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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
IBM Simulates Chemistry with Quantum Computing
IBM scientists have developed a new approach to simulate molecules on a quantum computer that may one day help revolutionize chemistry and materials science. “Over...
From Schneier on Security
On the Equifax Data Breach
Last Thursday, Equifax reported a data breach that affects 143 million US customers, about 44% of the population. It's an extremely serious breach; hackers got...
From insideHPC
CPC Enhances Non-spill Quick Disconnects for Liquid Cooled HPC
As liquid cooling becomes more and more pervasive in HPC datacenters, the mitigation of leaks and spills is a growing concern. Enter CPC, a maker of quick disconnects...
From insideHPC
Benefits of Multi-rail Cluster Architectures for GPU-based Nodes
Craig Tierney from NVIDIA gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group meeting. "As high performance computing moves toward GPU-accelerated architectures, single node...
From insideHPC
Entering the Era of Simulation Driven Design
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World reports from the European Altair Technology Conference and finds that simulation-driven...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transitioning to Industrial AI
Some quite useful thoughts here, about work flow and production versus testing, retesting and retraining systems. Ultimately we learn this, but sometimes painfully...
From insideHPC
Video: Best Practices between HPC centers and Industrial Users
Bill Kramer from NCSA gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "NCSA and Hyperion Research released a new study that examines HPC and Industry partnerships...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waymo Training Cars
Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving CarsAn exclusive look at how Alphabet understands its most ambitious artificial intelligence projectAlexis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Airbags for Robots (To protect the Humans they Work With)
From Idea Connection. Includes a video. Via Ideaconnection. Airbags for Robots Protect Co-Workers Inflatable airbags for robots could help to protect their fragile...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analyzing Social Tone
Instructive Watson Example, via O'ReillyHow can I use IBM Watson to analyze the tone of social media posts?Learn how to use IBM Watson's APIs and natural language...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing 2018
Several of my students have applied for this award and all found it quite worthwhile.There are many benefits for students in high school and college. It’s really...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Voice Assistant Systems with Inaudible Voice Commands
Turns out that all the major voice assistants -- Siri, Google Now, Samsung S Voice, Huawei HiVoice, Cortana and Alexa -- listen at audio frequencies the human ear...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple on Virtual and Augmented Reality
Saw these presentations today. Relatively little was presented on AR and VR, except in the game space. But apparently it will be presented live in their visitor...
From insideHPC
Cavium Joins the OpenMP Effort for ThunderX2 Processor
Today the OpenMP ARB organization announced that Cavium has joined as a new member. "Cavium’s membership in the OpenMP ARB further highlights our strong beliefCavium...
From insideHPC
CCIX Project to link ARM Processors to FPGAs for HPC
Today ARM, Xilinx, Cadence, and Taiwan Semiconductor announced plans to produce the first test chip for the Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX)CCIX...
From insideHPC
Seeking Teams for the 2018 Student Cluster Competition at ISC in Frankfurt
The HPC Advisory Council has officially kicked off the ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition (SCC) with an open call for team entries in the 2018 competition. "The...
From insideHPC
Video: Characterization and Benchmarking of Deep Learning
Natalia Vassilieva from HP Labs gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "Our Deep Learning Cookbook is based on a massive collection of performanceVideo...
From Apophenia
Data & Society’s Next Stage
In March 2013, in a flurry of days, I decided to start a research institute. I’d always dreamed of doing so, but it was really my amazing mentor and boss – Jennifer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reshaping Business with AI
Good executive view.Reshaping Business with Artificial IntelligenceClosing the Gap Between Ambition and Actionby: Sam Ransbotham, David Kiron, Philipp Gerbert and...
From The Eponymous Pickle