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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 insideHPC
How R-Systems Powers Cloud HPC with Dell EMC
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Michael Senizaiz and Brian Kucic from R-Systems describe how the company delivers HPC in the Cloud as part...
From insideHPC
Ohio Supercomputer Center runs Biggest Calculation Ever
Today the Ohio Supercomputer Center announced that is has run the single-largest scale calculation in the Center’s history. Scientel IT Corp used 16,800 cores of...
From insideHPC
How InfiniBand is Powering new capabilities for Machine Learning with RDMA
In this video from GTC 2017, Scot Schultz from Mellanox describes how high performance InfiniBand is powering new capabilities for Machine Learning with RDMA. "Mellanox...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Way to Build a Smart City
Good overall look from Govtech. Its understanding required architecture too.The Smart Way to Build a Smart City (Industry Perspective)City and digital government...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Robots to do Our Jobs
Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)By The New York Times What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Engineers
Good to see the practical and operational aspect of this. Usually assumed in other roles.Would hope this includes getting closer to business process and risk analysis...
From Schneier on Security
Spear Phishing Attacks
Really interesting research: "Unpacking Spear Phishing Susceptibility," by Zinaida Benenson, Freya Gassmann, and Robert Landwirth. Abstract: We report the results...
From Putting People First
Developing a mobile chatbot for a Pittsburgh museum
The people at Studio, the design, development and workflow laboratory at Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, are working on the design and the development of a “new...
From Putting People First
First issue of Behavioural Public Policy now available for free online
Behavioural Public Policy is an interdisciplinary and international peer-reviewed journal devoted to behavioural research and its relevance to public policy. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Indoor Positioning Systems
We did considerable research in how indoor location systems could be used and their influence on retail behavior. In Retailwire: Indoor positioning systems are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning is Wrong
An important point. Like I said in teaching forecasting classes, the forecast is always wrong, and that error should be considered in risk analysis. It does not...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Quickly returning the top-k elements: computer science vs. the real world
A standard problem in computer science is to quickly return the smallest or largest K elements of a list. If the list is made of N elements, then we can solve this...
From Computational Complexity
Big News on W(3,r) !
This is a JOINT POST with Evangelos Georgiadis who brought this problem to my attention.) In 2010 I posted about how dense a set of integers has to be before...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Announces Home Assistant and Speaker: HomePod
Reportedly available in December at an expensive $349. Featuring Siri for intelligence.Apple's making an Amazon Echo competitor called 'HomePod' by Ben Gilbert...
From insideHPC
Intel to Develop New Machine Learning and AI Platform for DARPA
Today Intel announced that it has been selected by DARPA to collaborate on the development of a powerful new data-handling and computing platform that will leverage...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Partners with Hyperscale Vendors for HGX-1 AI Reference Platform
Last week at the Computex conference, Nvidia launched a partner program with hyperscale vendors Foxconn, Inventec, Quanta and Wistron to more rapidly meet the demands...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ITIF Report “10 Steps Congress Can Take to Accelerate Data Innovation”
Contributions to the following blog were made by former CCC Chair Gregory Hager and CCC Director Ann Drobnis. We all know there is a lot of data out there, and...
From insideHPC
High Performance Computing: A Business Platform at Caesars Entertainment
Les Ottolenghi from Ceasers Entertainment presented this keynote at the PBS Works Users Group meeting in Las Vegas. "Ceasers is focused on building loyalty andHigh...
From insideHPC
IBM Research Alliance Paves the way for 5nm Technology
Today IBM announced it has developed an industry-first process with its research partners to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5 nanometer chips...
From The Eponymous Pickle