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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teach CS in K-12? Please Help Gather Data
The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the Kapor Center are conducting a survey of K-12 computer science teachers in the United States. The CS education...
From insideHPC
Women in HPC Returns in Support of Greater Equity at ISC 2022 in Hamburg
Edinburgh, United Kingdom – May 12, 2022 – WHPC, an entirely volunteer-run organisation that strives to encourage more women into the field of high performanceWomen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Berners-Lee Wants Meta VR
Interesting view here. But in particular if you see VR as a means of interacting with lots of complex visual contextual data, its like interacting with data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recent Conversation with Andrew Ng
Good piece, have followed Ng for some time.Meet Andrew Ng, a 2022 Datanami Person to WatchAlex Woodie in DatanamiAndrew Ng is one of the most influential individuals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoom Wants to do More
And want to see more, especially that saves time, records things, organizes things intelligently. Give us us an after Covid present. Here for customer service...
From insideHPC
Argonne’s Globus Software Wins Award at 2021 Data Mover Challenge
Globus, a platform for research data management created by researchers at the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Avoid exception throwing in performance-sensitive code
There are various ways in software to handle error conditions. In C or Go, one returns error code. Other programming languages like C++ or Java prefer to throwContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cryptocurrencies Melt Down
Not so stable in this context.ACM NEWSCryptocurrencies Melt Down in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Fear and PanicBy The New York Times, May 13, 2022The price of Bitcoin plunged...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disrupting Data Management with AI?
Value of intelligently positioned disruption. From DeloitteTo achieve the benefits and scale of AI and MLOps, data must be tuned for native machine consumption...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uncovering Competitive Strategies
Leveraging competitive intelligence. How to Use Competitive Intelligence to Uncover your Competitors’ Strategies | Octopus Competitive Intelligence consultingHow...
From insideHPC
Google Cloud Says TPU-Powered Machine Learning Hub Delivers 9 Exaflops Aggregate Power
As HPC enters the exascale era, watchers of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers will look to see if the updated list, to be released this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surveillance By Driverless Car
Reported in Schneier ... which points to an article mentioning use by SF Police. Makes sense for a number of reasons. Can be any kind of autonomous vehicles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ancient Art Meets AI
Reported on this before, unexpected connection.Ancient Art Meets AI for Better Materials DesignArgonne National Laboratory, John Spizzirri, April 7, 2022University...
From insideHPC
IBM to Deliver Software as-a-Service on AWS
ARMONK, N.Y., May 11, 2022 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), withIBM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upacking Black Box Models
Quite interesting development. I had to talk the nature and implications of What a 'black box' (BB) . was for management many times. A BB is simply a method that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commercial Space Opportunities
STARFLEET ACADEMY —Entrepreneurs create a space “academy” as commercial space flourishesThis is a bet that the long-promised space economy continues taking off....
From insideHPC
Arm Reports Record Revenues and Profits in FY21
May 12, 2022 — Cambridge, UK-based semiconductor design company Arm Ltd. today reported 2021 total revenues were up 35 percent to $2.7 billion with growth in both...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emerging Drone uses in War
Cheaper and increasingly autonomous, they will be in our future. For war and for humanitarian aiding in its aftermath. The Drones of WarBy Esther Shein, Commissioned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Success of AI is in Infrastructure
In VentureBeatArtificial intelligence (AI) is bringing many changes to the enterprise, none of which is more vital to its success than infrastructure. Changing...
From insideHPC