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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
A New LIDAR Claims Better all Weather Vision
LiDAR Sensing was often criticized for not working in rain or snow. Now I see that Draper Apollo has announced that they have a Lidar that solves this. Progress...
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Autonomous Trucking Startup iSee
Interesting effort which could change supply chain logistics. Worried a bit about huge trucks flying around the road before we get it all right. For more about...
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Blue Sky Conference Track at The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2019
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019), October...
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Toothbrushes with Apps
Although this has been done before, here some new ideas in the space, especially about automated imaging. Other applications?Does Your Toothbrush Have an App Yet...
From insideHPC
Production Trial Shows Global Science Possible with CAE-1 100Gbps link
In early October, A*CRC, ICM, and Zettar conducted a production trial over the newly built Collaboration Asia Europe-1 (CAE-1) 100Gbps link connecting Europe and...
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Counting Crowds
Interesting application, note the technique of training in various contexts of measurement. We don't do that enough with other problems.A bird’s-eye view of a...
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Amazon to Open New Physical Retail
Of interest, more Amazon competition to current retail, and note the cashierless tech not being included. Why not? Too expensive? We saw that as an issue with...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Goldbach: A Curious Conjecture
Models of the primes [ Montreal ] Andrew Granville writes brilliant papers that explain hard results in number theory. He also proves hard results in number theory...
From insideHPC
Accelerate Big Data and HPC applications with FPGAs using JupyterHub
Today InAccel annnounced that it has integrated JupyterHub into the company's adaptive acceleration platform for FPGAs. InAccel provides an FPGA resource manager...
From insideHPC
New LOCA Facility to Develop Open Computer Architectures at BSC in Barcelona
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) announced the European Laboratory for Open Computer Architecture (LOCA). LOCA’s mission is to design and develop...
From insideHPC
Enabling Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with IBM Spectrum Scale
In this video, Doug O'Flaherty from IBM describes how Spectrum Scale Storage (GPFS) helps Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers high performance for HPC applications...
From Computational Complexity
A non-moral dilemma about cheating, but it brings up some points
I often give two versions of an exam and TELL THE STUDENTS I am doing this so that they don't even try to cheat. I've even had two different classes take the midterm...
From insideHPC
Optimizing in a Heterogeneous World is (Algorithms x Devices)
In this guest article, our friends at Intel discuss how CPUs prove better for some important Deep Learning. Here’s why, and keep your GPUs handy! HeterogeneousOptimizing...
From Schneier on Security
Fooling Voice Assistants with Lasers
Interesting: Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are vulnerable to attacks that use lasers to inject inaudible -- and sometimes invisible -- commands into the devices...
From insideHPC
Coding Dojo Launches Immersive Data Science Bootcamp
Today education company Coding Dojo launched the Data Science Immersive bootcamp, a new program designed to teach and apply Data Science methodologies and tools...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engadget Podcast
Been doing more selective listening to technical podcasts of late, just discovered the Engadget Podcast. Nicely done. Will be following and mentioning from time...
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Collaboration of Human and Machine
A considerable 'practice' article in Communications of the ACM. Where are we and where are we going? Not too far off from further mixing computing and human...
From insideHPC
Video: Deep Learning for resource-constrained systems
Amos Storkey from the University of Edinburgh gave this talk at HiPEAC CSW Edinburgh. "Storkey explores the demands of getting deep learning software to work on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New No Code Bots from Microsoft
Look forward to see more real-life examples to work from, and how to integrate them with current data and process.Microsoft launches Power Virtual Agents, its no...
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