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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 Putting People First
The anthropologist of Artificial Intelligence
The algorithms that underlie much of the modern world have grown so complex that we always can’t predict what they’ll do. Iyad Rahwan, who directs the Center for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Gifts Supercomputer to MIT for AI Models
Summit architectecture still has the record for calculation intensive models.IBM gives artificial intelligence computing at MIT a liftNearly $12 million machine...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Matroid-Quantum Connection
With tighter links between notions of rank? Composite of src1, src2 (our congrats) James Oxley and Geoff Whittle are mathematicians at LSU and Victoria University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Discipline: Machine Behavior
Yes, behavior is important. In biological behavior we don't claim to understand all of the mechanics involved. So we accept the complexity being beyond simple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotting Objects Among clutter
Key for any kind of real-world application.Spotting objects amid clutterNew approach quickly finds hidden objects in dense point clouds, for use in driverless cars...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Surpasses Google in Voice
No surprise with volumes of people talking. And further, since progress in this space can often depend on the volume of data that can be used to develop deeper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solutions for RansomWare Attacks?
Increasing number of Ransomware attacks. What is the solution? Caution with opening received messages certainly, better offline backups of all essential data...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Powers Virtualized Machine Learning with VMware and NVIDIA
Today Mellanox announced that its RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) networking solutions for VMware vSphere enable virtualized Machine Learning solutions thatMellanox...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Launches New High-Performance vSAN Solution
Today Supermicro extended its vSAN system portfolio and introduced a new enterprise-class vSAN solution -- Ultra SuperServer -- to its broad portfolio of fullySupermicro...
From insideHPC
Atos and C-DAC to Collaborate on AI, Quantum Computing, and Exascale in India
Atos and India's C-DAC have signed a Cooperation Agreement to work together in the areas of Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Exascale Computing.Atos...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Updating and Expanding Programming Projects
I’m always looking for new projects. I found an interesting example in the book “The Creativity Code” (Creativity Code review here). It was a poem generator that...
From insideHPC
IBM’s HPC Dreams are Tattered
In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX.net writes that IBM ambitions in the HPC market have fallen short. "Armed with highly advanced HPC systems,IBM...
From insideHPC
Cooling Challenges for Ultra-high Density Compute Clusters
Miguel Terol from Lenovo gave this talk at HPCKP'19. "Technology players are refining their chip and platform designs to enable much denser systems. The trade-off...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Credit Card Skimmers
Modern credit card skimmers hidden in self-service gas pumps communicate via Bluetooth. There's now an app that can detect them: The team from the University of...
From Computational Complexity
`Are you a math genius?' `Can you fix my Iphone?' `What do you think about Facebook and Privacy?'
When I meet non-math people and tell them I am a computer science professor I get a range of responses. Here are some and my responses. 1) Are you a math genius...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deloitte Launches Blockchain Demonstrator
Helpful idea to have out there, since the process involved is still mysterious to many.Deloitte launches ‘Blockchain in a Box’ hands-on demonstratorThe consultancy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monetizing Your Dark Data
Worked several projects along these lines. Good provocative thoughts here. More links to process using data and the means to monetizing that description of business...
From insideHPC
Video: InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology and Roadmap
Gilad Shainer from Mellanox gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "In-Network Computing transforms the data center interconnect to become a "distributed CPU"...
From insideHPC
Podcast: HPC & AI Convergence Enables AI Workload Innovation
In this Conversations in the Cloud podcast, Esther Baldwin from Intel describes how the convergence of HPC and AI is driving innovation. "On the topic of HPC &Podcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle