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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
Bain on Real Strategy
Good piece, though I would look to more measurement.Strategic Planning That Produces Real StrategyFebruary 10, 2016 Bain Brief By Mark Judah, Dunigan O’Keeffe,The...
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Great AI Awakening: Language Translation
In the NYTimes Magazine, may require registration, in particular looks at language translation. We followed this for years, and at that time translation was...
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Disrupting Elevators
Recall we worked on simulating operations of elevators, acting as an interactions of people and machines. Made me note this piece. In the CACM: Elevator Makers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brands Want more Insights from POS Data
In Retailwire: Makes much sense. Includes expert discussion.Brands want more insights from retail POS databy Guest contributor Glenn TaylorThrough a special arrangement...
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Social Trust Falling
Podcast of interest, how can we address the falling of social trust?This week on Freakonomics Radio: Societies where people trust one another are healthier and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Database Decay
In the CACM:Term was new to me, and am not an architect of databases. But had heard it mentioned when dealing with the need to update systems. And I have been...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Woman Throws Squid at Her Boyfriend
This is what passes for news these days. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From insideHPC
AWS Adds FPGAs to its Public Cloud
Amazon Web Services chief evangelist Jeff Barr announced in a recent blog post that the company was adding Xilinx FPGAs to its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon...
From insideHPC
Video: CSCS Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
In this video, CSCS celebrates its 25th anniversary of high performance computing in Switzerland. The post Video: CSCS Celebrates its 25th Anniversary appeared...
From insideHPC
How Engility Delivers HPC
In this special feature, our own MichaelS reports on his SC16 meeting with Engility, a premier provider of integrated services for the U.S. government. "Complex...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and technology: what happened in 2016
This year, you are able to buy CRISPR-based CRISPR gene editing toolkits for $150 on the Internet as well as autonomous drones, and you can ask your Amazon Echo...
From insideHPC
Post SC16: Top 10 Things in Retrospect
In this special guest feature, Kim McMahon shares her perspectives on SC16. "“Faster” is the game in HPC. You can achieve speed with GPUs, FPGAs, or faster CPUs...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Acting Out The Loop
One of my major goals this year has been to get more activity in class to help students understand concepts. Jumping right into code is awfully abstract for many...
From Phys.org Technology News
FBI's DNA profiles to include more data, making them even more powerful at solving cases
As the new year approaches, forensic labs across the country are gearing up for a big change in the way they generate DNA profiles, the genetic fingerprints so...
From insideHPC
ARM Acquires Allinea Software
"Writing and deploying software that exploits the ever increasing computing power of clusters and supercomputers is a demanding challenge - it needs to run fast...
From Computational Complexity
Freedom of Speech
Bill and I have always strongly believed in the principle of freedom of speech, guaranteed to us by the constitution of the United States. The government block...
From Schneier on Security
Giving Up on PGP
Filippo Valsorda wrote an exellent essay on why he's giving up on PGP. I have long believed PGP to be more trouble than it is worth. It's hard to use correctly,...
From Schneier on Security
Impressive Social Engineering Display
In this impressive lc7scxvKQOo">social-engineering display, a hacker convinces a cell phone tech-support person to change an account password without being verified...
From Phys.org Technology News
Lower cost of LEDs reduce profitability for manufacturing landscape
Although residential and commercial industries are widely adopting energy-efficient light emitting diodes (LEDs), the drop in LED prices is driving away manufacturers...
From insideHPC