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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 1st, 2017)
Chollet has a piece on the impossibility of intelligence explosion. He is responding to the theory that smart machines will build even smarter machines, and that...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Research into Squid-Eating Beaked Whales
Beaked whales, living off the coasts of Ireland, feed on squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner: Retail Assortment Planning Analytics
In the Gartner Blog. Insightful piece. An area we worked on for years. If anything this article over complicates the problem, but it is good to see a more modern...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics Today
Nothing new here, but nicely presented, with visuals. We did predictive analytics many years before AI or Machine learning. Many millions in value. True we sometimes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Releases Ideas for Alexa in Business
Nicely done overview as part of the announcement. Thought provoking. Though could also be done with other assistants. I would further like to see 'businessAlexa...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The New Physics of Lenses
My early interests were lenses in telescopes and microscopes. Even made a few telescope lenses I can still use today. These new approaches are interesting. Physicists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Sells part of AWS in China
In TechCrunch. Amazon is selling a big part of its business in ChinaThe company is selling “certain physical infrastructure assets” of its Amazon Web Services...
From insideHPC
Video: OpenACC Eases GPU Programming for HPC at SC17
In this video from SC17, Sunita Chandrasekaran from OpenACC.org and Stan Posey from NVIDIA describe how OpenACC eases GPU programming for HPC. "At SC17, OpenACC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Theory and Cybersecurity
A Purdue connection informed me of this. A rare practical pointer to Nash equilibrium in game theory. And 'Prospect theory' which I had not heard of. But IKahneman's...
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Announces HPC Innovation Excellence Award Winners
Hyperion Research recently announced the newest recipients of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. "High performance computing contributes enormously to scientific...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Booth Tour Showcases HPC Innovation at SC17
In this video, Akira Sano provides a tour of the Supermicro booth at SC17 in Denver. "Supermicro offers the best selection of leading HPC optimized servers in the...
From Schneier on Security
Needless Panic Over a Wi-FI Network Name
A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing because someone named his wireless network (presumably from his smartphone) "bomb on board." In 2006, I wrote...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Specialist at New York University
New York University is seeking an HPC Specialist in our Job of the Week. "The HPC Specialist will provide technical leadership in design, development, installation...
From insideHPC
Intel Steps up to HPC & the Enterprise with FPGAs
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference in Denver, Michael Strickland describes how Intel FPGAs are powering new levels of performance and datacenter...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2018 IEEE Fellows
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has released its 2018 list of newly elevated fellows. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is given to a IEEE member...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL: Request for Information on Mid-scale Research Infrastructure
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following...
From Mostafa Dehghani
Learning to Learn from Weak Supervision by Full Supervision
Our paper "Learning to Learn from Weak Supervision by Full Supervision", with Sascha Rothe, and Jaap Kamps, has been accepted at NIPS2017 Workshop on Meta-Learning...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AI and Amplifying Human Abilities
While wearable computing might seem like a new thing, it has been a part of our imagination since 1945 when Vannevar Bush headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research...
From insideHPC
Video: A Petascale HPC System at BASF
Dr. Stephan Schenk from BASF gave this talk at the DDN User Group at SC17. "BASF’s strategic goal is to decisively take advantage of the enormous opportunitiesVideo...
From insideHPC