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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
Update on Hololens
Micorosft's update on AR work. Always looking for practical business examples. A bit thin on new applications covered. Here covered: Driving collaborationFord...
From insideHPC
NCI Doubles Raijin Supercomputer Throughput with IBM POWER8
Today NCI in Australia announced that it has adopted IBM’s Power8 architecture as part of Raijin, the system fastest supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere.NCI...
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Shoppers Allocating Research, Shopping Time
Good piece in Thinking with Google: How do provide true assistance that is seen as value? Good embedded statistics.Holiday shoppers want more help in a hurry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Watson and How is it Used Today
Have now been involved in a number of AI and expertise delivery projects over the years. In recent years much of the conversation starts with Watson. And solution...
From insideHPC
Win Supercomputer Access in the ARCTUR Be Innovative HPC Challenge
Today the ARCTUR group in Slovenia announced the ARCTUR Be Innovative HPC Challenge. In this contest, 350,000 EUR worth of ARCTUR HPC resources will be grantedWin...
From Computational Complexity
2017 Fall Jobs Post
You're finishing up grad school or a postdoc and ask yourself what should I do for the rest of my life? We can't answer that for you but we can help you figureCRA...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA GPU Cloud comes to AWS with Volta GPUs
"In just a few steps, the NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) container registry helps developers get started with no-cost access to a comprehensive, easy-to-use, fully optimized...
From insideHPC
Versity names Meghan McClelland VP of Product
Today Versity Software announced the addition of Meghan McClelland as Vice President of Product. Meghan will oversee the launch of Versity’s next generation cloud...
From insideHPC
Intel Compilers 18.0 Tune for AVX-512 ISA Extensions
Intel Compilers 18.0 and Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 tuning software fully support the AVX-512 instructions. By widening and deepening the vector registers, the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Adam Michlin
Adam and I interact mostly on Facebook where he has created a number of very active Facebook groups including one called Computer Science Educators He's a man of...
From Schneier on Security
The Science of Interrogation
Fascinating article about two psychologists who are studying interrogation techniques. Now, two British researchers are quietly revolutionising the study and practice...
From Putting People First
Epic storytelling with video
Another EPIC conference come and gone, and no, we’re not using “epic” in the way under-10s use it about cool things on the internet. EPIC is the Ethnographic Praxis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Key Starts to Deliver
Amazon starts to test another novel supply chain solution. Easier than direct drone delivery? Akin to some of the lock box solutions we tested. But also radically...
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Blockchain Taking over the World
Good introductory piece arguing the universality of the approach, starting with Bitcoin. In CACM.Why Blockchain is Taking Over the World By Logan Kugler You've...
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Crowd Sourced Research
We did something related by giving knowledgeable people the ability to compete, in a gamelike way, in finding solutions to a sub task. It was often hard to define...
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How Much Data do you Need for Deep Learning?
I have been many times involved with the question for many kinds of analytic methods. 100 datapoints is too few for something that's expected to precisely predictive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chronophobia: Fear of Future
Not sure I agree, based on Pew, people will say they dislike the future, yet they continually pay, as much as they are able, to participate in that future. Chronophobia...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Observations on Parents Shopping for High Schools
We had an open house for prospective students and their parents at school on Sunday. We’re a private school so getting parents to see a reason to spend the money...
From insideHPC
JPCU Deploys Immersion-cooled Supercomputer
Today Green Revolution Cooling announced the latest installation of its liquid immersion computing system at John Paul Catholic University (JPCU) in San Diego.JPCU...
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