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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 Schneier on Security
Russians Hack FBI Comms System
Yahoo News reported that the Russians have successfully targeted an FBI communications system: American officials discovered that the Russians had dramatically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Record Sales
Expect to see robotics in many new places.World Record Sales for Robots as Sector Reaches $16.5 Billion in Investment in ZDNet By Greg NicholsThe International...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Margaret Martonosi Selected as the New AD for CISE!
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is delighted National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France Córdova has selected Margaret Martonosi as the next head...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The AI Work of the Future Report
Having been seeing the AI hype of late, and getting questions from colleagues and clients as to that tt really means. This piece from MIT, pointed to by O'Reilly...
From insideHPC
CSC Deploys Puhti Supercomputer from Atos
Finnish scientific computing took a big step recently with the launch of Puhti, a new Atos supercomputer at CSC's Kajaani Data Center. "With these new acquisitions...
From insideHPC
AWS Launches EC2 G4 Instances powered by NVIDIA GPUs
Today AWS announced the general availability of G4 instances, a new GPU-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance designed to help accelerate machine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Drugs with Blockchain
Another example of blockchain use for secure tracking and thus tracing. The regulation implied is not to specifically use blockchain, but to ensure secure tracking...
From insideHPC
Podcast: The Dos and Don’ts of RFP Benchmarks
In this podcast, reviews a presentation on Benchmarks in HPC Procurement Tenders by Tricia Balle of Cray. She gave the talk at the recent Perth HPC Conference.Podcast...
From insideHPC
Video: Moore’s Law is Not Dead
Jim Keller from Intel gave this talk at the EECS Colloquium. "While it is true that certain vectors like transistor performance and power are showing diminishing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snorkel for Building Data for ML
This was new to me. But handling and selecting the data is the most important aspect of machine learning projects. In a recent project it included over 75% of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Company Building Brands to Sell only on Amazon
A direction we may see more of.How one company is building brands to sell only on Amazon By Cale Guthrie Weissman in ModernRetailMany digital brands are allergic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimal Neural Architecture
Thoughtful and useful piece. Though I don't seen how this is necessarily universally optimal, which is usually a broad claim. Link to full and technical paper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Material Holes Create Amazing Properties
An interesting discovery of the use of 'holes'. Consider all the advantages we have gotten from material science.Researchers catalog defects that give 2-D materials...
From Computational Complexity
Applicants to Grad School are too good. Here is why this might be a problem.
Sitting around with three faculty we had the following conversation ALICE: When I applied to grad school in 1980 they saw a strong math major (that is, I had good...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self-Flying Cargo Drones
Emergence of such capabilities will change transport.Bell's New, Self-Flying Cargo Drone Hauls a Heavy Load in WiredThe all-electric APT 70 can tote up to 70 pounds...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
HLF 2019 Kicks Off with a Q&A with ACM President Cherri Pancake (plus La La Lab and the Science of Music)
The 7th annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) has officially begun! Yesterday (September 21st) was the opening ceremony, which included a “science slam” on the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast Intervew with Hilary Mason on GigaOM
Another AI practitioner talks about the advances and future of AI:Voices in AI – Bonus: A Conversation with Hilary Mason By Byron ReeseOn this Episode of Voices...
From Schneier on Security
A Feminist Take on Information Privacy
Maria Farrell has a really interesting framing of information/device privacy: What our smartphones and relationship abusers share is that they both exert power...
From Schneier on Security
France Outlines Its Approach to Cyberwar
In a document published earlier this month (in French), France described the legal framework in which it will conduct cyberwar operations. Lukasz Olejnik explains...
From The Eponymous Pickle