At ISC19: HPC on Pace for 5-Year 6.8% CAGR; Guess Which Hyperscaler Spent $10B+ on IT Last Year?
In the neck-and-neck horse race for HPC server market share, HPE has hung on to a slim, shrinking lead over Dell EMC – but if server and storage market ...Full Article
AI Used to Convert Brain Signals to Speech
A deep learning framework developed by university researchers aims to convert brain signals recorded by an implant into synthesized speech, aiding those who have lost the ability to speak ...Full Article
ML Proponents Confront Reproducibility Claims
Machine learning researchers are pushing back on the recent assertion that the AI framework is a key contributor to a reproducibility crisis in scientific research. Rick Stevens, associate laboratory ...Full Article
Optalysys Switches on Commercial Optical Co-Processor
Optalysys, Ltd., a U.K. company seeking to advance it optical co-processor technology, moved a step closer this week with the unveiling of what it claims is the first commercial optical ...Full Article
NSF Explores Risks, Rewards of Automation
Addressing the growing unease over the prospect of AI taking jobs from humans, the National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for how machines and workers can collaborate in ways ...Full Article
SC 30th Anniversary Perennials: 19 (and 9) Who Stayed, 1988-2018
Many conferences try, fewer succeed. Thirty years ago, no one knew if the first SC would also be the last. Thirty years later, we know it’s the biggest annual ...Full Article
NSF Funds Cybersecurity, Trusted AI Research
The National Science Foundation will fund a broad range of cybersecurity, data privacy and network security research projects that includes a new Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning. NSF’s Secure ...Full Article
Manufacturing Effort Focuses on Human-Machine Interface
The rush to automate manufacturing has revealed some unintended consequences as market pressures and assembly line realities underscore the fact that, sometimes, machines simply cannot replace humans when making ...Full Article
Robotic Process Automation: Best Friend for Back-Office Workers
Robotic process automation (RPA) — a close cousin of and a first step on the way to AI — is changing the way companies work. Enterprises look to RPA ...Full Article
Another GDPR Issue: Impact on Scientific Research
Amid the angst over preparations—or lack thereof—for new European Union data protections entering into force at week’s end is the equally worrisome issue of the rules’ impact on scientific ...Full Article
