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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 …
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Avere Systems Powers BioTeam Test Lab at TACC
"In cooperation with vendors and TACC, BioTeam utilizes the lab to evaluate solutions for its clients by standing up, configuring and testing new infrastructure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brian Christian:The Computer Science of Human Decisions
From the UC Analytics Summit TomorrowKeynote 1 Friday, 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Title: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human DecisionsAbstract: Many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Research Understanding Dialog
Pointing towards Facebooks interest in AI and chatbots. Dialog understanding is hard.The long game towards understanding dialogBy: Alexandre Lebrun, Antoine Bordes...
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Introduction to Parallel Programming with OpenACC – Part 2
In this video, Michael Wolfe from PGI continues his series of tutorials on parallel programming. "The second in a series of short videos to introduce you to parallel...
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OCF Deploys 600 Teraflop Cluster at University of Bristol
OCF in the UK has deployed a new 600 teraflop supercomputer at the University of Bristol. Designed, integrated, and configured by OCF, the system is the largest...
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Transcoding for Optimal Video Consumption
Video streams may constructed using various standards, which contain information such as resolution, frame rate, color depth, etc. It is the job of the transcoder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forecasting and Machine learning
Very nice piece on the SAS blog. Which naturally points out a number of SAS tools and their connection to what are now called AI. Am a long time practitioner...
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One Stop Systems Showcases HPC as a Service at GTC 2017
In this video from GTC 2017, Jaan Mannik from One Stop Systems describes the company's new HPC as a Service offering. As makers of high density GPU expansion chassis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vulnerability of the Electric Grid
A long time interest, both regard to cyber attack, and Solar events. Which is more dangerous?Patching the Electric GridOur electric supply is increasingly vulnerable...
From Computational Complexity
The Optimizers
Last week the Georgia Tech School of Industrial and Systems Engineering honored the 80th birthday of George Nemhauser and the 70th of Arkadi Nemirovski at an...
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Blockchains Could Add Trillions of Dollars to the Global Economy
By Toufi Saliba, CEO of PrivacyShell and Chair, ACM Practitioners Board Conference Committee Imagine if the entire global
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making AI Work for Everyone
Attended the Google I/O conference today. Very well done. Their CEO talks about how they hope to make AI work for everyone. From mobile first to AI first. ...
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Hyperion Research Announces New HPC Innovation Awards for Data Centers
Hyperion Research, the new name for the former IDC HPC group, today announced it is adding two new categories to its global awards program for high performanceHyperion...
From Schneier on Security
The US Senate Is Using Signal
The US Senate just approved Signal for staff use. Signal is a secure messaging app with no backdoor, and no large corporate owner who can be pressured to install...
From My Biased Coin
Last Week For STOC Sign-Ups
A reminder that this year's STOC is supersized, with (completely in the STOC package) multiple workshops, tutorials, and special speakers. But for those of you...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NSF Program Solicitation on Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Processing and Storage Technologies (SemiSynBio)
The following is a guest blog post by Mitra Basu, Program Director, and Gera Jochum, Communications Specialist, in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Educational backgrounds of the CEOs of the top 5 corporations in the US
Apple is the most valuable company in the US. The CEO is Tim Cook who has a bachelor of science in industrial engineering from Auburn University. The chairman is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Marketing
I like the point made about data. AI (aka Augmented Intelligence). Is just a better way to make decisions based on data. Difficult problems in changing contexts...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Blue Sky Papers at RSS 2017 Conference
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the Material Robotics (MaRo) – Bridging Materials Science and Robotics...
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