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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
GE Gives out Dots for the Holidays
I am told that GE has given out free Amazon Echo 'Dots' to employees for the holidays this year. Recall that GE is also making an Alexa enabled lighting fixture...
From Phys.org Technology News
Canada launches online hotline to report bad drone drivers
Expecting a spike in drone sales for Christmas, Canada's transportation ministry on Wednesday launched an online hotline to report bad drone pilots.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Retail Revolution?
In Chief Marketer.Amazon Go: A Bold Inevitable Retail RevolutionPosted on December 21, 2016 by Patricia OdellLikely, as long as physical retail still exists. See...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What People Really Want from Customer Service
A short HBR video on the topic. I like the way they illustrate it with short animated process diagrams, making the premise easy to understand. Even if these...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Performance overhead when calling assembly from Go
The Go language allows you to call C functions and to rewrite entire functions in assembly. As I have previously documented, calling C functions from Go comes with...
From insideHPC
2017 GPU Hackathons Coming to U.S. and Europe
Today ORNL announced the full schedule of 2017 GPU Hackathons at multiple locations around the world. "The goal of each hackathon is for current or prospective2017...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Teams
Have been using advanced chat capability Slack for a project. Not overly impressed. Impressed me because it was new, not because it had real value. Now Microsoft...
From insideHPC
CryoEM Demo on Dell PowerEdge C6320 at SC16
In this video from SC16, Garima Kochhar from Dell EMC describes the CryoEM Demo on the Dell PowerEdge C6320 rack server powered by Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi...
From insideHPC
Panasas Celebrates 2016 Channel Momentum
“I think one of the things that resellers like about us is that we never take a reseller deal directly. As a channel-first company, we always drive as much business...
From insideHPC
Building SCinet at SC16: The World’s Fastest Network
In this time-lapse video, a team of volunteers build the SCinet, the world's fastest network at SC16. "Created each year for the conference, SCinet brings to life...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Report on AI, Automation, and the Economy
The following is a blog post by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Past Chair Gregory D. Hager, Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins...
From Schneier on Security
Encryption Working Group Annual Report from the US House of Representatives
The Encryption Working Group of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee has released its annual report. Observation #1: Any measure...
From ACM on Huffington Post
Slowing The Spread Of Viral Misinformation: Can Crowdsourcing Help?
By Kate Starbird, University of Washington, Human Centered Design & Engineering; and Emma Spiro, University of Washington
From My Biased Coin
Knuth Prize 2017 Call
The call is going out for the 2017 Knuth Prize. The call will be up on the SIGACT Web page shortly, but until it shows up there here's a pdf. Key date: deadline...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Hunting Complexity in Zeta
A second look at Voronin’s amazing universality theorem Anatoly Karatsuba and Sergei Voronin wrote a book on Bernhard Riemann’s zeta function. The book was translated...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What is a useful theory?
I was an adept, as a teenager and a young adult, of thinkism. Thinkism is the idea that intelligence alone can solve problems. I thought I was smart so I couldContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human Centered Design
Been a while since I have taken a look at the concept. I like it, but I have seen accurate measurement ignored when design thinking was invoked. Interesting What...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zuckerberg's Jarvis Assistant.
Zuckerberg's voice butler Jarvis. Yet anotother take on smart home voice assistants. No indication this may be made publicly available. Just starting to examine...
From insideHPC
Call for Sessions and Registration Open for OpenFabrics Workshop in Austin
The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has issued its Call for Sessions for its 13th annual OFA Workshop. Registration is now open for the event, which takes place March...
From The Eponymous Pickle