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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
Examination of Stores of the Future
Used to be part of a team that ran 'future stores' for P&G and investigate technology enhancements and implications. We ended up with dozens of stores globally...
From insideHPC
ENERXICO to Empower Mexican Energy Sector with HPC
Recently launched in Barcelona, ENERXICO is a new project jointly funded by European Union and the government of Mexico to solve such real-world engineering problems...
From insideHPC
Video: Exascale Computing Project Application Development
Andrew Siegel from Argonne gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The Exascale Computing Project is accelerating delivery of a capable exascale computing ecosystem...
From The Eponymous Pickle
D-Wave Still in the Race for Quantum
Have been following D-Wave's work since their inception. We also worked with Los Alamos in the area of dealing with rare maintenance events. See tag below...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Dives into Smart Contracts and Cyber Payment
Implications, given the number of customers involved could be huge, though stiff regulation is looming.Facebook Makes First Blockchain Acquisition With Chainspace...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secure Your Website
From the Google Blog. Advice as to securely encrypting your online sites, beyond Https. Its National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Technical, but worth talking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re Predictions of IOT Growth
In part depends on how you define it. Smart Home IOT has exploded, but security has added an element of caution.Why the Internet of Things isn’t growing as rapidly...
From Schneier on Security
NSA on the Future of National Cybersecurity
Glenn Gerstell, the General Counsel of the NSA, wrote a long and interesting op-ed for the New York Times where he outlined a long list of cyber risks facing the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2019 Champions of Computer Science Awards
Know a student or teacher or administrator who has achieved something this year to increase access and quality of CS education. I can think of a number of people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing
A fairly good, non technical description and use overview of quantum computing. Likely suitable for use for executive questions.What is quantum computing? The ...
From Computational Complexity
Richard Guy is 102 years old today
Richard Guy is a mathematician. He co-authored the classic book Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays with Elywn Berlekamp and John Conway. On Sept 30 (today)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Reliability vs Reasoning with Transparency
We came up with some similar conclusions. That observed reliability was typically much more important that people thought, and it was best to solve that problem...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humor that Works: and a new Book!
My former P&G Colleague Andrew Tarvin has been awarded to the prestigious group:P&G Alumni Visionaries under 40Announcing our “Visionaries Under 40” to be recognized...
From insideHPC
TMGcore to Demonstrate 10X Density Datacenter Technology at SC19
Today TMGcore announced it is teaming with the datacenter architects at Corgan to reenvision datacenter facilities that are a tenth of the size of data centersTMGcore...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Writing 33 as a Sum of Cubes
Cracking a Diophantine problem for 42 too Andrew Booker is a mathematician at the University of Bristol, who works in analytic number theory. For example he has...
From insideHPC
Xilinx Adopts Micron Xccela Flash to Accelerate AI
Today Micron Technology announced that it is working with Xilinx to boost the boot and dynamic configuration performance of Xilinx’s Versal platform, the industry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building More General, Trustable AI: Deeper Understanding?
I have just been thinking about the idea of what is called 'deep understanding' here. That is more generally applicable AI. Agree that deep learning is impressive...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Problem Of Cheating on Programming Projects
This seems to be the year a lot of people are really getting concerned about cheating on computer science programming projects. There has been some discussion of...
From insideHPC
Video: AI is Impacting HPC Everywhere
Rob Farber gave this talk at the Perth HPC Conference. "Just as technology changes in the personal computer market brought about a revolution in the design andVideo...
From The Eponymous Pickle