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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 Phys.org Technology News
America's crumbling infrastructure
No matter how big the issue—national security, health care, gun rights—it's been nearly impossible for Washington lawmakers to find common ground given the deep...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Digital Advertising
AI and deeper analytics continues to drive more intelligent decisions. I always ask: To what degree will the decisions be autonomous? And how will they be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Performance Management
McKinsey on Performance Manangement.Ahead of the curve: The future of performance managementBy Boris Ewenstein, Bryan Hancock, and Asmus KommMost corporate performance...
From Schneier on Security
Attributing the DNC Hacks to Russia
President Barack Obama's public accusation of Russia as the source of the hacks in the US presidential election and the leaking of sensitive e-mails through WikiLeaks...
From Writing
Yevgeniy Brikman on the devRant Podcast
devRant is a place you can talk (or rant) about your life as a programmer with other programmers. The devRant folks are also putting together a series of podcast...
From Writing
Yevgeniy Brikman on the devRant Podcast
devRant is a place you can talk (or rant) about your life as a programmer with other programmers. The devRant folks are also putting together a series of podcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Corp and AI
An overview of Intel Corp's work in AI. The Artificial Intelligence Era Is Here.AI is the next big wave in computing. Like major transformations before it, AI is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Case Based Reasoning Driving Chatbots
I was reminded about the possibility of using, even powering chatbots using case based reasoning (CBR) methods and intelligence architecture. We had looked atEarlier...
From insideHPC
Barry Bolding from Cray Shares Four Predictions for HPC in 2017
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Cray's Barry Bolding gives some predictions for the supercomputing industry in 2017. "2016 saw the...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Engineering Practical Machine Learning Systems
In This Week in Machine Learning podcast, Xavier Amatriain from Quora discusses the process of engineering practical machine learning systems. Amatriainis a former...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Idea Networking
Simple thought. Via Columbia B School.Get Ahead with "Idea Networking"When opportunity takes too long to arrive, it's time to go out and find it. ... by William...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Achieving a Flow State
Examined the ideas of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's 'Flow' way back. And now read a piece in medium by John Boitnott that points to work saying that multitasking...
From Putting People First
Two perspectives on the role of ethnography in innovation
Why Venture Capital Needs Ethnographers: Making Meaningful Innovation in the Startup Sphere by Julia Katherine Haines, Google- December 20, 2016 The power of ethnographic...
From Putting People First
The complexity of plastic bags
As societies face increasingly complex problems, design is emerging as the tool to solve some of Asia’s biggest issues. Through field trips with designers skilled...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson goes Mobile
In ADTMag:IBM Goes Mobile with Watson By David Ramel For two years, IBM has provided the cognitive computing capabilities of its Watson Analytics service viaIt...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cleverbot Converses
Cleverbot was again brought to my attention. We had examined some of its predecessors in the 90s as a means for trialing conversational bot applications. And...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Sheds Light on Leaf Study
A new study led by a research scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) highlights a literally shady practice...
From insideHPC
Video: Diversity and Inclusion in Supercomputing
Dr. Maria Klawe gave this Invited Talk at SC16. "Like many other computing research areas, women and other minority groups are significantly under-represented in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Chatbot Called Zo
More emergent chatbots. Another excursion into AI like capabilities. Still needs help.Microsoft takes another shot at an AI chatbot with ZoMicrosoft has fielded...
From The Eponymous Pickle