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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 Putting People First
From human-centered design to humanity-centered design
The design industry’s reigning paradigm is in crisis. It’s time to evolve from human-centered design to humanity-centered design, write Artefact’s Rob Girling and...
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‘Thick data’ sees the market future when big data can’t
“Customers are really the most unpredictable, the most unknown, and the most difficult-to-quantify thing for any business,” said Tricia Wang, ethnographer and co...
From Putting People First
Service design at BBVA bank
BBVA (an international financial institution with a presence in 35 countries, providing services to 70 million customers) was one of the sponsors of the Service...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Valens Offers a Single Copper Cable
Quite interesting solution that extends the simple .... for the rolling supercomputer.Valens Automotive Offers Carmakers One Cable To Rule Them All By Philipin...
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Scalable Processors power new AWS C5 Instances for HPC
Today, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of C5 instances, the next generation of compute optimized instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Advanced Robot Aibo Dog
Saw the early version of the Aibo dog demonstrated in Japan. Tried to get a demo for our space, but it never happened. Japan was and is interested in eldercare...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Powers Advanced Analytics at NASA NCCS
Today Supermicro announced that the company has partnered with the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) to expand advanced computing and data analytics used...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Optimizing Cosmos Code on Intel Xeon Phi
In this TACC podcast, Cosmos code developer Chris Fragile joins host Jorge Salazar for a discussion on how researchers are using supercomputers to simulate thePodcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Adds a Spark Conferencing Assistant
Said to be a result of Cisco's acquisition of MindMeld earlier this year. Makes sense, now will it add a level of attentiveness to a conference and do supporting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Help Shape the Future of Data Science!
National Library of Medicine Director Patti Brennan spoke at the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) this morning...
From insideHPC
University of North Texas turns to Bright Computing for Efficient Cluster Management
Today Bright Computing, a global leader in cluster and cloud infrastructure automation software, is proud to announce that the University of North Texas (UNT) has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as the New Electrcity
Interesting thoughts on AI, Still beware of hyped expectations. Brains in Alexa or Siri? Still awaiting that. In Knowledge@Wharton. Why AI is the new Electricity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Memory Video Holograms
As the Verge article linked to beow suggests, the term Hologram is being used differently and non-technically here, as kind of 3D video that can be later accessed...
From insideHPC
Composable Infrastructure: Composing Greater HPC Breakthroughs
Composable infrastructure allows any number of CPU nodes to dynamically map the optimum number of GPU and NVMe storage resources to each node required to complete...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mentors, Mentees, Assistants
Perhaps obvious, but reasonable statement of the needs. In the HBR.Can a virtual assistant be a mentee? We examined. In the short term, no, the information exchange...
From Schneier on Security
Cybercriminals Infiltrating E-Mail Networks to Divert Large Customer Payments
There's a new criminal tactic involving hacking an e-mail account of a company that handles high-value transactions and diverting payments. Here it is in real estate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Mike Zamansky–the update
When I last talked to Mike Zamansky for this blog he was teaching computer science at Stuyvesant high school (one of New York City’s entrance exam high schools)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hinton and Capsule Networks
We followed neural networks from their earliest days, but where they failed they did not have the data to consistently work under changing context, and at highGoogle's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flying Cow Drone Cell Service
A drone that temporarily flies at a few hundred feed to provide services. Our own look at commercial drone services showed this could be done. 40 mile square...
From The Eponymous Pickle