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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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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...
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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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Scar Tissue Control for Implants
Design prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implantsA new device, which doesn’t rely on immunosuppressing drugs, may assist efforts to develop an artificial...
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Siemens on EV Development
Siemens on V DevelopmentDrive vehicle electrification and manage increasing complexity by transforming electric vehicle developmentUntil recently, electric vehicles...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Theoretical Question About UAPs
What should be the Bayesian prior for a new NASA study? Crop from ‘Interstellar’ discussion David Spergel is a physics professor emeritus of Princeton University...
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Frontier Exascale Unveiling: ‘Breathtaking…, a Huge Leap Forward for Science, for Our Country”
It was a day of high pride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a day to stop and take stock of the successful completion of a project based on an idea – exascaleFrontier...
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China Breaks Memory Entanglement Distance
This came up recently for an application proposal. China Breaks Record for Quantum Memory Entanglement DistanceTom's HardwareFrancisco Pires, August 17, 2022Researchers...
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@HPCpodcast: CXL News, the CHIPS Act, Chips and Nm and Chip ‘Sprawl’
We’ve heard so much about the CXL interconnect – including the recent announcement of CXL v3.0 – and components that are CXL-ready, that it may come as a surprise...
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Sound Waves Let Researchers Build Stuff with the Force
This is very interesting, but would have to see some real examples.Sound Waves Let Researchers Build Stuff with the ForceBy Gizmodo, August 18, 2022A system for...
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Housing Crises
Brought up to me recently by people having this problem. Investing in Flow by Marc AndreessenOur nation has a housing crisis.The demographic trends drivingThe...
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Rice Team Wins $1.5 NSF Award for Biomolecule-based Data Storage
Rice University synthetic biologists have won a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to modify living cells to act as memory-storage devices...
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Who is Collecting Data from Your Car?
Its all about the leverage of data from many sources.Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? From The MarkupA firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing...
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MIT Engineers Fabricate an Electronic Skin
Always interesting things from MIT.Engineers Fabricate a Chip-Free, Wireless Electronic 'Skin'By MIT News, August 18, 2022MIT engineers have devised a new kindThe...
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10th Annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) Meeting August 22-24, 2022 Columbus, OH
The MVAPICH User Group (MUG) meeting will be held Aug. 22-24 in Columbus, OH. Registration is here. The MUG meeting is intended to provide an open forum for users...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Publishes FY23 Action Plan; Increases Focus on Technical Communities
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has published its annual operating plan for FY23 (July 2022 – June 2023). The FY23 Action Plan provides an overview...
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Quantum Annealing Can Beat Classical Computing in Limited Cases
Have mentioned Quantum Annealing methods here a number of time. And D-Wave, a successful effort in delivering related capabilities as Quantum solutions. Recall...
From Computational Complexity
Conference Modality
We have had an almost normal summer conference season, for some sense of normal. At one of those conferences I participated in an hybrid conversation about whether...
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