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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
Amazon Echo and SAP HANA
A rare business oriented use of otherwise consumer oriented virtual assistants. Examining.Amazon Echo and the SAP HANA Cloud Platform by Craig Cmehil" ...For...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience Inspired AI
Quite a good and detailed look at the past and potential future of this inspiration. But it remains just inspiration, and is not a detailed road map. EvenNeuroscience...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An Online Forum for Computer Science Educators
Stack Exchange is one of a number of online forums being used by the computer science community to ask and answer questions. While most of these are targeted at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Compute Stick
Would like to understand what 'plug and play' means here. Acceleration likely. Intriguing thing at this level. wrote about Movidius previously. They were acquired...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Convergence of Data and Computing Task Force responded to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Dear Colleague Letter:...
From Schneier on Security
Robot Safecracking
Robots can crack safes faster than humans -- and differently: So Seidle started looking for shortcuts. First he found that, like many safes, his SentrySafe had...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Tries Mobile Flash Sales
Amazon has no intention of trying innovative sales ideas. I am imagining the Echos, soon to be announcing sales on your very street. Will this further link Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning by Thinking
Can we make machines work this way? In a sense we do. we train and re-train. And test against reality. But is the semantic language or architecture correctIn...
From insideHPC
WINS Program Sponsors Six Women to Help Build SCinet at SC17
SC17 has chosen six women from IT departments around the United States to participate in the Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program, helping to build and operate...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Introducing Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and Intel Select Solutions
In this Chip Chat podcast, Lisa Spelman, Manager of Intel Xeon Products and Data Center Marketing, discusses the launch of two pivotal advances for the data center...
From insideHPC
AMD Showcases 1 Petaflop “Project 47” Rack at Siggraph
"Project 47 boasts 1 PetaFLOPS of compute power at full 32-bit precision delivering a stunning 30 GigaFLOPS/W, demonstrating dramatic compute efficiency. It boasts...
From insideHPC
Video: Building a GPU-enabled OpenStack Cloud for HPC
Blair Bethwaite and Lance Wilson from Monash University gave this talk at OpenStack Australia. "M3 is the latest generation system of the MASSIVE project, an HPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Web Scraping Illegal?
A common practice under fire again. If something is clearly publicly delivered, is it open to turn into another form called data? A challenge to data democratization...
From Computational Complexity
Harvard punishes some social organizations. Why?
Over at the blog Bits and Pieces my adviser Harry Lewis (is he still my adviser 32 years after I got my PhD? Yes) has written many posts about Harvard's decision...
From Schneier on Security
Measuring Vulnerability Rediscovery
New paper: "Taking Stock: Estimating Vulnerability Rediscovery," by Trey Herr, Bruce Schneier, and Christopher Morris: Abstract: How often do multiple, independent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversational Commerce
Another look at conversational commerce. Though beyond what we think of as messaging. Including memory of previous interactions and leveraging what is known...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Cuts $100 Million in Digital Ads
P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital AdsConsumer product giant steers clear of ‘bot’ traffic and objectionable content ...Almost all...
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Named One of San Diego’s Fastest Growing Companies
Not all HPC vendors are experiencing a slump. In fact, One Stop Systems was recently named one of San Diego’s 100 fastest growing privately-held companies by the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Needs to be Much Smarter
Have now been testing the Google Home, Amazon Echo, Cortana and Siri since their inception. All of these devices and services do some clever things, but none are...
From insideHPC