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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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From a retail perspective, with further expert comment.Does humanizing virtual assistants undermine consumer privacy? by Tom Ryan in RetailwireA university study...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 13, 2020 at 10:46 AM
The MSST 2020 Mass Storage Conference has issued its Call for Papers. The event will be held May 4-8, 2020 at Santa Clara University, with the Research Track taking...Rich Brueckner From insideHPC | January 13, 2020 at 10:45 AM
In this video from ATPESC 2019, Rob Schreiber from Cerebras Systems looks back at historical computing advancements, Moore's Law, and what happens next. "A recent...Rich Brueckner From insideHPC | January 13, 2020 at 10:24 AM
Presidential-campaign season is officially, officially, upon us now, which means it's time to confront the weird and insidious ways in which technology is warping...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 13, 2020 at 09:21 AM
Note in particular the emphasis on out of stocks.Walmart Expands Its Robotic Workforce to 650 Additional StoresShelf-scanning devices aim to help reduce out-of-stock...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 13, 2020 at 08:39 AM
With data getting more complex, and havig to include many aspects of context-specific metadata, sharing it efficiently can be messy. In our experience the integration...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 13, 2020 at 07:55 AM
Thoughts on how machine learning will improve. I agree that in particular hybrid models that bring in process logic, extensions of RPA methods, and simulation...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 13, 2020 at 07:40 AM
Was recently reminded of Google's project to deliver internet access to remote Earth locations. Proposed as early as 2008. Now spun off, but still active. here...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 13, 2020 at 07:26 AM
Today Atos announced an €80 million contract with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) to supply its for a BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer...staff From insideHPC | January 13, 2020 at 06:00 AM
Been a long time proponent of continuous learning and re-skilling aimed at continuously changing tech and goals. This blog is one aspect of that effort. Below...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 13, 2020 at 02:24 AM
The Clay prize anniversary is soon. SME keynote lecture source Evelyn Lamb is a mathematician who is also a journalist. She has a blog called Roots of Unity on...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | January 12, 2020 at 05:01 PM
Today Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that it is joining the cloud-based IBM Q Network as part of the Laboratory’s research initiative into quantum computing...Rich Brueckner From insideHPC | January 12, 2020 at 10:31 AM
Darrin Johnson from NVIDIA gave this talk at the DDN User Group. "The NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD is a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputing infrastructure...Rich Brueckner From insideHPC | January 12, 2020 at 10:10 AM
A term that was new to me .... I remember well the notion of the 'canary in the coal mine', the canary tells us by dying, that something has happened. Now theWarrant...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 12, 2020 at 08:07 AM
A number of interesting things announced about Alexa at the just completed CES. Hard to understand what is serious investment and what is not. Like to see more...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 12, 2020 at 12:30 AM
Some good stats about how such compliance sensors like smart watches could be used in pharma.Kaiser Permanente Bets on Smartwatches to Lower CostsThe Wall Street...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 11, 2020 at 02:25 PM
Basically a navigation aid, which could have profound assistive effect, but implies it must be taught specific contexts to be most useful. How hard that is toPersonal...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 11, 2020 at 01:25 PM
The extra wealth that ones acquires by attending college is now estimated to be indistinguishable from zero. The authors control for the parent’s education andContinue...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | January 11, 2020 at 11:47 AM
In this Lets Talk Exascale podcast, Elaine Raybourn from Sandia National Laboratories decribes how Productivity Sustainability Improvement Planning (PSIP) is bringing...Rich Brueckner From insideHPC | January 11, 2020 at 11:39 AM
UC San Diego is seeking a Research Systems Integration Engineer in our Job of the Week. "Information Technology Services uses world-class services and technologies...Rich Brueckner From insideHPC | January 11, 2020 at 11:02 AM