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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 …![[Report] The truth about online consumers](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Report] The truth about online consumers
During 2016, KPMG conducted an international study on consumer behaviors and preferences related to online shopping. The research was largely based on an online...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Level By Level
Impetus to study a new reducibility relation See Mike’s other projects too Michael Wehar has just earned his PhD degree in near-record time in my department. He...
From Schneier on Security
Brian Krebs Uncovers Murai Botnet Author
Really interesting investigative story....
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Doubling Down on AI
Have been in particular following their assistant and chatbot work, impressive so far. Further indications that work is ongoing in augmented reality. In Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Overview of Blockchain
Good, non technical overview of blockchain in Knowledge@Wharton. Very nontechnical piece that is worth reading. Aims to address the question: " ... Is Blockchain...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Draft of Smart Cities and Communities Federal Strategic Plan
The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program, an interagency Federal coordinating group, recently posted a draft of the Smart...
From insideHPC
Michela Taufer from University of Delaware to Chair SC19
"We are excited to have the benefit of Dr. Taufer’s leadership for SC19,” says John West, director of strategic initiatives at the Texas Advanced Computing Center...
From insideHPC
Nimbix Expands Cloud Offerings to Enterprises and Developers
"Delivering optimized technology capabilities to different communities is key to a successful public cloud offering”, said Nimbix Chief Technology Officer Leo Reiter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connect + Develop Looks for Innovation.
Have not mentioned it very often, but Connect + Develop is P&G's Open innovation capability. I get its flyers presenting specific innovation opportunities.See"...
From insideHPC
HiPEAC17 to Focus Memory Systems, Energy Efficiency and Cybersecurity
Taking place in Stockholm from 23-25 January, the 12th HiPEAC conference will bring together Europe’s top thinkers on computer architecture and compilation to tackle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inventory Sensing Refrigerators
A topic we took up in innovation. Below repeated in the Verge. If you could determine inventory and predict usage. You could just reorder goods. Of course...
From insideHPC
Richard Gerber to Head NERSC’s HPC Department
“This is an exciting time because the whole HPC landscape is changing with manycore, which is a big change for our users,” said Gerber, who joined NERSC’s UserRichard...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What I Learned in College
For various reasons my thoughts lately have been on my college experience. Now I graduated in 1975 which was a few years ago. A lot has changed in computing and...
From insideHPC
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Takes the Mystery Out of Supercomputing
"Many supercomputer users, like the big DOE labs, are implementing these next generation systems. They are now engaged in significant code modernization efforts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reviewing Turings Enigma
Reviewed the book: Alan Turing: The Enigma by Alan Hodges. Hodges also has a site that provides resource materials and updates to the book at http://www.turing...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
U.S. Department of Commerce Cites ACM U.S. Public Policy Council
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s new Green Paper: Fostering the Advancement of the Internet of Things references and cites input provided by the ACM U.S. Public...
From The Noisy Channel
I’ve done both.
I’ve done both. Much of the work I do involves helping teams with prioritization, evaluation, choosing among architectural or algorithmic options, hiring, etc....
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Announces Cognitive Principles
Announcement by IBM in Davos.January 17, 2017 | Written by: IBM THINK BlogCategorized: Cognitive ComputingWe are in the early days of a promising new technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Data Optimization by Simplygon
Interesting play, taking a close look. Initially used for game applications, and I expect further used for dealing with multiple dimensional data in interactive...
From The Eponymous Pickle