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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
Analog Methods for AI
Came into computing at the very end of analog computing systems being taught. I remember asking why, and got the answer that they were being replaced by digital...
From insideHPC
The Intelligent Industrial Revolution
"Over the past six weeks, we took NVIDIA’s developer conference on a world tour. The GPU Technology Conference (GTC) was started in 2009 to foster a new approach...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving the Problem of AI
Stanford's Fei Fei Li Looks to Solve the Problem of Artificial IntelligenceRight after the Startup of the Year competition finished, Fei Fei Li, the director of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defining Cognitive Computing
I like to see what the definitions, and thus perceptions of new technologies are from varied kinds of customers. Here from Customerthink.
From Phys.org Technology News
Washington's version of Silicon Valley startup founders
The Obama administration's "18F" program to create its own version of a high-tech startup for government digital projects has foundered since its launch in 2014...
From Phys.org Technology News
Report: Gunmen still control metals mined for modern gadgets
Violent gunmen still menace pick-and-shovel miners in eastern Congo, a new report finds, despite years of efforts to loosen their grip by local reformers, Western...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing with a Watson Bot: GSK: Cough and Cold Pharma
An example of a bot style interaction with a product. Using IBM Watson as a means to provide natural language, cognitive knowledge. Again recall our Mr Clean...
From Computational Complexity
Exaggeration is one thing but this is....
This website is about the history of math and lists famous mathematicians. The ones from the 20th century are biased towards logic, but you should go there yourself...
From Schneier on Security
UK Admitting "Offensive Cyber" Against ISIS/Daesh
I think this might be the first time it has been openly acknowledged: Sir Michael Fallon, the defence secretary, has said Britain is using cyber warfare in the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Department of Transportation SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study Training Webinars
The Department of Transportation is holding a series of webinars developed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)’s Safety Training and Analysis Center (STAC)...
From XRDS
Cancer: From Biology to Computer Science
October is the breast cancer awareness month. Cancer is classified as a genetic disease caused by the abnormal cell division that destroy body tissue. Wait! Cell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering the Correctness of AI
More from Cambridge University and the newly formed Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI): Artificial intelligence: computer says YES (but is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beware of Rating People Online
Not usually a follower of this, but happened on this bitingly vicious satirical look at the online 'ratings' game for people and businesses. Exaggerated, as all...
From insideHPC
Thomas Schulthess to Present Goals and Baselines for Exascale at SC16
Next month at SC16, Dr. Thomas Schulthess from CSCS in Switzerland will present a talk entitled “Reflecting on the Goal and Baseline for Exascale Computing.” The...
From insideHPC
Students Learn HPC at ARL Supercomputing Summer Institute
The DOD High Performance Computing Program and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) hosted the Supercomputing Summer Institute July 18-29, 2016, at AberdeenStudents...
From insideHPC
ORNL Celebrates 4 Years of the Titan Supercomputer
Oak Ridge National Lab is celebrating the fourth birthday of Titan, the fastest supercomputer in the U.S. that is currently ranked at #3 on the TOP500. "To celebrate...
From insideHPC
BSC Joins OpenPOWER Foundation
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation. The news will be part of a keynote address by BSC Director, Mateo Valero at the OpenPOWER...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Design Studio
Elev8 Alexa Application Design StudioInteresting claims to allow the development of Alexa skills without programming for home or business use. Local company here...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 October 2016
The two big news event around computer science last week were the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Dyn and the release of the new K-12 Computer Science...
From insideHPC