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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
Quantum, Cause and Effect
Will Quantum computing be able to take advantage of the very strange nature of time in Quantum physics? Causality? At the micro level perhaps, but beyond? How...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ad Attention Research
In Think with Google:Ad Attention Research: Effectiveness Hinges on More Than Just ReachIf a million trees fall in the forest and nobody hears them, do they make...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Japan-US Network Opportunity 2 (JUNO2)
The Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) within the National Science Foundation‘s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Second Tango Phone
Have been waiting for this. Seen demos. Had seen this as a possibility for detecting, mapping and understanding interior spaces and fixtures, like shelves. ...
From insideHPC
National Supercomputing Centre Singapore and Global Gene Corp to Collaborate on Precision Medicine
The National Supercomputing Center Singapore and Global Gene Corp have exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding to benefit the future of Singapore’s Precision Medicine...
From insideHPC
When Neutron Stars and Black Holes Collide
Working with an international team, scientists at Berkeley Lab have developed new computer models to explore what happens when a black hole joins with a neutron...
From insideHPC
Upcycled COSMA6 Supercomputer Finds New Life at Durham University
Where do old supercomputers go after the new machines are installed? At Durham University in the UK, they move on to a whole new mission in computation discovery...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Comparison to Previous Tech Waves
The jury is still out for general AI ... but specialized applications things are booming.Why artificial intelligence is different from previous technology waves...
From insideHPC
3X Performance Boost Using Intel Advisor and Intel Trace Analyzer in Astrophysics Simulations
On today’s processors, it is crucial to both vectorize (using AVX* or SIMD* instructions) and parallelize software to realize the full performance potential of3X...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Dark Energy Survey at NCSA
Researchers are using NCSA supercomputers to explore the mysteries of Dark Matter. "NCSA recognized many years ago the key role that advanced computing and data...
From Computational Complexity
What Makes a Great Definition
Too often we see bad definitions, a convoluted mess carefully crafted to make a theorem true. A student asked me though what makes for a great definition in theoretical...
From Schneier on Security
Splitting the NSA and US Cyber Command
Rumor is that the Trump administration will separate the NSA and US Cyber Command. I have long thought this was a good idea. Here's a good discussion of what it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Power Outages
Researchers develop model to predict and prevent power outages using big dataTexas A&M Engineering News by Shraddha SankheResearchers at Texas A&M University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping and Virtual Reality
In CSA, interesting statistics. But pushes at what 'virtual shopping' is. What do customers want from virtual shopping? by Deena M. Amato-MCcoyVirtual reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redefining Work
Good piece, but to these kinds of predictions, I always ask: In what context. Automation has been happening since the Jacquard Loom, or even the invention of...
From Schneier on Security
Voting Machine Security
Last week, DefCon hosted a "Voter Hacker Village" event. Every single voting machine there was easily hackable. Here are detailed details. There should be a summary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning's Next Frontier
An insightful Webinar recording:Deep Learning's Next Frontier By Andrew NgHBR’s editor in chief, Adi Ignatius, and Andrew Ng, former chief scientist at Baidu and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Software for Psychiatry
Another health care example of augmenting the physician, The 'therapist' was one of the earliest uses of AI style human interaction.A Software Shrink: Apps and...
From insideHPC
Announcing the SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowship Winners
Today SIGHPC announced the 12 recipients of the ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2017. The fellowship is funded by Intel, and isAnnouncing...
From insideHPC