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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 …
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Huawei Showcases FusionServer X6000 at SC16
"Huawei's new-generation FusionServer X6000 HPC platform, based on the Intel Scalable System Framework, provides the balanced performance, scalability, and flexibility...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paro Therapeutic Robot
A friend, who works in home health care, sent me a note about the Paro Therapeutic Robot. She saw it live and was impressed. Comes out of work in Japan, where...
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Recommender Systems Beyond Matrix Completion
Recommender Systems: Beyond Matrix Completion/AbstractBy Dietmar Jannach, Paul Resnick, Alexander Tuzhilin, Markus ZankerCommunications of the ACM, Vol. 59 No.Abstract...
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New Chip Usage to Power AI
Re-using chip designs to perform the methods used for AI applications. Now new chip designs are in play.Intel Looks to a New Chip to Power the Coming Age of AI...
From Putting People First
A conversation with Dan Ariely about what shapes our motivations
A professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, Dan Ariely relentlessly examines our assumptions about ourselves—and finds they’re oftenA...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Peruvian Squid Fishermen Are Trying to Diversify
Squid catch is down, so fisherman are trying to sell more processed product. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Coffee Machines on the IOT
It has long been a challenge to connect coffee machines to the internet. Something comfortable.about making coffee available reliably at all times and letting...
From Schneier on Security
Smartphone Secretly Sends Private Data to China
This is pretty amazing: International customers and users of disposable or prepaid phones are the people most affected by the software. But the scope is unclear...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Truth and Fiction in Programming Memes
I ran into a couple of images with messages about programming today. One I think is useful. The other I think is the opposite of useful. The first one is cute.I...
From CERIAS Blog
Another Surprise for Spaf
2016 has been a year of setbacks and challenges for me, including being ousted as executive director of CERIAS. Rather than dwell on those issues, I have triedlast...
From CERIAS Blog
Another Surprise for Spaf
2016 has been a year of setbacks and challenges for me, including being ousted as executive director of CERIAS. Rather than dwell on those issues, I have triedlast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Products for a CPG Giant
I no longer work for consumer product CPG Giant Procter & Gamble. I did analytics and competitive analysis innovation work for them for years. I still haveLysol...
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Gartner on Augmented Marketing Reality
In the Gartner Marketing Blog. Good piece, See my posted piece yesterday on an impressive Hololens demo. The idea is a decade old, we tested it then, but the...
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What Does it Mean to be Digital?
Some good ongoing posts on the process of digitization in the Cisco blog. Asks 'So what are you trying to do? The ultimate business process question. And...
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Teaching Algorithms Right vs Wrong
Do we know what is right and wrong? In obvious cases, yes, but am starting to wonder if the label can be much abused. And the underlying mechanism, hidden in...
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Video: Time-Lapse Walk-Through of SC16
If you were not able to attend SC16, have we got a video for you! Courtesy of Asetek, this time-lapse walk-through of the exhibit hall sure looks familiar to this...
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Liquid Silicon Could Bridge the Gap Between Computation and Storage
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are developing new computer chips that combine tasks usually kept separate by design. According to assistantLiquid...
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Video: SC16 Keynote Katharine Frase on Cognitive Computing
“Watson and cognitive computing in general can serve significantly in every single arena in which we grapple with multi-layered, data-intensive problems: how to...
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Intel Doubles Down on AI & Machine Learning
We expect the Intel Nervana platform to produce breakthrough performance and dramatic reductions in the time to train complex neural networks,” said Diane Bryant...
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