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,…
On Allocating Scarce Resources “Fairly”
Maybe there is a lesson to be learned for HPC from common practices in medicine. The lack of organs that can be transplanted creates several ethical dilemmas without…
Supercomputing Around the World: A look at the Top500 as of 11/2020
With the release of the Nov 2020 Top500 list of supercomputers, it is time again to have a look at the distribution of supercomputers worldwide. Notable new entries…
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…
GSA Data Ethics Framework Published
The US General Services Administration has published new rules about ethical data use.
Google text-to-speech customers must pass ethical review
Google’s new text-to-speech system they claim is good enough that they will require an ethical review of customers before allowing them to use it. With the scale they…
UCSC adds ethics focus to Data Science Institute
“Its mission is to develop a principled approach to the analysis of the ever-larger, more complex, and potentially biased data sets that play an increasingly important role in…
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…
The History and Impact of Weather Forecasting
A March 2020 episode of the 99% Invisible podcast interviews Andrew Blum about his book The Weather Machine. In the interview they discuss the connection between weather forecasting…