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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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Agenda Posted for HP-CAST at ISC 2017
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has posted their Preliminary Agenda for HP-CAST. As HPE's user group meeting for high performance computing, the event takes place June...
From insideHPC
Trends in Systems and How to Get Efficient Performance
Martin Hilgeman from Dell gave this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "With all the advances in massively parallel and multi-core computing with CPUs andTrends...
From Schneier on Security
Forging Voice
LyreBird is a system that can accurately reproduce the voice of someone, given a large amount of sample inputs. It's pretty good -- listen to the demo here -- and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Success with Predictive Analytics
Good overview, I like the addition of business rules (aka process), though I would study it closely first. Sometimes you can get good value by just making an In...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart vs Amazon
Been following Wal-Mart acquired Jet.com for some time. Note the additional acquisitions. Via Retailwire: " Competing with Amazon ... Walmart got Marc Lore to...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Funds AI Startup Fastdata.io
Today Fastdata.io announced it has raised a total of $1.5 million from NVIDIA and other investors. The company is introducing "the world’s fastest and most efficient...
From insideHPC
Comet Supercomputer Doubles Down on Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs
The San Diego Supercomputer Center has been granted a supplemental award from the National Science Foundation to double the number of graphic processing units,Comet...
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Intel Processors for Machine Learning
Machine Learning is a hot topic for many industries and is showing tremendous promise to change how we use systems. From design and manufacturing to searching for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Democratization of Machine Learning
Good overview piece. Statistics and pushing more need for open source capabilities and Transparency.Why do we need the Democratization of Machine Learning?We...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Music for Sleep
Links to one of my own personal experiments.Music as medicine: how songs could soon replace painkillers and help you sleep betterMarko Ahtisaari is attempting to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Alexa Lamp
The futuristic Alexa lamp, functioning as lighting and assistant, reported on last year, is reported as coming out by fall for the Smart home: GE’s Alexa lamp...
From Computational Complexity
Summer Conferences
Ahh summer. No Classes. Baseball. Opera Festivals. Time to focus on research and starting a new book. But, of course, many computer scientists travel the worldSTOC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Project Intu
Open source cognitive functions.Use Project Intu to embed cognitive functions in various forms such as spaces, avatars, or other IoT devices.See all Open Source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interpreting Deep Learning Models
Interpretability via attentional and memory-based interfaces, using TensorFlowA closer look at the reasoning inside your deep networks.By Goku Mohandas April 12...
From XRDS
How 1 Million App Calls can Tell you a Bit About Malware – Part 2
In my previous blog post, I described some of my findings regarding malicious mobile apps. In summary, I observed that there are POSIX abstractions, which are popular...
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Announces SkyScale HPC as a Service
Today One Stop Systems (OSS) annouced the launch of SkyScale, a new company that provides HPC as a Service (HPCaaS). For years OSS has been designing and manufacturing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AI for Good: Maximizing the economic and societal benefits of AI
Contributions to the following blog were made by former CCC Chair Greg Hager and Tom Kalil, former Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation in the Office of...
From Schneier on Security
Security of St. Jude Pacemakers
This is a good summary article about the horrible security of St. Jude pacemakers, and the history of the company not doing anything about it....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAI Human Computation and Crowdsourcing Conference 2017
The Fifth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing will be held in Quebec City, Canada, October 24-26, 2017. It will be sponsored by the Association...
From insideHPC