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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 Putting People First
Boston’s human-centered research to design middle-income housing
In Boston, the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics is conducting ethnographic, human-centered research to design middle-income housing that reflects people’sBoston...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selfie Drones
Drones that can follow you around to take pictures and perhaps provide security? In Engadget:" ... The term "selfie drones" may suggest an added level of convenience...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Squid Attacking Another Squid
Wow, is this cool. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Retailers can Cope with Slowing Growth
In Knowledge@Wharton, Non -Technical, but quite strategic these days. Recall talking to Marshall Fisher while in the enterprise. (See his book)How Retailers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mercedes Connecting to Amazon Echo and Google Assistants
The breadth of this is most interesting. All their new cars can link to both of the most common assistants. Seems an indicator of popularity of the assistant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Home Recognizes Distinct Voices
A major issue with home assistants, that they cannot distinguish between members of a household, is being remedied this week. The Google Home assistant, whichList...
From insideHPC
Introduction to Parallel Programming with OpenACC
"This is the first in a series of short videos to introduce you to parallel programming with OpenACC and the PGI compilers, using C++ or Fortran. You will learn...
From insideHPC
Advanced Clustering Installs New Supercomputer at Clarkson University
This week Advanced Clustering installed a new supercomputer at Clarkson University in New York. "Our project is a small-scale super computer with a lot of horsepower...
From Putting People First
ONE Design: a portal on Adaptive Path’s work with Capital One Bank
ONE Design is a content portal where Capital One, the eighth-largest bank in the United States shares (many) inspiring stories of how their Adaptive Path designers...
From insideHPC
Cedar Supercomputer Comes to Canada
Simon Fraser University (SFU), Compute Canada and WestGrid were all part of the major new update to Canada's HPC resources with the recent announcement of the launch...
From insideHPC
HPC Workflows Using Containers
"In this talk we will discuss a workflow for building and testing Docker containers and their deployment on an HPC system using Shifter. Docker is widely used by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Kinds of Assistant Magic Mirrors
We examined the Mirror idea under many conditions. For cosmetics, eye-ware, clothing. At home and in the store. The somewhat new idea then is having trainedMirror...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Do Deep AI Methods Work?
Gets back to transparency, and can we actually explain how advanced AI methods work? This issue was known years ago during early methods with neural network methods...
From Putting People First
[Book] The Stuff of Bits – An Essay on the Materialities of Information
The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information by Paul Dourish MIT Press, May 2017 264 pages Virtual entities that populate our digital experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Interesting in Your Data?
In MapR they pose the question: Cognitive Analytics Answers the question: What's Interesting in Your Data?Good general thought. But I would suggest it depends...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Singapore Plans its Future City
BBC take an overview look. Very impressive plans, but there needs to be much more detail. For example how will security be handled? Privacy of data? Lots of...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Theory Fest—Should You Go?
Theory Fest—Should You Go? Boaz Barak and Michael Mitzenmacher are well known for many great results. They are currently working not on a theory paper, but on a...
From Computational Complexity
Will talk about Harry Lewis 70th bday conference later but for now- that was then/this is now
On Wed April 19 I was at the Harry Lewis 70th birthday celebration! I will blog on that later. Harry Lewis was my thesis adviser. Odd to use the past tense- I...
From Schneier on Security