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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
Augmented Reality Challenge
A look at Hololens vs ARKitIs Augmented Reality going to be Microsoft’s next smartphone moment?HoloLens was inspirational, but it’s ARKit and ARCore that are going...
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Amazon Adding Multiroom Audio Control
Reported in Engadget. Another trick soon to be added to the Alexa set to position it against capabilities by Google Home and Sonos, and reportedly soon to be released...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech Changing the Job of the CEO
Remarking on the quote below, we consulted directly with the C-Suite before execs had become used to using social communications, or even email with their employees...
From insideHPC
Researchers in Machine Learning Awarded George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships
Today ACM and IEEE announced that Shaden Smith of the University of Minnesota and Yang You of the University of California, Berkeley are the recipients of the 2017...
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for LAD’17 in Paris
The LAD'17 conference has posted their meeting agenda. Also known as the Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop, the event takes place Oct. 4-5 in Paris. "EOFS...
From insideHPC
Illinois Supercomputers Tag Team for Big Bang Simulation
Researchers are tapping Argonne and NCSA supercomputers to tackle the unprecedented amounts of data involved with simulating the Big Bang. "Researchers performed...
From insideHPC
ScaleMP Completes $10M Funding Round
Today ScaleMP a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, delivering technology for software-defined computing and software-defined memory...
From insideHPC
A Simpler Path to Reliable, Productive HPC
HPC is becoming a competitive requirement as high performance data analysis (HPDA) joins multi-physics simulation as table stakes for successful innovation across...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots and Eldercare
An area we looked at closely, in particular following what Japan was doing in this area. Robotics still do not cover this demand well enough. A look at the topic...
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Backdoors in Deep Learning Neural Nets
Even Artificial Neural Networks can have Exploitable Backdoors. In WiredEARLY IN AUGUST, NYU professor Siddharth Garg checked for traffic, and then put a yellow...
From Schneier on Security
Ross Anderson on the History of the Crypto Wars in the UK
Ross Anderson gave a talk on the history of the Crypto Wars in the UK. I am intimately familiar with the US story, but didn't know as much about Britain's verson...
From Putting People First
Self-driving cars need human intuition
“If self-driving cars are going to achieve their promise as a revolution in urban transportation—delivering reduced emissions, better mobility, and safer streets...
From The Noisy Channel
You’re absolutely right about the number of suggestions, of course.
You’re absolutely right about the number of suggestions, of course. And it’s a good reminder that autocomplete user experience deserves its own post, which I promise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Conversational AI
Quite an interesting post. Back to a favorite issue: what does dialog look like, both with current capabilities of 'intelligence', and proposed future approaches...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM US Public Policy Council to Host Panel on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability
The US Public Policy Council of the Association for Computing Machinery (USACM) will host a panel discussion, “Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability.” The...
From insideHPC
Intel Discontinues Xeon Phi 7200-Series Knights Landing Coprocessors
AnandTech reports that Intel is discontinuing it's line of Knights Landing PCIe based Co-processors. The move is not a surprise given that the company has beenIntel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emerging Micro Moments
In Think with Google:Micro-Moments Are Multiplying—Are You Ready for the Future of Marketing? Sridhar Ramaswamy May 2017 Emerging Technology, Micro-MomentsMobile...
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Linkedin and Kafka
Been interested in how Linkdin could produce value for companies, this post is an interesting hint. And beyond this, how about integrating Linkedin People intoWP...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focusing Digital Investments
New research indicates where to focus digital investments so that they will reap rewards in online and face-to-face channels. In McKinsey Insights.
From insideHPC