Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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
Video: State of Linux Containers
"Linux Containers gain more and more momentum in all IT ecosystems. This talk provides an overview about what happened in the container landscape (in particular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Danger of Devices like Alexa to Security
Have been a user and experimenter with Alexa, Google Home and Cortana since their introduction. Been asked about privacy implications. Agency thoughts were recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driverless Trucks Leads to Need for More Drivers?
In Supply Chain Digest, some unexpected indications?Why Driverless Trucks May Create the Need for More DriversLess Expensive Transportation may Lead to More Local...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Global Technology Policy Newsletter – February 2017
ACM PUBLIC POLICY HIGHLIGHTS ACM seeks to educate policymakers, the computing community, and the public about policies that will that foster and accelerate innovations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Estimating Age with AI
In the Verge: Estimating age from images: " ... Amazon’s latest artificial intelligence tool is a piece of image recognition software that can learn to guess...
From insideHPC
Intel Rolls Out BigDL Deep Learning Library for Apache Spark
Today Intel announced the open-source BigDL, a Distributed Deep Learning Library for the Apache Spark* open-source cluster-computing framework. “BigDL is an open...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Research Systems and Application Administrator at University of Oregon
"The University of Oregon (UO) High Performance Computing Research Core Facility (HPCRCF) seeks experienced applicants for the position of Research Systems andJob...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Consults on Your Smart Home
Amazon offers to consult on setting up your smart home. In Retailwire." ... Amazon.com has rolled out a new service on the West Coast, which offers free in-home...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Communication through Skin Patterns
Interesting research. (Popular article here.) As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.....
From The Eponymous Pickle
How an AI Won at Poker
In Engadget: How the AI won in a game with very high uncertainty. Intriguing with lots of detail. How might this be carried over to the business operations world...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target Cuts Back on Innovation
Target shelves robot store and secret e-commerce start-up by George Anderson, In Retailwire:Target is cutting back on its innovation project plans to concentrate...
From The Noisy Channel
Lots of good stuff in there.
Of course, the most annoying thing is an unexpected, unsolicited phone call. Once I’ve determined that it’s a legitimate aggressive sales… Continue reading on ...
From insideHPC
Global HPC Centers Form Accelerated Computing Institute
Leaders in hybrid accelerated HPC in the United States, Japan, and Switzerland have signed a memorandum of understanding establishing an international institute...
From Schneier on Security
CSIS's Cybersecurity Agenda
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published "From Awareness to Action: A Cybersecurity Agenda for the 45th President" (press release here)...
From insideHPC
Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions Group Teams with Bright Computing
"We are very excited to be working closely with Bright Computing to bring its supercomputing software tools to the embedded Aerospace & Defense market as part of...
From insideHPC
Shahin Khan Presents: Hot Technology Topics in 2017
Shahin Khan from OrionX presented this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "From BitCoins and AltCoins to Design Thinking, Autonomous tech and the changing nature...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI's Cooperating
Perhaps the most important question of all, both in the relatively simplistic sense of assistants cooperating with us, and the much deeper sense of working together...
From insideHPC
Coposky and Russell Tapped to Lead iRODS Consortium
Industry veterans Jason Coposky and Terrell Russell have taken lead roles at the membership-based foundation that leads development and support of the integrated...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Kathy Yelick Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
This week the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced that they had elected 84 new members and 22 new foreign members. This brings the total U.S. membership...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson