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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
How Silicon Valley is (ab)using behavioral science and nudging
In an extensive review of The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, the book by Michael Lewis on the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky...
From insideHPC
Intel® VTune™ Amplifier Turns Raw Profiling Data Into Performance Insights
Discovering where the performance bottlenecks are and knowing what to do about it can be a mysterious and complex art, needing some very sophisticated performance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examples of AI and Machine Learning in Industry
From O'Reilly: Some intriguing examples.Free: AI and Machine Learning in IndustryIn Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Industry: Perspectives from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manufacturing Needs Digital Ready Infrastructure
In the Cisco Blog. Makes sense. Note the mention of VR, which led me to this in a search for practical examples. Why Do Factories Need a Digital-Ready Infrastructure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating a Happy Workplace
Podcast: On creating a happy workplace. In Knowledge@Wharton. A study done with firefighters. Perhaps an unusual context to map against the typical office?...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality in Merchandising
In Retailwire, with a discussion.Will virtual reality transform in-store merchandising?hrough a special arrangement, presented here for discussion is a summaryCPGmatters...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Structured Problem Solving
And taking it beyond to business process models? Not commonly done well enough to define the structure.In Sloan Review: Saving Money Through Structured Problem...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DataScience@NIH Updates
Check out the following updates from Data Science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Guide to the Fundamentals of Data...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Code Slow Finish Fast
Looking through student code today brought this quote to mind.“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Mark Twain Students are...
From Blog@Ubiquity
The end of ICE is near – or not?
The internal combustion engine (ICE) has reigned supreme for over 100 years, but prognosticators are predicting its demise over the next few decades – or NOT, depending...
From insideHPC
dCUDA: Distributed GPU Computing with Hardware Overlap
"Over the last decade, CUDA and the underlying GPU hardware architecture have continuously gained popularity in various high-performance computing application domains...
From insideHPC
Spectra BlackPearl Gets Globus Client Certification
Today Spectra Logic announced that Globus has completed client certification for its Spectra BlackPearl Converged Storage System. BlackPearl allows customers in...
From Schneier on Security
Research on Tech-Support Scams
Interesting paper: "Dial One for Scam: A Large-Scale Analysis of Technical Support Scams": Abstract: In technical support scams, cybercriminals attempt to convince...
From insideHPC
Avere Powers Active Archive Object Storage at University of Warsaw
"One of the challenges we face in enabling big data science is providing safe and affordable storage at petabyte scale,” said Dr. Marek Michalewicz, deputy director...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Software Developer for Exascale at General Atomics
General Atomics in San Diego is seeking a Software Developer for Exascale Computing at General Atomics in our Job of the Week. "This position independently leads...
From insideHPC
Call for Proposals: LAD’17 in Paris
The LAD'17 Lustre Administrators and Developers Conference has issued their Call for Proposals. The event takes place Oct. 3-4 in Paris. "We are inviting community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drawing for Everyone
This is always something I wanted, something that turned me into a graphic artist. A Clever AI experiment by Google:Fast Drawing for EveryoneDan Motzenbecker,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Infographics and Data Science Visual Resources
DSC does its usually good job of pulling together lots of interesting visual resources. " ... They come in various shapes: infographics, cheat sheets, periodic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic License Plates for Drones
In IEEE SpectrumElectronic License Plates for DronesIn late 2015, mandatory drone registration went into effect in the United States. Since then, anyone who wants...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog