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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 ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Kuwait STEM Grad Cohort First Workshop
On December 7th 2019, the 1st STEM Grad Cohort Workshop was conducted at American University, Kuwait (AUK), led by Dr Zainab AlMeraj, Assistant Professor, Kuwait...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Restaurant Dishes with Images
Clever idea. Integration of crowdsourced images for search. Recall when the idea of consumers providing images to businesses came out, seems it has slipped in...
From Computational Complexity
Theorist Paul R Young passed away
In the early days of theoretical computer science, say 1960-1990 the main tools used were logic. This made sense since, early on: a) Some of the basic notionspassed...
From Schneier on Security
CIA Dirty Laundry Aired
Joshua Schulte, the CIA employee standing trial for leaking the Wikileaks Vault 7 CIA hacking tools, maintains his innocence. And during the trial, a lot of shoddy...
From Putting People First
Why Customer Experience is now job no. 1 for CEOs
Job No. 1 for CEOs today is ensuring the company delivers a compelling customer experience, notes this opinion piece for Knowledge@Wharton by Mark Leiter.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast float parsing in practice
In our work parsing JSON documents as quickly as possible, we found that one of the most challenging problem is to parse numbers. That is, you want to take theContinue...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is The Best Way to Provide #CSforAll?
Getting more computer science education to more people is something I think about a lot. Mark Guzdial, I want to be him if I ever grow up, has me thinking in new...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Tensorflow
Just released, support for testing quantum computing ideas. Technical.TensorFlow Quantum is a library for hybrid quantum-classical machine learning.TensorFlowTensorFlow...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Conference Track at AAAI-20
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February...
From The Eponymous Pickle
All Models are Wrong, some Useful? Numbers are Suspect Too.
Based on the classic statement, that I often gave to execs seeking my help. Most often about the forecast, which they were too quick to accept.All numbers are...
From insideHPC
12.8 Tbps Mellanox Spectrum-3 Ethernet Switches Optimized for Cloud, Storage, and AI
Today Mellanox announced it has commenced shipments of SN4000 Ethernet switches. The SN4000 family is powered by Mellanox Spectrum-3 - the world’s best performing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC Reports Amazon is Offering Checkout Tech to Other Stores
Makes sense, Amazon has developed means for automatic checkout tech. Which requires data and AI methods for its use, Amazon and AWS is an expert at that. InAmazon's...
From insideHPC
TensorFlow Quantum software combines quantum and classical machine learning
University of Waterloo students have teamed up with Google to develop software to accelerate machine learning using quantum science. The collaborative effort resulted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Arm for Frontline Medicine
Taking up front information, saving it in context, sterilizing equipment, could save lots of time when dealing with large groups. Training in context, as it is...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Helping Applications Use Future Architectures with First-Rate Discretization Libraries
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, Tzanio Kolev from LLNL describes the work at Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED), one of six co-design centers...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Perovskite Solar Cells
In this special guest feature, Santina Russo from CSCS writes that scientists are using the “Piz Daint” supercomputer at CSCS to investigate a perovskite material...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competing Pricing Algorithms
In HBSWK, interesting article on competing pricing algorithms, below the intro, reading:Warring Algorithms Could be Driving Up PricesCompanies increasingly useThe...
From insideHPC
Moving Massive Amounts of Data across Any Distance Efficiently
Chin Fang from Zettar gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. "The objective of this talk is to present two on-going projects aiming at improving and ensuring...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Advances Checkout-free
Reuters report on further work by Amazon Cashier-free applications. The claim is that major problems with the approach have been resolved.Amazon launches business...
From The Eponymous Pickle