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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
What do the Next 20 Years Hold for AI?
And the President of AAAI gives a short, nontechnical interview on the future of AI. Points to a new road map on this topic, reading now.What do the next 20 years...
From insideHPC
HPC in the Cloud Offers Flexible, Scalable Solutions for Enterprises and Research Institutions
In this guest article, our friends at Intel discuss how HPC as a Service (HPCaaS) reduces barriers to HPC and offers a cost-effective extension to on-premise solutions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Improving Biomedical Imaging
It is notable how modern AI is doing best in 'vision' spaces. As opposed to what I would call conversational interaction and process logic. Not what we would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking Procurement in Retail
A long time space of ours, McKinsey sums it up:Rethinking Procurement in RetailFor retailers, procurement is no longer solely a matter of negotiating “A” brands...
From Schneier on Security
Supply-Chain Security and Trust
The United States government's continuing disagreement with the Chinese company Huawei underscores a much larger problem with computer technologies in general:...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 15 – Interview with Melanie Mitchell
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode, Khari Douglas interviews Melanie Mitchell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Still Competing Best in the Home
Agree, have just been taking it into the car with Echo Auto. Of course its still competing versus the smart phone screen. In fact all connections with Echo devices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Frustration to Enhance Conversation
A better means giving feedback? We do in human conversation, in a two way or multi-way conversation we stop for questions, notice frowns, gestures, complaints...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cobol Still in Use
I started coding well after COBOL had declined, but key parts of the company were still being run by COBOL code. It still did many of the logical things required...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personas in Customer Service
What we did in the 80s .... but used an existing advertising persona that was already well know, Then used a AI driven chatbot system to drive their interaction...
From insideHPC
LANL teams with Arm to for Extreme-scale Computing
Los Alamos National Laboratory and Arm are teaming up to make efficient, workload-optimized processors tailored to the extreme-scale computing requirements of the...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Building AI Datacenters with NVIDIA DGX Reference Architectures
In this podcast, Lee Carter from Bright Computing and Carlo Ruiz from NVIDIA discuss building datacenters with NVIDIA DGX Reference Architectures. "NVIDIA DGX servers...
From Putting People First
Money’s new abstractions: Apple Pay and the economy of experience
Money’s new abstractions: Apple Pay and the economy of experience by Nathaniel Tkacz Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 26 Sep 2019 DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2019...
From Putting People First
[Book] Too Smart
Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World By Jathan Sadowski The MIT Press March 2020, 240 pages Who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI, Creativity and the Slime Mold
Quire an interesting piece out of Engadget, pointer to a new book I just received but have not read. we got AI to show us possibilities, and even automatically...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (September 28th 2019)
Researchers have effectively rejuvenated the damaged skin of mice by using “exosomes”. These are packages that cells send in their environment, and it appears that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards an Analytics Academy
We kind of did this during an earlier AI era. It worked early on, but was not connected well enough to the needs of the company, and expectations of it being democratized...
From insideHPC
DARPA FastNICs Program Looks to Accelerate Application Performance by 100x
DARPA is looking to create new networking approaches to accelerate distributed application performance by 100x with the FastNICs program. "FastNICs seeks to improve...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Scientific Programmer at Redline Performance Solutions
RedLine is seeking a a Scientific Programmer/Analyst – MRMS candidate(s) to support the Implementation and Data Services Branch (IDSB) in the National Centers for...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog