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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
Asetek Lands Another RackCDU D2C Order for New HPC Installation
Today Asetek announced an order from one of its existing OEM partners for its RackCDU D2C (Direct-to-Chip) liquid cooling solution. The order is part of a new installation...
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Visionary Perspective: Foundations of Cognitive Computing
Costas Bekas from IBM Research Zurich presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "IBM Research builds applications that enable humans to collaborate...
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Radio Free HPC Previews the MSST Mass Storage Conference
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the upcoming MSST Mass Storage Conference with Program Chair Matthew O'Keefe from Oracle. "Since the conference...
From Schneier on Security
Shadow Brokers Releases the Rest of their NSA Hacking Tools
Last August, an unknown group called the Shadow Brokers released a bunch of NSA tools to the public. The common guesses were that the tools were discovered on an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Assistants Acting as Phones
I note that in the IFTTT applets there are now ways to have the Amazon Echo dial phone numbers. See for example this applet, that causes the Echo to dial specific...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI In Medicine
Medicine has long been seen as a fruitful area of application for AI, because of its complexity, reliance on extensive and frequently changing data sources, deep...
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Hololens in the Classroom
With my first closeup view of the Hololens this week I was struck by the educational opportunity, and further how educational progress, and gaming could be integrated...
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Disney Aiming at Soft Body Robotics
Starting with audio animatronics, which we saw in the 60s, Disney has always been into interactive realism. What is the value of the very realistic android? Now...
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Knowledge Graph of the Business World
We tried this with just an enterprise, and discovered it was quite hard. What is the appropriate level of detail? And how is it changing? The gaps can make your...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligence and Analytics Case Studies
A nice set of broad examples that are insightful.5 Business Intelligence & Analytics Case Studies Across IndustryLast updated on April 4, 2017 by Daniel Faggella...
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Helpdesk Concierge Experience
I remember using the word 'Concierge' when developing our own experiences. It helps you think about multiple, focused experiences the way a concierge does. Helpful...
From insideHPC
Cowboy Supercomputer Powers Research at Oklahoma State
In this video, Dana Brunson from Oklahoma State describes the mission of the Oklahoma High Performance Computing Center. Formed in 2007, the High Performance Computing...
From insideHPC
GPU Hackathon Coming to Spain End of May
Appentra and CESGA are organizing a GPU Hackathon in Spain. The event takes place May 29 - June 1 at the Galicia Supercomputing Center in Santiago de Compostela...
From Michael Nielsen
Is there a tension between creativity and accuracy?
On Twitter, I’ve been chatting with my friend Julia Galef about tensions between thinking creatively and thinking in a way that reduces error in our thinking. Of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adaptive Machine Learning
Good points in DSC article below on adaptive machine learning. I often make the case that you should often consider if your modeling should be modeled adaptively...
From Putting People First
Jeremy Myerson on how social challenges can catalyse design-led innovation in industry
In this recent talk at the RCA in London, writer and academic Jeremy Myerson explores how social challenges can catalyse design-led innovation in industry. Rather...
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Managing Node Configuration with 1000s of Nodes
Ira Weiny from Intel presented this talk at the OpenFabrics Workshop. "Individual node configuration when managing 1000s or 10s of thousands of nodes in a cluster...
From insideHPC
Driving Change with Multiphysics
The latest industrial vehicles – as with other areas of automotive design – often involve high-tech components composite components to assisted driving or vehicle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Interaction Experiments in Hololens
Professor David E Rapien of the University of Cincinnati demonstrated his prototype for interacting with data using Microsoft's Hololens. Great start. Recall...
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