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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
Word from Cognixion on Brain Computer Interfaces
Update from colleague at Cognixion, developers of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) for people with severe disabilities. Hi Franz, I wanted to share some great news...
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Closer to Realistic Quantum Computing?
A move closer? Technical.Hitting the Quantum 'Sweet Spot': Researchers Find Best Position for Atom Qubits in SiliconUniversity of New South Wales Sydney Newsroom...
From insideHPC
The Case for ‘Center Class’ HPC: Think Tank Calls for $10B Fed Funding over Five Years
The Center for Data Innovation (CDI), a non-profit think tank that studies the intersection of data, technology and public policy, has gone to bat for increased...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Makes Robust AI?
Much enjoyed Gary Marcus' writing on the essense of robust AI, most recently from his book, 'Rebooting AI'. Now see more from him on 'Four Steps Towards Robust...
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Police Drones Arriving
Expect that this kind of autonomous approach will continue to expand, and will be regulated in the coming years. Here a good example.Police Drones Starting to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Chad Jenkins in NYT Article: Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?
Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Council member Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Odest Chadwicke Jenkins...
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Moving AI Recognized Things
Interesting generalization of a set of common tasks using AI identification.Robotics Researchers Propose AI That Locates, Safely Moves Items on ShelvesVenture Beat...
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Data Storytelling
'Data Storytelling', never heard it described that way, but when building process maps, we often described it in the form of a flow, or journey, or 'story' toExploring...
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The Art of the Barcode
Our group was one of the very first users of barcodes in retail, so have followed it and related information and compression techniques for a long time. Here[eBook]...
From The Noisy Channel
In Search of Recall
Search developers tend to focus most of their efforts on the first page of results. As a result, they prioritize investment in ranking models, with the goal ofprecision...
From insideHPC
Higher Education HPC Harnesses Increasing Data Sets to Unlock New Discoveries
Dell Technologies has long partnered with university-led supercomputing centers, working side-by-side with world-class researchers and scientists to develop, test...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSFNET 35th Anniversary Celebratory Virtual Event
The following announcement is from the National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate. Internet2 and the Internet Society...
From Computational Complexity
In 1974 Planarity was O(V) time and could do 900 node graphs in 12 seconds! Fast then...
In 1974 Hopcroft and Tarjan showed that Planarity is in polynomial time. That is an understatement- they actually have an O(V) algorithm which one can actually...
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Digitizing StoryCorps Audio Interviews
Also similar to work we did in the enterprise to understand consumer interviews. We spent some time looking for solutions of this type, but they were not available...
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Navigating Business Turbulence
Non-technical points on developing with rapidly changing data and contexts. Ultimately good requirements for adapting business process. How to use data and analytics...
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Light-Based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers
More indications of increases in quantum computing speed, when applied to particular kinds of problems. But this does not mean this is available yet, but inLight...
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Driverless Cars Are Still Coming
More comments on the likely general introduction of driverless vehicles.Driverless Cars Are Coming, But Not Yet to Take OverThe Wall Street Journal, By Stephen...
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Last Year in AI, Analytics, Machine Learning and Data Science ....
Good end of the year piece from KDNuggets that was instructive.AI, Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Deep Learning Research Main Developments in 2020 and...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology (December 5th 2020)
Researchers find that older people can lose weight just as easily as younger people. Google DeepMind claims to have solved the protein folding problem, an important...
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