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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
Beware of Assumptions
Bob Herbold tells a good story about the danger of assumptions for leaders.There is a powerful lesson for leaders here:Beware of Assumptions – Regularly isolate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Maintenance Driving 3D Printing
A long term interest and application area. You could do a good job of prediction, but had to have a complex array of replacement parts in inventory. Here, for...
From Schneier on Security
Thermal Imaging as Security Theater
Seems like thermal imaging is the security theater technology of today. These features are so tempting that thermal cameras are being installed at an increasing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bot Activity During Coronavisus
Don't know what to fully make of this. How accurate is the machine learning of the model working to identify bots?. Looking for the Carnegie piece supporting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kubernetes Workflows
This presentation was just brought to my attention. Especially useful when maintenance will be required, and it should always be built in for serious operations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Ethics of Dark Patterns
A look at 'Dark Patterns', had not heard the term. Linking to ACM look at ethics by people that build such interfaces.Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: The ACM Code of Ethics vs Snake Oil and Dodgy Development
And directly related to the last post, note the excellent archive of past talks linked to below.Register Now: "Leveraging the ACM Code of Ethics Against Ethical...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Special Report: HPC and AI for the Era of Genomics
This special report sponsored by Dell Technologies, takes a deep dive into HPC and AI for life sciences in the era of genomics. The report also highlights a lineup...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM SIGARCH BLOG: A Vision of Computer Architecture Visioning
The following blog was originally posted in ACM SIGARCH on May 26th, 2020. It is written by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Mark D. Hill from the University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Touch Sensors
Touch sensors are advancing. We sought for understanding and adjusting how how products felt via a sensor.OmniTact: A Multi-Directional High-Resolution Touch...
From Schneier on Security
Websites Conducting Port Scans
Security researcher Charlie Belmer is reporting that commercial websites such as eBay are conducting port scans of their visitors. Looking at the list of ports...
From Putting People First
Behavioural science and the response to COVID-19: a missed opportunity?
While the role of behavioural science in the UK’s handling of the pandemic has been criticised, Peter John and Gerry Stoker argue that it is important for governments...
From Putting People First
Why consumers are willing to share personal information on smartphones
New research from Wharton marketing professors Shiri Melumad and Robert Meyer finds that people are more willing to share deeper and more personal information when...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vizient and IBM Watson Health
Been following for some time how Watson is being embedded in real world business process and problem solving. Here another example in healthcare. Note the replacement...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Contact Tracing for All? Bridging the Accessibility Gap for Contact Tracing
The following is a guest blog post from Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Katie Siek, Indiana University. Automated, proximity-based contact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Refraction AI Contactless Food Delivery
Here is an excerpt from Spectrum IEEE on robotic solutions. Featuring Refraction AI, a contactless food delivery system. Plus a number of videos of related...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ideo Designer Designing Smarts to Compete with Apple
We worked with Ideo in some of our shopping labs and problem solving spaces. So the emergence of the emergence of a new smart speaker from an Ideo designer was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Basic, Non-technical look at Quantum Computing
Looks to be a good, basic, non technical introduction, and also links to further free courses.Quantum Computing for the NewbIntroductory ConceptsBy Amelie Schreiber...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Grounding Jet.com
No new news, but some of the motivations provided of interest, Would they have thought differently if they knew of the virus coming? Will it fundamentally change...
From Putting People First