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Designing Contact-Tracing Apps
Susan Landau wrote an essay on the privacy, efficacy, and equity of contract-tracing smartphone apps.
Also see her excellent…
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Indian Institute of Tech, Max-Born Institut Team Say Graphene Valleytrionics Could Enable Room Temperature Quantum
A research team from the Indian Institute of Technology and Max-Born Institute of Germany have published a study on a novel approach for encoding quantum information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Fusion Power with AI
More moves towards fusion.Can AI Make a Better Fusion Reactor? Nuclear physics may be one of machine learning's newest frontiers Rebecca SohnSince the 1940s, physicists...
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McKinsey On Autonomous Plants
The autonomous plant: Entering a new digital era September 10, 2021 | Article McKinseyBy Gopal Chakrabarti, Dominik Don, Micah Smith, and Premal VoraThe autonomous...
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CoolIT Systems Launches High-Density HPC and HCI Servers with Gigabyte
Calgary, Alberta. September 16, 2021 – CoolIT Systems Inc., a maker of modular, scalable data center liquid cooling technology, has announced a joint product launch...
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ALCF, IIT Team Develops Benchmark for Scientific Deep Learning Efficiency
The emergence of deep learning techniques has provided a new tool for accelerating scientific exploration and discoveries. A group of researchers from the Argonne...
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HPC/AI in the Spotlight: Jensen Huang Named to Time Magazine’s Most Influential People List
Estranged royalty, movie stars and Olympic athletes have influence, sure, but if you want to build a list of people with lasting impact then Time magazine got it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Italian Data Protection Authority Queries Smart Glasses
I thought there might be some regulatory push back on Facebook smart glasses that gather and store data and images, here perhaps the first case. Italy DataReuters...
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DOE Funds $13M Project for Adapting Scientific Software for HPC
A project involving researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and national lab and academic collaborators has received U.S. Department of Energy...
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Upcoming Oct 19 deadline for NSF Graduate Research Fellowships: Applicants and Reviewers encouraged
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) and JD Kundu (Deputy Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation...
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Whats Foundational AI?
We worked with Stanford in the early days of AI. Can't we all get along? I like the idea of using foundational definitions to decide what to emphasize on next...
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Arqit and Juniper Networks in Alliance to Address Quantum Security Threats to Networks
London – September 15, 2021 – Arqit Quantum Inc. (“Arqit”), developer of quantum encryption technology and Juniper Networks, maker of AI-driven networks, have signed...
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SDSC Houses Novel Metabolomics Data Repository
September 14, 2021 — How is the “normal” resting heart rate determined? How does the American Diabetes Association establish the “normal” fasting glucose value?...
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Detecting Computer Generated Faces
Schneier points us to this effort, detecting artificial human faces. Technical details interesting. A way to spot computer-generated faces by Bob Yirka , Tech...
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Study on Aging Workforce and Robotics
Makes sense. How do we make such uses most efficient? Teach both to collaborate well. Have my own ideas on that, lets collaborate. Robots Readily Adopted In the...
From Schneier on Security
Identifying Computer-Generated Faces
It’s the eyes: The researchers note that in many cases, users can simply zoom in on the eyes of a person they suspect may not be real to spot the pupil irregularities...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Rising Star Award Nominations Open!
ACM-W Rising Star Award Nominations Open! Nominations are due by October 30, 2021. The ACM-W Rising Star Award is an award that recognize as woman whose early-career...
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Autonomous Robotic Excavator
Impressive.Autonomous Walking Excavator Can Build Walls, Dig Trenches By New ScientistA construction vehicle can operate autonomously on rough terrain, thanksResearchers...
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Sandia: New 3D-imaging Workflow Could Certify HPC Materials Simulations
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have announced they have created a method of processing 3D images for computer simulations that could...
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Microsoft Passwordless Accounts
With the introduction of Microsoft 11 in October. How secure is this, looking further? MS has not had a good record of security lately. Will be challenged. ...
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