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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
Space Weather Implications for Technology
Space weather, and further implications of solar activity can have huge implications for tech on earth. The ability to monitor it will be important. NASA's launch...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Smart City Backlash
A look at how people are reacting to 'smart' and trust, and surveillance and privacy stretching that are parts of smart city plans and implementations. Is it best...
From My Biased Coin
Crimson Editorial on Allston
This was the first Crimson editorial I can recall about the upcoming move computer science will be making to Allston next year. I'd encourage students (both undergraduate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comments on: Echo Auto Gets an Unexpected Ad Stream
Been now using the Auto Echo for several months, this lets you connect with the Echo infrastructure cheaply from most cars. The capability was advertised as providing...
From insideHPC
HP-CAST Returns to Denver for SC19
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has posted the preliminary agenda for their HP-CAST user group meeting. The event takes place Nov. 15-16 in Denver, right before SC19...
From insideHPC
Video: The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, SKA, and HPC in Australia
Mark Stickells from the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is one of two, Tier-1, High Performance...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology (October 12th 2019)
In many countries, like Canada, there is relatively little private (business) research. Meanwhile, other research indicates that private research is precisely the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Experience and Trust
Probably mostly because trust contains many components. Both long and short term aspects. Both experience and influencer based.Why is CX Not Impacting Trust...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Language and AI: Steve Omohundro
Language interaction continues to evolve.Linghacks Keynote: "Language and AI: Hacking Humanity's greatest invention"On March 30-31 the wonderful “Linghack” organization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Race to Quantum
Useful sort view from Europe on quantum efforts underway. There are very big stakes. Solving the most complex, wicked problems in new ways.By Katia Moskvitch...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Overviews Accessibility Efforts
Have always though of accessibility as having a goal of augmentation. If its an assistant or simple access adjustment. Good examples here.Making technology accessible...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Apple Fixes Squid Emoji
Apple fixed the squid emoji in iOS 13.1: A squid's siphon helps it move, breathe, and discharge waste, so having the siphon in back makes more sense than having...
From Schneier on Security
I Have a New Book: We Have Root
I just published my third collection of essays: We Have Root. This book covers essays from 2013 to 2017. (The first two are Schneier on Security and Carry On.)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Review of Gary Marcus' Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
Just reading this book. Found the below non technical overview/review quite useful. Mostly agree with this, and the outline of chapters is useful. Saving it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Introduces Sterling Supply Chain Suite
Our earliest work in supply chain, from supplier to plant to consumer, was supported by IBM optimization methods. Recently saw some of their proposals for integrating...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Diophantine Obvious Problem}
With a short solution that was hard for me to find. [ Royal Society ] Sir Timothy Gowers is a Fields medalist and fellow blogger. Sometimes he (too) writes about...
From insideHPC
GigaIO Nominated for Connect’s Most Innovative New Product Awards
Today the San Diego Venture Group (SDVG) announced that GigaIO is a finalist Connect’s Most Innovative New Product Awards. The winning companies will be announced...
From insideHPC
Cost-effective Cloud Research Computing comes to Penn State
Penn State’s Institute for CyberScience (ICS) announced that a new cloud computing environment has been added to its suite of high-performance computing offerings...
From insideHPC
Podcast: How AI is Helping Astronomers Scour the Skies for Habitable Planets
In this AI Podcast, astronomers Olivier Guyon and Damien Gratadour how they’re using GPU-powered extreme adaptive optics in very large telescopes to image nearby...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson