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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 Putting People First
ING DIRECT’s sponsored content in The Guardian on the value of CX and human-centred design
ING DIRECT Australia has published yesterday and at the end of November no less than 10 articles in a paid section of The Guardian on the value of customer experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytellers Secret
Was just introduced to Carmine Gallo and his book: Storytellers Secret. Sign up for his weekly newsletter.The Storyteller's SecretFrom TED Speakers To Business“Having...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI / Cognitive Systems Institute
Wanted to re-introduce people to the Cognitive Systems Institute, an IBM Almaden research sponsored group to which I belong and contribute. Includes connections...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Money Laundering
Using network analysis. A very nice example, with graphic visualization examples. See the link for details." .... Applying machine learning to AML ( Money laundering)...
From Phys.org Technology News
Would you eat a 3-D printed pizza?
Could you imagine serving a 3-D printed turkey for Christmas lunch? Or munching on a 3-D printed pizza for an afternoon snack?
From Schneier on Security
NIST is Continuing to Work on Post-Quantum-Computing Cryptography Standards
NIST is accepting proposals for public-key algorithms immune to quantum computing techniques. Details here. Deadline is the end of November 2017. I applaud NIST...
From Putting People First
Innovative PhD dissertations at Harvard use ethnographic methods to understand organizational culture
Three innovative PhD dissertations have been published at the Harvard Business School’s Doctoral Program on Organizational Behavior that use ethnography and qualitative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Applying the Science of Touch
An area we worked on in R&D and Product Development, and sought to apply in retail.The BBC examines:From yoga pants to smart shoes: The technology of touchBy...
From Schneier on Security
The Future of Faking Audio and Video
This Verge article isn't great, but we are certainly moving into a future where audio and video will be easy to fake, and easier to fake undetectably. This is going...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Layering Realities for Better Simulation
Am a long time practitioner of industrial simulation for problem solving, so this intrigued me. Can we more effectively use VR to model worlds that represent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Minimizing Disaster Insurance Risk
PodcastWharton's Howard Kunreuther discusses his report on the insurance industry surrounding catastrophic events.Hurricane Matthew wreaked havoc in Haiti before...
From insideHPC
UberCloud Publishes 2016 Compendium of Engineering Cloud Case Studies
The New 2016 Compendium of Engineering Cloud Case Studies is an invaluable resource for engineers, scientists, managers and executives who believe in the strategic...
From insideHPC
Speed Your Application with Threading Building Blocks
With modern processors that contain a large number of cores, to get maximum performance it is necessary to structure an application to use as many cores as possible...
From insideHPC
Call for Exhibitors: PASC17 in Lugano
"The PASC17 Conference offers a unique opportunity for your organization to gain visibility at a national and international level, to showcase your R&D and to network...
From XRDS
$500 prize money at the ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on the Responsible Use of AI Technologies! Apply now!
Do you have an opinion on the responsible use of AI technologies? Do you want to win one of several $500 cash prizes? Do you want to talk one-on-one (via skype)...
From insideHPC
SimScale Brings Cloud-based CAE to Academics and Students Worldwide
Today SimScale launched the SimScale Academic Program which brings cloud-based CAE software into universities, schools, and classrooms around the world. "SimScale...
From Computational Complexity
Moneyball for Academics
MIT and Tel Aviv business school professors Dimitris Bertsimas, Erik Brynjolfsson, Shachar Reichman and John Silberholz wrote an intriguing paper Tenure Analytics...
From insideHPC
High Performance System Interconnect Technology
Today, high performance interconnects can be divided into three categories: Ethernet, InfiniBand, and vendor specific interconnects. Ethernet is established as...
From Schneier on Security
The Pro-PGP Position
A few days ago I blogged an excellent essay by Filippo Valsorda on why he's giving up on PGP. Neal Walkfield wrote a good rebuttal. I am on Valsorda's side. I don't...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM