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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 My Biased Coin
Allston : Students Should Speak Up
I have had (as is pretty usual for me) some number of lunches with students this semester, and many of them asked me about the Computer Science move to Allston....
From insideHPC
Cray and Fujitsu to bring Game-Changing Arm A64FX Processor to Global HPC Market
Today Cray and Fujitsu announced a partnership to offer high performance technologies for the exascale era. Under the alliance agreement, Cray is developing the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for a Quantum Internet
A basis for a Quantum Internet? Once that contains and is driven by quantum devices? Technical paper linked to below.A new quantum data classification protocol...
From insideHPC
Intel showcases New Class of AI Hardware from Cloud to Edge
Today Intel unveiled new products designed to accelerate AI system development and deployment from cloud to edge. "In its key announcement, Intel demonstrated its...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Unrolling your loops can improve branch prediction
Modern processors predict branches (e.g., if-then clauses), often many cycles a ahead of time. When predictions are incorrect, the processor has to start again,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Co-LOD: Continuous Space Linked Open Data
The following great innovative idea is from Mayank Kejriwal and Pedro Szekely from the University of Southern California. Kejriwal and Szekely were one of the Blue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bob Herbold on Amazon's Success
From Bob Herbold's Blog:Amazon’s Secrets to SuccessPosted on November 12, 2019 The article on Amazon’s master plan for success that appeared recently in the Atlantic...
From insideHPC
Department of Energy to Showcase World-Leading Science at SC19
The DOE’s national laboratories will be showcased at SC19 next week in Denver, CO. "Computational scientists from DOE laboratories have been involved in the conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Herman Miller Gets into Gaming
We actively worked with Herman Miller innovation, so used their office layouts in our innovation centers. So this is a bit of a surprise.Herman Miller is getting...
From insideHPC
ETH Zurich up for Best Paper at SC19 with Lossy Compression for Large Graphs
A team of researchers at ETH Zurich are working on a novel approach to solving increasingly large graph problems. "As the size of graph datasets grows larger, a...
From insideHPC
Get Infrastructure As-a-Service with new Dell Technologies On Demand
Today Dell rolled out Dell Technologies On Demand, a set of consumption-based and as-a-service offerings. “Dell Technologies On Demand makes it possible for organizations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Efficiency
Fairly obvious, you can that most analytical and computing system have the same effect. Consistency, speed, some level of autonomy,How AI is Helping Efficiency...
From insideHPC
Epic HPC Road Trip stops at NERSC for a look at Big Network and Storage Challenges
In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX continues his Epic HPC Road Trip series with a stop at NERSC. "NERSC is unusual in that they receive more data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Accesses Health Data
Been looking at personal data uses and abuses. Google has been and is now again in the mix:Google is to get access to millions of Americans’ personal health data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and MIT on the Future of Work
Posted this previously, now just taking a dive, worthwhile readThe Future of Work: How New Technologies Are Transforming Tasks- Artificial intelligence - IBM Research...
From insideHPC
Keys to Success for AI in Modeling and Simulation
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe interviews Loren Dean from Mathworks on the use of AI in modeling and simulation. "IfKeys...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gloves to Control Drones Wirelessly
Another example of wearable interfaces. Gloves are usual special purpose clothing, so this probably links to special use cases. Astronaut smart glove controls...
From Schneier on Security
Identifying and Arresting Ransomware Criminals
The Wall Street Journal has a story about how two people were identified as the perpetrators of a ransomware scheme. They were found because -- as generally happens...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethical Use of AI in Warfare
Brought to my attention. Intriguing comment on what is right, ethical and fair in war, now that we will soon have AI participating. But I note that these are...
From The Eponymous Pickle