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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
Are We Becoming More Moral Faster Than We're Becoming More Dangerous?
In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker convincingly makes the point that by pretty much every measure you can think of, violence has declined on our...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Link to My Personal Assistant Studies
As a part of a broader AI study I have been examining how personal assistants can interact with deeper AI, and what architecture will best support their further...
From Phys.org Technology News
Cruise company Carnival gets personal with concierge tech
What if your room on a cruise ship were to unlock automatically as you approach, or if the wait staff could bring your favorite cocktail before you even ask?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lenovo Launches Smart Assistant
Yet another smart speaker plus idea, reported in Business Insider. The dynamic of integrating the brain of Alexa into many devices is interesting. I am worried...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Closes Startup Incubator
With some interesting insights on how a big company can deal with startups or pre-startups. In TechCrunch. Followed Coke's innovations for some time. See previous...
From Phys.org Technology News
FDA probes dangers of exploding e-cigarette batteries
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is probing the dangers of exploding batteries in e-cigarettes, following dozens of reports of devices that have combusted,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2016 Robotics Roadmap and the National Robotics Initiative 2.0
The following is a blog post by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member and contributor to the Robotics Roadmaps Maja Matarić. In 2009, the CCC published...
From insideHPC
Asia’s First Supercomputing Magazine Launches from Singapore
Singapore-based publisher Asian Scientist has launched Supercomputing Asia, a new print title dedicated to tracking the latest developments in high performanceAsia...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Releases Scyld ClusterWare 7
"The release of Scyld ClusterWare 7 continues the growth of Penguin’s HPC provisioning software and enables support of large scale clusters ranging to thousands...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Blow to Patent Trolls
Was involved in a very small way in the actions of a patent troll, an Opinion piece by Evan Schuman on changes in the legal system that could stop them. Will this...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Betting against techno-unemployment
There are millions of truck drivers in the US today. In particular, there are about 1.7 million tractor-trailer (human) drivers. There are many more professional...
From insideHPC
Dell & Intel Collaborate on CryoEM on Intel Xeon Phi
In this video from SC16, Janet Morss from Dell EMC and Hugo Saleh from Intel discuss how the two companies collaborated on accelerating CryoEM. "Cryo-EM allowsDell...
From insideHPC
In-Memory Computing for HPC
This is the first entry in an insideHPC series that delves into in-memory computing. To achieve high performance, modern computer systems rely on two basic methodologies...
From Schneier on Security
Class Breaks
There's a concept from computer security known as a class break. It's a particular security vulnerability that breaks not just one system, but an entire class of...
From Phys.org Technology News
Lessons in trust from America's experience with electronic voting
It reads like a Hollywood movie. Elite hackers, allegedly sponsored by the Russian government, infiltrate the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Replacing Taxis with Rideshare Cars
Spent some time in NYC lately observing the traffic and talking to cabbies. Good experience. The analyis from MIT is also interesting. This shows some opportunities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Mark Zuckerberg Learned about Running His Home with AI
In Facebook. This has been out for a while, but just got to it. For the deep geek within us, an understandable journey, you can almost feel your coding muscles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fielding a Hundred Thousand Questions
Via O'Reilly. We did something similar when creating our Extempo bot system, but only included a few hundred questions. Nice to see Microsoft pushing research...
From Computational Complexity
Predictions for 2017
Lance's Complexity Year in Review, posted the last week of the year (lets hope that P vs NP is not resolved on Dec 31) is a tradition that goes back to 2002. Bill...
From insideHPC