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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Selected Papers at CCC 2019
Some papers from the accepted list of this year’s Computational Complexity Conference [ UB CSE ] Alan Selman is a long-time friend of Ken and I, and is a long-time...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 25th 2019)
Oculus released the Quest, its latest VR goggles. It requires no wiring, no PC. It supports six degrees of freedom, so it is “true VR”. They cost less than $600...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Recognition in Retail
An expert discussion of the use vs risks of facial recognition in retail.Do the benefits of using facial recognition in retail outweigh the risks? by Mark Ryski...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kinds and Channels of Chat for Customers
Good thoughts about what customers need and the variety of chat channels.Live chat and customer anxiety By Niamh Reed in CustomerthinkCustomers come in all moods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Aims Assistant at Conversation
Have been impressed recently by Google's advances in assistance.Google's AI Assistant aims to transcend the smart speaker in Techexplore by Rachel Lerman... At...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding Manufacturing Defects with AI
Descriptive largely non technical article that explains potential.How to Detect Manufacturing Defects Using AI in NanalyzeWhile most consumers don’t often see the...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: More Materials Science from Squid Skin
Article: "How a Squid's Color-Changing Skin Inspired a New Material That Can Trap or Release Heat." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Hawaii
Recently I've heard Edward Snowden talk about his working at the NSA in Hawaii as being "under a pineapple field." CBS News recently ran a segment on that NSA listening...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Driverless up to the Doorstop
Most interesting is that the computing power for the 'robot' will be from the vehicle. Good now, but I wonder if advances will make this unnecessary. The wheel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI More Human by Adding Dilemma
Wondering if the Prisoners Dilemma is the right thing to use here, but agree that showing typical human emotions can bring sympathy to a machine as it can to humans...
From insideHPC
HPC Powers Evolution of Defects for Superconductors
Researchers are using supercomputers to introduce and assess the impact of different configurations of defects on the performance of a superconductor. "When people...
From insideHPC
New Blueprint lays out Strategic Research Agenda for HPC in Europe
The European ETP4HPC initiative has published a blueprint for the new Strategic Research Agenda for High Performance Computing. "This blueprint sketches the big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Estate Investment Support via Blockchain
Brought to my attention to support a potential project, examining motivation of block chains, their architecture and integrated smart contact use.For Real Estate...
From insideHPC
Colombian and Botswana Researchers Awarded ISC Travel Grant
Today ISC 2019 announced the recipients of the ISC Travel Grant this year will be from Columbia and Botswana. The winners will each be awarded a grant of 2500 euros...
From insideHPC
Video: The First Catalan Quantum Computer
Pol Forn from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre gave this talk at the BSC Annual Meeting. "QUANTIC is a joint venture between the Barcelona Supercomputing Center...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deriving Scent from DNA?
Way back when we were looking at scent and flavor in consumer products, we talked to scientists about the possibility of extracting these measures from DNA ofScience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Puppets the Human Face
With lots of interesting video examples at the link. From Samsung's AI group. Fascinating and also a scary. When will we not need actors at all? First I had...
From Schneier on Security
Germany Talking about Banning End-to-End Encryption
Der Spiegel is reporting that the German Ministry for Internal Affairs is planning to require all Internet message services to provide plaintext messages on demand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New IOT Security Features
As more susceptible devices are out there, they need to be better protected.Rice U. Researchers Unveil IoT Security FeatureRice University By Jade BoydResearchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle