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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
Amazon Alexa Does Multiroom Music
Was recently rumored and Walter Riker just pointed out that if you went to the App and Smart Homes - >Groups you could set up a broadcast group of Echo devices...
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Enter Your Team in the ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition
Applications are now being accepted for the ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition. Entering its 33rd year, ISC High Performance offers students a unique opportunity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Quantum Theory, Explained
A descriptive/historical view of Quantum theory. Not very technical, but you do have to care about the history of its exploration and explanation. Nicely done...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailwire Survey on AI and the Supply Chain
Of interest, requires registration:Study Results:: A.I.’s advancing role in fueling the retail supply chainSee results of RetailWire’s study of nearly 200 retail...
From insideHPC
Magnolia Supercomputer Powers Research at University of Southern Mississippi
Advanced Clustering Technologies has installed a new supercomputer at the University of Southern Mississippi. Called Magnolia, the system will support researchMagnolia...
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David Barkai Joins XTREME Design as the company Looks to Bring Cloud HPC to U.S.
Today XTREME Design Inc. announced that Dr. David Barkai has joined the company as an adviser. As a Japanese startup offering cloud-based, virtual supercomputing...
From insideHPC
USRA Upgrade D-Wave Quantum Computer to 2000 Qubits
Today the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) announced it has upgraded its current quantum annealing computer to a D-Wave 2000Q system. The computer...
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Video: DDN Burst Buffer
Justin Glen and Daniel Richards from DDN presented this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Australia Conference. "Burst Buffer was originally created to checkpoint...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony's Smart Speaker Powered by Google Assistant
Another example of a smart speaker. Powered by Google Assistant, the same intelligence that is powering Google Home. An example of voice activated virtual assistance...
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An Introduction to Imitation Learning
Good piece on the topic. Starts with an overview based on games, then does get technical. Still basically shows that this is hard, except in narrow contexts....
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Nature of Mixed Reality
Have noted Microsoft's use of the mixed reality term. To me its just confusing, and unless Microsoft completely takes over the market, seems a waste of time and...
From Schneier on Security
Russian Hacking Tools Codenamed WhiteBear Released
Kaspersky Labs released a highly sophisticated set of hacking tools from Russia called WhiteBear. From February to September 2016, WhiteBear activity was narrowly...
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Task Journey Maps of the Smart Home
Robotic vacuum activity maps of the home. In Technology Review. Some fascinating views that tell you about smart home complexity, and even other applications...
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About Google Posts
Instructive piece, In Curatti: " ... Every now and then, something new sneaks into the marketing equation largely unnoticed. Did you know anything about Googleby...
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Walmart and Google Pushes an Online Boost
Thoughtful podcast, but I think the final para here misunderstands Wal-Mart's customers, they are more sophisticated and widespread than they think.Will Walmart...
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Roots of Inorganic Growth
Interesting stats, in particular how this can be driven by analytics.The roots of organic growth By Kabir Ahuja, Liz Hilton Segel, and Jesko PerreyThere are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Gamification and Teaching Computer Science
Gamification is a huge buzz word in education generally today. There are proponents and opponents of course. And both sides have good arguments behind their opinions...
From insideHPC
Argonne Steps up to the Exascale Computing Project
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is working with a number of National Labs on the development of supercomputers with 50x better performance than today's systems...
From insideHPC
Ace Computers Teams with BeeGFS for HPC
Ace Computers and BeeGFS have teamed to deliver a complete parallel file system solving storage access speed issues that slow down even the fastest supercomputers...
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