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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
Alexa Failing?
How true re Alexa? Had heard of the layoffs. Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year By Ron Amadeo 11/21/2022 7:32 pm Amazon...
From insideHPC
Get Ready for Ronnascale Supercomputing – and Quettascale Data Volumes
Now that the exascale (a billion billion, or 1018, calculations/second) computing barrier has been surmounted, and with discussion of zettascale-class supercomputers...
From insideHPC
Pre-proposals for Allocations of National Lab HPC Resources Due Nov. 28
The U.S. Department of Energy’s ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is now seeking proposals for the 2023-2024 allocation year. Pre-proposals are due byPre...
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AI Asking Questions, Getting Better Answers
Good thought: Note the Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE). Worth thinking about. AI Is Better at Answering Questions if You Get Another AI to Ask ThemBy New Scientist...
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Sensor System for IoT Devices Integrates Processing, Computing to Save Energy, Protect Data
Smart Sensors that store and processes data.Sensor System for IoT Devices Integrates Processing, Computing to Save Energy, Protect DataUniversity of Virginia Engineering...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Track Winners at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022
The The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances...
From Putting People First
No amount of hype and starry-eyed Metaverse proselytising can escape reality
The metaverse will be a digital graveyard if we let new technologies distract us from today’s problems
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3 Ways AI is scaling Helpful Technologies Worldwide
Google Posts AI progress BenefitsIn the Google AI Blog Decades of research have led to today’s rapid progress in AI. Today, we’re announcing three new ways people...
From Computational Complexity
A Celebration of Juris
On November 4th I travelled to my undergraduate alma mater Cornell for a Celebration of the Life and Career of Juris Hartmanis who passed away in July. The workshop...
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Towards Supply Chains in Space
Approaching new needs, Supply Chains for SpaceSpaceX to launch last new cargo Dragon Spacecraftby Jeff Foust — November 19, 2022 in SpaceNewsDragon for CRS-25...
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Low Cost, Omni Purpose Robotics
Robust Robotics Solutions Low-Cost Robot Ready for Any ObstacleCarnegie Mellon University NewsAaron Aupperle, November 16, 2022Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University...
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Written by a Robot?
Automating text.Can You Tell Whether This Headline Was Written by a Robot?By The Wall Street Journal, November 18, 2022Theres a good chance that some of what youve...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking the Zeppelin Ransomware Encryption Scheme
Brian Krebs writes about how the Zeppelin ransomware encryption scheme was broken: The researchers said their break came when they understood that while Zeppelin...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Making sense of squishiness – 3D modelling the natural world
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Look out the window at the human-made world. It’s full of hard, geometric shapes – our buildings, the roads, our...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Latina Computing Professionals Panel at Tapia 2022!
by Adriana Alvarado Garcia, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Brianna Posadas, Wendy Roldan Latina women, historically underrepresented in computing [1], face additional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Quantum State of the Union
Good status info: An update on the IBM Quantum mission to bring useful quantum computing to the world, and to make the world quantum safe. Covering remarkableLed...
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UF Planning Invention Awards
From the University of Florida, one of my schools:Srinivasan and Nawari Awarded 2022 Invention of the Year Award by UF InnovateMore than 200 innovators and entrepreneurs...
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Open Sourcing Farm of the Future
First I had seen open sourcing in this domainMicrosoft open sources its ‘farm of the future’ toolkitJake Siegel, Oct 6, 2022FARMINGTON, Wash. – The gently rolling...
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Asteroid Hits Earth Shortly After Discovery
With pictures at link. This happens often, but here apparently with a specific prediction.Asteroid hit Canada hours after discoveryPosted by, Kelly Kizer Whitt...
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