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Thinking and Teaching about Technology Policy Issues
What are the top technology issues for the 2020s? Brad Smith, Microsoft President, wrote an interesting post about a month ago…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Project Cortex: Optimizing the Enterprise ?
Was reminded of this, announced generally last year. It actually has similarities to some things we discussed with Linkedin a number of years ago: To use a company's...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC / Code 8.7 Workshop on Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery
On any given day, tens of millions of people find themselves trapped in instances of modern slavery. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is organizing a visioning...
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Towards very Powerful Exoskeletons
Been talked for some time, now finally here? Ways to really extend/improve the capability of the individual human. Will this be the interim move towards robots...
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Considerations when using Fitness Trackers in Research
Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Council members Katie Siek (Indiana University) and Shwetak Patel (University of Washington). Many people around...
From insideHPC
OpenStack Adds Native Upstream Support for HDR InfiniBand
Today Mellanox announced that OpenStack software now includes native and upstream support for virtualization over HDR 200 gigabit InfiniBand network, enabling customers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winning with AI
Reviewing this study for an upcoming analysis of proposed work:Winning With AIPioneers Combine Strategy, OrganizationalBehavior, and TechnologyOCTOBER 2019 RESEARCH...
From insideHPC
Podcast: A Codebase for Deep Learning Supercomputers to Fight Cancer
In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, Gina Tourassi from ORNL describes how the CANDLE project is setting the stage to fight cancer with the power of Exascale computing...
From insideHPC
Zenuity and HPE to develop next generation autonomous cars
HPE has been selected by Zenuity, a leading developer of software for self-driving and assisted driving cars, to provide the crucial AI and HPC infrastructure it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combatting Technology Hype
Back to measures and risks, often economical. And then their reasonable forward prediction.Issues in Science and TechnologyCombatting Tech HypeVOL. XXXVI,By...
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SW/HW co-design for near-term quantum computing
Yunong Shi from the University of Chicago gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing provides intensive, two weeksSW...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Operationalizing Analytics
Ultimately its always about how analytics will be used (implemented and operationalized) Have seen many cases where the results have been lost in implementingOperationalizing...
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Carmakers Move From Cars to Building Cities at CES
Hardly a complete move, but handling transportation efficiently will be a major part of any smart city.Carmakers Move From Cars to Building Cities at CESFinancial...
From Schneier on Security
Half a Million IoT Device Passwords Published
It's a list of easy-to-guess passwords for IoT devices on the Internet as recently as last October and November. Useful for anyone putting together a bot network...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AR Continues Struggle in Retail
An area we spent lots of early time in. Good overview article of current work.Despite advancements, AR struggles to take off in retail By Anna Hensel in Modern...
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Rapid Expansion of Amazon Pharmacy
What seems a rapid expansion of the Amazon Pharma delivery to multiple countries.From Engadget by Mariella MoonAmazon may be expanding its prescription drug delivery...
From insideHPC
ASC20 to test Student Cluster Teams on Quantum & AI
Today the 2020 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC20) announced new tasks for the competition: using supercomputers to simulate Quantum circuit and training...
From Schneier on Security
Brazil Charges Glenn Greenwald with Cybercrimes
Glenn Greenwald has been charged with cybercrimes in Brazil, stemming from publishing information and documents that were embarrassing to the government. The charges...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Distinguished Lecture: Towards Usability, Transparency, and Trust for Data-Intensive Computations
Juliana Freire, New York University, will present “Towards Usability, Transparency, and Trust for Data-Intensive Computations,” part of the National Science Foundation...
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