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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 The Eponymous Pickle
On the Open Source Publishing Landscape
Open Source is great, but what are the issues involved for creating and using it?The MIT Press releases a comprehensive report on open-source publishing software...
From insideHPC
High Speed Data Capture for AI on the Fly Edge Applications
In many AI applications, transporting large amounts of data back to a remote datacenter is impractical and undesirable. With AI on the Fly, the entire AI workflow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toyota Towards Robots for the Home
Perhaps surprising direction for the automobile corp, though they have had home style robots for some time. With some plans for upcoming Olympics.Toyota turnsBy...
From insideHPC
GigaIO Extends Next-Generation Network to Storage Systems
Today GigaIO introduced the FabreX implementation of Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) architecture, streamlining NVMe network communication and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Case Against Mission Critical Machine Learning
Good caution, like with any kind of automation.A Case Against Mission-Critical Applications of Machine LearningBy CACM Staff Communications of the ACM, August...
From insideHPC
ServerCool CDUs are Cooling 10-Percent of Top100 Supercomputers
Today Nortek Air Solutions’ ServerCool division that its coolant distribution unit (CDU) technology is cooling dozens of the world’s most powerful and energy efficient...
From Schneier on Security
AT&T Employees Took Bribes to Unlock Smartphones
This wasn't a small operation: A Pakistani man bribed AT&T call-center employees to install malware and unauthorized hardware as part of a scheme to fraudulently...
From insideHPC
Now Shipping: Leadership Performance with new 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
Today AMD rolled out the 2nd Generation AMD EPYC family of processors that deliver performance leadership across a broad number of enterprise, cloud and HPC workloads...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Review: The Creativity Code
I’ve been reading a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI) this year. Several of them have been pretty scary. It was recommended that I take a look at “The Creativity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Quitrit Teleportation Report
Very impressive next steps. Its implications still unclear. If this works, we might be able to solve very difficult problems more quickly. Note its still no...
From insideHPC
Marvell Reduces Power Consumption with NVMe-oF Ethernet SSD Technology
Today Marvell announced an expansion of its revolutionary NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) portfolio. The breakthrough solutions include one powering the Toshiba Memory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sound Localization and Projection
Not an entirely new idea, we worked with a group out of MIT in the 90s which was creating focused sound environments. You could, for example create a localized...
From Computational Complexity
Obstacles to improving Classical Factoring Algorithms
In Samuel Wagstaff's excellent book The Joy of Factoring (see here for a review) there is a discussion towards the end about why factoring algorithms have not made...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US is Released
CCC Chair Mark D. Hill, CCC Vice-Chair Liz Bradley, and CCC Director Ann Schwartz Drobnis provided significant contributions to this post. The Computing Community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Automating Some Medical Decisions
An example of machine learning for healthcare. Here from voice monitoring and then connected to training datasets. It does seem the amount of data involved is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensitivity of Binary Models
Most interesting piece, admittedly technical, of a way to model sensitivity in boolean (0/1) circuits. Also with some information about the combinatorics ( increasing...
From Schneier on Security
Brazilian Cell Phone Hack
I know there's a lot of politics associated with this story, but concentrate on the cybersecurity aspect for a moment. The cell phones of a thousand Brazilians,...
From insideHPC
ISC High Performance: Fueling Innovation & Fostering Family for 33 Years
In this special guest feature, Elizabeth Leake from the STEM-Trek Nonprofit reflects on inclusivity at the recent ISC 2019 conference in Frankfurt. "A favorable...
From insideHPC
Providentia Worldwide Builds Intelligence into Summit Supercomputer Cooling
The world’s fastest supercomputer is sharing data with its cooling plant, reducing energy consumption and cost. "OLCF and technology consulting company Providentia...
From insideHPC