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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 …
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Big Compute Podcast Looks at Quantum Computing Today
In this Big Compute Podcast, Steve Reinhardt from D-Wave Systems describes how quantum computing can be used to find optimal solutions in complex optimizations....
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Finalists Chosen for Han Meuer Award
ISC 2019 has announced the finalists for this year’s Hans Meuer Award, which honors the most outstanding research paper submitted to the ISC High Performance Conference...
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Simplifying AI, Data Science, and HPC Workloads with NVIDIA GPU Cloud
Adel El Hallak and Philip Rogers from NVIDIA gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. "Whether it's for AI, data science and analytics, or HPC, GPU-Accelerated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MuseNet Writes Music
OpenAI does some things with generating music. Back to the meaning of creativity, will we ultimately be able to tell?MuseNetWe’ve created Musenet, a deep neural...
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Machines Firing Humans
First I had heard of such a thing, certainly the PR would be bad enough to add a human in the loop. Somewhat skeptical, but perhaps a warning of the future.Amazon's...
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Workplace Surveillance
Agree that doing this more universally will much chage the workplace. Indications are that Amazon has closed the loop for warehouse workers, but the the ideaAI...
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Supply Chain Integrity Month
Had not heard this was a month, note here from Recorded Future, but the topic is very important. Some good free resources at the link on related threat intelligence...
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Automating Ethics
Very good piece. A difficult problem.Yes as get closer to embedding ethics in systems and machines,how do we address this? By just warning the humans in the...
From Schneier on Security
Towards an Information Operations Kill Chain
Cyberattacks don't magically happen; they involve a series of steps. And far from being helpless, defenders can disrupt the attack at any of those steps. This framing...
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Wal-Mart AI Store of the Future Opens to Public
Good to see this, and new competition with Amazon in brick and mortar. Look forward to learning about other technical details. How about their Fresh Block chain...
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Wal-Mart's Food Safety Blockchain
For an upcoming talk, took a re-look at the Wal-Mart's food safety Blockchain effort. Will be following up with more details. good simple example, as stated in...
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Where are my Robot Servants?
Note from 5 Years ago, note what has happened, and what has not.So, Where Are My Robot Servants? In IEEE SpectrumTomorrow’s robots will become true helpers and...
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AI Sensor Environment Chip
More players in the stream for enabling analytics AI from sensor data.AIStorm raises $13.2M for its analog data-reading sensor chips By Mike WeatleyAIStorm, a...
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Institutions that last Ten Thousand Years
We had early interaction with some of the founders of the Long Now Foundation, which was very thought provoking. Here an interview with its Exec Director in the...
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IBM Q Network Expands to Drive Educational Opportunities in Quantum Computing
Today IBM announced the expansion of the IBM Q Network to include a number of global universities. The expanding academic network is designed to accelerate joint...
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Podcast: Seeing the Black Hole with Big Data
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses how the news of the cool visualization of an actual black hole leads to interesting issues in HPC land. "ThePodcast...
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Personalized Healthcare with High Performance Computing in the Cloud
Wolfgang Gentzsch from the UberCloud gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The concept of personalized medicine has its roots deep in genomic research. Indeed,...
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Intel Addresses the Convergence of AI, Analytic, and Traditional HPC Workloads
HPC is no longer just HPC, but rather a mix of workloads that instantiate the convergence of AI, traditional HPC modeling and simulation, and HPDA (High Performance...
From Computational Complexity
Geo-Centric Complexity
An interesting discussion during Dagstuhl last month about the US-centric view of theory. Bad enough that all talks and papers in an international venue are inManhattan...
From Schneier on Security