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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Examining the Bots Landscape
A visual look at the Bots Landscape, In LinkedinDiscussion Group in Wharton Customer Analytics InitiativeBy Vladimer BotsvadzeThe bots landscape will transformExisting...
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Kinetic Jewelry
MIT's new 'living' jewelry are creepy robot beetles for your clothesNot fashion meets function yet by Dani Deahl @danideahl Last year, MIT and Stanford debuted...
From Schneier on Security
Research on What Motivates ISIS -- and Other -- Fighters
Interesting research from Nature Human Behaviour: "The devoted actor's will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict": Abstract: Frontline investigations...
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China's Digital Economy
A discussion and PDF paper with considerable data and statistics. China’s digital economy: A leading global force by McKinseyBy Jonathan Woetzel, Jeongmin Seong...
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Center Store Resets (Again).
We were old hands at trying to better understand the center store. It was one thing we worked on in our innovation centers. So this article struck me. What tech...
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What can a Drone Carry Today?
A related question came up in the retail space, what can we reasonably deliver via a Drone today? What do we need to measure to calculate this as Drones improve...
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Overview of AI and Machine Learning
From a customer perspective, what is machine learning or AI? by Natalie Petouhoff, Ph.D. Wondering whether you should invest in AI and Machine Learning? That’s...
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Ultrasonic Attacks on Voice Devices
Alexa and Siri are vulnerable to 'silent,' nefarious commands in Endgadget by S. Dent Unheard voices could direct your smartphone to malicious websites. .....
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Shop Home Depot with Voice Using Google Home
Another voice based shopping example in place. I would imagine that DIY interactions could often use visual interaction as well, so assuming the Google Home will...
From insideHPC
Ohio Supercomputer Center open-sources HPC Access Portal
Open OnDemand is an NSF-funded project to develop a widely shareable web portal that provides HPC centers with advanced web and graphical interface capabilities...
From insideHPC
EPFL Building New Particle Detector for Large Hadron Collider
EPFL’s physicists are moving forward in their efforts to solve the mysteries of the universe. A particle detector made up of 10,000 kilometers of scintillatingEPFL...
From insideHPC
Interview: Jeffrey Schwab on Building the World’s Fastest Network at SC17
In this guest feature, Jeffrey Schwab describes his role as SCinet Chair at SC17 and how his team of volunteers is building the fastest and most powerful volunteer...
From insideHPC
Announcing the EuroEXA Project for Exascale
Today, 16 organizations met at the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre to mark the start of the EuroEXA project and the commencement of the execution in the next stage...
From My Biased Coin
Simulated Annealing for JPEG Quantization
I have a new paper on the arxiv (web page describing results, and full version** available) with two Harvard undergrads, Max Hopkins and Sebastian Wagner-Carrena...
From insideHPC
The Intel Scalable System: Kick-Starting the AI Revolution
Like many other HPC workloads, deep learning is a tightly coupled application that alternates between compute-intensive number-crunching and high-volume data sharing...
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Cisco on Meetings
From the Cisco Blog, good points made, not very new, but worth repeating. Nothing on the possible use of AI attentive methods to gather data about what has happened...
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Interpreting Machine Learning
Interesting piece, somewhat wordy with embedded technical aspect. But worth the read.Ideas on interpreting machine learningMix-and-match approaches for visualizing...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities in AT&T Routers
They're actually Arris routers, sold or given away by AT&T. There are several security vulnerabilities, some of them very serious. They can be fixed, but because...
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Alexa will be a Concierge
Its the ultimate kind of intelligence. We called it a concierge skill. Its not what you know, its who you know, or what you have that knows, and can apply itAlexa...
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