data, Data as an Asset, Data Quality, Data for Machine Learning, Semantic Data, Knowledge...
From The Eponymous Pickle