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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
Enabling Voice Control in Simple IoT
From MIT News in CACM" ... In anticipation of the age of voice-controlled electronics, MIT researchers have built a low-power chip specialized for automatic speech...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC White Paper- Safety, Security, and Privacy Threats Posed by Accelerating Trends in the Internet of Things
CCC Executive Council Member Ben Zorn from Microsoft Research contributed to this post. The Internet of Things (IoT) is already transforming industries, cities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing the Flaws of Innovation
Thoughtful piece in the Cisco blog, on how do we define and address the flaws in innovation. Have attended many, many brainstorming sessions. It was never hard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Next for Home Assistants?
Good thoughts, especially linking to email and phone calls. I would add also better ways to support ongoing learning and tracking of conversations. Also the ability...
From insideHPC
Exxon Mobil Joins NCSA Private Sector Program
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) announced today that Exxon Mobil has signed on as the center's newest Private Sector Partner. "We'reExxon...
From insideHPC
Call for Panels: SC17 in Denver
SC17 has issued its Call for Panel Sessions. The conference takes place Nov. 12-17 in Denver. "As in past years, panels at SC17 will be some of the most heavily...
From Schneier on Security
Duqu Malware Techniques Used by Cybercriminals
Duqu 2.0 is a really impressive piece of malware, related to Stuxnet and probably written by the NSA. One of its security features is that it stays resident in...
From insideHPC
Deep Learning & HPC: New Challenges for Large Scale Computing
"In recent years, major breakthroughs were achieved in different fields using deep learning. From image segmentation, speech recognition or self-driving cars, deep...
From insideHPC
ISC 2017 Distinguished Talks to Focus on Data Analytics in Manufacturing & Science
Today ISC 2017 announced that it's Distinguished Talk series will focus on Data Analytics in manufacturing and scientific applications. One of the Distinguished...
From The Noisy Channel
Query Rewriting: An Overview
Thus far, we’ve focused on query understanding at the character and token level. It’s time move up the stack, on to entities and the query… Continue reading on...
From insideHPC
Six Steps Towards Better Performance on Intel Xeon Phi
"As with all new technology, developers will have to create processes in order to modernize applications to take advantage of any new feature. Rather than randomly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Strategy and Value
Includes a mapping method I had not specifically heard of. Gets back to measures for valuing your data when applied to specific strategic needs.Why you need a...
From Computational Complexity
Liberatus Wins at Poker
Tuomas Sandholm (center) and Ph.D. student Noam Brown (via CMU) Congratulations to Liberatus the new poker champ. Liberatus, an AI program, beat several top-ranked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Origami Revolution
An informative video on PBS today regarding the use of Origami as a design methodology, how research on origami based models is progressing and a number of good...
From insideHPC
IBM Machine Learning Platform Comes to the Private Cloud
"Machine Learning and deep learning represent new frontiers in analytics. These technologies will be foundational to automating insight at the scale of the world...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Summit on Advances in Programming Languages 2017 Opportunity for Junior Researchers
Rastislav Bodik (University of Washington) and Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University) have announced an exciting, new opportunity for junior researchers – either...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TensorFlow 1.0 Announced
Google announces what appears to be a considerable upgrade of TensorFlow.Announcing TensorFlow 1.0 by Amy McDonald Sandjideh, Technical Program Manager, TensorFlow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pew Internet Research Looks at Algorithms
I like their broad definition of algorithms. Sometimes the implication is falsely given that algorithms are some magical and very complex thing. But they are...
From Apophenia
When Good Intentions Backfire
… And Why We Need a Hacker Mindset I am surrounded by people who are driven by good intentions. Educators who want to inform students, who passionately believe...
From insideHPC