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This sounded interesting, have always read Hinton's pieces. About to read this. Will give some thoughts about it later.
Geoffrey Hinton Has a Hunch about What's Next for AI By MIT Technology Review, April 16, 2021 from CACM…
The Linux Foundation has announced a research arm whose mission is to broaden understanding of open source projects, ecosystem dynamics and impact, the organization said. “Through a series of research projects and related content…
CHICAGO– The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the launch of DeepTechU, a venture conference showcasing deep tech innovation and 48 investor-ready companies from …
Implications? Increase of spare time? Increase of game hardware sales. Less serious work being done? Opportunities for more gamification? Will this continue postpandemic?
We're still spending record amounts on gaming, a …
Been asked similar questions in recent interactions. What will the change be and should retailers react?
Can omnichannel be as profitable for retailers as in-store sales? in Retailwire by Yogesh Kulkarni with further expert…
A virtual ACM W regional celebration India was organised by ACM W Pune Professional chapter in association with Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering on 3rd March 2021
Obvious, and exists well beyond AI into all decision oriented computation. Must be done as part of a process understanding model of how decisions are made and implemented, under regulation and compliance. So ultimately complex…
DA-IICT with ACM-W hosted an ACM Winter School on Natural Language Processing during 4 January to 14 January 2021.
Lowes has always been doing interesting things in retail. Now is supporting AI in education.
Lowe's Puts $1.5 Million Into AI Research at UNC Charlotte, By The Charlotte Observer (NC), April 15,Home…
More brain research addresses complexities of intelligence.
Researchers Find Better Way to Measure Consciousness
University of Wisconsin-Madison News, Chris Barncard, March 16, 2021
Analysis of neural signals in monkeys by University…
More picks on my agriculture and botany advances. Some good related statistics.
Automating the Farm, By Esther Shein, Commissioned by CACM Staff
Step inside the cab of the John Deere 8RX Tractor, and you may be surprisedFarming…
Are you looking to attend the CSTA 2021 Conference but funding is an issue? There are a great many scholarships available that can help. Visit the scholarship site for full details and application information. I copied a lotNote…
Amongst the 100+ vulnerabilities patch in this month’s Patch Tuesday, there are four in Microsoft Exchange that were disclosed by the NSA.
The New York Celebration of Women in Computing 2021 (NYCWiC'21) was held virtually on April 9-10, 2021. Organizers used a combination of real-time interaction through Gather, Zoom, and Slack.
BOULDER, CO. – Registration is continuing for the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) 11th Annual High Performance Computing Symposium, scheduled on-line for May 19-20. The Symposium will be offered free …
Somewhat unusual, but Wal-Mart is making a considerable play here. Cruise is only indicating a self driving Taxi for now. Possibilities for delivery?
Walmart invests in self-driving startup Cruise
Cruise says it's about two…
Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) today announced the expansion of its partner ecosystem and launched five artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. The company said the ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs)…
April 15 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $10 million for foundational research to address the challenges of managing and processing the increasingly massive data sets produced by today’s scientific instruments…
Women are severely underrepresented in the field of HPC. While they comprise about 51 percent of the general population, women account for only about 17 percent of the HPC workforce1. Those numbers are slowly improving, thanks…
SAN FRANCISCO – April 15, 2021 – SingleStore, the unified database for fast analytics, today announced its collaboration with IEX Cloud to deliver technology that disrupts the financial data market. IEX Cloud connects developers…
Gave this thought after innoculation. What serves as proof, and with what groups?
What Are the Roadblocks to a 'Vaccine Passport'? By The New York Times
The Heliix Health Passport is one of many developers are working on as…
Classic aspect using AI in smart manufacturing. Had interacted with Fujitsu in the past.
Fujitsu develops AI to detect product abnormalities during manufacturing
By Ryan Daws | March 29, 2021 | TechForge Media, Categories: Manufacturing…
OTTAWA — April 15, 2021 — Carleton University and IBM Canada today announce a five-year multimillion-dollar collaboration agreement to enhance Carleton’s Institute for Data Science and equip students for essential jobs in emerging…
MS has been backing off Cortana, at least for consumer facing applications. This would be a big major buy of the Siri developer and its patents.
Microsoft considers acquiring Siri creator Nuance for $16 billion in AI News…
Jülich/Munich, April 15, 2021 – The project “DEEP Extreme Scale Technologies,” funded by the European Union, has come to a successful conclusion. DEEP-EST started in 2017 to develop a modular architecture for high performance…
Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense—Roger Penrose Scott Answers Big Questions source Scott Aaronson has just been named the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing, Penrose’s…
AI Transportable™ applications such as autonomous vehicles, situational command and control, aerospace, and high-complexity video-based inference and security often require real-time decision-making with limited 5G or no network…
First, congratulations to fellow complexity theorist and blogger Scott Aaronson for receiving the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for "groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing". The prize is ACM's highest honor for mid-career…
The office of the Director of National Intelligence released its “Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.” Cybersecurity is covered on pages 20-21. Nothing surprising:
Cyber threats from nation states and…
Providing a seems another and we assume better means of developing quantum applications. Would be good to compare applications.
IonQ now supports IBM’s Qiskit quantum development kit
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