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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
Etsy Uses an Algorithm for Style
Interesting example, with forthcoming details. Note its alliance to something most everyone does today, utilize e-commerce. Look forward to seeing the details...
From insideHPC
Podcast: HPC Market Eyes $44B in 5 Years
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a new projections from Hyperion Research that has the HPC+AI market growing to $44B, in 5 years. "The industry...
From insideHPC
Real-World Applications in Numerical Ocean Modeling
Fangli Qiao from the First Institute of Oceanography in China gave this talk at PASC19. "In this interdisciplinary dialogue we will address such questions as –Real...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of AI is Tiny
In O'Reilly, short excerpt from a recent conference by O'Reilly. Not too different than the use of small drones or tiny sensors.The future of machine learningPete...
From Schneier on Security
Identity Theft on the Job Market
Identity theft is getting more subtle: "My job application was withdrawn by someone pretending to be me": When Mr Fearn applied for a job at the company he didn't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Pubishes first Magic Quadrant for RPA
Have followed RPA since it emerged, as a way to install logic in process to efficiently automate in-context tasks. Should be used in combination with AI and Big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Usupervised Learning is the AI Future
An outline of Yann LeCuns recent talk. See the LeCun tag below for links to talk and slides.The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reason...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever: Virtual Plants via Digital Twins
Followed arch-rival Unilever for many years, always impressed by their tech expertise. We did some similar things, creating an experimental supply chain that could...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Understanding the Human Brain Via its Spatio-temporal Properties
The following great innovative idea is from Ouri Wolfson, the Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and...
From insideHPC
Women in IT Networking team to help build SCinet at SC19
Over at the SC19 blog, Christine Baissac-Hayden writes that seven candidates have been chosen for Women in IT Networking at SC program. "Since 2015, the Women in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Determining Skills for Customer Needs
Its ultimately a concierge type problem. How do we determine the best augmenting skill? Specified need, context, technical ability, past interactions .......
From insideHPC
New Paper Surveys Micron’s Automata Processor
A new paper from IIT Hyderabad in India surveys applications and architectural-optimizations of Micron’s Automata Processor. Now accepted in the Journal of Systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alphabet's Wing is Doing Drone Traffic Control
Could this mean we will see many more drones in the sky, now more safely managed and directed to tasks? Informative site:Empowering everyone to safely access...
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Micro Eye Movement Identification
We tested iris based identification. Here another biometric approach I had not seen, which claims better accuracy:DeepEyedentification: identifying people based...
From insideHPC
GigaIO Steps Up with PCIe Gen 4 Interconnect for HPC
In this video from ISC 2019, Marc Lehrer from GigaIO describes the company's innovative HPC interconnect technology based on PCIe Gen 4. "For your most demanding...
From insideHPC
NSF Funds $10 Million for ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer at SDSC
SDSC has been awarded a five-year grant from the NSF valued at $10 million to deploy Expanse, a new supercomputer designed to advance research that is increasingly...![The digital lives of refugees [Research report]](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
The digital lives of refugees [Research report]
There is growing recognition among donors and humanitarian organisations that mobile technology and mobile network operators (MNOs) have an important role to play...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Summer Reading in Theory
Some formative books in mathematics and computing theory LSE source: “Calculus on Clay?” Norman Biggs is the author of the wonderful book Algebraic Graph Theory...
From Computational Complexity
Guest post by Samir Khuller on attending The TCS Women 2019 meeting
(I will post the solution to the problem in the last blog later in the week---probably Thursday. Meanwhile, enjoy these thoughts from Samir Khuller on the TCShere...
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