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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
The Doghouse: Crown Sterling
A decade ago, the Doghouse was a regular feature in both my email newsletter Crypto-Gram and my blog. In it, I would call out particularly egregious -- and amusing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Six Sigma Out of Fashion?
We did training using Six Sigma in its early days. We joined with GE regionally to do advanced training with them. Though in later connects with GE the term...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing and Verifiable Knowledge
Another little piece of the puzzle, how will quantum computing be fundamentally be different than the computing we have known for so long?Quantum Information Theory...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming NSF Funding Opportunities
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has a number of upcoming funding opportunities. Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) (PD 12-8084)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
W. Daniel Hillis on Intelligent Emergences
Continued looks at Intelligence in The Edge, here from W. Daniell HillisEmergencesMy perspective is closest to George Dyson's. I liked his introducing himself as...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Post-Wildfire Water Availability
A new study by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) uses a numerical model of an important watershed in California to shed light on...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: ISC 2020 in Frankfurt
The ISC 2020 conference has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place June 21-25, 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany. "The ISC research paper sessions provide world...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combining RPA and AI: Automationhero
Brought to my attention, the basic claim is good, once you understand your process well enough you should be able to do both. The effective definition of both...
From The Noisy Channel
Dances with HiPPOs
Decision making, especially at technology companies, is supposed to be data-driven. Unfortunately, even in this wondrous age of science, decisions often depends...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Inside TACC’s Frontera Supercomputer
In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Dan Stanzione from TACC discusses the architecture and capabilities of Frontera, TACC’s newest HPC cluster. "Frontera’s architecture...
From insideHPC
The ABCI Supercomputer: World’s First Open AI Computing Infrastructure
Shinichiro Takizawa from AIST gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "ABCI is the world's first large-scale Open AI Computing Infrastructure, constructed and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Scratch Course For Teachers
This looks like a valuable free professional development course for teachers interested in incorporating Scratch into their curriculum."The Scratch Course" is a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Scoop and Conversaton Analytics
Remembering having this idea for interacting with people conversationally on a chatbot, but the technology was not even close then. And then also using the conversation...
From insideHPC
7 Ways HPC Software Developers Can Benefit from Intel Software Investments
Intel has long focused on supporting HPC software. But, as the years have gone by, much has changed — and the company's offerings have grown and evolved. A chapter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can AI Answer Toughest HR Questions?
A Podcast addressing tough questions, research from Wharton:Can Artificial Intelligence Help Answer HR’s Toughest Questions?Aug 30, 2019 Human Resources Podcasts...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Self-Play Is Key?
Self-play and Ramsey numbers [ Talking about worst case ] Avrim Blum is the CAO for TTIC. That is he is the Chief Academic Officer at the Toyota Technological Institute...
From Schneier on Security
Credit Card Privacy
Good article in the Washington Post on all the surveillance associated with credit card use....
From My Biased Coin
Happy New Academic Year: Teaching Randomized Algorithms
It seems I haven't written on this blog for a while.Today was the start of a new semester. I'll be teaching Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis, using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethereum in Google BigQuery
Just brought to my attention, implications should be interesting in the ability to test blockchain applications and their data. Note in particular the possibility...
From insideHPC