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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 …![[Book] Driverless Cars: On A Road to Nowhere](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Driverless Cars: On A Road to Nowhere
Driverless Cars: On A Road to Nowhere Christian Wolmar London Publishing Partnership Jan 2018, 136 pages Driverless cars are the future. That is what the tech giants...
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Towards multi-dimensional ethnography
In this paper, Julia Katherine Haines, user experience researcher at Google, argues for the value of multi-dimensional ethnography. She explores the potential for...
From Putting People First
Towards multi-dimensional ethnography
In this paper, Julia Katherine Haines, user experience researcher at Google, argues for the value of multi-dimensional ethnography. She explores the potential for...
From Putting People First
The business of service: why think tanks need service design
Traditionally the notion of ‘business’ is perceived incongruent with the values of think tanks, writes Melanie Rayment. Those in academia, the third sector, and...
From Putting People First
The business of service: why think tanks need service design
Traditionally the notion of ‘business’ is perceived incongruent with the values of think tanks, writes Melanie Rayment. Those in academia, the third sector, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kodak and Blockchain to Control Photos
We visited Kodak innovation just before the digital revolution completely flattened and changed the film business. So their history of innovation is interesting...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Ridiculously fast base64 encoding and decoding
Computers store data as streams of bits. Binary files like image, audio or video files are allowed to contain just about any sequence of bits. However, we alsoContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows Insider on Mixed Reality
Been following Microsoft's interest in 'mixed reality' aka augmented reality for a client. Just discovered Microsoft insider podcasts, which looks at near future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger to Expand Kroger Edge
We studied many kinds if shelf based technologies, below seem to be the outcome of many of these ideas tested. It is mentioned in the article that it was developed...
From insideHPC
Video: Enabling Medical Device Innovation through Simulation
In this video, ANSYS 3D Physics simulations are used to predict device performance and solve biomedical-engineering challenges compressing design cycles. "WithVideo...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Director of High Performance Computing at Yale
The recently established Yale Center for Research Computing is seeking a Director of High Performance Computing (HPC). This position, under the supervision of the...
From insideHPC
Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem been Solved?
Today a company called Bounded Floating Point announced a breakthrough patent in processor design, which allows representation of real numbers accurate to the last...
From insideHPC
Video: The TOP500 Past, Present, and Future
In this video from SC17, Jack Dongarra, Erich Strohmaier, and Horst Simon give an Invited Talk on the history of the TOP500 list. "The TOP500 list has served as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stewart Brand at Speaks Long Now
I was introduced to the Long Now Foundation soon after its inception, and used to mention its efforts often in the predecessor of this blog. Also Stewart Brand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Roomba Beta Advances
iRobot Launches Beta Program to Test Smarter Home Features for Roombas By Evan Ackerman in IEEE SpectrumRobots like the 900 series Roomba, which have the ability...
From Schneier on Security
Article from a Former Chinese PLA General on Cyber Sovereignty
Interesting article by Major General Hao Yeli, Chinese People's Liberation Army (ret.), a senior advisor at the China International Institute for Strategic Society...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Heart of CSTA
As the incoming Executive Director of CSTA I’m thrilled to introduce myself to the greater CSTA community. Instead of vague generalizations and platitudes I’d like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone Swarms Flying without GPS
Brought up in a recent challenge for Drone Swarms and Drones indoors.This Autonomous Quadrotor Swarm Doesn't Need GPS By Evan Ackerman in IEEE SpectrumUPenn's...
From insideHPC
How Integrators Ensure Top Performance for HPC Clusters
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe looks at the role of integrators to deliver and support HPC systems. "There is an increasing...
From insideHPC