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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
Deep Learning for Predicting Severe Weather
Researchers from Rice University have introduced a data-driven framework that formulates extreme weather prediction as a pattern recognition problem, employingDeep...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skype for Business to be Retired
This had been rumored, now its out, been using Teams now for a year, its nicely done. Unclear how this be done with regards to Business vs 'Home' users....Skype...
From Schneier on Security
A New Clue for the Kryptos Sculpture
Jim Sanborn, who designed the Kryptos sculpture in a CIA courtyard, has released another clue to the still-unsolved part 4. I think he's getting tired of waiting...
From insideHPC
Atos completes acquisition of Maven Wave
Today Atos announced the completion of its acquisition of Maven Wave, a U.S.-based cloud and technology consulting firm specialized in delivering digital transformation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching Automobiles to Hear
Makes sense to add another sense to the car.Teaching Tomorrow's Automobiles to HearFraunhofer-GesellschaftChristian Colmer in ACMResearchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wuhan Virus Detected by AI Epidemiologist
Quite interesting revelation. The depth of this discovery still unclear. Recall our work in detecting epidemics and bioterror by retail data.AI Epidemiologist...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF’s 70th Anniversary Symposium
On May 10, 1950, President Truman signed the National Science Foundation Act, creating the only federal agency charged with funding fundamental research and education...
From insideHPC
Samsung Launches Flashbolt High Bandwidth 2E Memory
Today Samsung Electronics launched 'Flashbolt,' its third-generation High Bandwidth Memory 2E (HBM2E). The new 16-gigabyte (GB) HBM2E is uniquely suited to maximize...
From insideHPC
Beyond Discoverability: Metadata to Drive Your Data Management
Terrell Russell from iRODS gave this talk at SC19. "The Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) is open source data management software used by research organizations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of the Blackberry
Blackberries were the first phone we issued to executives. At their request after they saw how they could be used with their own portfolios. And were the first...
From insideHPC
Arm HPC User Group to Host First Annual Meeting in Portugal
Arm's HPC User Group (A-HUG) is transitioning to a fully-fledged community-led organization to better support the Arm ecosystem. The first annual meeting of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung to Announce Smart Speaker
More competition in what I call the assistant world. Bixby powered from Samsung. Beyond just in Korea? Appears include smart home oriented sensors. Samsung...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards a Reality of Fusion Power
Quite a number of advances in recent years. Excellent overview. With some technology explanation.5 Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality In IEEE Spectrum...
From insideHPC
How NVIDIA Enables Scientific Research for HPC Developers
"Researchers, scientists, and developers are advancing science by accelerating their high performance computing applications on NVIDIA GPUs using specialized libraries...
From Schneier on Security
Tree Code
Artist Katie Holten has developed a tree code (basically, a font in trees), and New York City is using it to plant secret messages in parks....
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Deep Learning on Supercomputers workshop
The Deep Learning on Supercomputers workshop has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place June 25 as part of ISC 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany. "The workshop...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Department of Energy Announces $625 Million for New Quantum Centers
The following is a press release from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish two to five multidisciplinary Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research...
From insideHPC
Tachyum Processor to power 2021 AI/HPC Supercomputer
Today semiconductor company Tachyum announced today that its Prodigy Processor AI/HPC Reference Design will be used in a supercomputer at an unnamed customer site...
From insideHPC
Fujitsu to Deploy Arm-based Supercomputer at Nagoya University
Today Fujitsu announced that it has received an order for an Arm-based supercomputer system from Nagoya University's Information Technology Center. "For the first...
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