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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 Putting People First
Reuters e-book about society after the pandemic
Humanity either learns key lessons from the pandemic, corrects course and becomes a more resilient species. Or it tears further apart and expands the divisions...
From Schneier on Security
Zoom's Commitment to User Security Depends on Whether you Pay It or Not
Zoom was doing so well.... And now we have this: Corporate clients will get access to Zoom's end-to-end encryption service now being developed, but Yuan said free...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Streamlines Building Smart Home Alexa Skills
Nice idea, have often found myself groping for some skill name. Should have been done sooner.Amazon Streamlines Building Smart Home Alexa Skills by Eric Hal Schwartz...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Science Foundation and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy initiate collaborative effort to develop critical resources for quantum education
The following is a recent announcement from NSF and OSTP regarding growing the workforce for the advancement of quantum education. The Computing Community Consortium...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lowe's Goes Virtual for Pro Home Improvement
Most intrigued about how the knowledge is being stored, delivered,utilized. There are different levels of expertise embedded in 'Pro', so will this context...
From insideHPC
Interview: Mark Papermaster, CTO and EVP, Technology and Engineering, AMD
In this interview, Mark Papermaster, CTO and EVP, Technology and Engineering from AMD describes the company’s presence in the HPC space along with new trends in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AR and Improved Online Shopping
We spent some time examining this proposition, but did not find that AR provided significant results in engagement and sales, except in very narrow domains. Here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CVS Health Testing Nuro Delivery
This particular Nuro delivery systems is being tested by a number of companies. See a number of images at the tag.CVS Health Tests Self-Driving Vehicle Prescription...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Systems of Insight, Analytics in Context
Precisely what I have been suggesting for some time. The results of analytics need to be plugged into business need. As the Computerworld Article states it:"...
From Schneier on Security
Wallpaper that Crashes Android Phones
This is interesting: The image, a seemingly innocuous sunset (or dawn) sky above placid waters, may be viewed without harm. But if loaded as wallpaper, the phone...
From Putting People First
Smart city visions and human rights
Without consideration for all humans inhabiting cities, smart city and technological approaches have the potential to exacerbate socio-economic divisions, corporate...
From Computational Complexity
How to handle grades during the Pandemic
In March many Colleges sent students home and the rest of the semester was online. This was quite disruptive for the students. Schools, quite reasonably, wanted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating the Market
Quite a claim, often mentioned in early AI 'tests'? Can it work? Is simulation sufficiently complex proxy for the market?AI stock trading experiment beats market...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Back to the Future for Dialogue Research
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Philip Cohen, Professor (adj) of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)...
From insideHPC
HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand: The Key to Success for Supercomputers Around the World
HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand delivers the interconnect industry’s highest data throughput, extremely low latency and world-leading performance to HPC systems across the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa now has a Everywhere Intercom Feature
Been a long-time user of Alexa as an intercom, but you had to select a destination. Now this new capability is nice, specially useful if you have a large multi...
From Schneier on Security
"Sign in with Apple" Vulnerability
Researcher Bhavuk Jain discovered a vulnerability in the "Sign in with Apple" feature, and received a $100,000 bug bounty from Apple. Basically, forged tokens could...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leveraging Unlabeled Data
The first step in using data is to make sure we know what the data is. Surprisingly this can often be an issue. Seen it a number of times in the real world....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Research on Human - AI Teaming
Good piece on the topic. Not too different from teaming with other methods, like analytics But here there may be higher expectations and hints of expectedTeaming...
From The Eponymous Pickle