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Finland/University of Helsinki Makes their online AI course open and free to all.
Elements of AI
Good News! The Elements of AI course will soon be available in all EU languages. Read more here →
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The following is a guest blog from Sarita V. Adve from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ratislav Bodik and Luis Ceze from the University of Washington, co-organizers of the DARPA ISAT I-USHER study. We are pleased…
This isn't a first, but I think it will be the first conviction: The GIF set off a highly unusual court battle that is expected to equip those in similar circumstances with a new tool for battling threatening trolls and cyberbullies…
Just had a chance to reference this resource in DSC, good intro with a mix of technical and general introduction.
15 Great Articles about Bayesian Methods and Networks
Posted by Vincent Granville on March 15, 2019
This resource…
Today Nortek Air Solutions celebrated the completion of its first manufactured StatePoint Liquid Cooling (SPLC) system, billed as “The World’s First Sustainable Data Center Cooling Technology.” SPLC technology was co-developed…
Today the Internet2 advanced technology community announced it has selected CenturyLink’s new low-loss fiber network to transform its research and education network. The improved network performance that results will benefit …
In this special guest feature, IBM's VP of AI Research Sriram Raghavan shares the company's predictions for AI in 2020. "In 2020, three themes will shape the advancement of AI: automation, natural language processing (NLP), and…
Here is an forgotten piece of the supply chain. I removed a dozen or of these ancient ideas off the front porch already this holiday season. So how do we address the problem? Optimize the use? Some of our very earliest…
Cisco is announcing its intent to acquire Exablaze, a privately held, Australia-based designer and manufacturer of advanced network devices. Exablaze’s design and manufacturing innovation offer customers the latest Field Programmable…
In this video from LAD'19 in Paris, Peter Jones from Whamcloud presents: Lustre Community Release Update. "Lustre is a vibrant Open Source project with many organizations working on new features and improvements in parallel. …
More on the company Nuro, working with Dominos, Wal-Mart, Kroger and others to test the idea of autonomous delivery of product. Are we ready?
We're Nuro
We believe that great technology should benefit everyone. The team at Nuro…
Saw this earlier by other retailers like Kroger. Are we ready for autonomous delivery? How will this coexist with traffic in the suburbs and city? The liabilities?
Walmart Teams With Nuro's Robot Cars to Deliver Groceries…
First I had heard of this work at Johns Hopkins, notably for links to healthcare process. What does it mean to be assistive with people, in processes that require very human care and emotions. Here an interesting look at…
Satellites and Network design that would cover the earth with an Internet.
A Network Design for the 'Internet from Space'
ETH Zurich
Florian Meyer
December 10, 2019
Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland are proposing a network
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New details: At the CyberwarCon conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Microsoft security researcher Ned Moran plans to present new findings from the company's threat intelligence group that show a shift in the activity…
What will such a location look like, the technology, the merchandising mix? Affluent clearly.
Amazon said to be opening its first supermarket in February
in Yahoo Finance
Amazon’s first non-Whole Foods grocery store is under construction…
Knuth was an inspiration in my earliest days of coding. Always pull out his books and skim them when he name comes up.
Donald Knuth Reflects on 50 years of ‘The Art of Computer Programming‘ By Denton Daily
Donald Knuth, who…
Back in 2010, I wrote a post Who is going to need a database engine in 2020? Let me revisit some of my 2010 statements. Apple will sell desktops with 1 TB of RAM in 2020. I am sure that the prediction sounded insane back in 2010…
Note the capabilities for security in the enterprise, as well as editing and reuse of existing knowledge. Ultimately if this is done well, it can greatly advance business oriented systems. Managing the underlying data will
Amazon…
How do you create realistic augmented reality experiences on non specialized devices, like an advanced smartphone? Say you wanted to overlay data on top of an operating machine so it appeared as part of a 3D AR experience? …
On December 5, OpenSFS announced Lustre 2.13.0 Release has been declared GA and is available for download. The Lustre file system is a open source, parallel file system that supports the requirements of leadership class HPC and…
Not very unexpected. But a means to make smaller groups take notice, to create more incentive to respond with blackmail payments more quickly. And can create an ongoing rather than one-off threat. Probably also increase demand…
Today Intel announced it has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center for approximately $2 billion. "This acquisition advances our AI strategy, which is to…
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, Kathryn Mohror LLNL and Sarp Oral of ORNL provide an update ECP’s ExaIO project and UnifyFS. "UnifyFS can provide ECP applications performance-portable I/O across changing storage system architectures…
Scientists are getting better at modeling the complex tangle of physics properties at play in one of the most powerful events in the known universe: the merger of two neutron stars. "We’re starting from a set of physical principles…
In this keynote from HPE Discover More in Paris, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE offers up some inspiring real-world use cases that demonstrate the transformative power of AI and supercomputing. "Solving the biggest challenges of tomorrow…
We examined and experimented with aspects of the idea for 20 years. A number for these efforts are touched on in this blog, see the tags below. But now its seen as dangerous. Another thing I see as inevitable, for now regulation…
Access at the link, worthwhile to look at. Like strong human-centric looks, we need more of that.
Introducing the AI Index 2019 Report By Stanford University
An independent initiative within Stanford University's Human-Centered…
In support of reading Rebooting AI, been exploring where the implementation of CYC has taken place. We saw it demonstrated in the 80s. Followed it here since. There are some mentions of applications like Glaxo and Cleveland…
Interesting research: SRLabs founder Karsten Nohl, a researcher with a track record of exposing security flaws in telephony systems, argues that RCS is in many ways no better than SS7, the decades-old phone system carriers still…