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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 Schneier on Security
Voatz Internet Voting App Is Insecure
This paper describes the flaws in the Voatz Internet voting app: "The Ballot is Busted Before the Blockchain: A Security Analysis of Voatz, the First Internet Voting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Soul Machines: Avatars for AI Presence
Brought to my attention and related to work recent and past.Soul Machines is Humanizing Computing to Better Humanity Some examples.Democratizing and Disrupting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Embedding Human Expertise
Useful examination of delivering expertise, human and otherwise.Crate and Barrel marries human expertise with tech advances in a new concept store by MatthewCrate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Expressions Don't Tell Whole Story
Blatantly Obvious, which we explored in a number of cases. It can be one input into may vectors, it may tell only a very minor part of the story, or none atFacial...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Beetle Math Puzzle
Lessons from a puzzle about prime numbers [ Wikipedia ] Doron Zeilberger is a famous combinatorial mathematician based at Rutgers. He is noted for actively using...
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: ISC Workshop On In Situ Visualization 2020
The ISC Workshop On In Situ Visualization 2020 has issued its Call for Participation. The event takes place June 25 in Frankfurt, Germany. "We encourage contributed...
From Computational Complexity
Pre-(Publish and Perish)
Guest post by Evangelos Georgiadis Quite a few posts have recently focused on papers,publications and venues; "optimal" venues for papers under different objective...
From insideHPC
Video: Toward a General AI-Agent Architecture
Richard S. Sutton from DeepMind Alberta gave this talk NeurIPS 2019. "In practice, I work primarily in reinforcement learning as an approach to artificial intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bioprinting the Very Small
Impressive capability, with many possible healthcare applications.Printing Tiny, High-Precision Objects in SecondsEPFL (Switzerland)Sarah PerrinFebruary 13, 2020...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Smart Diaper : Now with RFID
Recall just such a proposal, long ago. Not sure of any patent status. Some interesting details in the full article below. Low-cost “smart” diaper can notify caregiver...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hacking Cubesat Satellites
In FastCompany, I had mentioned the worry about them polluting space. Here a further issue when you put so many targets up there. I assume the threat is being...
From insideHPC
Video: Overview of HPC Interconnects
Ken Raffenetti from Argonne gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) provides intensive, two-week training...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at Washington State University
CIRC at Washington State University is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. "Ideal candidates should have in-depth experience with the provisioning...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections–February 2020
The Scholarships Committee announces the first awardees of 2020. Reflections on womENcourage 2019 are a part of the ACM-W Europe report. ACM-W North America welcomes...
From Putting People First
Participo, a new digest on OECD’s work on innovative citizen participation
The first post, by Participo editor Claudia Chwalisz, reflects on how the OECD can help renew democracy in an age of complexity and disillusionment.
From Putting People First
Scrutinizing the effects of digital technology on mental health
Does time spent using digital technology and social media have an adverse effect on mental health, especially that of adolescents?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Understanding Language
Have seen a number claims recently of how good machine understanding of human language had advanced. Here is a contrary view. Its all hack to the basics of common...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and MRO Inventory Data
Another problem we often tangled with in the enterprise:Maintenance Repair OperationsArtificial Intelligence wades through murky MRO Inventory Data to drive down...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squids Are as Intelligent as Dogs
More news based on the squid brain MRI scan: the complexity of their brains are comparable to dogs. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
From The Eponymous Pickle