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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 Noisy Channel
Prithiviraj, thanks for the kind words.
Prithiviraj, thanks for the kind words. As for NER systems for English text only recognizing named entities in title case, that’s usually a function of how they...
From Putting People First
IoT seeks to remake the fundamentals of our everyday lives
Murray Goulden writes in The Conversation that smart homes, wearables and the Internet of Things are indicative of the development of an entire class of technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Avoiding Left Turns
An example of a simple rule for a much more complex task. How many of these rules are there, and how many sub tasks exist? Teaching a Driverless Car to Turn Left...
From insideHPC
Horst Simon to be Program Chair for ISC 2018
ISC 2017 may be just around the corner, but the conference team is already busy planning the show for next year. Today they announced that Prof Horst Simon will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Safety via Understanding Patient Experience
Interesting example in the HBR. How can it be translated to other goals in other industries?How U.S. Health Care Got Safer by Focusing on the Patient Experience...
From insideHPC
Video: Optimizing HPC Service Delivery at Boeing
Jim Glidewell from Boeing presented this talk at the PBS Works User Group. "There are multiple elements to providing an effective and efficient HPC service. This...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
News Flash! School and Industry Are NOT The Same
Computer Science cheating has been a discussion lately. Not just in the NY Times article I referenced the other day (Cheating In Computer Science Class) but onComputer...
From insideHPC
HPC as a Service for High Performance Video Rendering
In the past 5 years, GPUs have gotten even more powerful so rendering tasks can be completed even faster than before. Katie (Garrison) Rivera, of One Stop Systems...
From Putting People First
A cultural approach to wearables (and the design opportunities it provides)
In January of this year, Sakari Tamminen and Elisabet Holmgren of the Finnish/USA innovation agency Gemic, published a paper on EPIC entitled “The AnthropologyA...
From Putting People First
Intervista a Todd Harple di Intel sul tech-fashion
Il mondo del fashion sta diventando sempre di più digitale — e non si tratta solo di dispositivi da indossare, ma anche e soprattutto di abbigliamento, realizzato...
From Schneier on Security
Post-Quantum RSA
Interesting research on a version of RSA that is secure against a quantum computer: Post-quantum RSA Daniel J. Bernstein, Nadia Heninger, Paul Lou, and Luke Valenta...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
On Becoming a Better Computer Science Teacher
Andy Ko, Associate Professor at the University of Washington iSchool and Chief Scientist & Co-Founder @answerdash has posted a blog and slide presentation fromHow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Compassionate Conversational Systems
Dear Professors, Students, IBMers and others, This a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series, on Thursday, June 1, 2016 at 10:30 am ET USRama...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Patents Drone Delivery with Blockchains
Proposals for Drone delivery are not new. But Wal-Mart adds lock-box delivery and blockchains for tracking and identification. Showing their moves in combining...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Goldilocks Principle And P vs. NP
The rule of three Wikimedia Commons source Robert Southey was the Poet Laureate of Britain from 1813 until his death in 1843. He published, anonymously, “The Story...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Going AI First
All the indications are there, the data, especially dynamic data, is broad and deep. What should business reactions be?Just Leaked: Google Preps to Invest Boldly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple's Neural Engine Plan
Bottom line, its all about the data. And its Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Facebook that have the data. Lots of data. And all of these companies are...
From Schneier on Security
Inmates Secretly Build and Network Computers while in Prison
This is kind of amazing: Inmates at a medium-security Ohio prison secretly assembled two functioning computers, hid them in the ceiling, and connected them to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Essential Home as an Ambient OS
I like the term Ambient Computing or Ambient OS. It listens, answers, performs, adapts. A virtual assistant too. A more private, more home oriented device?This...
From The Eponymous Pickle