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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 insideHPC
IEEE Recognizes Three Early Career Researchers in HPC
Today the IEEE Computer Society announced the winners of the IEEE-CS Technical Consortium on HPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solver Methods Improved by Frontline
Was an early user of Solver. Should not be forgotten given all the new claims out there today. Solver works directly as an add-on to Excel 365. And as mentioned...
From insideHPC
How Can We Bring Apps to Racks?
In this special guest feature, Rosemary Dr Rosemary Francis from Ellexus describes why the customized nature of HPC is not a sustainable path forward for the next...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future is Now
Gartner looks at futurology:The Future is Here. The Future is Now. by Frank Buytendijk We’re getting a bit tired of all the future hype. Don’t we?In the future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle Uses AI to Self Heal, Adapt
Have heard relatively little about Oracle and AI. Useful to look at more examples of internal uses of technologies to maintain and deliver value. Intrigued about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Opens AI Lab in Montreal
Following closely what Samsung is doing, given their broad involvement with home appliances and the Smart Home via SmartThings.Samsung is the latestTech Giant to...
From insideHPC
Multiscale Dataflow Computing: Competitive Advantage at the Exascale Frontier
"This talk will explain the motivation behind dataflow computing to escape the end of frequency scaling in the push to exascale machines, introduce the MaxelerMultiscale...
From Schneier on Security
Remote Malware Attacks on ATMs
This report discusses the new trend of remote malware attacks against ATMs....
From The Noisy Channel
Evaluating Search: Using Human Judgement
Originally posted on the Twiggle blog.In the previous post, we looked at measuring searcher behavior in order to evaluate search engine performance. Measuring searcher...
From The Noisy Channel
Evaluating Search: Measuring Searcher Behavior
Originally posted on the Twiggle blog.Measuring the effectiveness of your search engine is hard. Fortunately, you have an army of volunteers helping you: your customers...
From The Noisy Channel
Evaluating Good Search (Part I): Measure It
Originally posted on the Twiggle blog.At Twiggle, we’re all about improving the search experience. But how do we define improvement? As Lord Kelvin, one of history...
From Computational Complexity
Monty Hall (1921-2017) and His Problem
Monty Hall passed away yesterday, best known for co-creating and hosting the game show The Price is Right, a show I occasionally watched as a kid. To the best...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is the Blockchain?
WTF is The Blockchain? Mohit Mamoria Editor, Unmade The ultimate 3500-word guide in plain English to understand Blockchain. .... "
From insideHPC
Scaling Up and Out with ARM Architectures
Vijay Nagarajan from the University of Edinburgh gave this talk at the ARM Research Summit. "The second annual Arm Research Summit is an academic summit to discuss...
From insideHPC
HPC4Mfg Program Seeks New Projects
The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program in the Energy Department’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) announced today their intent to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarming Robotics
More Swarms. Now how do we get the cooperation right? With centralized control.Introducing a New Robotic Class With Abilities Out-Performing Existing Machines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI is Riding a One Trick Pony
In technology review. See also the comments, which include quite a few people, like myself, who participated in both AI 'revolutions'. What we know now is that...
From Putting People First
Financial Times special report on citizen empowerment through technology
The Financial Times has published People’s Technology, an excellent special report on how grassroots communities across Europe are using technologies in new ways...
From Putting People First
Thinking about the social cost of technology
The frustration and stress caused by complex technologies that can seem unknowable — not to mention the time and mindshare that gets wasted trying to make systems...
From Putting People First