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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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Overcoming the Learning Curve of New Processor Architectures
High-performance computing (HPC) tools are helping financial firms survive and thrive in this highly demanding and data-intensive industry. As financial modelsOvercoming...
From Schneier on Security
Survey Data on Americans and Cybersecurity
Pew Research just published their latest research data on Americans and their views on cybersecurity: This survey finds that a majority of Americans have directly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Partnering with Chinese Retailers
In McKinsey: Partnering with China’s retailers: A guide for consumer-goods companies: Companies must tailor their key-account-management model and capabilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu and China Machine Learning
How Chinese Internet Giant Baidu Uses AI And Machine Learning - Forbes. By Bernard Marr." .... Chinese firms such as Baudu and Alibaba, on the other hand – as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail and AI
How artificial intelligence is powering retail customer experienceBy Cliff Saran in Computerweekly:Retailers are beginning to explore how cognitive computing and...
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Ford Invests in AI Startup
Have always been impressed by Ford's analytical work. In ComputerWeekly:Motorcar maker Ford’s software development team will work alongside Argo AI on roboticFord...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Sites and Shopper Digital
Study: Grocery shoppers not all that connected with social media By Deena M. Amato-McCoyIn ChainstoreAge: While supermarket shoppers engage with their primaryThis...
From Computational Complexity
Raymond Smullyan: Logician, Recreational math writer, Philosopher, passed away
Raymond Smullyan was born on May 25 1919 and passed away recently at the age of 97. He was a logician (PhD from Princeton under Alonzo Church in 1959) who didThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Systems Communicating with Humans
Intriguing steps forward, ultimately about learning and updating the state of interactions. Consider too the mention of trust, and implications of deeper agency...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nanotechnology-Inspired Information Processing Systems Workshop Report
The organizing committee for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored Nanotechnology-Inspired Information Processing Systems has released their workshop...
From insideHPC
ORNL’s Al Geist to Keynote OpenFabrics Workshop in Austin
In his keynote, Mr. Geist will discuss the need for future Department of Energy supercomputers to solve emerging data science and machine learning problems in addition...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Proposals: Creating Visions for Computing Research
The mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit...
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Mellanox Demos 4X Improvement in Crypto Performance with 40G Ethernet Network Adapter
Today Mellanox announced superior crypto throughput of line rate using the company’s Innova IPsec Network Adapter, demonstrating more than three times higher throughput...
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Designing HPC & Deep Learning Middleware for Exascale Systems
DK Panda from Ohio State University presented this deck at the 2017 HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference. "This talk will focus on challenges in designing runtime...
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Radio Free HPC Looks at the Posit and Next Generation Computer Arithmetic
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses a recent presentation by John Gustafson on Next Generation Computer Arithmetic. “A new data type called a “posit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smell and VR
Had seen related efforts demonstrated, but they suffered from most smell applications that made it difficult to focus and then remove aromas in spaces like retail...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Jewelry
Beyond Smart watches.Berkshire Hathaway jumps into wearables with a smart jewelry lineAs consumers spend more on technology and less on jewelry, the Berkshire Hathaway...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Back
There's a really interesting paper from George Washington University on hacking back: "Into the Gray Zone: The Private Sector and Active Defense against Cyber Threats...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality is Transforming Healthcare
Intriguing, but I have yet to see it in operation in any health care setting and I have seen many. Looking for a realistic example.How Virtual Reality is Transforming...
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