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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 …
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White Paper: Basement Supercomputer beats Amazon EC2 on Cost and Performance
The good folks at Basement Supercomputing have published a white paper comparing one of the company's on-prem Limulus personal HPC appliance to Amazon EC2 Cloud...
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IBM Cloud to Provide Quantum-safe Cryptography in 2020
Quantum Computing holds tremendous promise, but it could also put today's cryptographic-based security systems at risk. Enter IBM, who just announced plans to provide...
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Video: Three Perspectives on Message Passing
Robert Harrison from Brookhaven gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "MADNESS, TESSE/EPEXA, and MolSSI are three quite different large and long-lived projects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Analysis of IOTA
Mentioned I was looking at the blockchain IOTA sometime back, was just pointed to this analysis that I had missed: Has pointers to much more:Analysis of IOTA ...
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Visions of the Future, Then and Now
Quite a considerable look at how future has been predicted, why were they so accurate? what sources can we look at today? As a futurist myself, always seeking...
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Blockchain for Hotel Commissions
Another indication of IBM working strongly in this space. Had not heard this particular kind of application before. And also new to the hospitality space.Travelport...
From Schneier on Security
License Plate "NULL"
There was a DefCon talk by someone with the vanity plate "NULL." The California system assigned him every ticket with no license plate: $12,000. Although the initial...
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Ultimate ID: Facial Recognition?
Where you would expect it, but the results are still less than perfect. And where it is mostly likely to be spoofed for direct fraud. Facial Recognition Making...
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Good Data Science Examples
A number of good inspirational examples. Needs more tech details, but still useful.Remarkable Applications of Data SciencePosted by Sudhanshu Ahuja in DSCWe are...
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Podcast: Reducing Complexity with Cluster Management from Bright Computing
In this Conversations in the Cloud podcast, Lee Carter from Bright Computing offers comprehensive software for deploying, managing, and monitoring clustered infrastructure...
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Webinar: Driving Business Outcomes with AI
Leaders in the area of machine learning and AI talk goals and workflow:On-Demand WebinarEnterprises understand that driving business outcomes with machine learning...
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Silence the Critics: Take our Quick Survey on HPC Cloud
A recent report from Hyperion Research indicate that as much as 10 percent of HPC workloads are already in cloud and that 70 percent of HPC centers are runningSilence...
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What will Quantum Computing Mean?
A largely non-technical view of what Quantum Computing will mean. Our own minor investigations looked at how very complex combinatorial problems (problems with...
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Contract Languages of Distributed Ledgers
Quite worthwhile piece in the 'smart contract' blockchain space, in Financial industry, examining:In ACM Queue: Databases Download PDF version of this article...
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How the European Processor Initiative is Leveraging RISC-V for the Future of Supercomputing
In this special guest feature, Calista Redmond writes that the European Processor Initiative is designing an HPC accelerator based on RISC-V. "The accelerator will...
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Google Building more Private Web: Privacy Sandbox
Google talks about its approaches to a more private, yet financially sustainable Web.Building a more private web By Justin Schuh Director, Chrome Engineering...
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Shape of Data Implies its Uses
Recall hearing about this approach in training we took. Making it easier to connect key data to analytics. Shape constraint languages.Graph Database ‘Shapes...
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CCC Response to NITRD RFI “Information on Update to Strategic Computing Objectives”
The following post was contributed by CCC Director, Ann Schwartz Drobnis. The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National...
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Aitken Supercomputer from HPE to Support NASA Moon Missions
A new HPE supercomputer at NASA’s Ames Research Center will run modeling and simulation workloads for lunar landings. The 3.69 Petaflop "Aitken" system is a custom...
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