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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 Schneier on Security
Building Smarter Ransomware
Matthew Green and students speculate on what truly well-designed ransomware system could look like: Most modern ransomware employs a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Ships, Containers with Blockchain
Another example of the used of blockchain as a database, a secure open distributed ledger.The blockchain heads out to sea as IBM and Maersk develop ship tracking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Blog Posts from DSC
A selection of very useful blog posts from DSC by Vincent Granville. In particular about topics like deep learning. From introductory tutorials to advanced....
From Schneier on Security
Howard Schmidt
Longtime Internet security-policy pioneer Howard Schmidt died on Friday. He will be missed....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lisp, the Language
For some of our earliest AI applications we used the 'intelligent' language Lisp. It was key for us to implement learning modules. But have not seen much about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Banking Assistants
Security will have to be very well done.Voice banking arrives on home virtual assistantsby Jack Dougal, BANKING.COMAmazon’s Echo device has been one of the biggest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Changing the 80/20 Rule
Interesting and perceptive thoughts about the implications of AI In the HBR:AI Is Going to Change the 80/20 Ruleby Michael SchrageMany high-performance organizations...
From Computational Complexity
why are regular expressions defined the way they are
BILL: The best way to prove closure properties of regular languages is to first prove the equiv of DFA's, NDFA's and Reg Expressions. Then, if you want to prove...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Tom Kalil Awarded the 2017 CRA Distinguished Service Award
Greg Hager, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) chair and Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins University, contributed to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Quantum in the Cloud Goes Commercial
IBM's Quantum Cloud Computer Goes CommercialCompany plans a bigger, better system aimed at creating a market for the still-immature technology.by Davide Castelvecchi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using the Perfect Office Surface
As part of our innovation spaces we worked with office furniture manufacturers to scope out the needs of the future office. The question was always if there would...
From insideHPC
Call for Applications: Women in IT Networking at SC17 (WINS)
SCinet at SC17 has issued its Call for Applications for the Women in IT Networking (WINS) program. The WINS program is currently seeking qualified women U.S. candidates...
From insideHPC
IBM to Build Commercially Available Quantum Computing Systems
"IBM has invested over decades to growing the field of quantum computing and we are committed to expanding access to quantum systems and their powerful capabilities...
From insideHPC
Fox Chase Cancer Center Adopts Bright Cluster Manager
Today Bright Computing announced that the Fox Chase Cancer Center is using Bright Cluster Manager for its new high-performance computing cluster. The 30-node cluster...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing at Ford
This is taking 3D printing further than we imagined in the short term. Can it be done in volume?Ford tests 3D printer that can manufacture car parts of any size...
From insideHPC
Andrew Ng on why Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity
“We’re making this analogy that AI is the new electricity,” Ng said. “Electricity transformed industries: agriculture, transportation, communication, manufacturing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking US Innovation
In the HBR, Fascinating piece. I grew up in some of the regions tracked, and remember thinking about how industries worked together to produce value. But now...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Bit Rot or How do I read this data?
Last night I had a very weird dream. In it I was trying to recover the programs I wrote in college. I have saved most of them. Well in a manner of speaking. Some...
From Schneier on Security
Uber Uses Ubiquitous Surveillance to Identify and Block Regulators
The New York Times reports that Uber developed apps that identified and blocked government regulators using the app to find evidence of illegal behavior: Yet using...
From insideHPC