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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
Best Buy Partners with Amazon, Google for Smart Home
Happened into Best Buy recently, for the first time in over a year, and saw this. Well done. Could have used some better live help provided with the display.Covered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tertill Weeds Gardens
Really like the premise. From my IdeaConnection affiliation. I have decades of experience managing garden plantings, big and small, so pardon me for having considerable...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Digital Grid: Transforming the Electric Power Grid into an Innovation Engine for the United States
In a world where digital Internet technology (Amazon, Ebay, Uber, Airbnb) is transforming traditional industries, the traditional electric energy market is lagging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bezier Curves for the Grocery Shelf
A quite technical and visual point in O'Reilly. And just to note how such methods can interact with the mundane, we used Bezier Curves for designing packagingOverlaying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon vs Wal-Mart
In Knowledge@Wharton: A considerable look at the question. Both now as omnichannel giants.Amazon vs. Walmart: Which One Will Prevail?Recent M&A deals by bothIn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as the Face of Your Brand
A useful informed survey. We attempted to use AI as brand equity. When does it work? Particularly in the case of assistants, we often anthropomorphize. Why...
From insideHPC
Bring your workloads to Iceland: Verne Global adds powerDIRECT+
Today Iceland-based co-hosting provider Verne Global announced powerDIRECT+, a reduced-cost compute environment engineered specifically for the next generationBring...
From Schneier on Security
CIA Exploits Against Wireless Routers
WikiLeaks has published CherryBlossom, the CIA's program to hack into wireless routers. The program is about a decade old. Four good news articles. Five. And a...
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Recognizes Bright Computing for their Integration with Azure
Today Bright Computing announced that it has been selected by Hyperion Research for a 2017 HPC Innovation Award for its ability to provision and manage virtualHyperion...
From insideHPC
Video: Towards the Decoding of the Human Brain
Katrin Amunts from Jülich presented this keynote at the PASC17 conference. "The human brain has a multi-level organization and high complexity. New approaches are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bonsai AI Gears
Of interest, with somwhat different purpose it would appear, than approaches like Algorithmia. Gears seems to address the problem of having a Python based code...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithmia
Algorithmia (Invested in by Google)Build Intelligent APPSWe're a Common API for Algorithms, Functions, and Models that run as scalable Microservices. Developer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
After ISTE–More Questions Than Answers
One of the great things about ISTE is a chance to talk to people face to face. When that happens a lot of things come up. Yesterday and today, along with walking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking, Measuring AI Research
Very good effort. Much more detail at the link. Putting it on my alert list. From the EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation, which I have little watched lately...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple and Cisco in the Enterprise
Worked with Cisco in the innovation space, they are impressive for infrastructure. Saw this same goal for companies to take a look at their digital operations...
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Analog Brains
We tend to think of 'analog' as an ancient technology, long superseded by digital. So businesses are constantly figuring out how to 'go digital'. And thus become...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing and Retail
Most interesting for the examples and discussions here. As I have suggested, still a niche market.How will 3-D printing take hold at retail? by Tom RyanAccording...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data, Data Science, and Civil Rights
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has been working hard on various white papers over the past couple of months and slowly releasing them. You can see all...
From insideHPC