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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 …
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Recapping the Recent OECD-NSF Workshop on Smart Health
As we previously blogged in this space (here and here), approximately 130 individuals — including 43 speakers — from 16 countries around the world came together...
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Video games
Some interesting news items in the past week: “The Art of Video Games” The Smithsonian Institution’s American Art Museum will debut on March 16 an exhibition titled...
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CCC Sponsors
As we’ve blogged in this space before, the CCC has sponsored a series of “research visions” sessions at computing research conferences over the past year — hoping...
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With the Score
Decimated. Vanquished. Demolished. As you probably know by now, those are but a few of the words being used to describe how “Watson” — the IBM question-answering...
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Live blogging the NSF-OECD Smart Health Workshop, Day 2
Day 2 of the two-day
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Building a Smarter Health & Wellness Future [live blog]
As noted in this space last week,
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Monday Morning Roundup
Several items of interest this Monday morning: President’s FY 2012 Budget Unveiled President Obama will reveal his
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A Workshop on Sustainability & IT
About 60 leading researchers, program managers, and others gathered in Washington, DC, last Thursday and Friday to discuss new fundamental CSE research opportunities...
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CRA Launches Effort to Understand Opinions About Recent PostDoc Surge
The Computing Research Association — the umbrella organization of the CCC — today launched an effort to engage the computing research community in a conversation...
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Watson Outpaces Jeopardy Wizards in Sneak Preview
“What is Jericho?” Those were the first words from “Watson,” the IBM supercomputer system that’s taking on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter — the two winningest players...
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IBM
While many of us were enjoying time off last week, our colleagues at IBM were busy unveiling their fifth annual “Five in Five” — a list of five technology innovations...
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CSTB Committee Emphasizes Parallel Computing Innovations
Two very interesting reports on the future of computing were issued last week.
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Computational Photography
A few interesting news stories in the past week: What is “Watson”? Word came on Tuesday that “Watson,” an IBM supercomputer system, will take on Ken Jennings and...
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Reminder: PCAST to Release NITRD Review on Thursday
As previously noted in this space, on Thursday, December 16th at 2:15 p.m. EST, the President’s Council of
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CIFellows Descend on Washington
Despite the bad weather affecting travel across much of the nation,
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