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Accuracy and invasiveness are being questioned. Back to the transparency of algorithms involved.
Parkland School Turns to Experimental Surveillance Software That Can Flag Students as Threats
The Washington Post By Drew Harwell…
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The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West by Payal Arora Harvard University Press, 2019 280 pages A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle…
Beautiful photo of a three-inch-long squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
Quite intriguing notion of what this is, and the method by which it reaches consensus. The Smart Contract or DDE (decentralized application) would appear to be a generalized template approach that could implement agreements…
In what seemed like a considerable endorsement, of the kind that puts your money where your hype may be, JP Morgan yesterday declared it was setting up to test its own cryptocurrency, called a JPM Coin. Or did it? MIT Tech…
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched its first calls for expressions of interest, to select the sites that will host the Joint Undertaking’s first supercomputers (petascale and precursor…
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how Lawrence Livermore National Lab is working to simulate and help modernize the electric grid. They discuss how the ‘new grid’ will need to be two-way, both delivering and accepting…
Students at Virginia Tech are using HPC for their creative work to build robust project portfolios. "The School of Visual Arts in Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies offers an advanced rendering class for…
Exascale computing is only a few years away. Today the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) put out the second release of their Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack. The E4S Release 0.2 includes a subset of ECP ST software products…
In this video from the 2019 Stanford HPC Conference, Naoki Shibata from XTREME-D presents: XTREME-Stargate: The New Era of HPC Cloud Platforms. "XTREME-D is an award-winning, funded Japanese startup whose mission is to make HPC…
Will be attending. Ultimately a crucial next step for AI and integration of Semantic data with enterprise data and metadata.
From TopQuadrant:
Join us for a webinar on February 21, 2019 at 11:30 AM ET.
Why are knowledge graphs…
Being able to process AI functions on the 'Edge', will make it increasingly useful and visible. Some details about the challenge.
Exploring Artificial Intelligence at the Edge By Bruce Kornfeld in DataNami
As the adoption of
Edge…
Brought to my attention for a particular healthcare application. Technical. Comments?
Resolution limit of image analysis algorithms
By Edward A. K. Cohen, Anish V. Abraham, Sreevidhya Ramakrishnan & Raimund J. Ober in Nature…
Lessons learned in reconstructing the World War II-era SIGSALY voice encryption system....
I'm not a Minecraft person. I've had the demos. I know that some kids really get into it but … Well, some teachers love it as much as the students. For them it’s probably a great thing if there was some curriculum to use with…
Have now been using bilingual mode on a Google Home for some time. It works well, even picks up many expressions on the edge of slang. Now I see in the following article that you can turn on a translator mode, whether you…
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Student Chapters News from ACM-W Professional Chapters News from ACM-W Scholarships News from ACM-W Europe A big “Thank You!” to those who participated in the…
The underlying idea of blockchains is not new, and this paper makes the point. An introduction to those who want to understand its relationship to other forms of computational distributed architecture. Thoughtful, not overly…
Good piece about this Another example of the implications of the inevitable. Voice, not as often mentioned is also a dimension of this.
Being Recognized Everywhere By Logan Kugler
Communications of the ACM, February 2019…
Over at the SC19 Blog, Charity Plata continues the HPC is Now series of interviews with Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist and special postdoctoral fellow with the Riken BNL Research Center. This month, Rinaldi discusses why HPC is
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I recieved this from Pat Yongpradit of Code.org and thought I should share it.
The US Department of Education has announced the EIR grant competition for FY 2019. This year EIR incorporates an exclusive priority for computer science…
Been intriqued by this, mentioned it several times, for a couple of years now, especially how it claims to eventually integrate with assistant systems like Alexa. Would like to see that and how it extends the interface. Engadget…
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to be a part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2019 Annual Meeting this weekend, February 14-17, 2019 in Washington, DC. CCC Executive Council…
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe reports on the Gordon Bell Prize finalists for 2018. "The finalist’s research ranges from AI to mixed precision workloads, with some taking advantage of…
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and Sylabs have teamed up to bring the Community its first ever meeting of the Singularity User Group (SUG). Singularity has become what it is today through the engagement of users, developers…
Nicely put piece, that I have passed it along before to others, worth considering again. Especially good as it includes the business parts more explicitly than you typically. Prework is a good idea. But also make sure
How…
Soon after the first iPad Pro came out, I bought one and started using it daily. The experiment is ongoing and I thought it was time to reflect upon it further. Before I begin, I need to clarify my goals. When I started thisContinue…
Atos will soon deploy a Bull supercomputer at the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) in Barcelona for large-scale DNA sequencing and analysis. To support the vast process and calculation demands needed for this analysis…
Seems like a very late launch, Kroger is linking its loyalty card with smartphone based systems. Starting in Columbus Ohio. From the Kroger company:
Kroger Pay FAQs
What is Kroger Pay?
Kroger Pay is a new, fast, safe way to pay…
It's only a prototype, but this USB cable has an embedded Wi-Fi controller. Whoever controls that Wi-Fi connection can remotely execute commands on the attached computer....
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