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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 Schneier on Security
A Comment on the Trump Dossier
Imagine that you are someone in the CIA, concerned about the future of America. You have this Russian dossier on Donald Trump, which you have some evidence might...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Becoming the Voice of the IOT?
Maybe it won't be the 'brain', but will it be the voice of the IOT, and through the IOT to many kinds of goods and services? I would still bet on Google or"...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Drone Aerodynamics
In this video, researchers at NASA Ames explore the aerodynamics of a popular example of a small, battery-powered drone, a modified DJI Phantom 3 quadcopter. "The...
From insideHPC
Podcast: How Deep Learning Will Reshape Our Cities
In this AI Podcast, Lynn Richards, president and CEO of the Congress for New Urbanism and Charles Marohn, president and co-founder of Strong Towns, describe how...
From insideHPC
Video: Lenovo Powers Manufacturing Innovation at Hartree Centre
"STFC Hartree Centre needed a powerful, flexible server system that could drive research in energy efficiency as well as economic impact for its clients. By extending...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Organizing Robotics
Had not realized that Harvard was working on this. Potential medical applications at least. In the CACM: " ... Harvard University's Self-Organizing Systems...
From insideHPC
IA Optimized Python Rocks in Production
"Intel recently announced the first product release of its High Performance Python distribution powered by Anaconda. The product provides a prebuilt easy-to-install...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electric Cars Going Mainstream
A question many of us have been thinking about. In Knowledge@Wharton, a good economic oriented view of the direction. Innovation: When Will Electric Cars...
From Phys.org Technology News
What can history tell us about today's infrastructure crisis?
On Tuesday, the University of Virginia's Miller Center released the eighth volume in its far-reaching First Year Project, an ongoing initiative to provide nonpartisan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
January-February 2017 Analytics Magazine
Informs January-February 2017 Analytics MagazineAn issue with emphasis on the IoT and its evolution. Such as on related business opportunities.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensors in the Internet of Things
Good early introductory and pictorial piece on the interaction of sensors and sensing for the Internet of things. Pointers to more resources.
From Schneier on Security
Internet Filtering in Authoritarian Regimes
Interesting research: Sebastian Hellmeier, "The Dictator's Digital Toolkit: Explaining Variation in Internet Filtering in Authoritarian Regimes," Politics & Policy...
From XRDS
Build your own Natural Language Processing based Intelligent Assistant using Python, It’s easy!
Before we begin, let us talk about how Mike (a fictional character) spends a typical morning. Mike begins his day by searching for breakfast recipes on Google Now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pinterist uses Deep Learning
Nice example of a use of deep learning. Pinterest uses deep learning AI for better pin recommendations By Eric DavidPinterest Inc. revealed today that its Related...
From insideHPC
Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing Returns to Chicago in July
"As a bridge to that future, this two-week program fills many gaps that exist in the training computational scientists typically receive through formal education...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Collaborating Micro-Drone Swarms
The autonomy of such drones and drone swarms indicates an unprecedented depth of decision making driven by AI. Implications are very broad.Pentagon successfully...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Given More Ability to Share Raw Intelligence Data
President Obama has changed the rules regarding raw intelligence, allowing the NSA to share raw data with the US's other 16 intelligence agencies. The new rules...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jill Watson at Ga Tech
Have worked with many TA's myself, so this is interesting. It also relates to chatbots too, lessons to are to be learned here. As in all tests of this type I...
From Computational Complexity
Guest Post about the first Women in Computational Topology (WinCompTop) Workshop
The first Women in Computational Topology WinCompTop workshop was held in August at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) in Minneapolis, MN....
From insideHPC