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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
People Too Trusting of Virtual Assistants
Another look at the general idea of creating a 'personality' of assistants. Anthropomorphic features like names, speaking style, voice, gender, etc. can influence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defining the Smart Home: More than a Speaker
Very true, but it sets the stage. There is so much more work to be done to establish the level assistance that needs to created. Skills are many, but most are...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Stuffed Squid with Vegetables and Pancetta
A Croatian recipe. 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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bandage like Sensors gather Body information in Real-Time
Breath and accuracy of data in real-time could be important.Bandage-Like Sensor to Detect Human Body Conditions in Real Time Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science...
From insideHPC
Sano Genetics Deploys Lifebit CloudOS for Direct-to-Consumer Genetics
Today Sano Genetics announced the company is using Lifebit CloudOS to power their free DNA sequencing platform, achieving 35% increase in speed of imputation analyses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Y2020 Bug? Still happening.
I remember discussing this particular 'fix' back then. And have seen code in software that still makes assumptions about how long code will be around. Whats a...
From insideHPC
MIRIS Teams with LiquidCool Solutions for Datacenter Heat Recovery
MIRIS has entered into an agreement with LiquidCool Solutions (LCS), a world leader in rack-based immersion cooling technology for datacenters. The agreement gives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS CEO on Augmenting People and Processes
Jim Goodnight of SAS helped us through many of the early years of doing analytics in the enterprise. Good to see him talking about natural language processes and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Do Teachers Without CS Experience Debug Student Code
My Programming Honors students are wrapping up their semester projects today. Actually they should all have been handed in by now but I’ll give them until the end...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supplier Relationships
Well yes, seemore details at the link.Kraft Heinz chief procurement officer: ‘Relationships with suppliers should not be purely transactional' 02-Jan-2020 By...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pushy Robotics Learns about Object Manipulation
The idea of directing a sensor to explore a space and its contents is useful. Now an element of how objects in the space react.Pushy robots learn the fundamentals...
From insideHPC
ORNL Researchers Develop Quantum Chemistry Simulation Benchmark
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a quantum chemistry simulation benchmark to evaluate the performance of quantum...
From insideHPC
Latest Climate Models Predict Thinner Clouds and More Global Warming
Thanks to clouds, latest climate models predict more global warming than their predecessors. Researchers at LLNL in collaboration with colleagues from the University...
From Schneier on Security
Police Surveillance Tools from Special Services Group
Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Webcast on the Future of Transportation
On January 14, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation and moderated by Axios, the British Embassy is hosting a distinguished panel discussion on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk:Introduction to Service Design
You are invited to attend the first call in the...ISSIP Service Design Speaker Series - Introduction to Service Design, by Drs Daniela Sangiorgi & Lia Patricio,...
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Social Robotics from Samsung
Got some praises at CES. Another attempt at social as well as helpful. 'A Ball-like moving device than can explore space'. A silly gadget? Have now seen maybe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethereum and Ernst & Young
In Forbes, more examples in the space, here using a zero-knowledge approach. Ernst & Young Doubles Down On Its Bet With EthereumBen Jessel ContributorCrypto &...
From insideHPC
Microway Deploys NVIDIA DGX-2 supercomputers at Oregon State University
Microway has deployed six NVIDIA DGX-2 supercomputer systems at Oregon State University. As an NVIDIA Partner Network HPC Partner of the Year, Microway installed...
From The Eponymous Pickle