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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 My Biased Coin
Shout-out to Meena Boppana
For some reason (Google*), I found myself thinking of former Harvard student Meena Boppana this week, and thought I'd link to some things, focusing on things she...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
How do we forge a new frontier in advanced computing?
How do we forge a new frontier in advanced computing? With Stampede 2! Recently, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded a new super computer called Stampede...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pop-up Stores to Tell CPG Brand Stories
Was involved in several such efforts, in CPG, but not food. Brands were new. The approaches were first mocked up in laboratory settings. Did not see specific...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Research Writes about Progress in Deep Learning
Recently have used deep learning from IBM to solve a difficult classification problem. From IBM AI Research: New IBM Research distributed deep learning software...
From insideHPC
IBM Scales TensorFlow and Caffe to 256 GPUs
Over at IBM, Sumit Gupta writes that the company has enabled record-breaking image recognition capabilities that make Deep Learning much more practical at scale...
From insideHPC
Future HPC Challenges for Europe
In this video from PRACEdays17, Thomas Skordas describes the future challenges of HPC in Europe and the key role of PRACE in the European HPC ecosystem. "PRACEdays17...
From Schneier on Security
Uber Drivers Hacking the System to Cause Surge Pricing
Interesting story about Uber drivers who have figured out how to game the company's algorithms to cause surge pricing: According to the study. drivers manipulate...
From insideHPC
Will the Cloud steal my job?
In this special guest feature, Dr Rosemary Francis from Ellexus describes why the HPC Community has little to fear from the rise of Cloud Computing. "AWS aloneWill...
From insideHPC
Building a True Data Solution
Many of the biggest challenges in current data center deployments involve moving and protecting the massive amount of data that is used by today’s leading companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistants Addressing Primary Health Care
Primary Health care via assistant, continue to follow this topic. Good overview:The robot will see you now By Pam Baker in HP EnterpriseIntelligent personalWhile...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Raise Your Hand With Glitch
Nice simple idea, not sure how rewards work, but could see this working among an enterprise team and getting some sort of reward points for helping. Could alsoJ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Value Chains
Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis in HBSby Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola ConconiIn recent decades, advances in information...
From insideHPC
Seagate Updates Nytro Flash Storage
Today Seagate announced enhanced versions of two flash technologies to boost performance and capacity for mixed data center workloads. The updated solid-state drives...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Retain Computer Science Teachers
One of the big topics around computer science education is the shortage of teachers with enough CS knowledge to properly teach the subject. One fear is that anyone...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Issues Awards to Advance a National Research Infrastructure for Neuroscience
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 17 Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) awards to aid the research community as it pursues one of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patent Troll Loses Podcast Fight
Was slightly involved with research for patent litigation that dealt with trolls, so follow recent activity in this area, in particular regarding prior art. Personal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Siemens: Getting Robots and Workers to Cooperate
Like that this approach is addressing elements and architecture of process, and that the design and operation of these elements is also a big part of doing something...
From insideHPC
DDN Drives Microscopy Workflows with Gatan
Today DDN announced a strategic partnership with Gatan to deliver groundbreaking solutions for microscopy research environments and workflows. With innovative solutions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Sales is AI
Looking at the future of sales. Further, if you can automate it, you can improve it. In performance, reach, cost or adaptability. And learn about some of these...
From insideHPC