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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
Nestle Global Head of Digital Innovation
My former colleague at P&G, now at Nestle writes:2017: From Mom's Digital Trail to a Brand Safety #FailsA very personal review of 2017's digital highs and lowsBy...
From insideHPC
Intel Omni-Path Architecture: The Real Numbers
In this slidecast, Joe Yaworski from Intel describes the Intel Omni-Path architecture and how it scales performance for a wide range of HPC applications. He also...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Year 2017: technological highlights
DeepStack and Libratus become the first computer programs to beat professinal poker players. We are using synthetic cartilage to help people with arthritis. Stem...
From insideHPC
Preliminary Agenda Posted for March HPC User Forum in France
The HPC User Forum has posted their Preliminary Agenda for their upcoming meeting in France. Free to attend, the event takes place March 6-7 near Paris at the Teratec...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CACM Viewpoints Article on the Postdocs Best Practices Program
The Communications of the ACM (CACM), the print and online publication for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), has recently released a Viewpoints article...
From insideHPC
Microsoft to acquire Avere Systems
Over at the Microsoft Blog, Jason Zander writes that the company is acquiring Avere Systems. As makers of high-speed data caching technologies, Avere Systems has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on VR Magic Mirror Idea
An old idea, but the technology has been creeping up on doing it well. We demonstrated the concept for years in innovation center venues.In Fastcompany: Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotify Using Big Data and AI
Very intriguing to see how the data regarding muisc listening is being used to drive behavioral analysis. Been experimenting with some of that myself.The Amazing...
From insideHPC
Top 10 HPC White Papers for 2017: Machine Learning, AI, the Cloud & More
Many of the top 10 2017 HPC white papers deal with the next steps in the HPC journey, including moving to the cloud, and discovering the potential of machine learning...
From Schneier on Security
Tamper-Detection App for Android
Edward Snowden and Nathan Freitas have created an Android app that detects when it's being tampered with. The basic idea is to put the app on a second phone and...
From Putting People First
Videos of all keynote and plenary presentations at the Service Design Global Conference
The theme of this year’s Service Design Global Conference (November 2-3, Madrid) was Service Design at Scale. Through continued practice, widespread capabilityVideos...
From Putting People First
Videos of all keynote and plenary presentations at the Service Design Global Conference
The theme of this year’s Service Design Global Conference (November 2-3, Madrid) was Service Design at Scale. Through continued practice, widespread capabilityVideos...
From Putting People First
This Anthro Life podcasts on design anthropology
This Anthro Life is a round-table, open format discussion of an anthropological take on the people, objects, ideas, and possibilities of everyday life around the...
From Putting People First
This Anthro Life podcasts on design anthropology
This Anthro Life is a round-table, open format discussion of an anthropological take on the people, objects, ideas, and possibilities of everyday life around the...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Predictions We Didn’t Make
With wishes for a memorable New Year 2018 Muhammad Afzal Upal is Chair of the Computing and Information Science Department at Mercyhurst University. He works in...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Dare To Dream
I believe the future of Computer Science education is bright. This bright future, however, requires leaders with vision and a continued focus on equity and advocacy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa and Cortana not in Partnership yet
Noted this with interest last year. I did test it later last year and got a recognition of Alexa from within Cortana, but nothing more. It would be interesting...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Multicore versus SIMD instructions: the “fasta” case study
Setting aside graphics processors, most commodity processors support at least two distinct parallel execution models. Most programmers are familiar with the multicore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Discussing Alexa Advertising
Started to examine this basic idea a year ago, but Amazon was not allowing advertising embedded in skill or other interactions based on data. Google built such...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog