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Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2020
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is virtual this year! Like many things in 2020, it might not be the same experience, but…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moving AI to the Edge
Nicely put, mostly non technical overview of what it means to have AI move to the Edge. Ssing it in places like the Smart Home. Favorite topic of mine. Needs...
From insideHPC
Teradata Expands Data Science Collaboration Capabilities
Cloud data analytics specialist Teradata has released collaborative features to its Vantage platform designed to reduce the friction between data scientists, business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computational Models Help Translate Drugs From Animal Studies
Could be a considerable development. We need better drug development methods now. And expect considerable pushback here too.Computational Model Could Improve...
From insideHPC
Rescale Announces Appointments to its Executive Ranks
San Francisco, Sept. 10, 2020 — Rescale Inc., the leader in enterprise big compute, today announced the appointment of two new senior executives, underscoring the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming Talk: How Will the AI Genie Behave?
Upcoming sponsored by UC, online talk.You are all cordially invited to the following 29th Arnoff-Schloss lecture, which will be on Zoom on Friday, September 18th...
From Computational Complexity
When are both x^2+3y and y^2+3y both squares, and a more general question
In my last post (see here) I asked two math questions. In this post I discuss one of them. (I will discuss the other one later, probably Monday Sept 14.)For which...
From insideHPC
Intelligent Fabrics for the Next Wave of AI Innovation
In this sponsored post, our friend John Spiers, Chief Strategy Officer at Liqid, discusses how resource utilization and the soaring costs surrounding it are a constant...![[Book] The Innovation Delusion](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] The Innovation Delusion
The authors offer a compelling plan for how we can shift our focus away from the pursuit of growth at all costs, and back toward neglected activities like maintenance...
From Putting People First
[Book] Slow computing
Slow Computing: Why We Need Balanced Digital Livesby Rob Kitchin and Alistair FraserBristol University PressSeptember 2020 – 224 pages Digital technologies should...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IFTTT Pro Announced
Just received today, always liked IFTTT, used it some, the advances look interestingToday we’re launching IFTTT Pro, https://ifttt.com/pro a subscription designed...
From insideHPC
Videos, Slides from MUG ’20 Now Available
The MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG ’20), built around an implementation of the MPI standard developed by Ohio State University, has posted videos and slides from...
From insideHPC
Quantum Makes LTO-9 Tape Drives Available for Scalar Tape Libraries
SAN JOSE — Sept. 9, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO), a global leader in unstructured data and video solutions, today announced that LTO Ultrium format generation...
From insideHPC
Woman-led Team to Research Human-AI Collaboration in U.S. Army Intelligence Work
The Army Research Office is funding a $617,000 grant for a multi-institutional, majority-female research team for technology-enhanced intelligence analysis ledWoman...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Leadership Vision
Wednesday, August 26 at 3:00 PM ET/12:00 PM PT, featuring Jodi Tims, Reyyan Ayfer, Amelia Cole, and Bushra Anjum [video]
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robotics Roadmap for US Robotics: From Internet to Robotics, 2020 Edition
In 2009, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) published A Roadmap for US Robotics, From Internet to Robotics (a.k.a. the Robotics Roadmap), which explored the...
From Schneier on Security
How the FIN7 Cybercrime Gang Operates
The Grugq has written an excellent essay on how the Russian cybercriminal gang FIN7 operates. An excerpt: The secret of FIN7’s success is their operational art...
From Schneier on Security
Privacy Analysis of Ambient Light Sensors
Interesting privacy analysis of the Ambient Light Sensor API. And a blog post. Especially note the “Lessons Learned” section.
From Schneier on Security
Interesting Attack on the EMV Smartcard Payment Standard
It’s complicated, but it’s basically a man-in-the-middle attack that involves two smartphones. The first phone reads the actual smartcard, and then forwards the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GPT-3 Generates an Article for the Guardian
Much broiling about the ability of 'AI' do human kinds of tasks. OpenAI has made claims for its language generator GPT-3. How well does it do? The Guardian...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing