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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
Time Measurement Productivity Tools
Had not heard of many of these tools. Rarely is time measured this carefully.8 Productivity Tools Illustrate You Have Way More Time Than You ThinkThe scarcity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ad Tech Emerging for Tactical Decisions
When I first joined the enterprise we constructed some near autonomous systems to analyze, select and insert ads optimally. If anything today, we have much better...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Russian Voice Assistant
Russian Voice Assistant Alice Sounds as Natural as Developer Yandex Claims By Brenda Stolyar in Digital TrendIt’s sometimes tough to remember the days when we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Creative Promotion Machine
Just now examining the creative personalization angle addressed here. A mix of personalization and creativity. But how much?AI-Based Promotions – Welcome to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Listening to Your Patients
Could virtual assistants act as a means to start efficient dialog with patients? Consider the patient interaction to be three-way. An assistant starts the interaction...
From insideHPC
Video: NASA Advanced Computing Environment for Science & Engineering
Rupak Biswas from NASA gave this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "High performance computing is now integral to NASA’s portfolio...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Scientific Computing Senior Engineer at NREL in Colorado
NREL in Golden, Colorado is seeking a Scientific Computing Senior Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We have an immediate opening for a Systems Engineer (Job Req...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cautions About Using this Blog
Because of the nature of a blog, and the way it presents information serially, please be careful to read the publication date of information. It may render information...
From insideHPC
SciDAC funding to Move Quantum Chromodynamics forward at Jefferson Lab
As nuclear physicists delve ever deeper into the heart of matter, they require the tools to reveal the next layer of nature's secrets. Nowhere is that more true...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Infrastructure Automation
Basic Infrastructure Automation is a No-Brainer – Why Aren’t You Doing It? Chris Gardner, Senior Analyst ForresterEveryone knows they need to automate. That...
From insideHPC
John Gustafson to host BoF on Posit Arithmetic at SC17
John Gustafson from A*STAR will host a BoF on Posit arithmetic at SC17. Entitled, "Improving Numerical Computation with Practical Tools and Novel Computer Arithmetic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fake Data
My colleague Kaiser Fung talks fake data. Good thoughts and pointers to examples and resources. Read his whole article at the link.Here is a problem staring many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ahold Digital Strategy
Considerable detail in this Progressive Grocer piece.Ahold's digital strategy pays offAhold USA has seen success with a new digital strategy that has brought on...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: International Squid Awareness Day
It's International Cephalopod Awareness Days this week, and Tuesday was Squid Day. I can't believe I missed it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
GHC17 / Changing of the Guard: Welcome to the New ABI President and CEO
At the opening keynote of this year's Grace Hopper Celebration, eighteen thousand technical women got to meet AnitaB.org's new President and CEO, Brenda Dardencheck...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections – October 2017
Letter from ACM-W chair. News from Celebrations Scholarship awardees of October Welcome from the ACM-W Chair The Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Capturing the Value of APIs
Good general discussion of the architecture. Good choices can make API possible and an asset. In McKinsey.What it really takes to capture the value of APIsBy...
From Schneier on Security
My Blogging
Blog regulars will notice that I haven't been posting as much lately as I have in the past. There are two reasons. One, it feels harder to find things to write...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Virus Structures at Nanoscale with XFEL
A team at Berkeley Lab are using innovative computational methods to enable new X-ray science. "The creation of XFEL facilities, including the Linac Coherent Light...
From The Eponymous Pickle