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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
Virtualitics
Newly brought to my attention: Virtualitics. Bringing VR to Analytics. In Beta:" ... We have built the first platform to merge Artificial Intelligence, Big Data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Better Wisdom from Crowds
Like the quantifying aspect of this. We experimented with WOC choices and how they linked with actual commercial decisions. Would like to see it tested withBetter...
From insideHPC
UberCloud Obtains $1.7 Million in Pre-A Funding Round
“UberCloud has created an entire cloud computing ecosystem for complex technical simulations, leveraging cloud infrastructure providers, developing and utilizing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
Nominations Due in 1 Week! Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and...
From Apophenia
The Information War Has Begun
Yesterday, Steve Bannon clearly articulated what many people have felt and known for quite some time when he told journalists, “You’re the opposition party. Not...
From insideHPC
RCE Podcast Looks at iRODS Data Management Software
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with the creators of iRODS: Jason Coposky and Terrell Russell. Also known as the Integrated Rule-Oriented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Allowing End Users to Build Models
Very good general question that we have been discussing for years, well, really decades. Started way back in the spreadsheet era, when you empowered users toIs...
From insideHPC
PASC17 to Feature Talk by Gordon Bell Prize Winner Haohuan Fu
"This talk reports efforts on refactoring and optimizing the climate and weather forecasting programs – CAM and WRF – on Sunway TaihuLight. To map the large code...
From insideHPC
Beyond Exascale: Emerging Devices and Architectures for Computing
"Nanomagnetic devices may allow memory and logic functions to be combined in novel ways. And newer, perhaps more promising device concepts continue to emerge. At...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Deep learning: the silver bullet?
In 2016, we saw a wide range of breakthroughs having to do with artificial intelligence and deep learning in particular. Google, Facebook, and Baidu announced several...
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Phi Processor Programming in a Nutshell
In this special guest feature, James Reinders looks at Intel Xeon Phi processors from a programmer's perspective. "How does a programmer think of Intel Xeon Phi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adding AI to Raspberry Pi
Could be quite a way to add AI experience for students. In CWorld: Google wants to add A.I. to Raspberry Pi gadgetsGoogle plans to bring open source machine-learning...
From Schneier on Security
Research into Twitter Bots
There are a lot of them. In a world where the number of fans, friends, followers, and likers are social currency -- and where the number of reposts is a measure...
From Computational Complexity
60 years of Eric and Mike
As I checked in at the Holiday Inn in New Brunswick Wednesday night, they asked me if I had stayed there before. I said it has been a while and they lookedWorkshop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Q&A on PowerAI
For research I took a look at the PowerAI offering. See the complete article:Putting the “AI” in PowerAIA Q&A with IBM Research’s Hillery HunterIBM’s latest Power...
From Schneier on Security
Duress Codes for Fingerprint Access Control
Mike Specter has an interesting idea on how to make biometric access-control systems more secure: add a duress code. For example, you might configure your iPhone...
From insideHPC
IBM Adds TensorFlow Support for PowerAI Deep Learning
Today IBM announced that its PowerAI distribution for popular open source Machine Learning and Deep Learning frameworks on the POWER8 architecture now supportsIBM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tensorflow and PowerAI
Great to see integration of key AI software, lets also start to see excellent examples of their use with supporting data architecture.IBM brings Google's AI tools...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk on Technology Trends
William Chamberlin from IBM Market Development and Insights, presented "IT Technology Trends in 2017... and Beyond." Slides. Talk. Use the discussion group...
From insideHPC