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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
Assistants Understanding Accents
Quite a long article with many links in Language Log, on research that has been done on understanding accents. And how this may influence our work with assistants...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jobs and Technologies
Seems an odd premise, is it the underlying responsibility of companies to create jobs? Or allow the market to do that? Starting in the 60s, many jobs have been...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at the TPU2 TensorFlow Processing Unit
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the announcements coming from Google IO conference. Of particular interest was their second-generation TensorFlow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart E-Commerce Surge
In Adage:Walmart's E-Commerce Surge and Other Takeaways for BrandsBy Jack Neff.Walmart reported fiscal first-quarter earnings today that showed a huge spike in"...
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Home Automation Virtual Agent
Interesting approach that I had not seen .... highlighting the Watson conversation service.Build a Home Automation Virtual Agent on BluemixWith the home automation...
From insideHPC
PASC17 to Feature Panel Discussions on Moore’s Law and Computational Sciences
The upcoming PASC17 conference has posted further details on a pair of panel discussions taking place at the conference next month. The conference takes place June...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Rural Lens on a Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure
We hear all about “smart cities” but what about smart rural communities? We cannot forget about our rural populations, which we depend on for agriculture, fishing...
From insideHPC
PSSC Labs Launches Eco Blades for HPC
The Eco Blade is a unique server platform engineered specifically for high performance, high density computing environments – simultaneously increasing computePSSC...
From insideHPC
Drilling Down into Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are rising in popularity as the needs of big data call for systems that exceed human capabilities. This article isDrilling...
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Most Powerful Quantum Computer
IBM unveils its most powerful quantum processor yetAnd the company is seeking your algorithms and experiments to run on it. .. Andrew Dalton, @dolftown
From Schneier on Security
Extending the Airplane Laptop Ban
The Department of Homeland Security is rumored to be considering extending the current travel ban on large electronics for Middle Eastern flights to European ones...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Next in AI and Automation
Excellent overview, with useful detail:What’s now and next in analytics, AI, and automationInnovations in digitization, analytics, artificial intelligence, and...
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Examining the Drone Economy
Drones go to Work by Chris Anderson in the HBR. Excellent piece.The disruptive economics of unmanned vehicles are taking hold. Here’s how to think about thePlus...
From insideHPC
Storage-as-a-Service Demo Center Opens in Munich
Today Zadara Storage announced the opening of a new Storage-as-a-Service demo center near Munich, Germany, in collaboration with Intel Corporation. Customers and...
From insideHPC
Bridging Big – Small, Fast – Slow with Campaign Storage
Peter Braam gave this talk at the MSST 2017 Mass Storage Conference. "Campaign Storage offers radical revisions of old workflows and adapts to new technologies....
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Cortana as a Bot Channel
I like thinking of it in this way. Saw it demonstrated by MSFT using Cortana this week. Still means the architecture, operations, context and memory of the bot...
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Amazon and Pharma
Discussion. In Retailwire.Is the $400B prescription drug business ripe for an Amazon disruption?by George AndersonCNBC reported yesterday that Amazon.com is hiring...
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Flash Organizations
Useful idea, now link it to right data.Stanford Researchers Develop Crowdsourcing Software to Convene Rapid, On-Demand 'Flash Organizations'Researchers at Stanford...
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Looking for a long Chat
Interesting goal. Length of a chat implies some engagement, but not necessarily value to the human involved. If the goal is to get a useful answer I want itThe...
From insideHPC