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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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PRACE 2 Adds Piz Daint Supercomputer
Earlier this month, the European PRACE initiative went into Phase 2, with Switzerland becoming a new Hosting Member. As a Hosting Member, Switzerland is now making...
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Apply Now for the PEARC17 Student Program
PEARC17 provides students with a range of opportunities in the Technical Program and in targeted student activities. For all student attendees, PEARC17 will include...
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Radio Free HPC Looks at Recent Report Calling for Aggressive Action to Compete with China in Supercomputing
In this podcast, Radio Free HPC looks at a recent report that the USA needs to take aggresive action to keep up with China in High Performance Computing. Produced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Delivers Medical Advice via WebMD
An example where an advisory system is essentially just replacing a long existing web service. With the convenience of voice interaction. With no additional conversational...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities in Mobile MAC Randomization
Interesting research: "A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices When it Fails": Abstract: Media Access Control (MAC) address randomization is a privacy...
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Interpreting Machine Learning
By their nature the results from deep learning and neural methods can be non transparent. Via O'Reilly.Ideas on interpreting machine learningMix-and-match approaches...
From Computational Complexity
If you want to help your bad students DO NOT give an easy exam
1) When I was a grad student TAing Formal Lang Theory we had a final ready to give out but noticed that one problem was too hard. So we changed it. But we made...
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Google Tango Location is Testing at Lowes
Been a long time tester of retail location intelligence solutions. Now news that Lowes is starting to test Google Tango location intelligence using augmented reality...
From The Noisy Channel
I recognize that my participation in the gig economy is hardly representative of most people’s…
I recognize that my participation in the gig economy is hardly representative of most people’s experience. Indeed, I wrote a post about “The Hook-Up Economy” (https...
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Will we be Dinosaurs in Three Years?
Reminds me of things said at the end of the last AI up tick ... Wildly exaggerated. Most of us will use it rather than develop it. Mark Cuban via Via O'Reilly...
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Intel Rolls Out First Optane SSD with 3D XPoint Technology
"Delivering an industry-leading combination of low latency, ultra endurance, high QoS, and high throughput, the Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X Series is the most responsive...
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Video Preview of the SC17 Student Cluster Competition
"SC17 is excited to hold another nail-biting Student Cluster Competition, or SCC, now in its eleventh year, as an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a...
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Gadget Earth Video
A video view of the personalities and capabilities of drones and other semi autonomous gadgets out of the recent CES conference. From the Verge. Impressive...
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Smartphones Revolutionizing Medicine
In the CACM: New details on gow smrtphone devices are changing medicine and health data.
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Will AI Transform Retail Marketing
Will AI transform retail marketing? by Tom Ryan In Retailwire:A survey from Sailthru finds more retailers using artificial intelligence (AI) to support marketing...
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Alexa and Roomba in the Smart Home
We worked with the Roomba concept. Though I liked the idea, never found it useful enough to add to our smart home .... Will it be more useful enough when voice...
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Intel MKL and Intel TBB Working Together for Performance
When used in a TBB environment, Intel has demonstrated a many-fold performance improvement over the same parallelized code using Intel MKL in an OpenMP environment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cars Learning
More broadly, what kinds of things can cars learn to make them better and cheaper? Gets to better understanding the consumer needs and related processes. Have...
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RWTH Aachen University Deploys NEC LX Supercomputer
Today NEC Corporation announced the deployment of an LX supercomputer at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Featuring offering high performance computing services...
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