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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
Acquiring Digital Companies
Via Bain:3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company by Arnaud LeroiEven for experienced deal makers, a first digital acquisition is boundFew...
From insideHPC
LANL Adds Capacity to Trinity Supercomputer for Stockpile Stewardship
Los Alamos National Laboratory has boosted the computational capacity of their Trinity supercomputer with a merger of two system partitions. “With this merge completed...
From insideHPC
A Scalable Object Store for Meteorological and Climate Data
Simon D. Smart gave this talk at the PASC17 conference. "Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and Climate simulations sit in the intersection between classicallyA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Cargo Ships Coming
Electrically Powered. But how they will address dangers like still common piracy is unclear.The world’s first autonomous cargo ship will launch next year By Duncan...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Amazon Research Awards Call For Proposals
The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) program has opened a call for proposals for the 2017 round of Amazon Research Awards in a number of areas, including computer vision...
From Schneier on Security
US Army Researching Bot Swarms
The US Army Research Agency is funding research into autonomous bot swarms. From the announcement: The objective of this CRA is to perform enabling basic and applied...
From Computational Complexity
What are the top Computer science programs for women?
What are the top Computer Science Programs for Women? How would one even answer the question? Some people did a study based on National Center for Education Statistics...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Is Computer Science Education Facing a Bursting Bubble?
The other day Audrey Watters, one of my favorite contrarians, posted Why Are Coding Bootcamps Going Out of Business? which focused on the failure of some coding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and Big Data
I was recently asked, whats the difference? .... Just Architecture vs Math?Machine learning with Big Data is, in many ways, different than "regular" machine learning...
From insideHPC
Survey: Training and Support #1 Concern for the HPC Community
Initial results of the Scientific Computing World (SCW) HPC readership survey have shown training and support for HPC resources are the number one concern for both...
From insideHPC
Video: ddR – Distributed Data Structures in R
"A few weeks ago, we revealed ddR (Distributed Data-structures in R), an exciting new project started by R-Core, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and others that provides...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Game of Checkers
Back on our early AI days, we looked closely at problem solving for games. Notably the work of Arthur Samuel in machine learning. This piece below on the seemingly...
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Amazon Chats
Anytime by AmazonWill customers use an Amazon app to chat? by Matthew Stern in Retailwire. With discussion.Smartphone messaging is perhaps one of the only areas...
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Machine Learning and Hidden Decision Trees
Had posted about this once before. We used decision trees effectively in the enterprise, and they can be useful due to their transparency. In particular because...
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Design for the Users, not a Mythical Generation
The other day the question came up about how we should carefully design our user interface to match the generation of the current predicted user base. Were they...
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Using Social Media to Find Top Customers
In Knowedge@Wharton. Influencing the Influencers: Using Social Media to Find Top CustomersWharton's Gad Allon discusses his research on using social media data...
From My Biased Coin
Current Harvard Oddness
It's summer. And I'm now on sabbatical. So perhaps I shouldn't care about strange Harvard politics goings-on, but I can't help it. Here's the tl;dr version, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney Tests Facial Expression Analysis for Movies
Back to using facial expression detection and coding. Not new, Something we also experimented with, in lab settings, but here with new data science doing the analysis...
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Origami Robots Moving Without Battery Power
Following uses of origami folding methods for simplifying robotics. See much written before on this space regarding practical Origami, at the tag below.Harvard's...
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