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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 Putting People First
Google’s Director of User Experience on the power of ethnography in an era of Big Data
Elizabeth Churchill, Google’s Director of User Experience argues that there has never been a better time for an ethnographic embrace and a reconfiguration of what...
From insideHPC
Bringing Diversity to Computational Science
"Computing is one of the least diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, with an under-representation of women and minorities, including...
From insideHPC
OpenHPC: Project Overview and Updates
Karl Schulz from Intel gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "There is a growing sense within the HPC community for the need to have an open community effort...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Problems of AI ethics
This is certainly true in the short term. A presentation.The real project of AI ethics in O'Reilly.Joanna Bryson says AI's main threat is not that it will do...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Relaunching Google Glass
A historical view of why something like Google Glass, emerged and failed, but is said to about to rise again. We folloswed it for several business applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Brewing Your Coffee
We were into the coffee business for a long time. Blending, roasting, brewing, marketing and selling. Even using AI to find the best blends. So the idea would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Rival to Wikipedia?
But Elsevier is a walled garden, and this approach will not be publicly edited. The power of Wikipedia is the breadth of coverage. And as the article suggests...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Origami Robotics
The concept is a long time follow.MIT Origami Robot Transforms to Become a Boat, a Glider, or a Wheel. By Luke DormehResearchers from the Massachusetts Institute...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Empire Is a New Book
Regularly I receive mail from people wanting to advertise on, write for, or sponsor posts on my blog. My rule is that I say no to everyone. There is no amount of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Move Against Amazon
When I ask people about using Jet, they rarely know what it is. Interesting that Wal-Mart is trying to expand that brand. Note the essentials emphasis.Walmart...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Assistants and Multitasking
Thoughtful piece, needs to be considered in conversational dialog.The Real Problem with Voice Assistants like Siri is your Brain By Robbie Gonzalez in Wired "...
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Powers SingleParticle.com for cryo-EM
Today Bright Computing announced a reseller agreement with San Diego-based SingleParticle.com. The company specializes in turn-key HPC infrastructure designed for...
From insideHPC
A Perspective on HPC-enabled AI
Tim Barr from Cray gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "Cray’s unique history in supercomputing and analytics has given us front-line experienceA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever CMO is Guest Editor at Think with Google
The article also includes a look at a number of technology areas of prime interest to marketing.Meet our guest editor, Keith WeedIn our ongoing effort to provide...
From insideHPC
Supermicro steps up with Optimized Systems for NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs
Today Supermicro announced support for NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCI-E and V100 SXM2 GPUs on its industry leading portfolio of GPU server platforms. With our latest innovations...
From insideHPC
Sowing Seeds of Quantum Computation at Berkeley Lab
"Berkeley Lab’s tradition of team science, as well as its proximity to UC Berkeley and Silicon Valley, makes it an ideal place to work on quantum computing end-to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fashionable Contactless Payment
Interesting aspect, a sort of tagging, but with fashion it seems.Timex's new watch collection includes contactless payment strapsBarclaycard's bPay contactlessBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Mining for AI Dialog
Google at KDD " 23rd ACM conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining ". talking graph mining. Ultimately a power idea for driving AI. How close are we...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Who Says There Is No Room for More Computer Science
People keep asking me what required course I would remove to make room for a required computer science course. So I decided to take a look at current requirements...
From Schneier on Security