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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Agency Curriculum
Still have not seen what I call voice-first strategies in many places. Like businesses. They are still matters of convenience, accessibility or cases where hands...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combining iPhone Videos for 4D Viz
Another example of gathering more data that you would normally with a sensor, then combining the data in order to make it useful for more than normal, purely typical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Problem with Google's Open Usage Commons
IBM Suggests there is a Problem:IBM has a problem with Google’s Open Usage CommonsThe ties between the Open Usage Commons and Google may be too strong and clear...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS And Microsoft Azure
Intriguing to see the linking of Azure and SAS. Some particularly novel sample problems.3 world-changing examples of SAS® on Azure by Oliver SchabenBergerLast...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 11th 2020)
Some upcoming Mercedes cars will have augmented reality head-up displays. Intel’s new standard for high-speed cables (thunderbolt) supports 3 GB/s bandwidth. (This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bio-Ink for 3D Printing Inside the Body
Quite a remarkable possibility when linked to medical robotics.Bio-Ink for 3D Printing Inside the BodyIEEE SpectrumCharles Q. ChoiJuly 1, 2020Researchers at The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla Close to Level 5
The legendary level 5 means completely autonomous, no driver input. Once we get that level there is likely to be an explosion of data to gather, and answering...
From Schneier on Security
China Closing Its Squid Spawning Grounds
China is prohibiting squid fishing in two areas -- both in international waters -- for two seasons, to give squid time to recover and reproduce. This is the first...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Greetings from the ACMW Communications Co-Chairs: Bettina Bair and Sarah McRoberts
The goal of the Communications Committee is to empower the communications of all chapters and levels of leadership with tools, frameworks, and our global platforms...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Interview about ACM-W Scholarships
In this column we have conversations with the members of our panels about the Scholarship program and it's history.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences
The ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to attend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Kind of Open Source: Open Commons
Google Open Usage Commons. Considering this, there will be more to follow. Thoughts?Announcing a new kind of open source organizationWednesday, July 8, 2020Google...
From Schneier on Security
EFF's 30th Anniversary Livestream
It's the EFF's 30th birthday, and the organization is having a celebratory livestream today from 3:00 to 10:00 pm PDT. There are a lot of interesting discussions...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ron Graham, 1935–2020
Ron Graham passed away, but he lives on… Cropped from tribute by Tom Leighton Ron Graham just passed away Monday at the age of in La Jolla near UCSD. Today Ken...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Webinar: Opportunity Marketplaces
Brought to my attention by Michael Schrage, a correspondent at MIT:Organizations constrained to offer workers financial incentives might consider a new approach...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing Robotic Lab Assistants
Robotic Lab assistants are being tested broadly, here some initial results.Robotic lab assistant is 1,000 times faster at conducting researchWorking 22 hours aJames...
From Schneier on Security
Business Email Compromise (BEC) Criminal Ring
A criminal group called Cosmic Lynx seems to be based in Russia: Dubbed Cosmic Lynx, the group has carried out more than 200 BEC campaigns since July 2019, according...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers for In-Memory Computing Summit 2020
FOSTER CITY, Calif., July 09, 2020 — GridGain Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache Ignite, today announced the call...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Earth: 15 Years and Still Mapping
Been a fan since the very beginning. Used it at work. It has replaced very messy geography. The ability to answer geographic questions visually very quickly....
From Computational Complexity