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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 Schneier on Security
Google’s Project Zero Finds a Nation-State Zero-Day Operation
Google’s Project Zero discovered, and caused to be patched, eleven zero-day exploits against Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Windows, and iOS. This seems to have been...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Yuan is Here
Implications remain to be broadly tested. Details and underlyng security is of interest. China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major EconomyA cyber...
From insideHPC
Katana Graph Partners with Intel on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
AUSTIN, TX – April 06, 2021 – Katana Graph, a high performance scale-out graph processing, AI and analytics company, announced today that it has optimized its graph...
From insideHPC
Univ. of Buffalo’s Paul DesJardin Elected Fellow of ASME
Paul DesJardin of the University of Buffalo has been elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in recognition of his exceptional achievements...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Mind and Protein Folding
Was introduced to the nature of this problem early on. Difficult and fundamental to so many bio science applications. If Deep Learning has solved this, it is...
From insideHPC
Advanced Clustering Technologies Announces ACTblade x3XX HPC Systems Based on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon CPUs
April 6, 2021 — Advanced Clustering Technologies today announced the ACTblade x3XX family of dense HPC systems, which are based on the new third generation of Intel...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows Spotlight: Towards Fair and Interpretable Language Processing Models and their Applications
Sunipa Dev began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from University of Utah in Fall of 2020. Dev is at the University of California, Los...
From insideHPC
MemVerge Releases Memory Machine v1.2 and Programs for 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and Intel Octane Persistent Memory 200 Series
Milpitas, Calif. – April 6, 2021 – MemVerge, makers of Big Memory software, today announced the release of Memory Machine software version 1.2. The software delivers...
From insideHPC
‘Ice Lake’ Launch: Intel Impresses with 3rd Gen Xeon Chips
In its cage-match struggle with AMD, Intel responded this morning to its rival’s vaunted EPYC 7003 Series CPUs, announced two weeks ago, with its 3rd Gen Intel‘Ice...
From insideHPC
Seeqc’s Naples Team Claims 2-Qubit Gate Quantum Milestone
Naples, Italy–April 6, 2021– Digital quantum computing company Seeqc today announced its Naples team, lead by Marco Arzeo, Ph.D., has developed and measured a two...
From insideHPC
Oracle Cloud Announces HPC Instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Ice Lake
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) today announced availability of Intel 3rd Gen Xeon Ice Lake processor instances in limited preview, with worldwide general availability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Bullish on Homomorphic Encryption
Yet more interest in this technique by major players.IBM bets homomorphic encryption is ready to deliver stronger data security for early adoptersBy Chris O'Brien...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WIFI Object Sensing
Schneier reports on Wi-Fi Devices as Physical Object Sensors in the new 802.11bf standard. He mentions this is reported in TheRegister, but also that there is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Early Warning Systems for Self Driving
Recognizing situations for warnings. Classic AI application.Early Warning System for Self-Driving CarsTechnical University of Munich (Germany), March 30, 2021An...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Explanations and Contexts
An example of the need for explain-ability. Like in a conversation with a human, we could want the option of getting an explanation of a solution. But the nature...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Relaxing the Primes
Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data—Tim Gowers Finnish Scientific Courage Award source Kaisa Matomäki is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Distributed Quantum Computing Prototype
Although still very small this seems to demonstrate combined bits at a distance, assuming then that each is then operating as an independent computer, with theQuantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Echo has Zoom
Good to see broader, business oriented capabilities.Amazon’s Echo Show 10 now has ZoomFor those pandemic-fueled video callsBy Ashley Carman@ashleyrcarman in TheVerge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
B to B Machine Learning
Type of companies and their goals and implications.Defensible Machine Learning via O'Reilly in Basecase.vcBy Ankur Goyal, Alana Anderson March 3, 2021B2B machine...
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