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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
Future of Chatbots
An extensive look at the technology and future. True they will become very important. I have seen the change already occurring markedly for low-level technical...
From The Noisy Channel
Defining relevance is a topic in its own right.
Defining relevance is a topic in its own right. You typically collect either explicit human judgments or implicit judgements from behavior, and then you use those...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking on "Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers" at the Indian Institute of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning from Mistakes
Ultimately most important. How do we learn from mistakes, and the contexts that created those mistakes? A form of causal reasoning that we found most useful in...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Announces HDR InfiniBand-to-Ethernet Gateway Appliance for High Performance Data Centers
Today Mellanox introduced Mellanox Skyway, a 200 gigabit HDR InfiniBand to Ethernet gateway appliance. Mellanox Skyway enables a scalable and efficient way to connect...
From insideHPC
Rapid Growth lands Iceotope on 2019 Deloitte Fast 50
Today datacenter cooling vendor Iceotope announced that it ranked number 14 and were Midlands Regional Winners in the 2019 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50, a ranking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Example's of ISPs Use of Personal Data
Mentioned a Mozilla letter to the US Congress on the use and sale of personal data. I am using it as part of a discussion today regarding the value of data.Inhttps...
From insideHPC
What to expect at SC19
In this special guest feature, Dr. Rosemary Francis gives her perspective on what to look for at SC19 conference next week in Denver. "There are always many questions...
From insideHPC
GPU-Powered Turbocharger coming to JUWELS Supercomputer at JÜlich
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre is adding a high-powered booster module to their JUWELS supercomputer. Designed in cooperation with Atos, ParTec, Mellanox, and...
From insideHPC
XTREME-D Now Accepting US Orders for Unique HPC Cloud Platform
Today Award-winning Japanese HPC Cloud company XTREME-D today announced that its flagship product, XTREME-Stargate, will be available in the US in Q1. "XTREME-Stargate...
From insideHPC
Are You Ready for the Exascale Era? Find Out at SC19
As we head into the biggest supercomputing event of the year, all eyes are on exascale. The frontrunners in the race to exascale, including our friends over atAre...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Goes Multilingual
I was brought up in a multilingual household, so the environment has always interested me. I use Google assistant that way today. But can I start a sentence in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
6 Degree Intelligence
Brought to my attention, note in particular the use of graph theory and strong data visualization. Looking deeper:6 Degree IntelligenceIt’s getting harder to find...
From Schneier on Security
Technology and Policymakers
Technologists and policymakers largely inhabit two separate worlds. It's an old problem, one that the British scientist CP Snow identified in a 1959 essay entitled...
From Putting People First
NYTimes Magazine special issue on the future of the internet
Online Cesspool Got You Down? You Can Clean It Up, For a Price By Kevin Roose A new “luxury internet” is poised to make the online experience even more unequalNYTimes...
From Putting People First
User experience as legitimacy trap
User experience as legitimacy trap by Paul Dourish (University of California, Irvine) What would it mean to be able to undertake HCI in a way that made questions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Planned New Grocery Store
Speculation on what Amazon is doing, with expert thoughts.Amazon confirms it will open a grocery store not named Whole Foods by George Anderson in RetilwireWhen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Reverse Mentoring
Good overview of the concept. Before the term was invented, we had a technology team which 'mentored' executives and key approaches. Is not only about tech,...
From insideHPC
Panasas to Showcase “Fastest HPC Parallel File System at any Price-Point” at SC19
"The next generation of PanFS on ActiveStor Ultra offers unlimited performance scaling in 4 GB/s building blocks, utilizing multi-tier intelligent data placement...
From The Eponymous Pickle