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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 Computational Complexity
My chair wants me to post about.. Mohammad Haj wants me to post about.. I want to post about...
Maryland is looking to hire lecturers and my chai Samir wants me to post it on my blog. I think he overestimates the power of the blog, however, here is the link...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Babbling Metadata
My favorite topic. Metadata. In the end it makes the data work. Hardly babble. Good piece. In the CACM.The Power of BabbleExpect to be constantly and pleasantly...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Halloween Math Style
The top scariest possible results Head chopped from source Washington Irving was a famous writer of the early 1800’s who is best known for his short stories. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defining What Computers Can do, and the Implications
AI and analytic methods have expanded the realm of what computers can do, just like spreadsheets and word processors expanded computing skills to many office tasks...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My review of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (video game)
The Deus Ex series is set in a dystopian futuristic universe. (It reminds me a bit of Japan’s Ghost in the Shell.) The latest game in the series (Deux Ex: Mankind...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implications of Agile Culture
I am teaching a course on leading analytics change at Columbia, and this Cisco blog post provided some interesting information about using methods like Agile. Worth...
From Schneier on Security
A High-End Card-Reading Device
An impressive Chinese device that automatically reads marked cards in order to cheat at poker and other card games....
From insideHPC
UberCloud Celebrates 3rd year of its HPC Cloud Marketplace Service
“When we started the marketplace 3 years ago the service we offered was all manual,” explained Wolfgang Gentzsch who founded UberCloud together with Burak Yenier...
From insideHPC
Fortissimo Launches HPC Resource Broker Service
"Engineers and scientists can now get access to HPC resources more easily because of the Fortissimo Marketplace, a new platform for brokering high-performance computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Staples Using Voice to Deliver Easy Button Assistant
An attempt to move the voice driven digital assistant, like Amazon's Echo, into the office. Brings back the 'Easy' marketing angle. Would seem that Amazon has...
From insideHPC
Keynotes Announced for Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC16
The Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC16 has announced its keynote speakers. Jonathan Cohen and Kai Li from Princeton will present, Going Where Neuroscience and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearables Reaching Saturation
Have Wearables reached a saturation point?" ... With the success of FitBit and the advent of the Apple Watch, the tech press seems to have taken it as a foregone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surface Dial Examined
I have been a long time experimenter with alternative interfaces. From mice, to feet driven mice, to touch pens, speech and neural interaction and more. So IVerge...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Research Report on GPUs
In this research report, we reveal recent research showing that customers are feeling the need for speed—i.e. they’re looking for more processing cores. Not surprisingly...
From insideHPC
Changing the Face of the SC Conference Series: An Interview with SC16 General Chair John West
Over 10,000 members of the worldwide HPC community will reconvene in Salt Lake City this year for SC16. To preview what the conference has in store, we caught up...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Wearable Health: Exploring Human-Centered Solutions of On-Body Technologies to Improve Healthcare
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Vivian Motti, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turn a Smart Phone Into a Car Key
Another security issue? In the Verge: Toyota invented a box that turns your smartphone into a car keySmart Key Box will help make car-sharing easierby Andrew J...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Context and Text Mining
Context always matters. Text mining or elsewhere. Good example here.Context Matters When Text Mining Posted by Dalila Benachenhou Many times the most followed...
From The Eponymous Pickle