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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
Google to Stop Reading Your Email for Targeting
Somewhat surprised at this. Probably the most obvious thing, after search, that Google does that is the base of much of its considerable revenue. It has been...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watching How the Giants Buy AI
Below reminds me of our own attempts to buy AI during the last explosion. And we did, buying some considerable equity positions. Of course the scale was far less...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secret Algorithms and Rule of Law
Challenges posed in Technology Review. Slightly different from what was posed in the 80s. But unsolved.Very broadly, if we don't know what an algorithm does,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Injured Giant Squid Video
A paddleboarder had a run-in with an injured giant squid. Video. Here's the real story. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From Schneier on Security
The Secret Code of Beatrix Potter
Interesting: As codes go, Potter's wasn't inordinately complicated. As Wiltshire explains, it was a "mono-alphabetic substitution cipher code," in which each letter...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research and NSF Big Data Hubs Collaboration Passes the One-Year Mark
The cloud computing partnership between the Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs) and Microsoft Research has just passed the one-year anniversary mark. In...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imaginary People
We are not far from generating very convincing faces of people. And if you put these on humanoid robots? Give them Generative AI? In the Verge: " .... As we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Edge Computing
HPE and GE Digital try to break IT/OT silos for intelligent edge computing by R. Danes " ... Partain in an interview at HPE Discover in Las Vegas, Nevada, Anthony...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Home Furnishing
I examined some early attempts at using online methods for buying home furnishing, usually with online camera interaction. The idea of selling furnishing online...
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Showcases GPU and Flash Appliances at ISC
This week in Frankfurt, One Stop Systems showcased all-new HPC Appliances at ISC 2017. "One Stop Systems offers a wide variety of GPU and Flash appliances to support...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 23rd, 2017)
Elon Musk, Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species, New Space. June 2017, 5(2): 46-61. Reportedly, Ikea is working on augmented reality software that would allow...
From Schneier on Security
Amazon Patents Measures to Prevent In-Store Comparison Shopping
Amazon has been issued a patent on security measures that prevents people from comparison shopping while in the store. It's not a particularly sophisticated patent...
From insideHPC
Podcast Brent Gorda on the State of Lustre at ISC 2017
In this RichReport podcast from the German Autobahn, Brent Gorda gives us a Lustre update from ISC 2017 in Frankfurt. "On the latest Top500 list, Lustre leads the...
From insideHPC
Kim McMahon on her role as Diversity Chair at ISC 2018
In this video, Kim McMahon describes her new role as Diversity Chair for the ISC 2018 conference. "ISC has named me the Diversity Chair for ISC18. With this comes...
From insideHPC
HPC Vendors showcase plans for ARM products
Are you ready? ARM-based HPC systems will be available by the end of 2017. At ISC 2017, Penguin Computing and Bull both announced that they will deliver products...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Turing 50 Year Celebration Live Stream
The Association for Computing Machinery‘s (ACM) celebration of 50 years of the A.M. Turing Award is tomorrow and Saturday (June 23-24th, 2017) in San Francisco,...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Oded Wins The Knuth Prize
Just announced Oded Goldreich is one of the top researchers in cryptography, randomness, and complexity theory. Today Ken and I wish to thank the Knuth Prize Committee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value Delivery Modeling Language (VDML)
Brought to my attention again. Should this be the place to start for any project that claims to generate value? Even doing a simplified model can act as a prototype...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Smart Wireless Communication is the Cornerstone of Smart Infrastructures
Contributions to this post were made by CCC Council member Jennifer Rexford and Mary Ann Weitnauer. Today’s wireless networks cannot meet the demands of emerging...
From The Eponymous Pickle