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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 insideHPC
Adrian Cockcroft on how AWS Gives Superpowers to Startups
In this video from AWS Summit in Tel Aviv, Adrian Cockcroft describes how AWS gives Superpowers to Startups. "AWS offers low cost, on-demand IT solutions to help...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbots in Retail
Good piece, with expert discussion. Consider how any assistant model could evolve into recommendation. Does this work? What does it need to make the model work...
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Rigetti Computing helps Foster Quantum Machine Learning Startup Ecosystem
While practical Quantum Computing remains somewhere in the future, it is already starting to spark new Startup opportunities. "Quantum machine learning will power...
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OSC Supercomputers Power STEM Learning Across the Globe
The Ohio Supercomputer Center is help teachers like Sultana Nahar, Ph.D. conduct computational workshops as part of her lecture courses. Through physics and STEM...
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Internode Programming With MPI and Intel Xeon Phi Processor
"While MPI was originally developed for general purpose CPUs and is widely used in the HPC space in this capacity, MPI applications can also be developed and then...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising's Amazon Problem
Brought to my attention.Madison Avenue's Amazon Problem By Leila Abboud in BloombergWhen you run an advertising agency, your clients' problems are your problems...
From Computational Complexity
Kurtz-Fest
Stuart Kurtz turned 60 last October and his former students John Rogers and Stephen Fenner organized a celebration in his honor earlier this week at Fenner's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is a Robot?
New series of article in Wired: What is a Robot? Articles and videos.Editor’s note: This is the first entry in a new video series, HardWIRED: Welcome to theWhen...
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Sectors without Borders
And how will regulations adjust to these global digital conditions?Competing in a world of sectors without bordersBy Venkat Atluri, Miklos Dietz, and Nicolaus Henke...
From Schneier on Security
Massive Government Data Leak in Sweden
Seems to be incompetence rather than malice, but a good example of the dangers of blindly trusting the cloud....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Analytics Communicates in Natural Language
In an interesting cognitive/AI development, Google Analytics can answer queries in natural language, another move in the direction of analytics assistant. NotAsk...
From insideHPC
IEEE Approves Standards Project for Quantum Computing Definitions
"While Quantum Computing is poised for significant growth and advancement, the emergent industry is currently fragmented and lacks a common communications framework...
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Podcast: A Look at the Intel Nevana Platform for AI
In this Chip Chat podcast, Dr. Naveen Rao describes his work at the Artificial Intelligence Products Group (AIPG) at Intel. "The Intel Nervana Platform includes...
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Food, Retail Aim for Blockchain Ledger Data
A considerable endorsement of a technology. Where in more general terms is non-food is CPG? Is this mainly driven by food safety considerations?Walmart and 9...
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More on Walmart/Google Voices
More on this, with an interesting ongoing discussion. In Retailwire:Will the Walmart/Google voice deal give Amazon’s Alexa a run for its money? by George Anderson...
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NCSA Industry Conference to Showcase Supercomputing Partnerships
Registration is now open for the 2017 NCSA Industry Conference. The event takes place Oct. 11-12 on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. "This...
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Intel FPGAs Accelerate Microsoft’s Project Brainwave
Today, Intel announced that its AI technology is being used by Microsoft to power their new accelerated deep learning platform, called Project Brainwave. "Project...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Pneumatic Actuated Soft Micromold (PASMO) Device
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Po-Jung Huang and Jun Kameoka. Their paper called Pneumatic Actuated Soft Micromold (PASMO) device for Creating 3D Collagen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Charging Moving Vehicles
In Spectrum IEEEWireless Power for Moving Electric Vehicles Closer to Reality By Charles Q. Choi Two men stand in front of and beneath a pair of large white...
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