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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Héctor Garcia-Molina, 1953–2019
We all lost a great person Cropped from Mexican NotiCyTI obit Héctor Garcia-Molina died just before Thanksgiving. He was a computer scientist and Professor in both...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Wants to be Your Pharmacist (In two ways)
I just got an offer to do this. Does not seem to be much different than what the big pharma retailers are doing. No mention at all regarding if there was any...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Noki Bell Labs Prize for Processor Solving Optimization Problems
Note that the method combines quantum and classical methods in processors to solve discrete optimization problems. These kinds of problems can be computationally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flight Simulator Eye Tracking
More advances in eye tracking and associated uses:Tracking the Eye of the PilotETH ZurichMichael KellerNovember 25, 2019Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute...
From insideHPC
Microway Deployes NVIDIA DGX-1 and NumberSmasher GPU Server to Vyasa Analytics
Today Microway the deployment of an NVIDIA DGX-1 supercomputer and Microway NumberSmasher Tesla GPU Server to deep-learning leader Vyasa Analytics. The new hardware...
From insideHPC
Podcast: SCR Scalable Checkpoint/Restart Paves the Way for Exascale
A software product called the Scalable Checkpoint/Restart (SCR) Framework 2.0 recently won an R&D 100 Award. In this episode, Elsa Gonsiorowski and Kathryn Mohror...![[Book] All the Ghosts in the Machine](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] All the Ghosts in the Machine
What happens to our data when we die? - A fascinating and really well-written book about digital legacy after death.
From Putting People First
Co-design at the BBC
On 5 October Dan Ramsden and Simone Ferraro, resp. creative director and UX architect at the BBC, gave a talk at the 2019 Architecta summit. Simone just published...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humans Seeing Through Animal Eyes
Applications?Humans Closer to Seeing Through the Eyes of AnimalsUniversity of Exeter (U.K.)December 3, 2019Researchers at Australia's University of Queensland (UQ)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Rolls out AI Toothbrush
Overkill or real value and engagement? Good narrow context. The data about use should be interesting.P&G rolls out $220 toothbrush with artificial intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotion Sensing Empathetic Robot in Space
An empath assistant. Will this be a function of all future assistant models as well. Or a dangerous, too close to home idea? Good experiment in a closed context...
From The Eponymous Pickle
History of Natural Language Processing
Interesting historical piece with hits about how things evolve.Andrey Markov & Claude Shannon Counted Letters to Build the First Language-Generation ModelsBy Oscar...
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Google Drops Support for Explorer Version of Google Glass
Like Microsoft, Google seems to be pointing their wearable VR to focused business applications. They are dropping updates for the explorer/consumer version, but...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 7th 2019)
Incredibly, there is a new simpler way to solve the quadratic formula. I used to rely on the completion of the square, but this is better! There is a video report...
From insideHPC
Team RACKLette from ETH Zurich steps up at the SC19 Student Cluster Competition
In this video from SC19, Thor Goebel and Emir Isman from ETH Zurich Team RACKLette describe their system configuration in the Student Cluster Competition. "We are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google DeepMind Links ID with Decision Process
Quite an interesting claim. The use of deep learning methods to identify problems using data and then applying process embedded solutions. Here in the areaGoogle...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Scientific Consultant at the University of Delaware
"The Scientific Applications Consultant will work with a diverse range of faculty, staff, and students, primarily but not exclusively in Science, Technology, Engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Car Routing with Quantum Computing
Had heard this was being done over the last year or so., now more formally announced. A Quantum Routing algorithm that predicts and optimizes traffic flow. Using...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squidfall Safety
Watchmen supporting material. 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...
From The Eponymous Pickle