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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
NVIDIA Predicting Earth Quake Intensity
Predicting earthquake and their intensity was something we proposed some years ago, mentioned here. glad to see the idea taken much further. Looking at this...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA-Industry Committee Announces Virtual Roundtable Series
Created in the fall of 2020, the CRA-Industry standing committee will convene industry partners on computing research topics and connect them with CRA’s academic...
From insideHPC
SDSC Names Interim Director
San Diego — Frank Würthwein, the lead of Distributed High-Throughput Computing at the San Diego Supercomputing Center, has been named SDSC’s interim director effective...
From insideHPC
6,000 GPUs: NERSC Says Perlmutter Delivers 4 Exaflops, Claims Top Spot in AI Supercomputing
Claiming the no. 1 position in AI supercomputing, the U.S. National Energy research Scientific Computing Center today unveiled the Perlmutter HPC system, a beast...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Othello/Reversi for After the APCS Exam
My good friend and former teaching partner, Tom Indelicato posted about his end of year project for his AP CS A student recently. With his permission I share it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Programmable Matter for Product Design
With a zap of light, system switches objects’ colors and patterns“Programmable matter” technique could enable product designers to churn out prototypes with ease...
From insideHPC
Phasecraft Launches Push for Noise and Error Reduction in Quantum Devices
Bristol and London – 27 May 2021 – UK-based quantum software startup Phasecraft today begins a new project facilitated by Innovate UK to reduce noise and errors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI's competitive Advantage
Interesting podcast, and ongoing pieces I am now connected to:Exponential View with Azeem Azhar / Season 5, Episode 32Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Voting Paradox
Trust, but verify—Ronald Reagan are researchers in the area of voting security. Some have worked in this area for decades, others for years, and some are new to...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
All Models are Wrong
All models are wrong, but some are useful is a common saying in statistics. It does not merely apply to statistics, however. It is general observation. Box (1976)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon to Buy MGM
As a long time follower of film and the studios ... this is a very big historical wow. Its all about content. True, prime does need a considerable boost.Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting to the Moon via the Cloud
Very high performance supercomputing on the cloud is adding to the ability to research, design, simulate, test, manufacture, deliver.Going to the Moon via the Cloud...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Active Learning of Transferable Priors, Kernels and Latent Representations for Robotics
Rika Antonova began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in December 2020. Antonova is at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI: A Taxonomy of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms
Once again an excellent post by Ajit Jaokar: Thanks Ajit!Below is just the intro overview, the much longer post comes through when you click through to Linkedin...
From Schneier on Security
The Misaligned Incentives for Cloud Security
Russia’s Sunburst cyberespionage campaign, discovered late last year, impacted more than 100 large companies and US federal agencies, including the Treasury, Energy...
From Schneier on Security
The Story of the 2011 RSA Hack
Really good long article about the Chinese hacking of RSA, Inc. They were able to get copies of the seed values to the SecurID authentication token, a harbinger...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Fossil of Squid Eating and Being Eaten
We now have a fossil of a squid eating a crustacean while it is being eaten by a shark. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From Schneier on Security
New Disk Wiping Malware Targets Israel
Apostle seems to be a new strain of malware that destroys data. In a post published Tuesday, SentinelOne researchers said they assessed with high confidence that...
From insideHPC
ColdQuanta Joins IBM Quantum Network
BOULDER, CO – May 26, 2021 – ColdQuanta, a Cold Atom Quantum Technology company, today announced it has joined the IBM Quantum Network. In addition to joining the...
From The Eponymous Pickle