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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
Recent Research on using Public Clouds for HPC Workloads
Alex Norton from Hyperion Research gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Hyperion Research provides data-driven research, analysis and recommendations for technologies...
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Supercomputing Earth’s Geomagnetism with Blue Waters
Researchers are using the Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA to better understand geomagnetic variations and their underlying mechanisms, so that better forecasting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Increasing System Trustworthiness
An ultimate challenge, especially as systems start to morph into assistants with their own data, knowledge, and yes 'intelligence'. What are the the risks involved...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gaming as a Service for Hospitality, Decisions? Defense?
Intriguing possibility. Branded gaming, say in a assistant device in a hotel. Or including gaming in an analytics sense to simulate multiple assistive options...
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Digital in Construction
Somewhat surprising given their engineering focus.Decoding digital transformation in construction Few engineering and construction companies have captured the ...
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What Will You get from the Blockchain?
Short, non technical view. Not quite enough support for the premise, but intriguing. Notable piece on the Blockchain. Worth a look.How Do You Stand to Benefit...
From insideHPC
Use Cases for HPC in the Cloud
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World looks at use cases for cloud technology in HPC. "In previous years there have been some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rebooting AI: The Future of General, Trustable AI
In the process of reading Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis' book: Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We can Trust. Nicely done, starting with a history...
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Job of the Week: Tactical HPC Software Engineer
General Dynamics Mission Systems is seeking a Tactical HPC Software Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The Tactical High Performance Computing Software EngineerJob...
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Virtual Reality to Train Robots
A kind of crowd sourcing and simulation to gather training data. But will it cover the outliers that need to be considered for risk analysis? Japan continues...
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Autonomous Systems and AI
Automation always adds new elements of risk in application. So IT groups have to start thinking differently when autonomous systems are built and implemented...
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Companies Need to Develop their Own Data
To understand complex patterns in consumers, to support with methods like Big Data or Machine Learning, we need lots of data. Here an example of whats being done...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Hawaiian Bobtail Squid Squirts Researcher
Cute video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...
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Project Zenkey to Use Phones to Authenticate
The idea is that your phone and phone number will act as a secure identifier. I like the general idea, but expect general mistrust in large carriers to emerge...
From Schneier on Security
More Cryptanalysis of Solitaire
In 1999, I invented the Solitaire encryption algorithm, designed to manually encrypt data using a deck of cards. It was written into the plot of Neal Stephenson's...
From insideHPC
Nominations open for 2020 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award
Nominations are now open for the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC. The award honors excellence in computational science by early-career women in Europe. The winner...
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GigaIO Optimizes Scalability of Xilinx Alveo FPGAs
Today GigaIO introduced FabreX support for Xilinx Alveo Accelerators, in addition to an exclusive offering that provides Xilinx FPGA developers with remote cloud...
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NERSC Unveils Mural for pending Perlmutter Supercomputer
NERSC has unveiled the mural that will grace the cabinets of the Perlmutter supercomputer that will be installed at Berkeley Lab in 2020. "The mural pays tribute...
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Video: Are women underrepresented in the HPC community?
Athina Frantzana from the University of Edinburgh gave this talk at the EuroPython Conference. "This study is the first attempt to understand the current gender...
From The Eponymous Pickle