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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
Oracle and Moat for Measurement and Analytics
Its all about accurate and universal measurement, directly and indirectly through the results of analytics. So this is not surprising.Oracle buys MoatCreates the...
From insideHPC
Rock Stars of HPC: John Stone
This Rock Stars of HPC series is about the men and women who are changing the way the HPC community develops, deploys, and operates the supercomputers and social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook using Augmented Reality
Zuckerberg talking how AR will play in Facebook. And suggests that it will first play through the cameras in people's phones. Less cumbersome than a headset...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: Artificial Intelligence in the Car
Upcoming CSIG Talk this week. " ... This a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series on Thursday, April 20, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (7:30 am...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robotics Expert to Lead Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Dawn Tilbury, professor of mechanical engineering and former associate dean for research at the University of Michigan‘s College of Engineering, will become the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Flow and Buttons
In SiliconAngle: " ... (Microsoft) The company has also introduced something it calls Flow-compatible hardware buttons. They’re somewhat reminiscent of Amazon.com...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using AR To Transfer Images
If you can't draw well, or precisely, perhaps you can trace images from a phone App using Augmented Reality. Clever idea for the right kind of application. Warns...
From insideHPC
High Performance Interconnects – Assessments, Rankings and Landscape
Dan Olds from OrionX.net presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "Dan Olds will present recent research into the history of High Performance Interconnects...
From insideHPC
Rescale Announces ScaleX Labs with Intel Xeon Phi and Omni-Path
Today the Rescale HPC Cloud introduced the ScaleX Labs with Intel Xeon Phi processors and Intel Omni-Path Fabric managed by R Systems. The collaboration bringsRescale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplified Hearth Rate Sensor Tech
In Engadget. Another interesting breakthrough in health sensor technology. Possible use for other emotion sensing applications.Panasonic can read your heartThe...
From insideHPC
Rambus Collaborates with Microsoft on Cryogenic Memory
"With the increasing challenges in conventional approaches to improving memory capacity and power efficiency, our early research indicates that a significant change...
From insideHPC
Call for Proposals reflects magnitude of PRACE 2
Today the European PRACE initiative announced that their 14th Call for Proposals yielded 113 eligible proposals of which 59 were awarded a total of close to 2 thousand...
From My Biased Coin
STOC Theory Fest Announcements
There's a lot of new information up at the STOC web page http://acm-stoc.org/stoc2017/ about the amazing theory fest June 19-23 in Montreal. In particular, most...
From insideHPC
Open CAPI: A New Standard for High Performance Attachment of Memory, Acceleration, and Networks
In this video from the Switzerland HPC Conference, Jeffrey Stuecheli from IBM presents: Open CAPI, A New Standard for High Performance Attachment of Memory, Acceleration...
From Schneier on Security
Covert Channel via Two VMs
Researchers build a covert channel between two virtual machines using a shared cache....
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Mislead with Data
Misleading most often. I have seen it often in the enterprise and elsewhere. Good points made in article below, and always worth repeating. But missing isTell...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Next Data Science Education Meetings on May 1-3 in Washington DC
The next public forum on data science postsecondary education convened by the National Academies of Sciences will be on May 1-3 in Washington, D.C. The roundtable...
From Computational Complexity
Understanding Machine Learning
Today Georgia Tech had the launch event for our new Machine Learning Center. A panel discussion talked about different challenges in machine learning across the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DeepMind Outsources Sonnet
DeepMind, now part of Alphabet, has outsourced Sonnet, a TensorFlow library for constructing neural network modules that allows variable sharing. Another win for...
From The Eponymous Pickle