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Unifying Statsitics Computer Science and Applied Math
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unifying Statsitics Computer Science and Applied Math

Makes sense to unify multiple methods,   and though not mentioned here, include logical decision processes as well.Unifying Statistics, Computer Science, and Applied...

New Techniques in Fake Reviews
From Schneier on Security

New Techniques in Fake Reviews

Research paper: "Automated Crowdturfing Attacks and Defenses in Online Review Systems." Abstract: Malicious crowdsourcing forums are gaining traction as sources...

SAVE THE DATE! CSTA2018 Omaha, Nebraska
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

SAVE THE DATE! CSTA2018 Omaha, Nebraska

Dates for the next CSTA Annual conference have been announced. Put it in your calendar and start making plans now. Get your request for professional development...

Steering Wheel of the Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Steering Wheel of the Future

Jaguar's steering wheel of the future revolves around AIIt also travels with you from car to car.Jon Fingas, @jonfingas  In Engadget ... " ... The steering wheel...

One Stop Systems on Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies
From insideHPC

One Stop Systems on Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies

Today One Stop Systems announced that the company ranks in the top half of the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies. This is the 7th time OSS has...

Sharp Appliances at IFA Berlin
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sharp Appliances at IFA Berlin

Interesting new ideas from Sharp of Japan, but surprising nothing 'smart' being shown.  Sony's Google Assistant Speaker was featured otherwise.   Other than that...

Executive Director for Computer Science Teachers Association Search
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Executive Director for Computer Science Teachers Association Search

The CSTA  is seeking an Executive Director. A link to the full position profile with the official details is here. That’s the official list of requirements. I have...

HPC vs. Cloud – The Return on Investment in eResearch
From insideHPC

HPC vs. Cloud – The Return on Investment in eResearch

Alan Williams from NCI presented this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Australia Conference. "Explore the services and technology at the National ComputationalHPC...

Bosch Develops Stain Scanner
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bosch Develops Stain Scanner

We developed something called the 'Stain Detective', later called the 'Stain Brain',  the intelligence there could be connected to something like Bosch's scanner...

[Book] Think like an anthropologist
From Putting People First

[Book] Think like an anthropologist

Think Like An Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke Pelican, August 2017, 339 pages [Start reading – Amazon link] How does anthropology help us understand who we are...

What Lies Ahead for HPC Cooling?
From insideHPC

What Lies Ahead for HPC Cooling?

"To meet the ambitious targets for exascale computing, many cooling companies are exploring optimizations and innovative methods that will redefine cooling architectures...

Coke Digital Vending, Now with AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coke Digital Vending, Now with AI

Long time follower here of the Coke Freestyle experience, saw prototypes of it with suggestions of how it could be adapted to supply chain and user experiences,...

Job of the Week: Scientific Visualization Developer at Kitware
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: Scientific Visualization Developer at Kitware

Kitware is seeking a Scientific Visualization Developer in our Job of Week. "Kitware is seeking to hire highly skilled Research and Development Engineers (R&D Engineers)...

Drones Accurately  Reading RFID Tag Positions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drones Accurately Reading RFID Tag Positions

MIT figured out a better way for drones to use RFID technologyWith a clever hack  by Dani Deahl  @danideahl  in TheVerge" .... MIT’s new solution, called Rfly,Rfly...

Alexa, Be More Human
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa, Be More Human

Excellent piece on the big challenge, an extension of the long known Eliza Effect.   And its implications for computing use in new ways, today and tomorrow.  AIn...

Predicting Earthquakes with Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting Earthquakes with Machine Learning

Broad idea has been around for years.  Are we getting closer?  Gets heavily into accuracy and risk of different kinds of errors here.    We worked with them onMachine...

TensorFlow Copy
From insideHPC

TensorFlow Copy

Sponsored Post Researchers at Google and Intel recently collaborated to extract the maximum performance from Intel® Xeon and Intel® Xeon Phi processors runningTensorFlow...

Machine Learning for Humans
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning for Humans

Nice piece ...Machine Learning for Humans   By Vishal Maini  Writing about AI/ML, growing @YupTechnologies. Previously @Upstart, @Yale, @TrueVenturesTEC. Simple...

Friday Squid Blogging: Bioluminescent Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Bioluminescent Squid

There's a beautiful picture of a tiny squid in this New York Times article on bioluminescence -- and a dramatic one of a vampire squid. As usual, you can also use...

Autocomplete and User Experience
From The Noisy Channel

Autocomplete and User Experience

The previous post focused on how to determine the best autocomplete suggestions based on query probability and query performance. In this post, we’ll dive intoscope...
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