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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 Schneier on Security
Google Releases Basic Homomorphic Encryption Tool
Google has released an open-source cryptographic tool: Private Join and Compute. From a Wired article: Private Join and Compute uses a 1970s methodology known as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Update of Online Encyclopedia of Statistical Science
An excellent and considerable online free resource for data science, analytics and statistics. Covering over 600 methods and concepts. Many visualizations of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insect Robotics
For some time Harvard has been the nexus for small robotics. For small, swarming or sensor tasks.Unleashed, Robo-Insect Takes Flight The New York TimesKnvul Sheikh...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistants Need Connections
A fundamental idea, the ability to use skills to build up other skills. Reminds me of object oriented programming. Will this work usefully at the right levelAmazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating the Ledger in Context
Simulation has always been a favorite tool. Create a space that includes the context and metadata of an environment for some need. Then build a means to explore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Still Creating Jobs
Some good details here:Is AI killing jobs? Actually, it added 3x more than it replaced in 2018By Lydia Dishman in FastCompanyAn oft-cited McKinsey report that predicted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Productivity Sensing
Inevitable perhaps, but is it Big Brother or will it be interpreted that way?Can mobile sensing tools boost worker productivity? in Retailwire by Tom Ryan with...
From insideHPC
Summit Supercomputer Triples Performance Record on new HPL-AI Benchmark
"Using HPL-AI, a new approach to benchmarking AI supercomputers, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit system has achieved unprecedented performance levels ofSummit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Cameras for Theft
Again likely to be adopted commonly, if at least for liability. We saw it in European future stores a decade ago.Walmart uses AI camera tech to track checkoutIt...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Asteroid Impacts for Planetary Defenses
In support of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, researchers are creating 3-D models and using one of NASA’s most powerful supercomputers to produceSupercomputing...
From Schneier on Security
Yubico Security Keys with a Crypto Flaw
Wow, is this an embarrassing bug: Yubico is recalling a line of security keys used by the U.S. government due to a firmware flaw. The company issued a security...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Welcome CCC Welcomes New Council Members!
Today, July 1st, is the start of a new term at CCC! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Mark Hill and Vice Chair Liz Bradley are staying in their respective...
From insideHPC
NEC SX-Aurora Vector Supercomputer to Power Weather Forecasting at DWD in Germany
In this video from ISC 2019, Dr. Rodolf Fischer from NEC describes how the company's recent win at DWD demonstrates the power and efficiency of the SX-Aurora supercomputer...
From insideHPC
Video: DDN Launches EXA 5 at ISC 2019
In this video from ISC 2019, James Coomer from DDN describes the company's new EXA 5 advanced Lustre solution. "We’ve built EXA5 directly for the new era of HPC...
From Computational Complexity
A proof that 22/7 - pi > 0 and more
My father was a High School English teacher who did not know much math. As I was going off to college, intending to major in math, he gave me the following sage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of AI Report
Looks to be a good resource, subscribe.State of AI Report 2019 By Nathan Benaich and Ian HogarthArtificial intelligence (AI) is a multidisciplinary field of science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ISTE 2019 Trip Report
There was a time when I would have written a blog post every night of ISTE. Apparently I’m getting older or something and that is not a priority for me any more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unifying Logical and Statistical AI With Markov Logic
As AI practitioners in the enterprise we understood this early on. You need to know the results of statistical analysis AND the ability to link them usefullyUnifying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is an Utterance Relevant to a Conversation?
Everything has a context (and relevant metadata). And in any conversation we need to test for relevancy. You say something and we are quick to say, or think...
From insideHPC