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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
Micron steps up Memory Performance and Density with DDR5
Today Micron Technology announced that it has begun sampling DDR5 registered DIMMs, based on its industry-leading 1znm process technology, with key industry partners...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Workshop on Report on Future Directions for Parallel and Distributed Computing (SPX 2019)
The following blog was written by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Due to technology challenges...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Using Humans in Duplex too
Reminds me again of our early use of what we called 'concierge' methods for chatbot implementations. That is, using a combination of logic-AI-learning and humans...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Celestial Observation by Smartphone.
Have had a long time background in observational astronomy, have been impressed how smartphones can support observation, but always thought there would be muchCelestron...
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Brings AI and Cloud Solutions to CES 2020
GIGABYTE is showcasing AI, Cloud, and Smart Applications this week at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. "GIGABYTE is renowned for its craftsmanship and dedication to innovating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will AI Save Lives?
More on the healthcare uses pf AI methods for accurate diagnosis:It's too soon to tell if DeepMind's medical AI will save any livesArtificial intelligence trained...
From insideHPC
Joe Landman on How the Cloud is Changing HPC
In this special guest feature, Joe Landman from Scalability.org writes that the move to cloud-based HPC is having some unexpected effects on the industry. "When...
From insideHPC
Altair Acquires newFASANT for High-Frequency Electromagnetics
Today Altair announced the acquisition of newFASANT, offering leading technology in computational and high-frequency electromagnetics. “By combining its peopleAltair...
From insideHPC
Predictive Data Science for Physical Systems: From Model Reduction to Scientific Machine Learning
Karen Willcox from the University of Texas gave this Invited Talk at SC19. "This talk highlights how physics-based models and data together unlock predictive modeling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Journal of the ACM: January 2020
This month's CACM was particularly good regarding hot topics and approaches. For both the science and application areas. Below the table of contents. Something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Traces Coffee Sourcing with Blockchain
Again, an area we worked in regarding coffee supply chain. An increasingly common use of distributed ledger, and a means of sharing trust about sharing key parts...
From Schneier on Security
Mailbox Master Keys
Here's a physical-world example of why master keys are a bad idea. It's a video of two postal thieves using a master key to open apartment building mailboxes. Changing...
From Computational Complexity
The Wikipedia Entry on NP-Intermediary Problems lists one of mine! I'm not bragging about it.
I recently needed to look at what NP problems were possibly intermediary (neither in P nor NP-complete). So I went to Wikipedia and found this. They had many problems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Looks to Mobile Home Robotics
Bloomberg reports on linking up with a wheeled home robot for mobile tasks. The complexity and maintenance of the latter makes them more problematic as general...
From The Eponymous Pickle
2 Factor Authentication Compromised
Had always known it had vulnerabilities, here is an example. Still a good approach to utilize. Note the approach requires theft of software tokens. ChineseBy...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Servant: The TV Show
Using logic to try and understand the show Servant [ M. Night ] M. Night Shyamalan is the creator of many wonderful horror movies, including The Village and The...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA to host Full-Day HPC Summit at GPU Technology Conference
NVIDIA will host a full day HPC Summit this year at the GPU Technology Conference 2020. With a full day of plenary sessions and a developer track on high performance...
From insideHPC
Analytics, Multicloud, and the Future of the Datasphere
James Coomer gave this talk at the DDN User Group at SC19. James Coomer from DDN presents: Analytics, Multicloud, and the Future of the Datasphere. "We are adding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dependability in Edge Computing
Quite a good pece, broad and deep, on the topic of edge computing. Scale, Security and standardization in Deployment. Below the abstract, more about the specific...
From The Eponymous Pickle