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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 …
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BOXX rolls out AMD EPYC Deep Learning Server at SC17
This week at SC17, BOXX Technologies debuted the new GX8-M server, featuring dual AMD EPYC 7000-series processors, eight full-size AMD or NVIDIA graphics cards,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Model for Cybersecurity
Defining a New Model for Cybersecurity Trust With Blockchain By eWeekThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) David Shrier recently detailed the MIT...
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Amazon Go and the Problem of Checkout
Remember using this as a scenario at our innovation centers. What if a shopper could just walk out, setting up a frictionless way to shop? Does it bring moreAmazon's...
From Schneier on Security
New White House Announcement on the Vulnerability Equities Process
The White House has released a new version of the Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP). This is the inter-agency process by which the US government decides whether...
From Mostafa Dehghani
Christophe's Thesis Cover
Another ILPSer, Christophe Van Gysel, has just defended his PhD dissertation, on "Remedies against the Vocabulary Gap in Information Retrieval". I've designed his...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Conversational Apps
Am a long time developer and proponent of intelligent and conversation enabled interactions.Google supporting Voice and Dialog Based InteractionsIntroducing Dialogflow...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Resources for Teachers and the AP CS Principles Tasks
If you are teaching Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles for the first time as I am you probably still have lots of questions about the performance tasks...
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Digital Ultimatum
46 Days Left, P&G's Marc Pritchard on the state of his Digital UltimatumBy Jack Neff. Published on November 15, 2017. in AdAgeTime's almost up for major digital...
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Caption Generation Tutorial
Jason Brownlee on caption generation using neural networks, an old problem we addressed. I like the explanations Jason does. Get on his instructive solutions...
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Delivering Ingredients for Allrecipes by Amazon
A long time cook here. Have tested Allrecipes on Echo where it works well, with some reservations about how well the interface works with serial step recipe use...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast exact integer divisions using floating-point operations
On current processors, integer division is slow. If you need to compute many quotients or remainders, you can be in trouble. You potentially need divisions when...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning from Microsoft's Bots
Like I have mentioned many times, we built consumer facing bots that engaged and delivered expertise. Saw Microsoft live demo the construction of an Azure based...
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Video: ZFS Improvements for Lustre
In this video from LAD'17 in Paris, Adreas Dilger from Intel presents: ZFS Improvements for Lustre. "Lustre is the Parallel file system of choice for High Performance...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Intelligent Infrastructure for our Cities and Communities
Last week the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) posted an overview blog about our recent 2017 Symposium on Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs....
From The Eponymous Pickle
November-December Analytics Magazine
From the Informs Organization:Analytics Magazine: Sneak PreviewThe November/December issue of Analytics magazine takes a close look at a wide range of topics, including...
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Lenovo Accelerates AI to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges
Today at SC17, Lenovo announced new initiatives designed to empower customers to embrace Artificial Intelligence and make it a true reality for their organizations...
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Intel Select Solutions for HPC Debut at SC17
Intel Select Solutions HPC provide a fast path for purchasing and deploying a cluster for simulation and modeling workloads with a pre-validated selection of components...
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New Report Offers insight on OpenMP
Technical Report 6 demonstrates the importance of user feedback to the OpenMP specification,” says Bronis R. de Supinski, the Chair of the OpenMP Language Committee...
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Reconfigurable Camera Systems
Shree Nayar discusses "Cambits: A Reconfigurable Camera System" (cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/11/222170), a Contributed Article in the November 2017 CACM. .... Cambit...
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