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UX Theatre, or the rise of UX design without users
From Putting People First

UX Theatre, or the rise of UX design without users

UX Theatre is "the application of any sort of design methodology without including a single user in the process, or including users but merely for show."

An anthropologist on Facebook’s new “Ray-Ban Stories” glasses
From Putting People First

An anthropologist on Facebook’s new “Ray-Ban Stories” glasses

With this product, writes anthropologist Sally Applin in MIT's Technology Review, "Facebook is claiming the face as real estate for its own technology."

A Training Proof for Quantum AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Training Proof for Quantum AI

Technical finding regarding CNN and the ability to train.     Applicability to discovering new materials. Breakthrough Proof Clears Path for Quantum AILos Alamos...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

An Annoying Problem

It’s the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers — Cory Doctorow ACM Turing Award source Robert Tarjan is well known to most...

Recent AI books are Described in CACM
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recent AI books are Described in CACM

Some good recent books brought to my attention, intro below.AI Futures: Fact and FantasyThree books offer varied perspectives on the ascendancy of artificial intelligence...

LLNL Joins Human Vaccines Project
From insideHPC

LLNL Joins Human Vaccines Project

Oct. 21, 2021 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has joined the international Human Vaccines Project (HVP), bringing lab research and computing resources...

MIT Media Lab RFusion Finds Hidden, Missing Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

MIT Media Lab RFusion Finds Hidden, Missing Things

A classic problem for mapping, decluttering the Smart HomeMIT Media Lab: RFusion52.9K subscribersThis video presents a new robot from MIT called RFusion, whichFor...

Overcoming Bandwidth and Capacity Bottlenecks in the Exascale Era
From insideHPC

Overcoming Bandwidth and Capacity Bottlenecks in the Exascale Era

[SPONSORED POST] Join us for the Advanced Memory Architectures to Overcome Bandwidth Bottlenecks for the Exascale Era of Computing webinar on November 10 at 9:00...

Regulators Want more Details of Payment Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Regulators Want more Details of Payment Systems

To be expected, how can the details of this be used to improve security?Regulators demand more info about tech payment systems  in TheVergeQuery orders sent out...

Did IBM Lose the Cloud?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Did IBM Lose the Cloud?

Did IBM Lose the Cloud and was Emphasis on Watson to Blame?   Interacted with them during the early Watson days and there was quite an investment in that.  How ...

Argonne Names 5 New Distinguished Fellows
From insideHPC

Argonne Names 5 New Distinguished Fellows

Argonne National Laboratory has named for 2021 five new Argonne Distinguished Fellows, the lab’s highest title: Pete Beckman, Lois Curfman McInnes and Rick Stevens...

Retail Hyperautomation?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retail Hyperautomation?

My friend Gib Basset authors this piece in Retailwire, including further discussion: Will ‘hyperautomation’ determine retailing success from this point forward?...

Converting binary floating-point numbers to integers
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Converting binary floating-point numbers to integers

You are given a floating-point number, e.g. a double type in Java or C++. You would like to convert it to an integer type… but only if the conversion is exact.Continue...

Networking+Theory Postdoc at Harvard
From My Biased Coin

Networking+Theory Postdoc at Harvard

The last couple of years one aspect of research I've greatly enjoyed is getting back into networking, which is really due to my excellent (and patient) collaborators...

Swarm Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Swarm Robotics

The power of the swarm?  Collective application to a task?  Sharing tasks. Data and path aware solutions? Researchers Successfully Build Four-Legged Swarm Robots...

$125M in NIH Grants to Study Cellular Aging to Be Coordinated by PSC and Other Pittsburgh Institutions
From insideHPC

$125M in NIH Grants to Study Cellular Aging to Be Coordinated by PSC and Other Pittsburgh Institutions

Oct. 20, 2021 — National Institute of Health grants totaling approximately $125 million over five years to 16 U.S. institutions will fund research to explore the...

US Commerce Dept Bans Selling Hacking Tools to China, Russia
From The Eponymous Pickle

US Commerce Dept Bans Selling Hacking Tools to China, Russia

Not sure this means very much, but the list of tools mentioned within the article is interesting. Commerce Department announces new rule aimed at stemming sale ...

Qualcomm Smart Cities And Cepton
From The Eponymous Pickle

Qualcomm Smart Cities And Cepton

Cepton Joins Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program, Bringing Expertise in Smart Lidar Technologies for Higher Levels of Safety, Intelligence and Connectivity...

Robots Sewing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Sewing

Useful to see examples where robotics have problems with manufacturing steps.Why Robots Can't Sew Your T-ShirtBy Wired, September 28, 2021SoftWear Automation https...

IBM's Journey to AI Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM's Journey to AI Blog

IBM taking a fresh look at AIIBM's Journey to AI BlogData: It’s becoming richer, cheaper, and increasingly open in the post-pandemic world of broad digitalization...
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