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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
Garmin Speak Adds Alexa Option
Garmin Speak puts Amazon Alexa in your car, It's now available for $150. By Mariella Moon, @mariella_moonGamin's GPS devices already feature voice control, but...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Mike Thompson
I met Mike Thompson (no relation) just recently. He was giving a professional development session on teaching middle school students with AppInventor. I wantedWHERE...
From Putting People First
Richard Thaler’s Nobel Prize is a win for good design
by Erin O’Loughlin Richard Thaler’s 2017 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday was met with more buzz around the offices of our design agency than is usual for economics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Report from the Smart Kitchen Summit
Used to attend these kinds of meetings, to feed our own innovation center experiments, always had to separate the reasonable from the outlandish. In say a decade...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Put Humans at the Center of AI
Worked with the Stanford AI lab, and a number of the startups and students that came out of it.Put Humans at the Center of AI in Technology ReviewAt Stanford and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Improves, Automates Pet Tagging
We were involved in work that sought to autotag pictures of people and pets in still images and video. So this is quite a step forward. Not too long ago thisMeow...
From insideHPC
Video: Supercomputing Models Enable Detection of a Cosmic Cataclysm
In this podcast, Peter Nugent from Berkeley Lab explains how scientists confirmed the first-ever measurement of the merger of two neutron stars and its explosive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Releases Video Neural Training Data
More generally available training data for Deep Learning systems.Facebook debuts new video datasets for training neural networks by Maria Deutscher Facebook Inc...
From Computational Complexity
Reductions between formal languages
Let EQ = {w : number of a's = number of b's } Let EQO = { anbn : n ∈ N} (so its Equal and in Order) Typically we do the following: Prove EQO is not regular...
From insideHPC
ISC 2018 Issues Call For Tutorials and Workshops
ISC 2018 has issued their Call for Tutorials and Workshops. The conference takes place June 24-28 in Frankfurt, Germany. "If you possess knowledge and skills in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Voice Assistants in the Workplace
Now been involved in a number of brainstorm meetings addressing now virtual assistants can be used in the workplace. Especially how voice can be used without disrupting...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Earthquakes in the Age of Exascale
Over at LLNL, Linda Vu writes that tomorrow's exascale supercomputers, will enable researchers to accurately simulate the ground motions of regional earthquakes...
From The Noisy Channel
To Build Better Search, Develop Empathy With Your Users
User experience designers recognize the importance of empathy in the design process. Understanding how and why users engage with products yields insights that help...
From insideHPC
Intel FPGAs Power Acceleration-as-a-Service for Alibaba Cloud
Intel field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are now powering the Acceleration-as-a-Service of Alibaba Cloud. The acceleration service, which can be launched from...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at how How Blockchain Could Prevent Fake News
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Henry Newman’s recent proposal to use Blockchain as a way to combat Fake News. Henry shares that this rant result...
From Schneier on Security
New KRACK Attack Against Wi-Fi Encryption
Mathy Vanhoef has just published a devastating attack against WPA2, the 14-year-old encryption protocol used by pretty much all wi-fi systems. Its an interesting...
From insideHPC
Simplifying HPC Software Stack Management
While most of the fundamental HPC system software building blocks are now open source, dealing with the sheer number of components and their inherently complexSimplifying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Next Gen Personalization
Good piece shows the breadth of tech being used to personalize.Shop.org Takeaway: Three steps to next-gen personalization By Deena M.Amato-McCoy in ChainStorage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Machine Interface
The idea has been around for years, now approaching reality. In Wired: " .... 2017 has been a coming-out year for the Brain-Machine Interface (BMI), a technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle