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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2017–Some Thoughts
Normally I write several blog posts during a CSTA Annual Conference. Not this year. Why? Too much going on! The sessions I attended were very good and my time not...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart IOT Patent for Replenishment
Noted this before, worth taking another look. Note the implication of inclusion within the product. Via CBInsights: Walmart’s IoT Patent Application Takes Aim...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What is “modern” programming?
As a young teenager, I dabbled with basic and some assembly. Things got serious when I learned Turbo Pascal. “Now we are talking”, I thought. Turbo Pascal offered...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing RNA Structure at Argonne
Over at ALCF, Joan Koka writes that researchers at the National Cancer Institute are using Argonne supercomputers to advance disease studies by enhancing our understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kasparov on Intelligent Machines
Kasparov talks from a unique perspective about machines and their intelligent use.Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them | Garry Kasparov TED Talk.We...
From insideHPC
Asetek Announces Regional OEM HPC installation
Today Asetek announced an order from a new European OEM customer to service demand for an HPC (High Performance Computing) installation. "The order is for Asetek...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whiskers as Sensors
Tactile sensors, like the idea of using new kinds of sensors. Imagine the increased number of data that could be gathered and fed to deep learning techniques.Want...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will GE Adapt to Change?
Will be interesting to follow. They impressed me as a talented group, but also lumbering about as a big company without paying enough attention to good standards...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Eyeball Collector Wants a Giant-Squid Eyeball
They're rare: The one Dubielzig really wants is an eye from a giant squid, which has the biggest eye of any living animal -- it's the size of a dinner plate. "But...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Avatar Dreams
Had never specifically heard of the term avatar dream. Its not in the Wikipedia. I could imagine a definition. As we drift into AI, its like the carpenter or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Explanation Leading to Trust of Computers
Learning to explain. Ultimately a very important topic. Leading to trust.AI Research Seeks to Grow Trust between Humans and Computers By BU Today Researchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vision, Real and Virtual
There have been many years of research about how vision works, but not enough about how this effects virtual and augmented reality. Ultimately it drives perception...
From Schneier on Security
Book Review: Twitter and Tear Gas, by Zeynep Tufekci
There are two opposing models of how the Internet has changed protest movements. The first is that the Internet has made protesters mightier than ever. This comes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Sleep Technologies
This covers a number of approaches now being examined to provide 'personalized optimization' for sleep related problems. Nicely laid out. Very similar to other...
From insideHPC
Open Science with OpenPMD
"We present the open meta data format openPMD for data format agnostic markup of particle-mesh data. Based on a minimal kernel of meta information and enrichedOpen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Try-it-on App
So here is, at least in theory, the ideal augmented reality App. We tested a number of such related methods in the past with limited success. Except in its novelty...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: HPC Systems Professionals Workshop
"The Second Annual HPC Systems Professionals Workshop will bring together systems administrators, systems architects, and systems analysts in order to share best...
From Wild WebMink
Why OSI License Approval Matters
Individual judgment about the presence of software freedom in a license is not the same as community consensus expressed through OSI approval. Does it really...
From insideHPC
SKA and CERN Sign Big Data Agreement
Today the SKA Organization and CERN signed an agreement formalizing their growing collaboration in the area of extreme-scale computing. The agreement establishes...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog