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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 Blog@Ubiquity
Data Analytics for Public Services: Beyond the Hype
Data analytics is the new buzz phrase these days. Public service agencies all over the world are looking at data in order to optimize service delivery, as wellelectricity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why: A Guide to Finding and Using Causes
I brought this book up some time ago. And as I read it am struck by how essential is is to understand cause and effect when working with data, analytics, machine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Services for the Google Home
Want to know what it takes to develop new services for systems like the assistants Amazon Echo and Google Home? Came upon this largely non technical and simplified...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transfer Learning for AI Projects
Had always thought that intelligence was about learning, so this concept struck me. Note mention of improbable events and model correctness maintenance, always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uncertainty in US Economy
In Knowledge@Wharton, on uncertainty in the US economy" ... “The biggest risk we face is uncertainty. If you ask every business leader, their biggest concernHarker...
From Phys.org Technology News
Study: How new Airbnb nondiscrimination policy may be worse
The sharing economy is a booming industry, with companies such as Uber and Airbnb generating billions in value each year. Technology, combined with informal peer...
From Schneier on Security
Law Enforcement Access to IoT Data
In the first of what will undoubtedly be a large number of battles between companies that make IoT devices and the police, Amazon is refusing to comply with a warrant...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OSTP Exit Memo
The following is a guest blog post by CCC Chair Beth Mynatt, CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill, CCC Council Member Debra J. Richardson, and CCC Director Ann Drobnis. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pringles are Getting Louder
Kellogg bought Pringles canned chips from P&G in 2012 for $2.7 Billion. Was slightly involved in the brand. The new brand is pushing new and spicy tastes, and...
From Computational Complexity
Babai Strikes Back
"So it is quasipolynomial time again" Short Version: Babai fixed his proof. In November 2015 László Babai announced a talk "Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbots in Retail
In Retailwire. Is 2017 the year of the retail chatbot? Some good discussion. We are not there yet, there are still some issues to be worked out, but as long...
From insideHPC
Intel HPC Orchestrator Powers Research at University of Pisa
In this video, Maurizio Davini from the University of Pisa describe how the University works with Dell EMC and Intel to test new technologies, integrate and optimize...
From insideHPC
Bull Atos Powers New Genomics Supercomputer at Pirbright Institute
“Atos is determined to solve the technical challenges that arise in life sciences projects, to help scientists to focus on making breakthroughs and forget about...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Ethernet Accelerates Baidu Machine Learning
Today Mellanox announced that Spectrum Ethernet switches and ConnectX-4 100Gb/s Ethernet adapters have been selected by Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet...
From insideHPC
HDR InfiniBand Technology Reshapes the World of High-Performance and Machine Learning Platforms
"The recent announcement of HDR InfiniBand included the three required network elements to achieve full end-to-end implementation of the new technology: ConnectX...
From Phys.org Technology News
Drones could soon get crucial medical supplies to patients in need
Aerial drones could one day ferry life-or-death medical supplies between hospitals now that Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have figured out how to keep blood...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Geneva: Understands 55 Billion Utterances
Examining how devices are attached to voice interfaces." ... Use Your Voice: Introducing voice-activated control of your GE WiFi Connect appliances with Amazon...
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing: A Race to the Future of HPC
In this week’s Sponsored Post, Nicolas Dube of Hewlett Packard Enterprise outlines the future of HPC and the role and challenges of exascale computing in thisExascale...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research...
From The Eponymous Pickle