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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
Consumer Inertia
Never heard it called this, but makes sense. And a precise measure? intriguing work to evaluate the introduction of new or related products.Consumer InertiaAlexander...
From insideHPC
Stony Brook University Launches New Institute for AI Discovery
Today Stony Brook University launched the Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation to advance AI research and apply the transformative power of innovation...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is seeking an HPC Software Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We are seeking an Application Engineers for our Technical User Support group on our...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 11th 2019)
Bone marrow transplanted from young mice to very old (almost dying) mice extended the life of the old mice by 30%. The authors conclude that bone-marrow transplantation...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Appreciation Society Event
Last Wednesday was a Cephalopod Appreciation Society event in Seattle. I missed it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Situational Design for Alexa Assistance
In once sense, its all about situations. e.g. context. So this is good. Though its also about how the context is described (in storyboards) and how it varies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast: When AI Meets Medicine
Once your expand the context of medical AI beyond 'simple' pattern recognition and include the patient and professional, it gets complex.When AI Meets MedicineListen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Census Data
R based capabilities. More hints in this short article at the link. I found myself needing this in a project where it could have been useful.Making maps to...
From insideHPC
HPE BlueData Appliance Accelerates AI and Data-Driven Innovation
Today HPE announced a powerful new appliance for AI and data driven-innovation based on the HPE BlueData software platform and HPE Apollo systems. "To stay a step...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Maps its Global Architecture
An interactive map of Amazon's AWS general and global location architecture. No exact locations, but an indication of its breadth. More in TheVerge.
From insideHPC
Univa to Host HPC Cloud Breakfast Briefing at ISC 2019
Our friends at Univa will host a Breakfast Briefing on HPC Cloud Efficiency at ISC 2019. The meeting takes place June 19 at 8:00am - 10:00am in Frankfurt, Germany...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Builds First AI Platform for NHS Hospitals in the U.K.
Today NVIDIA and King’s College London announced they are partnering to build an AI platform designed to allow specialists in the U.K.’s National Health Service...
From insideHPC
Video: The Exascale Computing Project and the Future of HPC
Doug Kothe from ORNL presented this ACM Tech Talk in April, 2019. "The ECP is designing the software infrastructure to enable the next generation of supercomputers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistants for the Workplace
While Alexa continues to add many new but still narrow skills to choose from. Still want to see more things that will enhance business and home office context....
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Making Elections Safe
A new proof that MAJORITY is not in . [ Rich DeMillo ] Rich DeMillo is a strong leader, a famous researcher, and a long-time best friend. Proof: He was the first...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptanalyzing a Pair of Russian Encryption Algorithms
A pair of Russia-designed cryptographic algorithms -- the Kuznyechik block cipher and the Streebog hash function -- have the same flawed S-box that is almost certainly...
From Schneier on Security
Another NSA Leaker Identified and Charged
In 2015, the Intercept started publishing "The Drone Papers," based on classified documents leaked by an unknown whistleblower. Today, someone who worked at the...
From insideHPC
Speed Machine Learning with the Model Zoo for Intel Architecture
Intel has launched a Model Zoo for Intel Architecture, an open-sourced collection of optimized machine learning inference applications that demonstrates how toSpeed...
From insideHPC
Red Hat Teams with NVIDIA to Accelerate Machine Learning in the Cloud
Today Red Hat announced it has deepened its alliance with NVIDIA to accelerate the enterprise adoption of AI, machine learning and data analytics workloads in production...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog