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Envision Glasses: AI Augmentation for Vision Impairment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Envision Glasses: AI Augmentation for Vision Impairment

Had been expecting smart glasses to address visual impairment problems, now finally an example.Envision brings AI to Google Glass to help visually impaired users...

Cybersecurity Law Casebook
From Schneier on Security

Cybersecurity Law Casebook

Robert Chesney teaches cybersecurity at the University of Texas School of Law. He recently published a fantastic casebook, which is a good source for anyone studying...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

The Virtue of Closed Problems

A new condition in property testing Composite crop of src1, src2 Maryam Aliakbarpour and Sandeep Silwal are PhD students at MIT. They have a joint paper titled,...

Geofencing Warant Policing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Geofencing Warant Policing

Had not heard the term 'Geofence' in law before, passed this along to lawyers I know to get their opinion on the current uses of this idea.Google location dataThe...

Trends in AI/ML
From The Eponymous Pickle

Trends in AI/ML

Fairly good broad view of trends in progress.    All worth understanding in more detail than is presented here.3 important trends in AI/ML you might be missing ...

Monitoring a Complex System Over time for Patterns
From The Eponymous Pickle

Monitoring a Complex System Over time for Patterns

Brought to my close attention because this is in the astronomy space.  A long time academic interest.  But then it came to mind that any system be observed in this...

MIT Center for Deployable Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

MIT Center for Deployable Machine Learning

Was just reminded of CDML, recently established. Would further continue to like to see more about the practical deployment of related and integrated processes for...

Podcast: Intel Select Solutions for HPC
From insideHPC

Podcast: Intel Select Solutions for HPC

In this podcast, Brock Taylor from Intel outlines the current portfolio of Intel Select Solutions for HPC: Simulation & Modeling, Simulation & Visualization, Genomic...

Video: HAWK Supercomputer Installation at HLRS
From insideHPC

Video: HAWK Supercomputer Installation at HLRS

In this video, technicians install the new Hawk supercomputer at HLRS in Stuttgart, Germany. "At time of installation, Hawk is among the fastest high-performance...

Moving CS Education Online
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Moving CS Education Online

Covid-19 is motivating schools all over the world to close. Many other schools are looking at options in case they have to close their facilities. My own school...

Recidivism Prediction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recidivism Prediction

An example of comparison between human and machine solution.Algorithms are Better Than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study SaysBerkeley NewsEdward LempinenA...

Case for Open Data in Fight Against COVID-19
From The Eponymous Pickle

Case for Open Data in Fight Against COVID-19

The case for open data for AI in the fight against COVID-19Posted by ajit jaokar  in DSC ....COVID-19   2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository...

Leveraging with Sensitive Metadata
From The Eponymous Pickle

Leveraging with Sensitive Metadata

Its all about the metadata, that is the context, of information being gathered.MIT NewsRob MathesonFebruary 26, 2020Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)have...

AI as Workplace Disrupter
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI as Workplace Disrupter

Expected for jobs that require high skills, but these same jobs will morph to related tasks as well.  Being better skilled usually means you have the ability to...

Video: Next Generation AMD CPU and Accelerator Technologies
From insideHPC

Video: Next Generation AMD CPU and Accelerator Technologies

Forrest Norrod from AMD gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. "As the definition of High Performance Computing expands to include Big Data Analytics,...

Science and Technology links (March 7th 2020)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (March 7th 2020)

The benefits of flu vaccines in healthy adults is modest. They do not reduce neonatal death, hospitalisations, or working day lost. It does not seem more helpful...

Job of the Week: Network and Data Specialist at William & Mary
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: Network and Data Specialist at William & Mary

"William & Mary University in Virginia seeks qualified applicants for the position of Research Computing (RC) Network and Data Specialist to be responsible forJob...

Generating Random Numbers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Generating Random Numbers

A new means I had not head of, how random, repeatable is the result?Scientists Use Crystals to Generate Random NumbersPopular MechanicsCourtney LinderFebruary 19...

The State of User Research Report 2020
From Putting People First

The State of User Research Report 2020

UserInterviews asked over 300 user researchers globally what their research practices looked like, how their teams were laid out, and what they earned. The data...

Friday Squid Blogging: The Effect of Noise on Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: The Effect of Noise on Squid

Two articles. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines...
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