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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
Rise of Operational Analytics
Free eBook that looks to be of interest. Clearly this is not a new thing, was a primary part of our early training. New methods have emerged though, and the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Based CyberCrime Evidence Detection
Links to other approaches I have recently seen in this area.CIT Researchers Develop System to Detect Cloud-Based Cybercrime EvidencePurdue University NewsJohn O'Malley...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Digital Twins
A good example of how models can built from data to predict the behavior of systems. Here a UAV as an example.Developing a Digital TwinOden Institute for Computational...
From Schneier on Security
Reforming CDA 230
There's a serous debate on reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I am in the process of figuring out what I believe, and this is more a place...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Greetings from the ACM-W North America Committee Chair
The newly formed ACM-W North America committee is up and running! We are currently working on establishing roles and responsibilities as well as the important task...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
News from ACM-W Scholarships, December 2019
The ACM Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to attend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Calculating Entropy
As I read this and the paper noted at the link, this could be a very big deal. Entropy is disorder .... and if we can accurately measure it, it leads to means...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Billion Cameras Will be Watching
Inevitable. But where is the data going and how is it used? Does the installation of cameras consider future advances that will use that data in more invasive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saying No to Loyalty Offers
This came to mind as I shopped in the last week. No clear offers for my time or data were offered. Lots of 'apparent' offers that were easy to see through. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Hanabi Card Game the Future Challenge for Human AI?
We readily reason and interact with incomplete information and the need to cooperate. Is this sample deceptively simple game challenge a way to model those kinds...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding Without a Net
My Programming Honors students are struggling with creating classes in C#. They really wanted me to code up a project live (again) and have them follow along. But...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: HPML2020 High Performance Machine Learning Workshop
The third High Performance Machine Learning Workshop has issued its Call for Papers. HPML2020 takes place May 11, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia in conjunction with...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Apply Now for the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) recently announced the start of the application period to attend the 8th annual HLF, which will take place September 20–25,...
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Steps up with a Broad Array of Server Offerings for AI & HPC
In this video from SC19, Peter Hanley from GIGABYTE describes how the company delivers a full range of server solutions for HPC, AI, and the Edge. "GIGABYTE isGIGABYTE...
From insideHPC
Schneider Electric Launches Industry’s First Integrated Rack with Immersed, Liquid-Cooled IT for Data Centers
Today Schneider Electric and Iceotope announced the industry’s first commercially-available integrated rack with chassis-based, immersive liquid cooling. Optimized...
From insideHPC
Intel Horse Ridge Chip to Cryogenically Control Quantum Computers
Today Intel Labs unveiled what is believed a first-of-its-kind cryogenic control chip — code-named “Horse Ridge” — that will speed up development of full-stackIntel...
From insideHPC
AMD Readies EPYC for Exascale with ROCm at SC19
In this video from SC19, Derek Bouius from AMD describes how the company's new EPYC processors and Radeon GPUs can speed HPC and Ai applications. With its EPYCAMD...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Transformation
All in? Most importantly to what.Why your next transformation should be ‘all in'from McKinsey By Chris Bradley, Marc de Jong, and Wesley WaldenBusiness transformation...
From Schneier on Security
Failure Modes in Machine Learning
Interesting taxonomy of machine-learning failures (pdf) that encompasses both mistakes and attacks, or -- in their words -- intentional and unintentional failure...
From Computational Complexity