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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
IBM Brings World’s Largest Fleet of Quantum Computing Systems Online
Today, IBM announced the opening of the IBM Quantum Computation Center in New York State. "To meet growing demand for access to real quantum hardware, ten quantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Conquest Advertising
A term I had not heard in a very long time. Only Amazon and Google might be in place to do this.Amazon Rewrites the Conquest Advertising Textbook in ECOmmerce...
From Schneier on Security
Revisiting Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
I previously blogged about a Black Hat talk that disclosed security vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787 software. Ben Rothke concludes that the vulnerabilities are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Ethics Multi Country Partnership
Note the mention of human-centered AI, which reading on seems to be about bias/fairness. But its really also about how humans use/interact/are influenced byResearch...
From Schneier on Security
I'm Looking to Hire a Strategist to Help Figure Out Public-Interest Tech
I am in search of a strategic thought partner: a person who can work closely with me over the next 9 to 12 months in assessing what's needed to advance the practice...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DOE Unveils AI and Tech Office
Another vote of confidence for the current emergence of AI, depending upon how you define it.DOE Unveils AI and Technology OfficeNextGov.comBrandi VincentThe U.S...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Suggests a Global Grid
Interesting idea, but I wonder if we can predict the future stability and/or trust of other countries to build and manage our power grid? Would require some evolution...
From insideHPC
Aiden Lab Chooses WEKA to Accelerate Genomics Research
Today WekaIO announced that Aiden Lab at the Baylor College of Medicine, a leading genome research facility, has selected the Weka File System (WekaFS) to accelerate...
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Exxact looks to BeeGFS Parallel Storage for HPC, AI, and Life Science Workloads
Today Exxact Corporation announced that it has become a North America Gold Partner of ThinkParQ, the company behind the BeeGFS parallel file system. "BeeGFS offers...
From insideHPC
New Liquid Cooled AMD EPYC 7H12 Processor Breaks Performance Records
Today AMD announced a new addition to the 2nd Generation AMD EPYC family, the AMD EPYC 7H12 processor. The 64 core/128 thread, 2.6Ghz base frequency, 3.3Ghz max...
From insideHPC
DOE Funds Quantum Computing and Networking Research
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $60.7 million in funding to advance the development of quantum computing and networking. "We are on the threshold...
From insideHPC
Research Findings: HPC-Enabled AI
Steve Conway from Hyperion Research gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "AI adds fourth branch to the scientific method, inferencing. Inferencing complementsResearch...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Perspective about AI
No doubt Google is doing lots of internal and external work with AI, so their perspective about use is useful. Non technical and fairly balanced. CIOs: Here’sA...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CS for Social Good Award Announcement!
Earlier this summer, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced a joint white paper competition with Schmidt Futures on the future of “CS for Social Good...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant Advances Languages
Have now been using Google assistant bilingually for about a year, with multiple voices as I explore them. Impressive work, everybody needs language assistance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where Blockchain Will be Delivered
Starting to see this trend, since the data involved is already in ERP and CRM.Gartner: Blockchain will be nothing more than an add-on for ERP, CRM softwareThe distributed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Breaking Things Productively
Have never used Chaos engineering, but the idea is interesting. Second read about the concept:How to Use Chaos Engineering to Break Things Productively by Sam...
From Schneier on Security
Cracking Forgotten Passwords
Expandpass is a string expansion program. It's "useful for cracking passwords you kinda-remember." You tell the program what you remember about the password and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Translators
I did this kind of thing for some time in the enterprise, we did not call it a translator, but helped execs and other decision makers understand the results ofMckinsey...
From insideHPC