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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
ISC 2019 Student Cluster Competition: Day-by-Day Drama, Winners Revealed!
In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX continues his first-hand coverage of the Student Cluster Competition at the recent ISC 2019 conference. "The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graphs and Machine Learning
The following talk looks interesting, from Neo4j. I like that this deals with an important aspect of risk in machine learning I plan to attend. I note theyHi...
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Password Inventor Dies
Had not known of this particular invention claim. But when we first used using time sharing computers they were not password protected. I remember using a form...
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Language and Conversation
Straight forward statements about language and conversation. We are making more conversations with machines these days, but still not complex ones. Using Language...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Question Technology
One of the interesting t-shirts I saw at CSTA 2019 last week said “Question Technology.” That might seem to be a strange slogan at a computer science education...
From Schneier on Security
Palantir's Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement
Motherboard got its hands on Palantir's Gotham user's manual, which is used by the police to get information on people: The Palantir user guide shows that police...
From Computational Complexity
Two infinite hat problem and a question about what is ``well known''
This is a joint post with David Marcus. You will see how he is involved in my next post. Two infinite hat problems based on one scenario. I am also curious if...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections-July 2019
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Scholarships News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Europe News from ACM-W India Welcome from the ACM-W Chair In response...
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Argonne Makes Biggest File Transfer
Impressive, as suggested, useful for very large combinatorial problems with related data.Argonne Team Makes Largest Single File Transfer in HistoryBy Oliver Peckham...
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Call for Papers: ISAV 2019 In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization
The ISAV 2019 Workshop has issued its Call for Papers. Held in conjunction with with SC19, the In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization...
From insideHPC
Large-Scale Optimization Strategies for Typical HPC Workloads
Liu Yu from Inspur gave this talk at PASC19. "Ensuring performance of applications running on large-scale clusters is one of the primary focuses in HPC research...
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The Revolution of AI will be Unsupervised
I attended the ACM Webinar by Yann LeCun mentioned below. Well done, about the history and future of AI. I will point to the slides and audio when they are...
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Samsung Reality Glasses
Having been involved in early looks at 'smart glasses' for the enterprise, am still intrigued by when they might become become more common as a replacement forSamsung...
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Blockstack for Digital Rights
Blockstack Brought to my attention, has been around for some time. .... Decentralized computing network and app ecosystemBlockstack apps protect your digital...
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Fill the Data Moats?
Had never experienced the idea formally, But after reading the description here understand the caution. In how many domains can you assure having the data that...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at Black Hat USA 2019 in Las Vegas on Wednesday, August 7 and Thurdsay, August 8,...
From insideHPC
HPC Goes Green at Goonhilly Earth Station with Submer Immersive Cooling
"As an innovator in hyper-efficient immersion cooling technology, Submer Technologies is partnering with Goonhilly and 2CRSI to provide HPC solutions with higher...
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Cloud Kitchens
Been a close watcher, but no practitioner of restaurant world. Most recently seen: Cloud Kitchens. Not new, but their digital implementation could be. Further...
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Job of the Week: Application Engineer for Arm in Austin
Arm in Austin, Texas is seeking an Application Engineer in our job of the Week. "The Applications Engineer is part of a focused professional services team partJob...
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