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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
Robots Taking Jobs: A Prediction
Click on for link to full report PDF:Robots Could Force 375 Million People to Switch Occupation by 2030 In TechnologyReviewSo says a new report by think tank McKinsey...
From insideHPC
AI and HPC: Inferencing, Platforms & Infrastructure
The popularity of “better than human” classification on tasks that people do well (such as recognizing faces, Internet image search, self-driving cars, etcetera)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waze Gets Voice Controls
Voice expanding into other hands-free applications.Navigation app gets the Google treatment with ‘OK Waze’ voice controlsBy Christian de Looper in DigitalTrends...
From Schneier on Security
Warrant Protections against Police Searches of Our Data
The cell phones we carry with us constantly are the most perfect surveillance device ever invented, and our laws haven't caught up to that reality. That might change...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free TensorFlow Report
Via O-Reilly:Considering TensorFlow for the EnterpriseDownload this report, compliments of TensorFlow .... Considering TensorFlow for the EnterpriseDeep learning...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Responds to New York Times Article- Society Needs Computer Science (and Math and Social Sciences) Now More Than Ever
The following blog post was drafted by CCC Chair Beth Mynatt, CCC Exec Member Ben Zorn, and CCC Council Members Elizabeth Bradley, Sampath Kannan, and Cynthia Dwork...
From insideHPC
UCX and UCF Projects for Exascale Move Forward at SC17
In this video, Jeff Kuehn from LANL, Pavel Shamis from ARM, and Gilad Shainer from Mellanox describe progress on the new UCF consortium, a collaboration between...
From insideHPC
Video: BSC Simulations Predict Air Traffic Disruption from Antarctic Volcanic Ash
Researchers are using HPC systems at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center to predict potential threats to air traffic posed by Antarctic volcanoes. "Antarctic volcanoes...
From insideHPC
Video: Mellanox Takes HPC Interconnects to the Next Level at SC17
In this video, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox describes the company's advanced interconnect technologies that were on display at SC17 in Denver. "Mellanox is leading...
From insideHPC
HPE Superdome Flex to power Stephen Hawking’s COSMOS Research Group
Today HPE announced a collaboration with the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge to accelerate new discoveries in the mathematical sciences. This...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How (Some) Schools Sabotage Computer Science Education
There are many problems getting more computer science into schools. There is a shortage of teachers. There is a problem with room in the schedule. I could go on...
From insideHPC
Video: Pure Storage Speeds I/O for AI & HPC Workloads at SC17
In this video from SC17 in Denver, Brian Gold from Pure Storage describes how the company's innovative FlashBlade Systems speed up I/O for AI & HPC workloads. "From...
From insideHPC
Exploring the OpenHPC Solution for HPC
To meet some of the biggest HPC software challenges, representatives from more than 25 academic, research, and commercial organizations formed a community project...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who will Fly all the Drones?
NASA Finds AI-Powered Drones May Be Safer Than Human-Flown Ones International Business Times By Rishabh JainResearchers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chinese Consumer Landscape
Double-clicking on the Chinese consumerBy Wouter Baan, Lan Luan, Felix Poh, and Daniel Zipser. In McKinseyA rising post-90s generation is emerging as a strong...
From Schneier on Security
Man-in-the-Middle Attack against Electronic Car-Door Openers
This is an interesting tactic, and there's a video of it being used: The theft took just one minute and the Mercedes car, stolen from the Elmdon area of Solihull...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Data in Grocery
The new grocery battleground – customer data By Rick Ferguson in The Wise Marketer The retail grocery game has never been for the faint of heart, what with its...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Bit hacking versus memoization: a Stream VByte example
In compression techniques like Stream VByte or Google’s varint-GB, we use control bytes to indicate how blocks of data are compressed. Without getting into theContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Future on IoT
Recall we connected with Recorded Future some time ago to understand their visually oriented method to analyze and react to known and predicted external threats...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog