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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
Supercomputing Galactic Winds with Cholla
Using the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a team of astrophysicists created a set of galactic wind simulations of the highest resolution ever...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
And So It Begins–School year 2019 2020
Tomorrow (Monday) I will meet the new freshmen in my study hall. And I’ll finish getting my room ready for the new school year. First day of real classes is Tuesday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Patents a Blockchain Digital Currency
Wal-mart has already experimented with the underlying tech for produce tracking. Is this beyond that? Or an extension of distributed ledger? Intriguing all around...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots for Lonliness
Have followed the Japanese eldercare efforts, pushed by Japan's demographics, for some time.Bringing robots home eases lonelinessBy Ikuko Mitsuda / Yomiuri Shimbun...
From The Noisy Channel
Martin, thanks for the kind words.
Martin, thanks for the kind words. The TunkRank that Jason Adams implemented has been down for a while. I’m not aware of any other implementation that is available...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine to Machine Interfaces
Fascinating piece. ultimately it is all about machines cooperating seamlessly. We take it for granted they will be designed to do that, but its not entirely...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 17th 2019)
Google may soon release an augmented-reality version of Google Maps for mobile phones. I have always found it difficult to identify the streets I see in an unfamiliar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Going Smart Home Tech
Will be interesting to watch, have an IKEA down the street, will be dropping in to hear of their plans.Ikea goes all in on smart home tech‘We are just getting started...
From insideHPC
HPC Innovation Excellence Award Showcases Physics-based Scientific Discovery
A collaboration that includes researchers from NERSC was recently honored with an HPC Innovation Excellence Award for their work on “Physics-Based UnsupervisedHPC...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior HPC Specialist at New York University
New York University is seeking a Senior HPC Specialist in our Job of the Week. "In this role, you will provide technical leadership in design, development, installation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Sweat Sensors
Recall some research using sweat as a means of diagnosing.Wearable sensors detect what's in your sweatby Kara Manke, University of California - BerkeleyNeedle pricks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How AI and 5G will Interact
More data, faster responses, stronger engagement. All likely to follow.When AI and 5G Combine, Watch For a New Generation of Applications By AI Trends Staff...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UPS Invests in Self-Driving Trucks
Could create a considerable change in supply chain operations and improvement.UPS invests in autonomous truck startup in BloombergUPS has invested an undisclosed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cashierless Stores Advance
Reducing friction in retail to give an edge and decrease costs.Cashierless Stores Make Inroads in U.S. The Wall Street JournalBy John MurawskiU.S. retailers are...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Robot Squid Propulsion
Interesting research: The squid robot is powered primarily by compressed air, which it stores in a cylinder in its nose (do squids have noses?). The fins and arms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Echo Auto now in Operation
Just started using Amazon Echo Auto, after waiting nearly a year for a beta. Works well. Previous third part solution sallowed you limited access to your Alexa...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistant Translation Services by Baidu
One business use of assistants is language translation. While translation today is very good, its still not contextually perfect. But then neither are people...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Faster threshold queries with cache-sensitive scancount
Suppose that you are given 100 sorted arrays of integers. You can compute their union or their intersection. It is a common setup in data indexing: the integers...
From insideHPC
University of Leicester Adopts Cloudian Object Storage for Backup
Today Cloudian announced that the University of Leicester has deployed the company’s HyperStore object storage system as the foundation of a revamped backup platform...
From insideHPC