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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
Signing on for Alexa Data
In AdAge: Epsilon and Others Scramble for Alexa Data from Amazon By Kate KayeAmazon, not unlike other retail giants or the web's walled gardens, is notoriously...
From insideHPC
Kathy Yelick Joins Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame
Kathy Yelick, the Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences at LBNL, has been named to the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame for her leadership in science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Call to Digital Ad Economy
In Adage: Will P&G's Forceful Call to Arms Reform the Digital Ad Economy? By Nat IvesProcter & Gamble Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard has unleashed a broadside...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior System Administrator for HPC at WHOI Institute
The WHOI Information Services Department is looking for a Senior Systems Administrator to join their team. This is a regular, full-time position, and is eligible...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing With Immature AI
Good thoughts here, it is not mature yet. Yet still has value to pursue. Not quite enough shown about how and with which suppliers.In MIT Sloan, may require registration...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Research Implications of the Report from the President’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity
The following is a blog post from CCC Executive Council Member Ben Zorn from Microsoft Research. On December 1, 2016, the President’s Commission on Enhancing National...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tell me a Story
Data visualization expert Stephen Few makes a point I have made for a long time. And does not take it far enough. Telling a story is great, powerful, expressive...
From insideHPC
PRACE Posts Best Practice Guide for Intel Xeon Phi
The European PRACE initiative has published a new Best Practice Guide for Intel Xeon Phi, Knights Landing Edition. "This best practice guide provides information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disruption Through Design
In UXMatters:How IBM Is Embracing the Future Through DesignBy Atul Handa and Kanupriya Vashisht February 6, 2017 IBM has chosen to create disruption throughKarel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictions about AI Assistants
Some reasonable thoughts about near time directions. Who will really want to own the space? What will it take to do that? Deeper AI is still some time away,In...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Ships 100,000+ Cables for Next-Gen 100 Gb/s Networks
Today Mellanox announced that it has shipped more than 100,000 units of its Direct Attach Copper Cables (DACs) to serve the growing demand of hyperscale Web 2.0...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Sorting sorted arrays in Swift
Sorting arrays quickly is a classical computer science problem. It is also a common task worth optimizing. Sadly, there is no best approach, no silver bullet. Most...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Deploys 30,000+ MicroBlade Servers for 1.06 PUE Datacenter
A technology-leading Fortune 100 company has deployed over 30,000 Supermicro MicroBlade servers, at its Silicon Valley data center facility with a Power Use Effectiveness...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Rolls Out New Quadro Pascal GPUs
"Professional workflows are now infused with artificial intelligence, virtual reality and photorealism, creating new challenges for our most demanding users," said...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at How Bosch Helped Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at recent developments in the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal. According to reports, auto parts supplier Bosch wrote...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mayfield Robotics
Now known for Bosch's effort with the beta Kuri home robot.We Make Helpful Home RobotsOur robots bring joy to your house. Our small team of engineers, roboticists...
From The Noisy Channel
Stemming and Lemmatization
Different forms of a word often communicate essentially the same meaning. For example, there’s probably no difference in intent between a… Continue reading on ...
From Schneier on Security
Hacker Leaks Cellebrite's Phone-Hacking Tools
In January we learned that a hacker broke into Cellebrite's network and stole 900GB of data. Now the hacker has dumped some of Cellebrite's phone-hacking tools...
From Computational Complexity
The Hardness of Reals Hierarchy
In my last post (here) I defined the following hierarchy (which I am sure is not original- if someone has a source please leave a comment on it) Z_d[x] is theProblems...
From The Eponymous Pickle