Supercomputing Around the World: A look at the Top500 as of 11/2021
With the release of the November 2021 Top500 list of supercomputers, it is time again to have a look at the distribution of supercomputers worldwide. Notable new/updated entries…
Author: Jakob Luettgau
How AI can be a force for good
How AI can be a force for good through ethical frameworks to keep humans in the loop published in Science.
Primum non nocere
“First, do no harm” is a phrase often associated with the Hippocratic Oath or in recent times more often a variant of the Declaration of Geneva which in…
“Please stop submitting known-invalid patches.”
Open source software is an important cornerstone to the HPC community, spanning all layers from the operating systems, middlewares, and actual applications. But the very intentionally open dynamic…
The AI Index Report
Earlier in March, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) release the 2021 AI Index report . The importance of ethical questions in relation to this technology is…
Overview of Edge Surveillance Practices at Protests
In an interesting talk, Kurt Opsahl enumerates various commonly used surveillance practices deployed at protests and large gatherings . While this may not seem directly related to HPC,…
The Compute Devide: The De-democratization of AI?
In a recent arXiv paper , analysis suggests that unequal access to computing capabilities may shift who and where AI is being innovated. […] we present systematic evidence…
Robustness and Explainability of Artificial Intelligence
In anticipation of potential negative consequences when employing artificial intelligence (AI) the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) published a technical report offering a policy-oriented description of the…
A Map of Computer Science
Without any claims for completeness, this video from 2017 provides a dense overview of the relationships, the growing number of fields, as well as high-level intuitions to many…