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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
Collaborative Robotics: CoBots
The term is not much used, but makes the point. All computing systems are collaborative in some way. We have accepted the assistance of computers for a long time...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Brute-Force Keysearch Machine
The Intercept published a story about a dedicated NSA brute-force keysearch machine being built with the help of New York University and IBM. It's based on a document...
From Schneier on Security
Using Wi-Fi to Get 3D Images of Surrounding Location
Interesting research: The radio signals emitted by a commercial Wi-Fi router can act as a kind of radar, providing images of the transmitter's environment, according...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Synthetic Sensors
Most interesting development to make implementing sensors more efficient.Internet of Things Made Simple: One Sensor Package Does Work of Many Carnegie Mellon News...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson for Cyber Security
Good example in these days of increasing cyber security risk. Watson for Cyber Security. This appears to be a less quantitative and more semantic domain than most...
From Schneier on Security
The Quick vs. the Strong: Commentary on Cory Doctorow's Walkaway
Technological advances change the world. That's partly because of what they are, but even more because of the social changes they enable. New technologies upend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Digital Industrial Transformation Playbook
Good information about GE's efforts.GE Draws Up Playbook for Digital TransformationGE spent several years trying to effect its own digital transformation; now it's...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Nominations! — 2017 CCC Leadership in Science Policy Institute
The following is a guest blog post by CRA Government Affairs Director, Peter Harsha. As part of its mission to develop a next generation of leaders in the computing...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Adds Support for Singularity Containers on POD HPC Cloud
Today Penguin Computing announced support for Singularity containers on its Penguin Computing On-Demand (POD) HPC Cloud and Scyld ClusterWare HPC management software...
From insideHPC
Mellanox InfiniBand to Power Science at University of Waterloo
Today Mellanox announced that the University of Waterloo selected Mellanox EDR 100G InfiniBand solutions to accelerate their new supercomputer. The new supercomputer...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Has the Internet killed real estate agents yet?
Back in 2002 when I was first interested in buying a house, I went on the Internet and found lots of houses for sale, directly from the sellers. I bought the house...
From insideHPC
Gauss Centre in Germany Awards 2.1 Billion Core Hours for Science
Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in Germany approved 30 large-scale projects as part of their 17th call for large-scale proposals. Combined, these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personal Assistants Come to the Fridge
Assistants spreading out through the home. Note again that Samsung owns Harman-Kardon, which is embedding Cortana in a future smart speaker. This is getting...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at the New Volta GPUs for HPC & AI
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Volta, Nvidia's new GPU architecture that delivers up to 5x the performance of its predecessor. "At the GPU Technology...
From insideHPC
Intel Omni-Path Architecture: What’s a Supercomputer App Want?
The Intel Omni-Path Architecture is the next-generation fabric for high-performance computing. In this feature, we will focus on what it takes for for supercomputer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manipulators of the Mind
Was brought up in this same age of of behavioral economics and advertising tricks. But they never came of age until there was technology interactive enough to deliver...
From Schneier on Security
Yacht Security
Turns out, multi-million dollar yachts are no more secure than anything else out there: The ease with which ocean-going oligarchs or other billionaires can be hijacked...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Mother’s Day Cryptogram?
Or just human ingenuity at finding patterns in ‘random’ data? Cropped from source Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States. He came close to becoming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Artificial Intelligence
An interesting discussion in Infoq:The Future of Artificial Intelligence (Recorded talk):Participants: Carrie Solinger is Industry Analyst, IDC. Michael Natusch...
From The Eponymous Pickle