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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
Job of the Week: Computer Systems Researcher at Baidu USA
Baidu USA in Silicon Valley is seeking a Computer Systems Researcher in our Job of the Week. "Baidu's research mission is to develop hard AI technologies that will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Ways to touch in AR
Its all about accurate and efficient interaction.Touching The Future Of Augmented RealityA collaboration between Meta, Ultrahaptics and ZeroLight demonstrates a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Terms We Use
Good discussion on the terms we use. With some good graphics included later in the article, click through.Machine Learning – Can We Please Just Agree What This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart on Personal Data
Quite an interesting piece. I have worked with the earliest Wal-Mart data systems, so this is yet more serious stuff. Historically no retailer has had more data...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How the Optic Lobe Controls Squid Camouflage
Experiments on the oval squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting...
From Schneier on Security
Spectre and Meltdown Attacks Against Microprocessors
The security of pretty much every computer on the planet has just gotten a lot worse, and the only real solution -- which of course is not a solution -- is to throw...
From Schneier on Security
New Book Coming in September: "Click Here to Kill Everybody"
My next book is still on track for a September 2018 publication. Norton is still the publisher. The title is now Click Here to Kill Everybody: Peril and Promise...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (January 5th, 2018)
You still have to burn more energy creating solar panels than solar panels can give back in a useful lifetime. Tyler Cowen writes: There is now a doctrine of what...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistant Enabled Mirrors
More on magic mirrors, with their own embedded assistants now. So is a mirror an element of the IoT?Verdera, an Alexa-enabled mirror from Kohler, makes your whole...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Two Hardware Security Design Flaws Affect Billions of Computers
The following blog was written by CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin and CCC Cybersecurity Task Force Chair Kevin Fu from the University...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Ships BlueField SoCs and SmartNICs
Today Mellanox announced the first shipments of its BlueField system-on-chip (SoC) platforms and SmartNIC adapters to major data center, hyperscale and OEM customers...
From Computational Complexity
Which of these Math acronyms are well known?
The last time I taught Grad Ramsey Theory there were very good math grads and ugrads in it. They used some acronyms - some I knew, some I didn't know (but knowthis...
From insideHPC
Visualization on GPU Accelerated Supercomputers
Peter Messmer from NVIDIA gave this talk at SC17. "This talk is a summary about the ongoing HPC visualization activities, as well as a description of the technologies...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Can 32-byte alignment alleviate 4K aliasing?
In my previous post, I considered some performance problems that can plague simple loops that read and write data… for (int i = 0; i < a.length; ++i) { a[i] +=Continue...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC does their List of Things Not Invited Back in 2018
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews their list of things Not Invited Back in 2018. Along the way, they share some of their New Year Resolutions. The...
From insideHPC
Video: Deep Learning for Science
Prabhat from NERSC and Michael F. Wehner from LBNL gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference in Denver. "Deep Learning has revolutionized the fieldsVideo...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Adblocker Blockers
Interesting research on the prevalence of adblock blockers: "Measuring and Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis": Abstract: Millions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Contracts via Hyperledger
Brought to my attention. Good descriptions and code for experiments with the idea. I like some of the non technical descriptions of the idea provided. I like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail at Toys R Us
Retail issues:Playing For Keeps. What Toys "R" Us Needs To Do Now By Ashley Gorrie CEO. via Path to Purchase InstituteAbout this Linkedin Group:We teach and we...
From The Eponymous Pickle