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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Looking More Closely at a Voice Retail Channel
Is Amazon’s Alexa a threat to rival retailers?The author starts a conversation remarking on how much her family has taken to voice ordering. Does every kind...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Doomsday Invention?
Following up on my reading of Bostrom's book: Superintelligence, this 2015 article. My take on this is that the dangers are still decades away, but does needThe...
From insideHPC
Intel Skylake Comes to Google Cloud Platform
Today the Google Cloud Platform announced that it is the first cloud provider to offer the next generation Intel Xeon processor, codenamed Skylake. "Skylake includes...
From insideHPC
ADIOS 1.11 Middleware Moves I/O Framework from Research to Production
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced the latest release of its Adaptable I/O System (ADIOS), a middleware that speeds up scientific...
From insideHPC
Artificial Intelligence: It’s No Longer Science Fiction
"Computational science has come a long way with machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) in just the last year. Leading centers of high-performance computing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Tech jobs are already largely automated
Lately, I have been reading a lot about the threat to computer jobs from automation. For example, we have AI systems that can write their own code. And billionaire...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Beacons for Personalized Service
Was recently asked to look at the status of beacon applications, new examples of increased 'intelligence' at play.New Beacon Company Brings Intelligence to In-Flight...
From insideHPC
Beyond the Moore’s Law Cliff: The Next 1000X
In this video from the 2017 HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference, Subhasish Mitra from Stanford presents: Beyond the Moore's Law Cliff: The Next 1000X. Professor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zebra SmartSense
This was brought to my attention. Zebra SmartSense™ for Retail Helps Retailers Execute Successful Omnichannel Fulfillment Strategies. " ... This innovative solution...
From Schneier on Security
Palantir and the NSA
The Intercept has a long article on the relationship between Palantir Technologies and the NSA, based on the Snowden documents....
From Schneier on Security
SHA-1 Collision Found
The first collision in the SHA-1 hash function has been found. This is not a surprise. We've all expected this for over a decade, watching computing power increase...
From My Biased Coin
SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize Call, 2017
Call for Nominations2017 SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize The Theory community benefits in many ways from the dedicated service, above and beyond the call of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superintelligence Considered
Quite late, but making my way through the well known Superintelligence book by Nick Bostrom. Some quite fascinating statistics of the futurist kind that are worth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What to Expect from AI
What to Expect from AI. Reasonably good overview from MIT Sloan Review. An executive overview, some registration required for the full report. " ... To understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Role of Dialog Talk
From Today's talk:Murray Campbell on “The Role of Dialog in Augmented Intelligence” IBM ResearchSlides. Talk recording.
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: GPU Performance Analysis Architect at Nvidia
Nvidia is seeking a GPU Performance Analysis Architect in our Job of the Week. "The NVIDIA GPU Compute Architecture group is seeking world-class architects to analyze...
From insideHPC
Applications Now Open for Student Volunteers at SC17 Conference
Applications are now being accepted for the Student Volunteers program at the SC17 conference to be held Nov. 12-17 in Denver. Both undergraduate and graduate students...
From insideHPC
Video: Multi-Physics Methods, Modeling, Simulation & Analysis
"Through multiscale simulation of the circulatory system, it is now possible to model this surgery and optimize it using the state of the art optimization techniques...
From insideHPC
Jennifer Chayes from Microsoft Research to Keynote ISC 2017
Today ISC 2017 announced that data scientist, Prof. Dr. Jennifer Tour Chayes from Microsoft Research will give the opening keynote at the conference. “I'll discuss...
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