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Scratching the Programming Itch
Programming is fun for me. It always has been.I’ve always written code to scratch a personal itch. That is to say that I like…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Communications with Drones
More on quantum secure communications.Quantum communication demonstrated by two hovering drones By Luke Dormehl, January 19, 2021 in DigitalTrends The groundwork...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Alexa Voices Skip CES
But they were there nevertheless. Some interesting thoughts on that. Google Assistant and Alexa Were Invisible and Everywhere at CES 2021 By Eric Hal Schwartz...
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Book: Mastering Blockchain
Just brought to my attention. Inform me if you would like a review related mention.New O'Reilly Book:Mastering Blockchain: Unlocking the Power of Cryptocurrencies...
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CCC Council Member Melanie Mitchell on if AI can Exist in Medicine Without Human Oversight
Melanie Mitchell, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Portland State University was recently interviewed...
From insideHPC
Xilinx Announces Winners of its First Adaptive Computing Challenge Developer Contest
In summer 2020, Xilinx announced the first Xilinx Adaptive Computing Challenge, teaming with Hackster.io to challenge independent developers to create applications...
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OVHcloud Teams with IBM and Atempo for Cloud Storage
Roubaix, France – January 19, 2021 – To meet European enterprise and public institution security, sovereignty and resilience needs for the preservation of sensitive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Do You Teach Robots to Dance?
When I saw the Boston Dynamics robots dancing, it came to mind quickly ow it had been done. Here Evan does a good job of describing the process.How Boston Dynamics...
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McKinsey Ecosystem2 .0
Good points from McKinsey. Is this the ideal time for re-drawing the essential ecosystem?Ecosystem 2.0: Climbing to the next levelSeptember 11, 2020 | Ecosystem...
From insideHPC
Active Archive Alliance Names Rich Gadomski and Betsy Doughty Co-Chairpersons of the Board
Boulder, Colo.—January 19, 2021—The Active Archive Alliance today announced that Rich Gadomski, head of tape evangelism at FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc....
From insideHPC
10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI
In this insideHPC Guide, "10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI," our friends over at WEKA offer 10 important questions to ask when starting with AI, specifically...
From insideHPC
Argonne’s Rick Stevens named ACM Fellow
Rick Stevens has been named a Fellow of the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM). Stevens is associate laboratory director of the Computing, Environment andArgonne...
From Computational Complexity
The Ethics Board
Back in 2014 I recommended a TCS ethics board mainly to deal with plagiarism and who should get credit for a result. It went the way of most suggestions I makeasked...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Edmund Clarke, 1945–2020
If only model checking could fight the virus Edmund Clarke passed away due to COVID-19 complications. Ed will be missed. He was a winner of the 2007 Turing award...
From Schneier on Security
Injecting a Backdoor into SolarWinds Orion
Crowdstrike is reporting on a sophisticated piece of malware that was able to inject malware into the SolarWinds build process: Key Points SUNSPOT is StellarParticle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ensemble Methods for Combining Methods
Ensemble methods are not new, they have long been around to use combine multiple kinds of techniques. But we have more methods now. Here a good mostly non technical...
From insideHPC
Women in HPC: Jan. 20 Online Panel Discussion on Data, AI, Bias and Ethics
The Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) Women in HPC Chapter will host the second of a two-part program on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1-2 p.m. ET, onWomen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Three Ways Visual AI Can Optimize Supply Chain
Visual interaction with data can strongly drive decisions, before and after. Again had not heard it called that specifically, But see the point You can enhance...
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Efficiency via AI
Like all of analytics, AI can be an excellent means to provide leverage via efficiency. Has to be done right and applied to real process. Do something better...
From insideHPC