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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
The Non Elegance of the Refrigerator Cam
Had seen the idea proposed many times, never successfully. Really a specific kind of sensor. Now add image recognition to it to get inventory. It was pointed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots Growing Up
Thoughtful piece. I agree, what I saw in integrated bots last year was not impressive. Far to easy to get the results to be poor or even highjacked. Context...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Snow And Theory
The 25th Anniversary of the ACO Program Cropped from src1 & src2 in gardens for karma Prasad Tetali and Robin Thomas are mathematicians at Georgia Tech who are...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Simple Grilled Squid Recipe
Easy recipe from America's Test Kitchen. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Roads Smarter
Roads need to get smarter too. Infrastucture needs to act as part of an Internet of Things. An article from CACM:States Wire Up Roads as Cars Get Smarter by...
From insideHPC
Video: How an Exoplanet Makes Waves
In this video, a new NASA supercomputer simulation depicts the planet and debris disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris reveals that the planet's motion drives...
From insideHPC
New Site Compares Docker, Singularity, Shifter, and Univa Grid Engine Container Edition
A new site developed by Tin H compares the HPC virtualization capabilities of Docker, Singularity, Shifter, and Univa Grid Engine Container Edition. "They bring...
From Schneier on Security
The Effect of Real Names on Online Behavior
Good article debunking the myth that requiring people to use their real names on the Internet makes them behave better....
From insideHPC
Reflecting on the Goal and Baseline for Exascale Computing
Thomas Schulthess from CSCS gave this Invited Talk at SC16. "Experience with today’s platforms show that there can be an order of magnitude difference in performance...
From insideHPC
Experts Weigh in on 2017 Artificial Intelligence Predictions
In this presentation from Nvidia, top AI experts from the world's most influential companies weigh in on predicted advances for AI in 2017. “In 2017, intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant: More Assistant Embedding
In this week's CES we saw lots of examples of the embedding Alexa in platforms and devices. But its not only about Alexa, Google Assistant, the brains behind ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lego Extends into Games
Been a longer follower of Lego, its toys and its use as a thinking tool, for adults and children. This new piece In Knowledge@Wharton looks at the move forward...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting a Video Future
See this as a kind of proto advertising. Predicting purchase in the customer journey AI can create videos of the future An MIT lab algorithm can predict how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secure Model of IOT with Blockchain
In Technology Review with link to paper:A Secure Model of IoT with BlockchainThe Internet of Things is a fast-growing, increasingly complex network of connected...
From Apophenia
Hacking the Attention Economy
For most non-technical folks, “hacking” evokes the notion of using sophisticated technical skills to break through the security of a corporate or government system...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu's Little Fish Assistant
In Yahoo News: Las Vegas (AFP) - Chinese internet colossus Baidu is out to make a splash with 'Little Fish,' a family robot that is a voice-controlled virtual valet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Age of Analytics for Strategy
In the McKinsey Global Institute:The age of analytics: Competing in a data-driven worldBy Nicolaus Henke, Jacques Bughin, Michael Chui, James Manyika, Tamim Saleh...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
South Big Data Hub Roundtable- Translational Data Analytics for Environmental Health: Sensors, Cloud Computing, and Patients
The South Big Data (BD) Hub is proud to present a monthly series on emerging data science challenges, featuring researchers, innovators, and industry from the South...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kuri Moving Home Robot
I attended an introductory presentation on Bosch's Kuri home robotic system today. This is a two foot high moving robot with eyes. The eyes it have an embedded...
From insideHPC