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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
Waking up to New Risks
In some ways we saw this coming, risk was increasing, and that risk was coming from within in things we had specifically built. Our internet of thingsDeep Insecurities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Like Me: Novelist Ian McEwan
More comments on the directions of AIMachines Like MeA Talk By Ian McEwan [4.16.19] in The Edge.I would like to set aside the technological constraints in order...
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Video: Leadership performance on the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 9200 series
In this video from ISC 2019, Brian Caslis from Intel describes how the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 9200 series of processors delivers new levels of HPC application performance...
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NEC signs up as Reseller for Altair PBS Professional
Today Altair announced a global VAR agreement with NEC Corporation to market and sell industry-leading HPC workload manager and job scheduler Altair PBS Professional...
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CUDA-X HPC: Libraries and Tools for your Next Scientific Breakthrough
Today NVIDIA announced CUDA-X HPC, a collection of libraries, tools, compilers and APIs that helps developers solve the world’s most challenging problems. "CUDA...
From insideHPC
Open Edge and HPC Initiative to Provide Arm-based Systems to Researchers
Today E4 Computer Engineering and the Open Edge and HPC Initiative today announced that Arm-based HPC resources will be provided to researchers and scientists from...
From Schneier on Security
Maciej Cegłowski on Privacy in the Information Age
Maciej Cegłowski has a really good essay explaining how to think about privacy today: For the purposes of this essay, I'll call it "ambient privacy" -- the understanding...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast is getline in C++?
A standard way to read a text file in C++ is to call the getline function. To iterate over all lines in file and sum up their length, you might do as follows: while...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on MIT Open Source AutoML ATMSeer
More on the topic, and some additional background information and links. Very powerful concept that that should continue to expand. Automation is the word, See...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trust and Sponsoring Currencies and Contracts
In just a few hours there has been a considerable pushback on Facebook being trusted with cryptocurrencies:Facebook’s cryptocurrency has a trust problemLibra isn...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Community Updates
Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (GCTC/SC3) Expo The Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (GCTC/SC3) Expo is July 10-12, 2019 in Washington...
From insideHPC
Interview: New Intel Innovations for the Convergence of HPC & AI
In this video from ISC 2019 in Frankfurt, Raj Hazra from Intel shares highlights from his keynote. "Intel’s disclosures at ISC’19 demonstrate how its data-centric...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Overhauls Jet Management
An indication of less attention to direct online ordering?Walmart in big overhaul of Jet.com In ChainStoreAge By CSA STAFFWalmart is making some big changes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Teams to Produce Cryptocurrency
Whats the ultimate of this? Payment/Procurement angle? Examining. Note the broad number of participants. And will also include the ability to integrate secure...
From insideHPC
Cray Boosts Deep Learning Performance for Geospatial AI
Today Cray announced enhanced capabilities to empower data scientists and engineers who are innovating in the field of Geospatial AI. “The new features includeCray...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Machine Learning
Bill Vorhies reports on Gartner and Forrester's look at automated machine learning. Ultimately a key advance for AI and its broad use. List and analysis of major...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GM Thinks new Brain for its Cars
Recently had a software update performed on my one year old MAzda, took too long and required too much testing to verify its correctness.GM thinks up new electronic...
From insideHPC
Experience The Exascale Era with AMD at ISC 2019
AMD is stepping up with renewed momentum in the HPC market at the ISC 2019 conference this week. "AMD invites you to explore future architecture and ecosystem technologies...
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NEC receives 50 Million Euro order from Germany’s DWD
Today NEC announced that it received an order for an NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA supercomputer with a value of 50 Million Euro from the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD),NEC...
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