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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Innovation Lab “Advancing Cancer Biology at the Frontiers of Machine Learning and Mechanistic Modeling”
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Knowinnovation (KI) are convening experts in cancer systems biology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Should All Children Learn Code?
Nothing wrong with learning coding. But should it be emphasized for everyone? Required? Better to learn more about math and logic. As coding gets more complex...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning
KD Nuggets publishes and analyzes the most recent Gartner quadrant analysis. While I am skeptical of this approach, it does have a useful list of participants which...
From insideHPC
Rittal steps up with Zutacore waterless liquid cooling
Today IT infrastructure provider Rittal announced a strategic partnership with ZutaCore for waterless, two-phase, liquid cooling. Together they offer highly efficient...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton on Global Economic Impact of Coronavirus
Considerable piece here from Wharton. Notable for other implications for epidemics and their influence on economic systems. The embedding of uncertainty in large...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Simplifying the Deployment of HPC Tools and Libraries
In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, Sameer Shende from the University of Oregon describes progress on the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack. E4S is a community...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Leap 2 Quantum Cloud Service is Built for Business
Today D-Wave Systems announced the immediate availability of Leap 2, the first quantum cloud service designed for developers and organizations to easily build and...
From insideHPC
How We Can Achieve Applied Science Innovation Through Big Compute?
Joris Poort from Rescale gave this talk at the Big Compute 2020 conference. "Now the challenge of big compute comes down to three major areas. The first is specialized...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Updates DialogFlow
Seeing augmenting capabilities as virtual agents. Might also be a means to best think of such agents connecting to human agents. Makes since in many kinds of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Biometrics National IDs
Despite the pushback on some of these ideas, I think it inevitable that they will be widely implemented. Identity is a key aspect of conversational understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Continues Work on Cashierless Systems
Despite some reports that Amazon was decreasing work on cashierless systems:Amazon Opens Cashierless Supermarket in Latest Push to Sell Food in the WSJThe e-commerce...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When Your AI Learns to Lie
Some very important questions as these methods evolve.AI Deception: When Your Artificial Intelligence Learns to LieWe need to understand the kinds of deceptionThis...
From Schneier on Security
Newly Declassified Study Demonstrates Uselessness of NSA's Phone Metadata Program
The New York Times is reporting on the NSA's phone metadata program, which the NSA shut down last year: A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of...
From insideHPC
First EPI Forum to take place in Paris
Today the European Processor Initiative announced that the first EPI Forum to take place in Paris, France, on March 16-17, 2020. "EPI is going full speed aheadFirst...
From The Noisy Channel
Thank you for the kind words!
Thank you for the kind words!If I follow you, then you are pointing out that, by generating revenue through promoted search, a business can funnel that revenue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Business Rules and Expertise
Via DSC, what looks to be a good podcast on this topic. It has been a favorite approach of mine since the beginning. Narrow machine learning methods can be very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magnetoencephalography
This approach was just brought again to my attention. Have been asked how it could be applied to the same kinds of diagnostic queries as EEG. And if it has ever...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsico Takes Analytics Closer to Consumer
Fascinating view of what a big, close to the consumer company, is doing to figure out how their marketing works. A relatively rare mention of ROI as it measures...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Submit a Blue Sky Ideas Paper to the ACM Hypertext Conference!
The 2020 ACM Hypertext conference is July 13-15 in Orlando, Florida. It is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems...
From insideHPC