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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
Horst Simon to Present “Supercomputers and Superintelligence” at PASC17 in Lugano
Today PASC17 announced that Horst Simon will present a public lecture entitled “Supercomputers and Superintelligence” at the conference. PASC17 takes place June...
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Nominations Open for PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
The European PRACE initiative is now accepting nominations for the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC. "PRACE is happy to receive your nomination for the Award. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and Campaign Response
Intriguing piece in GigaOm, reviewing. We did this for decades. There are better methods now. How well can this be done? What are the risks involved? Predicting...
From insideHPC
Using HPC in a Cohort Study of the Health Effects of Handgun Ownership in California
In this video from the 2017 HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference, Yifan Zhang from Stanford presents: Using HPC in a Cohort Study of the Health Effects of Handgun...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Releases Open Source Prophet
Doing time series forecasting well is important to every business. Good to see this open sourcing underway by the Facebook Incubator. Though the history of"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Transforming Technology
How Will AI Transform Technology? A Conversation with Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka. In Knowledge@Wharton.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Phone to Measure Blood Pressure
I remember having a conversation with a person in the medical devices area some time saying that blood pressure still needs to be mechanically measured. Here...
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Selects Co-Design Center for Graph Analytics
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has selected its fifth Co-Design Center to focus on Graph Analytics — combinatorial (graph) kernels that play a crucial enabling...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The technology of Logan (2017 Wolverine movie set in 2029)
Last night I went to see Logan, the latest and maybe the last Wolverine movie with Hugh Jackman. The movie is set in 2029. The year 2029 is an interesting choice...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Practical Applications of Ontologies
A DSC followup on a previous piece on the use of ontologies, organized ways to look at knowledge and leverage it against solving real business problems. These...
From Schneier on Security
Jumping Air Gaps with Blinking Lights and Drones
Researchers have demonstrated how a malicious piece of software in an air-gapped computer can communicate with a nearby drone using a blinking LED on the computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automation and Productivity
In the Gartner Blog. Touches on the obvious. Automation should improve. And I like the idea of measurement.Automation Can Make Elusive “Productivity Improvements...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An IOT Newsletter
Brian Petro's IOT newsletter. I won't always copy these in total, but looks to be an interesting path of information to connect to.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Response to NITRD “Smart Cities and Communities Federal Strategic Plan: Exploring Innovation Together”
CCC Chair Beth Mynatt contributed to this post. The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program, an interagency Federal-coordinating...
From insideHPC
Dr. Alfred Geiger to Keynote Industrial Day at ISC 2017
Today ISC 2017 announced that the conference Industrial Day on June 20 will feature keynotes by Dr. Alfred Geiger of T-Systems. With a day-long program, Industrial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Bots for Questions and Answers
This was brought to my attention via Mary J Foley, who has a new site for innovation community. Here is a current entry: https://www.petri.com/community-champs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Case for Digital Reinvention
Interesting statistics, at least, about what it takes to do such reinvention." ... As digitization continues its advance, the implications for revenues and profits...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modeling the Correct Network
Had to miss this today, but looks good: ... iCeNSA is an interdisciplinary research center organized around network and data science problems in social, biological...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronics Shopping
Have been involved in some work that looked at why people choose technology, and below is related to this. Here Google talks about the micro moments aspects of...
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