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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 insideHPC
Video: 25 Years of Supercomputing at Oak Ridge
Since its early days, the OLCF has consistently delivered supercomputers of unprecedented capability to the scientific community on behalf of DOE—contributing to...
From Computational Complexity
The two fears about technology- one correct, one incorrect
When the luddites smashed loom machines their supporters (including Lord Byron, Ada Lovelaces father) made two arguments in favor of the luddites (I am sure IWeapons...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ocado Robots Filling Grocery Orders
With video and detail. Impressive move forward.. Have now watched grocery pick up orders being composed by workers in a standard Kroger store. Not a fastHow...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Announces Innova-2 FPGA-Based Programmable Adapters
Today Mellanox announced the Innova-2 product family of FPGA-based smart network adapters. Innova-2 is the industry leading programmable adapter designed for aMellanox...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
GHC17 / Teaching Literature with Interactivity
Any time I go to a conference and see the word 'learning' in a session title, I get excited. Even better when games are involved. So I was already positioned to...
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Advanced Clustering Technologies to build “Pistol Pete” Supercomputer at Oklahoma State
Today Oklahoma State University announced that Advanced Clustering Technologies has been contracted to build and install its newest supercomputer to support a broad...
From insideHPC
Intel at SC17: To showcase HPC technologies, luminary speakers, and a virtual motorsports experience
This year at SC17, Intel offers many opportunities to learn about the newest technologies, emerging fields like Artificial Intelligence, and the ways organizations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Images Can be Constructed to Fool Deep Learning
A troublesome result, especially where there is incentive to do so.Fooling Neural Networks in the Physical World with 3D Adversarial ObjectsWe’ve developed an...
From The Noisy Channel
Personalization
In 1964, information science pioneer William Goffman said:Relevance is defined as a measure of information conveyed by a document relative to a query…[but] thecontext...
From Schneier on Security
Daphne Caruana Galizia's Murder and the Security of WhatsApp
Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese journalist whose anti-corruption investigations exposed powerful people. She was murdered in October by a car bomb. Galizia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Deep Learning Applications
Intriguing piece I am reviewing, showing the continued complexity of the field, from a practice perspective.Nuts and Bolts of Building Deep Learning Applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cautions About Betting on Platforms
Most of us are today betting on a platform, the Internet, so this seems odd advice. But we are also betting on some specifics of the internet, access, architecture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looker for Self Service Analytics
Brought to my attention by a client: LookerClaims for democratized and secure, real time data analytics.It’s a delicate balance between making data available for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bixby Assistant Expanded?
I think that Samsung's Bixby will be important to follow as an assistant. Saw a prototype of this long ago. On a visit to an appliance store recently I saw a Samsung...
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Cray Deploys Pair of Supercomputers in Canada for Weather Forecasting
Today Shared Services Canada (SSC) dedicated a pair of Cray supercomputers in Quebec. The new HPC systems will be used by the Environment and Climate Change Canada...
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Radio Free HPC Talks Performance Optimization with RedLine Performance Solutions
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC teams discusses performance optimization with Carolyn Pasti and Don Avart from Red Line Performance Solutions. The company is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retails and Click and Collect
Include further information and discussion.Are retailers getting comfy with click & collect? by Nikki Baird in Retailwire.Through a special arrangement, whatDuring...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Data Function Expanded
IBM expands Watson data platform to help unleash AI for professionalsProvides foundation for secure and intelligent data sharing between business teams across public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots need to Dream?
Cognitive Architecture, allowing some reorganization for changing context?When robots dream: AI systems may learn better and faster if they can ‘sleep’ By Gina...
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