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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 …
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Google Compute Engine offers VMs with 96 Skylake CPUs and 624GB of Memory
Google Compute Engine now offers new VMs with the most Skylake vCPUs of any cloud provider. "Skylake in turn provides up to 20% faster compute performance, 82%Google...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connected Car as a New Way of Marketing
A Whole new Way of Marketing in KouponMediaWith connected cars on the rise and the number of minutes spent in the car also increasing, a powerful new marketingThe...
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Accelerating Quantum Chemistry for Drug Discovery
In the pharmaceutical industry, drug discovery is a long and expensive process. This sponsored post from Nvidia explores how the University of Florida and University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Blog on Conversational AI
Conversational Artificial Intelligence. We Need To Talk About It. by Adrian Lee in Gartner BlogGartner released its Top Strategic Predictions for 2018 and beyond...
From Schneier on Security
Changes in Password Best Practices
NIST recently published their four-volume SP800-63-3 Digital Identity Guidelines. Among other things, they make three important suggestions when it comes to passwords...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Vicky Sedgwick
My first teaching jobs were teaching in a pair of schools (half time in each) where I saw students from kindergarten through eight grade. It was a great learning...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
We are restarting The CSTA Advocate Blog!
Hello fellow educators of CS! After a one year hiatus, we are relaunching The CSTA Advocate Blog. With CSTA Advocate, we will bring people and ideas together. For...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising Stats: A Cheat Sheet
At first I thought these would define the stats and how they are obtained, but its a statement of their value, and in some cases trends. Rounded values. Mostly...
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Podcast: Intel Omni-Path adds Performance and Scalalability
"Intel OPA, part of Intel Scalable System Framework, is a high-performance fabric enabling the responsiveness, throughput, and scalability required by today's and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critical View of Data Viz Eye Tracking
Data viz expert Stephen Few looks at work done by Tableau using eye tracking methods to get insight about designing data visualizations. I recall seeing some...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: NSF Accepting Proposals Related to Hurricane Irma
In the wake of the recent hurricanes that have affected the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has released the following Dear Colleague Letter...
From Computational Complexity
Michael Cohen
When I first saw posts about Michael Cohen (see here, here, here) I wondered is that the same Michael Cohen who I knew as a HS student? It is. I share one memory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spending on Intelligent Assistants
Interesting piece, note the list of companies sharing their experiences with an intelligence assistance strategy.Intelligent Assistants Answer the Challenge of...
From insideHPC
Future HPC Leaders Gather at Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing
Over at ALCF, Andrea Manning writes that the recent Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing brought together HPC practitioners from around the world...
From The Noisy Channel
Session Context
The most immediate context for a search query is a search session, a sequence of activities the searcher performs in order to pursue an information-seeking task...
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PRACE Awards 1.7 Million Core Hours for Research Projects in Europe
Today the European PRACE initiative announced that 46 Awards from their recent 15th Call for Proposals total up to nearly 1.7 thousand million core hours. The 46...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patient Centric Hospitals of the Future
Below was an article that came up in my survey of patient-centric hospital designs, and the use of Hospital Virtual assistants. Where might virtual assistance...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Previews the SC17 Plenary on Smart Cities
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Smart Cities. As the featured topic this year at the SC17 Plenary, the Smart Cities initiative looks to improve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nudge Behavioral Economist Gets Nobel
In the BBC, this has gotten criticism because it can be seen as manipulative. Who has decided what nudges we need? And to what extent? This has always reminded...
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