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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Request for Information (RFI) on an Implementation Plan for a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation released a Request For Information (RFI) to gather public input on the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Coming Growth?
Good intro to a quite optimistic view of productivity, below is just his intro, pointing on to a more complete look. I certainly hope so. The Coming Era of Productivity...
From insideHPC
DOE to Fund $100M for High Energy Physics Research
Aug. 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science announced a plan to provide $100 million over the next four years for university...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Responsible and Explainable AI
I would call this more broadly, 'responsible decision making' to embrace what is called 'AI' and analytical decision making. Useful and considered look at what...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
IoT, Python, and Raspberry Pi–Oh My
Trying learn too many things can be a risky proposition. But sometimes it feels like the way to go. Regular readers of this blog know that I have been trying to...
From insideHPC
NGD Joins Los Alamos’ Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 2, 2021– As the HPC community enters an era in which computation can be offloaded to storage devices, it is important to explore the mechanisms...
From insideHPC
Atos Increases Galician Supercomputing Center’s HPC Capacity 12x with ‘Finisterrae III’
Atos has followed up its acquisition of HPC cloud platform provider Nimbix, announced last week, with the news that it has been selected by the Galician Supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benefits of Ransomware
Makes the usual case, we have been alerted. Could Ransomware Attacks Ultimately Benefit Consumers? in HBR by Rahul TelangSummary. In the past year alone, ransomware...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Fast Food Robotic Kitchen
Towards robotic cookery.Kitchen robot in Riga cooks up new future for fast food by Imants Liepins in TechxPloreA pasta order comes in and the robotic arm springs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa now with Alternative Phase Triggers
Interesting, but still very simplistic. I still have to know the exact phrase to make it work. Now have had Alexa in place for years, and I still have to do...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Launching A Space Wide Web
Stretching our communications to the edge of of our needs.The Space Wide Web is Ready to LaunchBy TechRepublic, July 26, 2021The new space race is truly underway...
From Schneier on Security
The European Space Agency Launches Hackable Satellite
Of course this is hackable: A sophisticated telecommunications satellite that can be completely repurposed while in space has launched. […] Because the satellite...
From Computational Complexity
Do Four Colors Suffice?
(Guest Post by David Marcus)Comment by Bill: Haken and Appel proved that all planar maps are 4-colorable. Or did they? David Marcus emailed me that its not quite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Gives some Quick AI Examples
Some good examples, from SAS:3 ways industries are using AI-powered decisionsBy OLIVIA OJEDA on JULY 6, 2021Having the ability to know what the best decision is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Makes a Time Crystal
Idea is new to me, but reminded me of some 'forever clock' ideas that were brought up in the 80s with the 'Long Now' effort. See the tag. Is this at all related...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 31st 2021)
Researchers built a microscope that might be 10 times better than the best available microscopes. Subsidizing college education can lower earnings due to lowerContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepper Robot Shelved
And the much touted Pepper robot from Japanese Softbank Group, has also been shelved. Much touted at one time as human friendly in many soft domains. Saw this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Status of Autonomous Last-Mile
Had wondered the status of this, after I saw some neighborhood bans reported. have even volunteered to look at the Nuro example and report on it in situ. Risk...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Keyboards
Nice piece of how keyboards are made smart.A Look Inside the Bayesian KeyboardA visual tour of the data-driven features that make modern smartphone keyboards smart...
From The Eponymous Pickle