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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
Small Racing Drone
Always been interested by the possibilities of the very small drone. Here aimed at racing, and not meant to swarm to tasks with other drones. But notably fast...
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AI Revolution has not arrived Yet?
Late to this, but always new thoughts depending on the definition of the term and its goals. Not if its general intelligence, but if it is assistance or narrower...
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Interview with Turing Award recipients on Neural Nets
We read some of the earliest work of Hinton and were inspired by the direction. Also a lesson about hype and the lessons from the fringe of typical research.Reaching...
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David Brin Interviewed on Resiliency
We connected with David Brin a number of times through IFTF. He is a well known futurist, physicist and Scifi Author. Also consultant to NASA and NIAC. Thoughtful...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF/CISE Search Committee for Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Division Director Now Closes 6/21
The following is a previously posted letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National...
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Recorded Future Bought by Insight Partners
Recorded Future is a company we worked with in its early years, and reported here about them since then. Good company. Their recent movement towards 'threat intelligence'...
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Wolfram: Mining the Computational Universe
Intriguing half hour talk. A response to the broad entry of AI, or a claim to a new architecture of computation? Just recently reexamined here the anniversary...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Takes on the Opioid Crisis
In this special guest feature from the SC19 Blog, Dan Jacobson and Wayne Joubert from ORNL describes how the Summit supercomputer is helping untangle how genetic...
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Automated Order Taking
Decreasing errors, wait times, learning patterns to anticipate demand.Automated Order Takers May Reshape Future of Drive-Through RestaurantsMedill ReportsBy Yixuan...
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Facial Recognition Comes to US Schools
Not unexpected. Happening in UK, China. But I am intrigued to see how much push back will occur. Here will be primarily to detect sex offenders, unauthorized...
From insideHPC
NEC to Host Aurora Forum on Vector Computing at ISC 2019
NEC will host their Aurora Forum at ISC 2019. Designed for developers and users SX-Aurora TSUBA vector computing technology, the The half-day meeting takes place...
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Amazon and Small Suppliers
I am not sure this makes much difference for most small retailers, they have already made the transition, lived with their particular context or failed. OurAmazon...
From insideHPC
Tachyum Boots Linux on Universal Processor Chip
Today Tachyum announced it has successfully deployed the Linux OS on its Prodigy Universal Processor architecture, a foundation for 64-core, ultra-low power, high...
From Schneier on Security
Fraudulent Academic Papers
The term "fake news" has lost much of its meaning, but it describes a real and dangerous Internet trend. Because it's hard for many people to differentiate a real...
From insideHPC
Microway Shipping Intel Cascade Lake Systems in Volume
Today Microway announced that the company is now shipping 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors in volume, including next-generation NumberSmasher clusters...
From insideHPC
Video: Multi-GPU FFT Performance on Different Hardware Configurations
Kevin Roe from the Maui High Performance Computing Center gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. "We will characterize the performance of multi-GPU systems...
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GigaOm Interviews about AI
Byron does a great job of interviewing emerging expertise. Been a follower for along time, join up.Voices in AI – Episode 88: A Conversation with Ron Green By...
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Business Cards and Big Data
This made me think of other 'lost' sources of dataHere’s How Big Data And Business Card Marketing Go TogetherBig data and business card marketing are a match made...
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Jacquard Devices
Notes on new ways to place wearable, immersive computing. Well beyond the loom. Jaquard Device Turns Houseplants into Keyboards in IdeaconnectionDesigner Ivan Poupyrev...
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