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More Unattended Delivery by Latch for Wal-Mart
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Unattended Delivery by Latch for Wal-Mart

So its not only Amazon doing unattended delivery with specialized door locks.   Jet (Now part of Wal-Mart)  has also started to do it with smart access startup....

Select Practical Articles on Clustering
From The Eponymous Pickle

Select Practical Articles on Clustering

A Group of 14 articles on clustering tutorials, applications and methods.  One of the most common used analytic methods.  All levels of technical coverage From ...

Popular Mechanic's Take on AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Popular Mechanic's Take on AI

 Popular Mechanics (founded 1902), read this magazine years ago, it is where I heard of predictions of completely automatic butler robots.  Available very soon....

Google Does Conferencing, Needs Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Does Conferencing, Needs Assistant

Below described an announced  business extension of Hangouts. It would seem that a natural next step would combine this with Google Assistant.   A simple example...

A Theory of Origami
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Theory of Origami

A continued follow of the idea, we examined it for possible packaging applications.The Atomic Theory of Origami  In Quantum MagazineBy Marcus Woo    Contributing...

RAID Inc. Unveils Xanadu 500 Storage Appliances
From insideHPC

RAID Inc. Unveils Xanadu 500 Storage Appliances

Today RAID Incorporated announced “its most advanced storage series yet.” The Xanadu 500 series is designed to simplify and deliver high performance computing storage...

Designing HPC, Big Data, & Deep Learning Middleware for Exascale
From insideHPC

Designing HPC, Big Data, & Deep Learning Middleware for Exascale

DK Panda from Ohio State University presented this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference. "This talk will focus on challenges in designing HPC, BigDesigning...

Asetek Announces NEC as New Datacenter OEM Partner
From insideHPC

Asetek Announces NEC as New Datacenter OEM Partner

Today Asetek announced NEC Corporation as a new data center OEM partner. NEC Corporation, through its subsidiary NEC Fielding, Ltd., will deploy Asetek RackCDUAsetek...

Attack on Old ANSI Random Number Generator
From Schneier on Security

Attack on Old ANSI Random Number Generator

Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a paper that pointed to a potential flaw in the ANSI X9.17 RNG standard. Now, new research has found that the flaw exists in some implementations...

NVIDIA GPUs Power Fujitsu AI Supercomputer at RIKEN in Japan
From insideHPC

NVIDIA GPUs Power Fujitsu AI Supercomputer at RIKEN in Japan

Today Fujutsu announced the deployment of a new AI supercomputer at RIKEN in Japan. Called RAIDEN (Riken AIp Deep learning ENvironment), the GPU-accelerated Fujitsu...

Global Trade Powered by AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Global Trade Powered by AI

Another example of Analytics, AI and the supply chain.   We were winning awards for applications in this area back in the 90s,  always glad to see new examples....

Customer Experience Value Creation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Customer Experience Value Creation

Some basic questions ...What is Customer Experience Value Creation? Featured Column by CustomerThink AdvisorBy Lynn Hunsaker    Customer experience value is seldom...

AAAI Fall Symposium Series- Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

AAAI Fall Symposium Series- Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is pleased to present the 2017 Fall Symposium Series, to be held Thursday through Saturday...

The Inflection Point of Wattage in HPC, Deep Learning and AI
From insideHPC

The Inflection Point of Wattage in HPC, Deep Learning and AI

Magnified in 2017 by machine learning and AI, there is a heightened concern in the HPC community over wattage trends in CPUs, GPUs and emerging neural chips required...

From Computational Complexity

The k=1 case is FUN, the k=2 case is fun, the k\ge 3 case is... you decide.

 (All of the math in this post is in here.) The following problem can be given as a FUN recreational problem to HS students or even younger: (I am sure that many...

CS Educator Interview: Raji Gupta
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CS Educator Interview: Raji Gupta

Professional Development days are often a great opportunity to meet other teachers and share idea. Even though I pass his school twice a day on my way to my school...

On the State of Healthcare Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the State of Healthcare Robotics

Very good overview,  with recent advances and challenges.Healthcare Robotics   by Laurel D. Riek Communications of the ACM, Vol. 60 No. 11, Pages 68-7810.1145/3127874...

Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post.
From The Noisy Channel

Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post.

Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post.

Waymo focuses on user experience
From Putting People First

Waymo focuses on user experience

Waymo —formerly the Google self-driving car project— is investing a lot of time and effort on building out the user experience of its self-driving vehicles, which...

Evolving Technologies for Social: Hootsuite
From The Eponymous Pickle

Evolving Technologies for Social: Hootsuite

Certainly the case in the typical information ecology most of exist within.   Thus a challenge for many organizations.  Though I rarely hear it expressed.    A ...
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