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The AI Nose
From The Eponymous Pickle

The AI Nose

Have followed the idea of an 'Artificial Nose' for decades, we were first interested in using it as a automatic way to to evaluate and duplicate coffee blends and...

OSC Helps Map the Invisible Universe
From insideHPC

OSC Helps Map the Invisible Universe

The Ohio Supercomputer Center played a critical role in helping researchers reach a milestone mapping the growth of the universe from its infancy to present day...

Working in a Digitally Disrupted World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Working in a Digitally Disrupted World

In McKinsey:Do American workers feel they can ‘make it’?Whether people in the United States believe they can thrive economically in a digitally disrupted world...

Confusing Self-Driving Cars by Altering Road Signs
From Schneier on Security

Confusing Self-Driving Cars by Altering Road Signs

Researchers found that they could confuse the road sign detection algorithms of self-driving cars by adding stickers to the signs on the road. They could, for example...

How AI is Already Changing Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

How AI is Already Changing Business

An HBR Ideacast ...How AI Is Already Changing BusinessErik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School professor, explains how rapid advances in machine learning are presenting...

Marketing and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marketing and AI

How will marketing adapt?With AI, marketing is needed but marketers might not be By Christine Coudert on SAS Voices ... " 

Turning an Amazon Echo into an Eavesdropping Device
From Schneier on Security

Turning an Amazon Echo into an Eavesdropping Device

For once, the real story isn't as bad as it seems. A researcher has figured out how to install malware onto an Echo that causes it to stream audio back to a remote...

Global City Teams Challenge Expo 2017
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Global City Teams Challenge Expo 2017

The 2017 Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Expo on August 28-29 in Washington, DC will bring together over 100 cities and communities around the world in partnership...

Robot Restocking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Restocking

Includes a good expert discussion, usually the best parts of these pieces.   Also an approach we did much experimenting with, starting with Blackberry devices.Can...

Job of the Week: IT Manager (HPC Systems Specialist) at Rutgers
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: IT Manager (HPC Systems Specialist) at Rutgers

Rutgers University is seeking an IT Manager (HPC Systems Specialist) in our Job of the Week. "This position will work closely with our dedicated and experienced...

One Stop Systems Rolls Out 4U Value Expansion System
From insideHPC

One Stop Systems Rolls Out 4U Value Expansion System

“The Value Expansion System is ideal for customers on a tight budget who need high-density PCIe expansion. Customers can utilize the 4UV for GPUs, flash or a combination...

Intel’s New “Ruler” SSD Form Factor – Up to 1 Petabyte in 1U
From insideHPC

Intel’s New “Ruler” SSD Form Factor – Up to 1 Petabyte in 1U

Today Intel announced its latest memory technologies to advance datacenter storage. "These new “ruler” form factor SSDs and dual port SSDs are the latest in a long...

HPC Analyst Crossfire at ISC 2017
From insideHPC

HPC Analyst Crossfire at ISC 2017

In this video from ISC 2017, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research fires back at industry leaders with hard-hitting questions about the state of the HPC industry...

Feed The Cores – Memory Bandwidth Usage
From insideHPC

Feed The Cores – Memory Bandwidth Usage

It has always been a developers concern to feed the cpus or cores with data as fast as possible.  Over time, both the CPUs and memory bandwidth have seen theirFeed...

#BUILTBYGIRLS Challenge - for teen girls with startup ideas
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

#BUILTBYGIRLS Challenge - for teen girls with startup ideas

This looks interesting. Know a girl with entrepreneurship dreams and ideas?#BUILTBYGIRLS is looking for the next wave of startup founders and change-makers. Are...

Facebook Translates with Neural Nets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Translates with Neural Nets

Another example  of how the power of this tech is expanding.  Some interesting details here.Two versions of a Facebook post Facebook Translations Now Rely Entirely...

From Computational Complexity

Wearable Tech and Attention

Remember the Bluetooth craze where it seemed half of all people walked around with a headset in their ear. Now you rarely do. Remember Google Glass. That didn't...

Content Marketing in the Era of Voice-Controlled Devices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Content Marketing in the Era of Voice-Controlled Devices

A number of interesting retail marketing examples are shown in this medium.Content Marketing in the Era of Voice-Controlled Devices  in FlipboardBy Dawn Papandrea...

Guest Post: The Real Problem Isn't Gender; It's the Modern Media
From updated sporadically at best

Guest Post: The Real Problem Isn't Gender; It's the Modern Media

This guest post by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz was adapted from a comment he wrote on a Facebook post of mine sharing this essay.While gender in tech is certainly...

Data Fracking Dark Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Fracking Dark Data

Found this to be an interesting,  the idea of 'Data Fracking' ... a means of finding the right data.   Better way to find and use your data assets?  Improving access...
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