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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Building better software with better tools: sanitizers versus valgrind
We often have to write code using permissive programming languages like C and C++. They tend to generate hard-to-debug problems that can crash your applications...
From insideHPC
Acheiving ExaOps with the CoMet Comparative Genomics Application
Wayne Joubert's talk at the HPC User Forum described how researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) achieved a record throughput...
From Schneier on Security
Another Intel Chip Flaw
Remember the Spectre and Meltdown attacks from last year? They were a new class of attacks against complex CPUs, finding subliminal channels in optimization techniques...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science And x
For most of my teaching career I have been focused on teaching computer science in stand alone computer science classes. And I really like teaching computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ultra Long Range Cameras
Further advances with Camera and image interpretation technology. The AI to recompose the image from multiple components.An Ultra Long Range Camera Daily Mail...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transparency to understand, Control Risk.
To hope to get a handle on risk, you need to understand both the process involved, and known or predicted measures of risk. To lead some useful management approach...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Speech from the Brain
I have heard that this was a solved problem many times. Is it actually here now? Seems that once this is really solved, we will immediately see it in working...
From Computational Complexity
Getting Through the Clutter
My daughter showed up at her doctor's office the other day and found it closed. She complained that she had received all these alerts, texts, emails, voicemails...
From Schneier on Security
WhatsApp Vulnerability Fixed
WhatsApp fixed a devastating vulnerability that allowed someone to remotely hack a phone by initiating a WhatsApp voice call. The recipient didn't even have to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Banning Facial Recognition
Police services need this, will create another un-safe regional situation. Bias and errors will eventually be solved.San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Technology...
From insideHPC
GCS in Germany Allocates More Than 1 Billion Core Hours to Research Projects
GCS in Germany has approved the allocation of 1.171 billion core hours of computing time to 13 outstanding national research projects. The researchers awarded computing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Bitset decoding on Apple’s A12
In my post Really fast bitset decoding for “average” densities, I reported on our work accelerating the decoding of bitsets. E.g., given a 64-bit register, youContinue...
From insideHPC
Lower-Noise Processor comes to Leap Quantum Cloud Service
Today D-Wave Systems announced the immediate availability of a lower-noise D-Wave 2000Q processor in the Leap quantum cloud service. Reflecting years of customer...
From insideHPC
David Keyes named ISC 2020 Program Chair
Today the ISC High Performance conference announced that Prof. David Keyes from KAUST will be the ISC 2020 Program Chair. “It is my honor to serve as the ISC 2020...
From insideHPC
Video: Can FPGAs compete with GPUs?
John Romein from ASTRON gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. "We'll discuss how FPGAs are changing as a result of new technology such as the Open CL...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Second Place America?” Major Report Detailing the Nation’s Declining Leadership in Research and Technology Released at Capitol Hill Event
The following is a Computing Research Association Government Affairs Blog post by CRA Policy Analyst, Brian Mosley. Mosley served as the co-chair of the report...
From insideHPC
Video: Atos Partners with Google Cloud for HPC
Today Atos announced that the Google Cloud has selected the company as an HPC services partner, expanding the global partnership with new services for enterprise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dust Sized Brain Implants
Lots of uses for the very smallWireless Network Brings Dust-Sized Brain Implants a Step CloserEngineers have designed a scheme to let thousands of brain implants...
From Schneier on Security
International Spy Museum Reopens
The International Spy Museum has reopened in Washington, DC....
From The Eponymous Pickle