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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 insideHPC
Sandia Powers Breakthroughs in Neuromorphic Computing
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have collaborated with Stanford University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst to address the challenges of neuromorphic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Less than Full Face Recognition
Our own experiments consistently showed less than 100% for full face data, so is this data or context (lighting) dependent?Researchers achieve 100 percent recognition...
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NASA to Launch University of Pittsburgh Supercomputer into Space
A novel supercomputer developed by a University of Pittsburgh team is set to journey to the International Space Station on May 1. The supercomputer will serve as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Expanded Options for Trunk Delivery
The idea was mentioned some time ago. Appears to have somewhat limited appeal, say for ease of secure delivery while at work, but reports here of further uptake...
From insideHPC
Video: NAG Launches HPC Cost of Ownership Calculator
In this video, Mike Croucher from NAG demonstrates the company's new Total Cost of Ownership Calculator for HPC. "Should your next HPC procurement be on-premise...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
With Great Code Comes Great Responsibility
Omidyar Network, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies recently announced the winners of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge. The challenge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Data are Important
Back to my long time look at data as an asset. "Alternative Data Sets' is a term I had not heard of mentioned here. Because of new uses of data, we do need more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE and IOT Security
Another indication that companies are serious about blockchain for some uses. Click through for the motivation in the IOT.126-Year-Old General Electric (GE) Invests...
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Influence of 5G on Cable?
A look at the emergence. Podcast and transcript. Personal and civic infrastructures that will need to be updated? " .... Expectations are riding high for the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Chip to Push AI
More at the link, how much will it improve computing? Since the 80s it has been commonly stated that its more about the software than it is about the advancesThis...
From Schneier on Security
On Security Tokens
Mark Risher of Google extols the virtues of security keys: I'll say it again for the people in the back: with Security Keys, instead of the *user* needing to verify...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Adoption in Retail
General general overview, not enough direct examples. Forecasting AI Adoption in Retail: A Mixed Bag By Alex Woodie in DatanamiYou don’t have to look far to see...
From insideHPC
Cornell Investigates Multi-cloud Cost Management with RightScale
The Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) is collaborating with RightScale, recently acquired by Flexera, to understand how to best manage andCornell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Vudu Competes with Shoppable Ads
Had actually forgotten about the Wal-Mart streaming service Vudu. Interesting experiment to understand what evokes interaction and get related data. Buying directly...
From insideHPC
HPC Breaks Through to the Cloud: Why It Matters
In this special guest feature, Scot Schultz from Mellanox writes researchers are benefitting in a big way from HPC in the Cloud. "HPC has many different advantages...
From insideHPC
New Funding and DARPA Grant to Propel Optical Interconnects at Ayar Labs
Today Ayar Labs announced that the company has secured additional funding to fuel its growth as it drives to productize its TeraPHY optical I/O chiplets and SuperNova...
From insideHPC
Bill Dally from NVIDIA presents: Accelerating AI
Bill Daly from NVIDIA gave this talk at the Matroid Scaled Machine Learning Conference. "The world of computing is experiencing an incredible change with the introduction...
From insideHPC
Call for Presentations: MVAPICH User Group in August
The 7th annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) meeting has issued its Call for Presentations. MUG will take place from August 19-21, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio. "MUG aimsCall...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Network Coding Yields Lower Bounds
Practice leads theory Peyman Afshani, Casper Freksen, Lior Kamma, and Kasper Larsen have a beautiful new paper titled “Lower Bounds for Multiplication via Network...
From The Eponymous Pickle