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RPA Usage in Banking
From The Eponymous Pickle

RPA Usage in Banking

A good area to explore, since its methods and processes are better defined.  Our own work in RPA-like AI worked best in financial areas.  Also were the easiestRPA...

Whats ahead for Machine Programming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Whats ahead for Machine Programming

A long time idea, and likely to emerge strongly.   Hand coding will eventually be rare.    Podcast on the topic belowMachine Programming: What Lies Ahead?Podcast...

Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at UC Riverside
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at UC Riverside

The University of California, Riverside is seeking an HPC System Administrator in our Job of the Week. UC Riverside's (UCR) research computing infrastructure is...

The Certainty of Having to Deal with Uncertainty
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Certainty of Having to Deal with Uncertainty

Late to this article, nicely done.Home/Magazine Archive/December 2019 (Vol. 62, No. 12)/Uncertainty/Full TextUncertainty    By Peter J. Denning, Ted G. LewisCommunications...

On the State of AI and Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the State of AI and Machine Learning

Brought to my attention, a short non technical document on the topic.The State of AI and Machine Learning    32 pagesFrom Figure EightBridging the AI Gap Between...

Epidemics and use of Personal GPS Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Epidemics and use of Personal GPS Data

Recall our work with bioterrorism modeling, link below.  Not just a matter of disease epidemics.During Epidemics, Access to GPS Data from Smartphones Can Be Crucial...

Video: Intel and Lenovo Power Cannon Supercomputer and Project Everyscale
From insideHPC

Video: Intel and Lenovo Power Cannon Supercomputer and Project Everyscale

In this video from SC19, Scott Yokel from FASRC describes Cannon, Harvard University’s first liquid-Cooled supercomputer. Developed in cooperation with Intel and...

Friday Squid Blogging: T-Shirt
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: T-Shirt

"Squid Pro Quo" T-shirt. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting...

Deploy AI Anywhere with ScaleMatrix DDC – No Data Center Required
From insideHPC

Deploy AI Anywhere with ScaleMatrix DDC – No Data Center Required

At SC19, ScaleMatrix and its DDC subsidiary announced that it is collaborating with NVIDIA and Microway to deliver SKUs for an 8 petaFLOPS and a 13 petaFLOPS ‘Supercomputer...

Locating Shooters Using Smartphone Videos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Locating Shooters Using Smartphone Videos

Seems quite a move forward, basically triangulation from smartphone microphones.  Examples and maps at the link.  Has been released as open source code for testing...

Human Robot Interaction from Wired25
From The Eponymous Pickle

Human Robot Interaction from Wired25

Will become increasingly important.  And soon much more so beyond the factory floor..Prof. Anca Dragan Talks About Human-Robot Interaction for WIREDProf. Anca Dragan...

Amazon Debuts Dash Smart Shelf
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Debuts Dash Smart Shelf

If pushing the Dash Button was too hard for you, here is the next reordering play from Amazon, the smart shelf that automatically reorders when a shelf has less...

Ayar Labs Joins DARPA PIPES Project as Intel Optical IO Provider
From insideHPC

Ayar Labs Joins DARPA PIPES Project as Intel Optical IO Provider

Optical startup Ayar Labs has been selected as Intel’s optical I/O solution partner for their recently awarded DARPA PIPES research project. "The goal of PIPESAyar...

How Deep Learning is Driving New Science
From insideHPC

How Deep Learning is Driving New Science

In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World looks at the development of deep learning and its impact on scientific applications. "In...

NVIDIA Announces GPU-Accelerated Supercomputer on Azure
From insideHPC

NVIDIA Announces GPU-Accelerated Supercomputer on Azure

At SC19, NVIDIA announced the availability of a new kind of GPU-accelerated supercomputer in the cloud on Microsoft Azure. "Built to handle the most demanding AI...

Data-centric Programming Helps ETH Zurich Team Win Gordon Bell Prize
From insideHPC

Data-centric Programming Helps ETH Zurich Team Win Gordon Bell Prize

Today ACM named a six-member team from ETH Zurich recipients of the 2019 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their work on DaCe OMEN, a new framework for simulating the transport...

Bots Work Better if they Impersonate
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bots Work Better if they Impersonate

Interesting results, with shades of the implications of 'uncanny valley' and the need to define 'success' in strong context.   Our guard is already up now whenBots...

AI Birdwatching
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Birdwatching

Seeing and  imaging continue to be the place where AI/Machine learning make the most progress. Here another tagging example.   Currently working on a horticultural...

Coding For Fun
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Coding For Fun

As with so many things, it started with Doug Peterson. Doug recently posted about something called 100 days of code. This got me started about the need I feel (some...

The NSA Warns of TLS Inspection
From Schneier on Security

The NSA Warns of TLS Inspection

The NSA has released a security advisory warning of the dangers of TLS inspection: Transport Layer Security Inspection (TLSI), also known as TLS break and inspect...
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