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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
Infinite Pool Tables
We actually used this idea for solving cleaning coverage problems. A rare case where advanced topology math principles came into play in industry. This was the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA and Virtual and Augmented Realities
NASA has been known for experimenting in this space, I have played with a few of their published capabilities. Here is an overview of their future plans.NASA’S...
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Time Series Insights in Azure
Time Series Insights PREVIEWInstantly explore and analyze time-series data in IoT solutionsAzure Time Series Insights is a fully managed analytics, storage, and...
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Cortana Predicting Future Travel Plans
Been watching virtual assistants for some time. The key appears to be getting as many as possible out there, on many kinds of hardware, keep them cheap and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Detecting Infection Patterns
Looking for patterns in healthcare using video that lead to infection.Researchers use AI to monitor hospital staff hygieneThe technology could be used to reduce...
From insideHPC
AI and Blockchain Companies Partner to Advance Healthcare Research
Today Insilico Medicine announced a research collaboration with The Bitfury Group, the world’s leading full-service blockchain technology conglomerate, to develop...
From insideHPC
Podcast: 18 Petaflop Stampede 2 Supercomputer Powers Research at TACC
In this Texas Standard podcast, Dan Stanzione from TACC describes Stampede2, the most powerful university supercomputer in the United States. "Phase 1 of the Stampede2...
From insideHPC
OSC Hosts fifth MVAPICH Users Group
A broad array of system administrators, developers, researchers and students who share an interest in the MVAPICH open-source library for high performance computing...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Biohacking
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks alarming new hacks of health care data. With news that Biohackers have successfully inserted malware into DNA, security...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Bubbling up is lowering empathy at a civilization scale
Computer networks are a fantastic invention. When they came in my life, I remember spending hours, sometimes days, arguing with people I violently disagreed with...
From Schneier on Security
Bank Robbery Tactic
This video purports to be a bank robbery in Kiev. He first threatens a teller, who basically ignores him because she's behind bullet-proof glass. But then the robber...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Summarization
A good AI challenge that has useful applications.An Algorithm Summarizes Lengthy Text Surprisingly WellTraining software to accurately sum up information in documents...
From Computational Complexity
What is unusual about this MIT grad student in Applied Math?
(Thanks to Rachel Folowoshele for bringing this to my attention) John Urschel is a grad student in applied math at MIT. His webpage is here. Some students gohere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exoskeleton Controlled by Voice
Adding the voice to being reactive to movements is an interesting approach, another case of multi channel interaction and control. This exoskeleton can be controlled...
From insideHPC
Call for Abstracts: Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC17
"The Intel HPC Developer Conference 2017 has become the place for developers to learn about the latest trends, developments, and the future of HPC. By submitting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On a Bias about First Impressions
A first impression knowledge Bias?Why our brains lead us astray when we take things at face value Article by Diana Gitig A new book looks at how we overestimate...
From insideHPC
Heroes of Deep Learning: Yuanqing Lin
In this video from the Heroes of Deep Learning series, Andrew Ng interviews Head of Baidu Research, Yuanqing Lin. "Baidu Research brings together global research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing the Analogy Gap
Reminiscent of using humans as a peripheral, here determining high level relationships, then having the deep learning sort out the lower level patterns. Points...
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China and AI
In the NYT, word on China investments in AI: " ... China has laid out a development plan to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, with...
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