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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
Taming the Cost of HPC in the Cloud
This timely article from our friends over at Univa examines methods for reigning in costs for managing HPC in the cloud, specifically moving beyond cloud automation...
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Job of the Week: Senior Research Analyst for New Hardware Technologies at Hyperion Research
Hyperion Research is seeking a Senior Research Analyst for New Hardware Technologies in our Job of the Week. "Working collaboratively with the Hyperion Research...
From Schneier on Security
Wi-Fi Hotspot Tracking
Free Wi-Fi hotspots can track your location, even if you don't connect to them. This is because your phone or computer broadcasts a unique MAC address. What distinguishes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Writing Smart Contracts
Now have seen some very contradictory views of how well a 'smart contract' could truly model an actual legal contract, except for the most trivial ones. Maintaining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personalized Games
Much like the general idea, Could it be applied to other kinds of tasks. Could it be used to allocate resources to problems. Connect with the right kindsResearchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standardizing Deep Learning Model Deployment
Tomorrow of interest:Join @MLnick on Oct 10, 8:30am US Eastern (note unusual time) - Nick Pentreath: Principal Engineer, CODAIT (Center for Open-Source Data"Standardizing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming NSF CISE Deadlines
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has some upcoming solicitation deadlines. Check them out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Causation to Provide the Why
Basic causation is a great start. Why did this happen? We are doing it all the time. Its one of our basic knowledge processing capabilities that lead to learning...
From Schneier on Security
Cheating at Professional Poker
Interesting story about someone who is almost certainly cheating at professional poker. But then I start to see things that seem so obvious, but I wonder whether...
From insideHPC
Harvard Names New Lenovo HPC Cluster after Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon
Harvard has deployed a liquid-cooled supercomputer from Lenovo at it's FASRC computing center. The system, named "Cannon" in honor of astronomer Annie Jump Cannon...
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Julia Computing Chief Scientist Alan Edelman Wins Prestigious IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award
Alan Edelman, professor of applied mathematics at MIT, has been selected to receive the 2019 IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award. Edelman was cited for “for outstanding...
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Parallel Computing in Python: Current State and Recent Advances
Pierre Glaser from INRIA gave this talk at EuroPython 2019. "Modern hardware is multi-core. It is crucial for Python to provide high-performance parallelism. This...
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Lenovo and Intel Power Data-Intensive Science at the Flatiron Institute
Today Lenovo and Intel revealed how their collaboration on joint technology solutions that accelerate the convergence of HPC and AI are helping scientists at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procurement in Retail
Have noted the broad increase in quality and sticking of private labels. Also linking these labels with other purchases in retail. Advances are in play. Considerable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarticles for Robotic Locomotion
New means of locomotion provide new options for robotic use.Shape-Shifting Robot Built from 'Smarticles' Shows New Locomotion StrategyGeorgia Tech Research Horizons...
From Schneier on Security
Illegal Data Center Hidden in Former NATO Bunker
Interesting: German investigators said Friday they have shut down a data processing center installed in a former NATO bunker that hosted sites dealing in drugs...
From Schneier on Security
Speakers Censored at AISA Conference in Melbourne
Two speakers were censored at the Australian Information Security Association's annual conference this week in Melbourne. Thomas Drake, former NSA employee and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knock it with a SmartPhone to Identify
Here a system built in South Korea that lets you knock on an object with a smartphone, and it identifies it using sound and motion sensors. We worked on problems...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NSF Solicitation for National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes!
Contributions to this blog were provided by CCC and CRA staff. The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture...
From The Eponymous Pickle