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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] Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
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[Book] Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age by Matthew J. Salganik Princeton University Press 2017, 448 pages [Read online] An innovative and accessible guide...
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Chatbots as Customer Service Reps
Overview on the concept of retail chatbots. This time of year you have probably encountered a few. Key is doing it right. It is not easy to do them well. Participating...
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More Bayesian Networks
Video, another example of using Bayesian networks.Dr. Alta de Waal's presentation at the 5th Annual BayesiaLab Conference in Paris.Spatially Discrete Probability...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
FDA Releases Digital Health Innovation Action Plan
The following is a statement from U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on advancing new digital health policies to encourage...
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Fortune 500 Firms Join IBM Q Network for Quantum Computing Research
Today IBM announced the first clients to tap into its IBM Q early-access commercial quantum computing systems to explore practical applications important to business...
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Rescale Brings HPC Workloads to the Cloud at SC17
In this video from SC17, Gabriel Broner from Rescale describes how the company brings HPC Workloads to the Cloud. "Rescale offers HPC in the cloud for engineers...
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Slidecast: HPC and the Cloud – Announcing the Ellexus Container Checker
In this slidecast, Dr. Rosemary Francis describes the new Ellexus Container Checker, a pioneering cloud-based tool that provides visibility into the inner workings...
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Lenovo to Build 26.7 Petaflop SuperMUC-NG Cluster for LRZ in Germany
"Upon its completion in late 2018, the new Lenovo supercomputer (called SuperMUC-NG) will support LRZ in its groundbreaking research across a variety of complex...
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Intel Advisor’s TBB Flow Graph Analyzer: Making Complex Layers of Parallelism More Manageable
Some deep learning applications tend to have very complex graphs with thousands of nodes and edges. To make it easier to visualize, analyze, design, and tune such...
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Cortana and Alexa as Collaborating Assistants
This was announced back in late August, and have heard little since. Reviewed some of the details here of interest. What can this look like? Do recent indications...
From insideHPC
Dr. Eng Lim Goh on HPE’s Spaceborne Supercomputer
In this video from SC17 in Denver, Dr. Eng Lim Goh describes the spaceborne supercomputer that HPE built for NASA. "The research objectives of the Spaceborne Computer...
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Crowdsourcing Voice Recognitiion
Like the idea of sharing this kind of fundamental data. Good idea to think about what the structure of such data should look like and be most useful.Mozilla ...
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Deloitte Cognitive Tech Survey
Deloitte provides some interesting data on Cognitive via survey2017 cognitive technologies surveyEarly adopters speak out on cognitive and AIWhat do the most aggressive...
From Schneier on Security
Security Planner
Security Planner is a custom security advice tool from Citizen Lab. Answer a few questions, and it gives you a few simple things you can do to improve your security...
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Grocery Startup Uses AI
Artificial Intelligence is drawing attention for its potential and its pitfalls. Tesla founder Elon Musk recently called for greater regulation of AI robotics due...
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Kroger Does Mobile Payments
Surprised this has taken this long, getting to be an expectation in retail:JPMorgan Strikes Deal With Kroger for Mobile PaymentsBy Jennifer Surane and Craig Giammona...
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Summary of Conference on Robot Learning
In the Google Research Blog. Broadly about learning in changing contexts and environments. Links to papers presented.A Summary of the First Conference on Robot...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track held at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in...
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Electric Eels and Implantable Power
Pacemakers and VR contact lenses are suggested.Electric eels might be the key to powering implantable devicesThis could lead to a pacemaker that never runs out....
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