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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
National Briefing Call on K-12 Computer Science Education
I'm told this will be very well worth the time. I may even join with my Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles students.We are pleased to invite you toCSforAll...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clearpath Moderizes TurtleBot
Clearpath Modernizes TurtleBot With Intel Euclid and iRobot Create By Evan Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum Clearpath Robotics, in partnership with Intel and iRobot,For...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Yet Another Example of the Importance of Good Names
A little Tuesday humor. I think I may use this to help students understand the importance of good variable names and other identifiers.
From Schneier on Security
Securing a Raspberry Pi
A Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer designed for markers and all sorts of Internet-of-Things types of projects. Make magazine has an article about securing it. Reading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Sound Environments
We experimented with managing sound environments in retail. Perhaps a more rigorous way to look at the problem? See my tags on this. A New Mobile Application...
From The Noisy Channel
Contextual Query Understanding
So far, we’ve focused on understanding searchers based entirely on the words they type into the search box. But search doesn’t occur in a vacuum. In the next posts...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A TSP Breakthrough
A new approximation algorithm Composite of src1, src2, src3 Ola Svensson, Jakub Tarnawski, and László Végh have made a breakthrough in the area of approximation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa as Companion for Hospital Stay
An example of AI and chatbot digital assistants being tested for hospital patient interaction. See the tag below: 'Hospital Virtual Assistants' for more diverse...
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: Supercomputing Asia 2018 in Singapore
The inaugural Supercomputing Asia conference has issued its Call for Technical Papers. The event takes place March 26-29, 2018 in Singapore. The post Call for Submissions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics in Hospital Operations
Continuing my look at Hospital Operations and AI/Robotics/Assistants, especially with regard to patient interaction and comfort.Adoption of Robotics Into a Hospital's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Who Wants to be the DNS Server?
We’re studying how the Internet works in my AP CS Principles course. I wanted a little exercise to help students understand how DNS servers work and maybe through...
From insideHPC
MIT Paper Sheds Light on How Neural Networks Think
MIT researchers have developed a new general-purpose technique sheds light on inner workings of neural nets trained to process language. "During training, a neural...
From insideHPC
Video: The DOE Exascale Computing Project
Doug Koethe from ORNL gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. “The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) was established with the goals of maximizing the...
From insideHPC
New OrionX Survey: Insights in Artificial Intelligence
In this Radio Free HPC podcast, Dan Olds and Shahin Khan from OrionX describe their new AI Survey. "OrionX Research has completed one the most comprehensive surveys...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Resources
Good list, mostly courses, on these topics.Writing about AI/ML, growing @YupTechnologies. Previously @Upstart, @Yale, @TrueVenturesTEC. By Vishal Maini The Best...
From Schneier on Security
A Hardware Privacy Monitor for iPhones
Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Edward Snowden have designed a hardware device that attaches to an iPhone and monitors it for malicious surveillance activities, even...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing Better Passwords
Just started to rethink the effective use of passwords here ....Choose Better Passwords With the Help of Science in The ConversationLorrie Cranor; Blase Ur; Lujo...
From Computational Complexity
The Scarecrow's math being wrong was intentional
In 2009 I had a post about Movie mistakes (see here). One of them was the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz after he got a Diploma (AH- but not a brain) he said The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Webinar on AI Fueling the Retail Supply Chain
A.I.’s role in fueling the retail supply chainRetail operators are at a Darwinian crossroads, facing a future in which evolution equates to survival. Many retailers...
From The Eponymous Pickle