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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
InfiniBand Roadmap Foretells a World Where Server Connectivity is at 1000 Gb/sec
The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) has updated their InfiniBand Roadmap. With HDR 200 Gb/sec technolgies shipping this year, the roadmap looks out to an XDR...
From insideHPC
Lorena Barba Presents: Data Science for All
"In this new world, every citizen needs data science literacy. UC Berkeley is leading the way on broad curricular immersion with data science, and other universities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extracting Knowledge from Job Descriptions
Below was brought to my attention, no so much as to aid HR, but to better understand the nature of jobs and their component tasks. And how that links to augmentation...
From Computational Complexity
William Tutte (1917-2002)
Today we celebrate our mothers of course, but also the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bill Tutte, best known for his role in decrypting the Lorenz cipher used...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Reader Agreement Update
Have followed Google book scanning project for years. Why not create the universal library? Full text would be available free only for the huge numbers of books...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Uses Simple Text for Razor Reorder
Addressing the Razor blade club competition. Procter's Gillette is using a simple text for order and replenishment. How does this compare with approaches like...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Briefing on Computer Science and STEM Education for U.S. Congress
On May 10, the ACM Education Policy Committee co-sponsored a briefing for Congress on “STEM 101: Major Policy Issues for the 115th Congress.” Organized by the STEM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where is AI Making an Impact?
Nicely done overview, from CBInsights:Emerging AI: 7 Industries Including Law, HR, Travel And Media Where AI Is Making An ImpactWe take a look at categories where...
From insideHPC
Video: ARM HPC Ecosystem
Darren Cepulis from ARM gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "ARM delivers enabling technology behind HPC. The 64-bit design of the ARMv8-A architecture combined...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UC Analytics Summit next Week!
I will be speaking at the below summit on the future of analytics and AI. Join us. - Franz" ... Analytics Summit 2013 will be held on May 31, 8:15AM-5:00PM...
From insideHPC
IBM’s New PowerAI Software Speeds Deep Learning
IBM PowerAI on Power servers with GPU accelerators provide at least twice the performance of our x86 platform; everything is faster and easier: adding memory, setting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fluent Design System
Had head this term being used recently. In Engadget:Microsoft's design rules push Windows 'beyond mere rectangles'Exploring the core tenets of the Fluent Design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loyalty Cards
In Customer Think. Are loyalty cards dead? A discussion. Hardly dead because I have several in my wallet. But the only ones that work are connected to some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Paths
Was reminded of Watson Path, and its use of Sankey Diagrams to communicate with medicine domain experts. Nice idea, though the term for this kind of visualization...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My review of Change Agent: A Novel (by Daniel Suarez)
Change Agent is a sci-fi novel still hot from the presses. It set in our near future (2049). The genre has been captured by writers who love dystopian futures.Continue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Content Recognition by Microsoft
As part of Microsoft Build Meetings. Following and looking for more details.Microsoft Takes Aim at Google and Amazon With a New Recognition Tool ReutersMicrosoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vint Cerf Criticizes AI
In Nextgov: Some of the cautions mentions are noted." ... Vint Cerf is often called the “father of the internet” and he frequently speaks about technology toHe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Behavioral Models of People
Intriguing behavioral modeling approach.Computers Learn to Understand Humans Better by Modeling ThemAalto UniversityResearchers at Aalto University in Finland,The...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Marc Hamilton on how Volta GPUs will Power Next-Generation HPC and AI
In this podcast, Marc Hamilton from Nvidia describes how the new Volta GPUs will power the next generation of systems for HPC and AI. According to Nvidia, the Tesla...
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