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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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Agenda Posted for Next Week’s HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference
"Over two days we’ll delve into a wide range of interests and best practices - in applications, tools and techniques and share new insights on the trends, technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyber Social Learning Systems
" ... Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series on Thursday, February 2, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (7:30 am PT). Our speaker is Kevin Sullivan from University,...
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Towards an Assistant Powered Smart Home
It always struck me that the smart home would never build momentum unless it were professionally integrated into home building and renovation. Smarthome enthusiasts...
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Asetek Achieves 200 Million Hours of Fault-Free Pump Operations at DataCenters
Today Asetek announced that its server pump has achieved 200 million hours of reliable operation in real world use. Installed at end-user locations as diverse as...
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Amazon's Air Hub Takes Off
A major retailer goes to the air for supply chain efficiencies. A first I believe. Implications? In ChainstoreAge ... Amazon's air cargo hub takes off by...
From XRDS
The reign and modern challenges of the Message Passing Interface (MPI): A discussion with Dr. Torsten Hoefler.
A few years ago, while I was a graduate student in Greece, I was preparing slides for my talk at the SIAM Parallel Processing 2012 conference. While showing my...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
How to Make America’s Robots Great Again
The following is a guest blog post from Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member Maja J. Matarić from the University of Southern California and past...
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Digital Human Software Added to Altair Partner Alliance
“At Altair, we believe human-centered design is more than just mechanical fit; rather, it’s an exploration of the entire experience of users with a product, including...
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Figen Ulgen From Intel Champions Women in HPC
In this video from SUSECON 2016, Jo Harris from SUSE sits down with Dr. Figen Ulgen, GM HPC Software and Cloud at Intel to discuss women in Open Source and HPC,...
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Call for Papers: ROSS Workshop on International Runtime Operating Systems on Supercomputers
The International Runtime Operating Systems on Supercomputers (ROSS) workshop has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place June 27 in Washington, D.C.Call...
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Univa Unisight 4.1 Software Informs IT Purchasing Decisions
Today Univa announced the general availably of its Unisight v4.1 product, providing simple and extensible metric collection for all types of Univa Grid Engine data...
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Exascale Computing Project Announces ECP Industry Council
Today the Exascale Computing Project announced the formation of the ECP Industry Council, an external advisory group of executives from some of the nation’s most...
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Textile Muscles
Textile Muscles Could Power ClothingTextile Muscles Could Power Clothing ... In IdeaConnection.Textile muscles made of flexible polymers could open the door to...
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Alexa Anywhere
A set of headphones lets you talk to Amazon echo anywhere. Not sure why I might want to do this, but might have a hands-free business application. Does add to...
From Schneier on Security
Security and the Internet of Things
Last year, on October 21, your digital video recorder - or at least a DVR like yours - knocked Twitter off the internet. Someone used your DVR, along with millions...
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AI Newsletter
O'Reilly's latest AI Newsletter. Usually informative. Often linking to their books and related materials and webcasts. Worth a follow.
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Why Should Algorithms Explain themselves?
Some of our earliest work in delivering expertise via AI to the enterprise failed because the system could not explain its reasoning to its users. The systemIn...
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MS Buys Deep Learning Company
Continuing to be interested in what 'conversation' means for AI. For humans it is a key part of sharing, delivering, learning and developing expertise. HowDeep...
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Apple Making Smart Glasses
Now back to the idea of augmented reality glasses, where Google glass failed, though is apparently still being worked. Do we want fashion, or actual value, orWhy...
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