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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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Anti-Reflective Coating Allows Wi-Fi Through Walls
Could be useful in homes, offices. 'Anti-Reflective' Coating Allows Wi-Fi Through WallsIn TechRadar, Steve McCaskill, August 18, 2022Scientists at Austria's...
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Photonics Company Lightmatter Names Google TPU Engineer Richard Ho VP of Hardware Engineering
BOSTON — Photonics company Lightmatter has named Richard Ho its new Vice President of Hardware Engineering. Ho spent nearly nine years at Google leading the Cloud...
From insideHPC
ALCF to Hold Annual Simulation, Data and Learning Workshop Oct. 4-6
The ARgonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will hold its annual Simulation, Data and Learning Workshop this October 4-6. The event is designed to help researchers...
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Quantum Company Q-CTRL Names Alex Shih Head of Product
SYDNEY, August 23, 2022 – Quantum control infrastructure software company Q-CTRL today announced the addition of Alex Shih as head of product. He will lead theQuantum...
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HPC4EI to Celebrate National Manufacturing Day Oct. 7 with Virtual Event
On Friday, Oct. 7, the Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) will hold a free virtual event entitled “Computational Science...
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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think:
Just Reading, very interesting, will review further as I progress. by a correspondent I have often mentioned here. Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans...
From insideHPC
LLNL and Korea Institute of Science and Technology to collaborate
Livermore, CA — Leaders at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have signed a memorandum of understanding...
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More on Car Security Issues
Schneier points to other vehicle encryption issues, here just a snippit, more at the link. in the Software developer cracks Hyundai car security with Google search...
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Google Tests AI Robotics in a Kitchen
Look forward to seeing this. Kitchen has many tasks that could be automated, but usually not well positioned for broad application and integration. Note hereGoogle...
From Putting People First
A Guide to Using User-Experience Research Methods
Modern day UX research methods answer a wide range of questions. To help you know when to use which user research method, each of 20 methods is mapped across 3...
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Competition Makes Big Datasets Winners
For a number of reasons, big datasets are better. I have used ImageNet, good example, very useful. Also Mechanical Turk. Competition Makes Big Datasets the Winners...
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Surgery Robot on ISS
Clearly needed as distances and times in space grow. A Surgery Robot Will Board the ISS in 2024By Adrianna Nine on August 4, 2022 in ExtremeTechAfter nearly 20...
From Putting People First
“Democracy depends on it”: Carissa Véliz on privacy and ending data surveillance
“There is nothing shocking or radical about ending an economic practice that has too many negative externalities. We have banned certain kinds of economic activity...
From Putting People First
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
Physical buttons are increasingly rare in modern cars. Most manufacturers are switching to touchscreens – which perform far worse in a test carried out by Swedish...
From Computational Complexity
20 Years of the Computational Complexity Weblog
I first posted on this blog twenty years ago today, still the oldest and longest running weblog in theoretical computer science, possibly in all of computer science...
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Bionic Hand Arms Race
Quite interesting developments are at hand at hand. Good overview of the space, linking to more. THE BIONIC-HAND ARMS RACE in IEEE SpectrumThe prosthetics industry...
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The Road beyond 5G, Value?
Have not seen much out of 5GThe Road to 6G By Keith KirkpatrickCommunications of the ACM, September 2022, Vol. 65 No. 9, Pages 14-16 10.1145/3546959Although...
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Integrating Plants into Building Design
Like the integration of plants and buildings. Beyond sustainability. Playing with Dirt Leads to Big Potential for Sustainable BuildingsUVA Today, Karen Walker...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Catching sanitizer errors programmatically
The C and C++ languages offer little protection against programmer errors. Errors do not always show up where you expect. You can silently corrupt the content of...
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