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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
Podcast: The Exascale Data and Visualization project at LANL
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale, Scott Gibson discusses the ECP Data and Visualization project with Jim Ahrens from Los Alamos National Lab. Ahrens is principal...
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Video: Weather and Climate Modeling at Convection-Resolving Resolution
David Leutwyler from ETH Zurich gave this talk at the 2017 Chaos Communication Congress. "The representation of thunderstorms (deep convection) and rain showers...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections – January 2018
Letter from ACM-W chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Professional Chapters News from ACM-W Scholarships News from ACM SIG News from ACM-W India...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as Storytelling Assistant
Interesting proposition, but have yet to see examples of any value. The first step should be, can we assign useful value measures to a partial or complete story...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistants for Your Job
Is What I call figuring out what the nature of assistance is. Varies also in different industries. And once it ascends to doing the job ....AI might give you...
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Capgemini: Trends in Conversational Commerce
Good overview of the space and future with statistics.Conversational CommerceWhy Consumers Are Embracing Voice Assistants in Their LivesIntroductionConversational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and Blockchain
SAP's Blog talks its approach to specific applications of Blockchain. Nicely described. " ... The blockchain technology, from a business perspective, can be seen...
From insideHPC
Video: Thomas Zacharia from ORNL Testifies at House Hearing on the Need for Supercomputing
In this video, Thomas Zacharia from ORNL testifies before the House Energy and Commerce hearing on DOE Modernization. "At the OLCF, we are deploying a system that...
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Job of the Week: System Administrator at D.E. Shaw Research
D.E. Shaw Research in NYC is seeking a System Administrator for Servers, Clusters and Supercomputers for Computational Biochemistry in our Job of the Week. "Exceptional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Speakers/Assistants Reduce TV Use?
Intriguing stats embedded here. Now will the integration of Assistants with devices with screams bring the mediums together? Note how rapidly this has occurred...
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Dolphins Tracked with Sound Classification
Note the statement of the problem of classification here:Tracking Dolphins With Algorithms You Might Find on Facebook The New York Times By Steph YinResearchers...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Timing Leaks Everything
Facing the awful truth that computers are physical machines As moderator of RSA 2016 panel Paul Kocher is the lead author on the second of two papers detailing...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese "Dude Food" Includes Squid
This seems to be a trend. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Displays beyond Voice?
Now emerging, the 'Smart Display', which takes voice interaction to a new place, which is why amazon is calling it voice-first on their Show and Spot assistants...
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Considering Chatbots
A good, very broad look at chatbots in DSC. Starting with the 'AI Shrink', which it turns out, many people trusted more than their real doctors. Though to my...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automobile Dashboard of the Future
An interesting view that makes you think about all the design architecture of the steering wheel and what a car would be without it. Will the term steering wheel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sound Classification
Sounds are important. Getting them right can make the difference between correct and incorrect advice. Those of you experimenting with advisors have now seenSound...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Hype and Reality
In Knowledge@Wharton, good cautionary thoughts. Wharton Global Forum from this summer on Hype and Reality in AI.The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Why the Hype...
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