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New NSF Program Solicitation on Cyberlearning for Work at the Human-Technology Frontier
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

New NSF Program Solicitation on Cyberlearning for Work at the Human-Technology Frontier

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a new program solicitation on Cyberlearning for Work at the Human-Technology Frontier. The goal of the program...

New Internet Explorer Bug
From Schneier on Security

New Internet Explorer Bug

There's a newly discovered bug in Internet Explorer that allows any currently visited website to learn the contents of the address bar when the user hits enter....

Candid vs Posed Photos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Candid vs Posed Photos

Podcast So Long, Selfies: Why Candid Photos Make a Better ImpressionWharton's Jonah Berger discusses his research on posed photos vs. candid photos.   " .... In...

Penguin Computing Launches NVIDIA Tesla V100-based Servers
From insideHPC

Penguin Computing Launches NVIDIA Tesla V100-based Servers

Today Penguin Computing announced strategic support for the field of artificial intelligence through availability of its servers based on the highly-advanced NVIDIA...

Vans and Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Vans and Drones

This was new to me, quite an interesting case.  Bring on the Drones.Switzerland’s new autonomous drone network just completed its first delivery Coffee anyone?by...

More AI Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

More AI Assistants

Yesterdays announcements by Amazon suggest that this statement is true:Amazon Is All-Out to Fill Your Home With AI Assistants Before Its Competition Can.  More ...

Geospatial Services Everywhere
From The Eponymous Pickle

Geospatial Services Everywhere

Continue to be amazed by the advances of geospatial capabilities.  Geography must be much easier to teach these days,  curiosity can be fed so easily with freely...

AMAX.AI Unveils [SMART]Rack Machine Learning Cluster
From insideHPC

AMAX.AI Unveils [SMART]Rack Machine Learning Cluster

Today AMAX.AI launched the [SMART]Rack AI Machine Learning cluster, an all-inclusive rackscale platform is maximized for performance featuring up to 96x NVIDIAAMAX...

IBM Moves Data Science Forward with Integrated Analytics System
From insideHPC

IBM Moves Data Science Forward with Integrated Analytics System

Today IBM announced the Integrated Analytics System, a new unified data system designed to give users fast, easy access to advanced data science capabilities and...

Best Practices for Natural Language Processing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Best Practices for Natural Language Processing

Best NLP Processing   By Sebastian Ruder   via O'ReillyIntroductionThis post is a collection of best practices for using neural networks in Natural Language Processing...

Workplace by FaceBook
From The Eponymous Pickle

Workplace by FaceBook

Why Workplace by Facebook will win by Rob Castaneda.   Interesting disconnect proposition:" ... White collar was and still is head office. It is the center of control...

Video: How MVAPICH & MPI Power Scientific Research
From insideHPC

Video: How MVAPICH & MPI Power Scientific Research

Adam Moody from LLNL presented this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "High-performance computing is being applied to solve the world's most daunting problems, including...

From Computational Complexity

Tragic Losses

I'd like to remember two young people who's lives were taken way too early. I didn't know either well but both played large roles in two different communities...

OpenMP at 20 Moving Forward to 5.0
From insideHPC

OpenMP at 20 Moving Forward to 5.0

This year, OpenMP*, the widely used API for shared memory parallelism supported in many C/C++ and Fortran compilers, turns 20. OpenMP is a great example of howOpenMP...

Department of Homeland Security to Collect Social Media of Immigrants and Citizens
From Schneier on Security

Department of Homeland Security to Collect Social Media of Immigrants and Citizens

New rules give the DHS permission to collect "social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information, and search results" as part of people's immigration...

Fear and Loathing and Required Computer Science Education
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Fear and Loathing and Required Computer Science Education

It seems like every time someone suggests that computer science be a required school subject someone (sometimes several people) bring up on particular objection...

Passage.AI Emerges for Multiple Platforms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Passage.AI Emerges for Multiple Platforms

Have always been interested in ways to make chatbot AI easier. Since our long ago successful use of the Extempo package.   Here another example emerging. Passage...

Amazon Hardware Event Today
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Hardware Event Today

Attended this via theVerge, which does a good technical comparison view.  I follow this closely because I have worked with some companies in the AI/Attentive chat...

B2B and Customer Demands
From The Eponymous Pickle

B2B and Customer Demands

Digital has changed how B2B leaders meet customer demands, but not in all the expected ways. In McKinsey:" ..... As digital continues to disrupt every aspect of...

Reasonet Ingests and Answers Questions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reasonet Ingests and Answers Questions

Came up to me in several directions.   ReasoNet.  A machine reading program that allows machines to ingest documents, read them, and then answer questions based...
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