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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
Google Goes CallJoy for Small Business
Google approaches small business to AI automate phone use. like blocking unwanted calls, and providing basic response information about your services and hours....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 13th 2019)
Drinking juice increases your risk of having cancer. College completion rates are increasing and this may have to do with lower standards. Australia is going to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing and Chemical Industry
Was unaware of this particular connection. Description below. Improved Modeling.The next big thing? Quantum computing’s potential impact on chemicalsThe chemical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storing Data in Music
Intriguing idea, in theory not that hard. Why might it be used? A kind of Steganography?Storing Data in Music ETH ZurichBy Fabio BergaminResearchers at ETH Zurich...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Wants a Rolling Home Assistant
Have now seen a number of rolling smart home assistants fail, will this take it forward by using the Alexa infrastructure?Amazon continues work on mobile homePrototypes...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: When the Octopus and Squid Lost Their Shells
Cephalopod ancestors once had shells. When did they lose them? With the molecular clock technique, which allowed him to use DNA to map out the evolutionary history...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It’s Really About the Teacher
CSTA 2019 gave me a lot to think about. Today I was thinking about what was impressive and I thought about the Tuesday lunch panel. Microsoft brought a panel of...
From Schneier on Security
Clickable Endnotes to Click Here to Kill Everybody
In Click Here to Kill Everybody, I promised clickable endnotes. They're finally available....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humanoid Sign Language
Robotic Sign LanguageA robotic hand making a gesture in sign language. UC3M Programs a Humanoid Robot to Communicate in Sign Language Carlos III University of Madrid...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA DGX-Ready Program Goes Global
Deploying AI at scale can be an extreme challenge for data centers. To ease the process, NVIDIA has expanded its DGX-Ready Data Center Program to 19 validated partners...
From insideHPC
John Shalf from LBNL on Computing Challenges Beyond Moore’s Law
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe interviews John Shalf from LBNL on the development of digital computing in the post Moore...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Tackling Massive Scientific Challenges with AI/HPC Convergence
In this Chip Chat podcast, Brandon Draeger from Cray describes the unique needs of HPC customers and how new Intel technologies in Cray systems are helping to deliver...
From insideHPC
Time to Value: Storage Performance in the Epoch of AI
Sven Oehme gave this talk at the DDN User Group meeting at ISC 2019. "New AI and ML frameworks, advances in computational power (primarily driven by GPU’s), and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversation on Future of US Manufacturing
Podcast and transcript from K@W in a realm of advanced automation and robotics.How the U.S. Can Regain Its Manufacturing EdgeBCG's Justin Rose discusses what the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Teams Surges Ahead of Slack
Microsoft shows the numbers, somewhat unexpectedly. Have used Teams since its rollout. A quite fast pickup. Its well done for basic chat and beyond. Probably...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Tools and Sensitivity
Cutting right through a 30-year-old conjecture Cropped from Emory homepage Hao Huang is a mathematician and computer scientist at Emory University. Last week he...
From Schneier on Security
Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Has Quantum Encryption Policy
At least one presidential candidate has a policy about quantum computing and encryption. It has two basic planks. One: fund quantum-resistant encryption standards...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOTA and Mobility
A further look at uses of IOTA in Automotive IndustryIOTA in the mobility sector: a complete rundownin IOTAarchiveThe days of assembling “dumb” parts into something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping Malls and Face Recognition
Not unexpected, how will shoppers react? Will the use be clearly posted? There are already lots of security cameras. We did lots of work tracking trafficShopping...
From The Eponymous Pickle