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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
Pattern Recognition for Dead Languages
Fascinating application of language pattern recognition. Which shows this tech can be taken into unexpected and complex places.Dead Languages Come to LifeBy Gary...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 5
As one of my co-workers put it it's been a long year this week. I might ease up on that easier say a long month this week. It sure has been a learning experience...
From insideHPC
Inspur Ranks in Top Three in 2019 IDC Global Server Market Report
According to IDC, Inspur ranked the top three vendors in global server revenue in 2019. Inspur was the only mainstream manufacturer in the world to maintain a double...
From insideHPC
AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative to fight COVID-19
Today Amazon launched the AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative, a program to support customers who are working to bring better, more accurate, diagnostics solutions...
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Podcast: Delivering Exascale Machine Learning Algorithms at the ExaLearn Project
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, researchers from the ECP describe progress at the ExaLearn project. ExaLearn is focused on ML and related activities to inform...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Gives COVID-19 Researchers Free Access Genome-sequencing software for GPUs
NVIDIA is offering COVID-19 Researchers free access to Parabricks genome-sequencing software for GPUs. "Starting today, NVIDIA will provide a free 90-day license...
From Putting People First
Beyond empathy
In design thinking and related research, there is way too much talk about empathy. It’s a fuzzy concept that subjectivizes, flattens and commoditizes the work to...
From insideHPC
Rescale Partners with Google Cloud and Azure to Offer Cloud HPC for COVID-19 Researchers
Today Rescale, in cooperation with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, announced a new program that immediately offers high performance computing resources at noRescale...
From Putting People First
Immaginare il mondo dopo il coronavirus
L'idea di un "ritorno alla normalità" non sembra più sostenibile. Ci sarà una nuova normalità che per tanti versi è molto diversa dalla vecchia normalità. E le...
From Putting People First
Imagining the world after coronavirus
The idea of a "return to normal" seems no longer tenable. There will be a new normal that is in many ways very different from the old normal. And choices we make...
From Schneier on Security
Emergency Surveillance During COVID-19 Crisis
Israel is using emergency surveillance powers to track people who may have COVID-19, joining China and Iran in using mass surveillance in this way. I believe pressure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Light Finger Feels
An idea that creates haptics for robots.This Clever Robotic Finger Feels With LightBy Wired in ACMRobot finger meets actual finger.A robotic skeleton developed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Folding@home Supports Coronavirus Research
Related to the SETI work this is a distributed protein folding approach to look for pharma solutions.FOLDING@HOME UPDATE ON SARS-COV-2 (10 MAR 2020)March 10, 2020...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 4
I have no idea how long or how consistently I will be writing these posts. I guess when I have something to say. In some ways I think of this as a sort of record...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Develops AI to Improve Knowledge Graph Performance
Ultimately a very important capability in storing and utilizing knowledge to deliver intelligence.Amazon researchers develop AI that improves knowledge graph performance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
From MIT: 34 Coronavirus Pieces in TechnologyReview
34 pieces from MIT resources. Have read a number of these. Nicely done, largely nontechnical. Free. And you can register free for daily updates.
From insideHPC
PSSC Labs Speeds HPC with AMD EPYC Processors
Today PSSC Labs touted impressive performance on their server lineup powered by AMD EPYC processors. Recently named an AMD Elite Partner, PSSC Labs is developing...
From Putting People First
Doing fieldwork in a pandemic
Initiated by Deborah Lupton, this crowdsourced document provides necessary information and key resources for researchers struggling to conduct traditional face-to...
From insideHPC
Alibaba Cloud Offers AI Cloud Services to Help Battle COVID-19 Globally
Today the Alibaba Cloud announced it has offered medical personnel around the world a set of advanced cloud-based technology applications in the fight against the...
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