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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 Schneier on Security
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's Cell Phone was Tapped
Politico reports that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's cell phone was compromised back in December. I know this is news because of who he is, but I hope...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pew Research: Automation in Everyday Life
An extensive report based on surveys. Pointer is to an overview, and then links further to a full PDF report I am reading. Addressing fear about the future ofPew...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Train Ants to be Helpers
A novel application linking robots and insects. Not really Biomimicy, but a sort of Biosynthesis. Not sure how practical this is for a real application, but impressed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing Voice Shopping at Walmart
This started a week ago. I will be testing this in the coming weeks. Will typical retail store searching and shopping work this way for the Wal-Mart shopper?Walmart...
From insideHPC
Video: Argonne’s Theta Supercomputer Architecture
Scott Parker gave this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Designed in collaboration with Intel and Cray, Theta is a 9.65-petaflops...
From insideHPC
COMSOL Conference Showcases Next-Gen Multiphysics
Attendees of the COMSOL Conference in Boston this week were treated to a sneak preview future developments of the popular multiphysics software from Svante Littmarck...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Outlined New Capabilities for Google Home
Perhaps mundane, but since I have a multiple assistant smart home and office, I like that fact that it will include multiple voices. So you can readily know who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Amazon Playbook
Good overview, in general this has been my external view as well.The Amazon Playbook for Speed and Agility Jeff Toister In CustomerThinkIt’s no secret AmazonWhat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain and Insurance Industry
Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent10 Voices - HarvardBusiness.org by Dante Disparte While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Built from Atomic Switches
A Brain Built From Atomic Switches Can LearnQuanta MagazineBy Andreas von BubnoffA tiny self-organized mesh full of artificial synapses recalls its experiencesResearchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Virtual Customer Service Agents
New means of virtual support by Microsoft. Notably connected to their LinkededIn and their Knowledge Graph. This could be a key means to useful enterprise AI....
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Ada Lovelace Celebration
Ada Lovelace Celebration, Uppsala, Sweden
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer at PDT Partners in NYC
The PDT team is seeking a highly-talented Linux HPC Systems Administrator to enhance and support our research computing clusters. As part of the HPC/Grid team,Job...
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Video: Scientel Runs Record Breaking Calculation on Owens Cluster at OSC
In this video, Norman Kutemperor from Scientel describes how his company ran a record-setting big data problem on the Owens supcomputer at OSC. "The Ohio Supercomputer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revinventing the Design of Rx Labels
While we were in the RX business this is an area we tinkered with, like the re-design approach.CVS Taps A Design Legend To Reinvent The Prescription Label. Next...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Trends
Four deep learning trends from ACL 2017 by Abigail SeePart One: Linguistic Structure and Word EmbeddingsIntroduction“NLP is booming”, declared Joakim Nivre atBeneath...
From The Eponymous Pickle
KPI in User Experience
Always good to think about useful measures.What is the most important KPI in User Experience?by Magnus Revang in The Gartner BlogI have many conversations about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DNA Barcoding of Trees
In our early work managing forest assets in Alberta, for pulp in use in consumer products, we actively looked at ways of measuring tree growth and asset management...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Baby Ichthyosaurus Fed on Squid
New discovery: paper and article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog...
From insideHPC