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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 insideHPC
XTREME-D Now Accepting US Orders for Unique HPC Cloud Platform
Today Award-winning Japanese HPC Cloud company XTREME-D today announced that its flagship product, XTREME-Stargate, will be available in the US in Q1. "XTREME-Stargate...
From insideHPC
Are You Ready for the Exascale Era? Find Out at SC19
As we head into the biggest supercomputing event of the year, all eyes are on exascale. The frontrunners in the race to exascale, including our friends over atAre...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Goes Multilingual
I was brought up in a multilingual household, so the environment has always interested me. I use Google assistant that way today. But can I start a sentence in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
6 Degree Intelligence
Brought to my attention, note in particular the use of graph theory and strong data visualization. Looking deeper:6 Degree IntelligenceIt’s getting harder to find...
From Schneier on Security
Technology and Policymakers
Technologists and policymakers largely inhabit two separate worlds. It's an old problem, one that the British scientist CP Snow identified in a 1959 essay entitled...
From Putting People First
NYTimes Magazine special issue on the future of the internet
Online Cesspool Got You Down? You Can Clean It Up, For a Price By Kevin Roose A new “luxury internet” is poised to make the online experience even more unequalNYTimes...
From Putting People First
User experience as legitimacy trap
User experience as legitimacy trap by Paul Dourish (University of California, Irvine) What would it mean to be able to undertake HCI in a way that made questions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Planned New Grocery Store
Speculation on what Amazon is doing, with expert thoughts.Amazon confirms it will open a grocery store not named Whole Foods by George Anderson in RetilwireWhen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Reverse Mentoring
Good overview of the concept. Before the term was invented, we had a technology team which 'mentored' executives and key approaches. Is not only about tech,...
From insideHPC
Panasas to Showcase “Fastest HPC Parallel File System at any Price-Point” at SC19
"The next generation of PanFS on ActiveStor Ultra offers unlimited performance scaling in 4 GB/s building blocks, utilizing multi-tier intelligent data placement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of Advertising
Links to a number of talks on related topics:The End of Advertising in Andreessen Horowitz by Connie ChanWhen Advertising isn't EnoughEditor’s note: It’s Summit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Hit a Wall?
Insightful piece. Have started to slow movement towards intelligence? I think it even more fundamental than that, we still cant provide complex context for the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI) Interim Report- Public Conference Calls
Last week, we shared the National Security Commission on AI‘s Interim Report as well as details about the corresponding conference held on November 6, Strength...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Not Too Easy and Not Too Hard
We’re covering Classes and Objects in my Programming Honors course this week. Specifically we are learning how to program classes in C# and use them in programs...
From insideHPC
Cortical.io Demonstrates Real-time Semantic Supercomputing for NLU
Today Cortical.io announced the debut of a new class of high-performance enterprise applications based on “Semantic Supercomputing.” Semantic Supercomputing combines...
From insideHPC
Call for Sessions: OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop in March
The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has published a Call for Sessions for its 16th annual OFA Workshop. "The OFA Workshop 2020 Call for Sessions encourages industryCall...
From The Eponymous Pickle
France Starts Nationwide Facial Recognition
To do personal identification apparently. China is also underway. Note the linking to 'biometric identity databases'. Challenges are starting. Though they...
From insideHPC
Enabling HPC with Intel on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Services built on Intel technology offers best-in-class services across software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Agents for Design
Intrigued by integration of Design and AI. Our early looks were at how to use a vast history of advertising to create new and effective marketing designs.AI agents...
From Schneier on Security