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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Which Squid Can I Eat?
Interesting article listing the squid species that can still be ethically eaten. The problem, of course, is that on a restaurant menu it's just labeled "squid."...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stephen Hawking Opens British AI Hub
Will be interesting to see the varying views of Hawking and colleagues on different aspects of AI. Building these 'Centers' for studying complex and disruptive...
From The Noisy Channel
Data Recycling
One technique I’ve seen succeed again and again is data recycling. You may be doing it already. If not, you should add it to your toolbox. Continue reading on ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sal Kahn on Mastery Based Learning
Sal speaks at TED about mastery-based learningWould you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomic Platforms Evolving
I had not used this precise tag 'Autonomic' before, but it is understandable: How do you fully or partially automate systems that support business process? The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Macy's to RFID Tag Everything
We were early innovators in the RFID tagging space. Saw it expand widely at the case level. I now see this as an area where you can use some of the same learning...
From insideHPC
IDC Breakfast Briefing Returns to SC16 on Nov. 15
IDC will hold its annual Analyst Briefing and Breakfast at SC16. Free for attendees, the event takes place 7:15 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Hilton...
From insideHPC
ORNL Testing Compact “Emu Chick” Memory Server for Big Data
Today Emu Technology announced that it has delivered an Emu Chick Memory Server to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "ORNL intends to study the system for streaming...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
GHC16 / Lyndsay Pearson on Valuing Inclusive Game Design
Invited technical speaker Lyndsay Pearson spoke at Grace Hopper this week about inclusive game design. Lyndsay has, as she puts it, grown up with The Sims, having...
From insideHPC
Allinea to Offer New Software Performance Briefings at SC16
Today Allinea Software announced that the compay will hold series of New Software Performance Briefings at SC16. The briefings will be held at the Allinea booth...
From insideHPC
Parallware Selected for SC16 Emerging Technologies Showcase
Today European software startup Appentra announced that its Parallware technology for guided parallelization has been selected to be part of the SC16 Emerging Technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Bezos: Echo and AI for Health Care
Had brainstormed some possibilities here, but still felt the devices had not evolved enough in terms of accuracy and dependability. Will be watching Amazon Echo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Dot Energy Extraction
In IEEE Spectrum. Quantum dot research at Los Alamos points to efficient window coatings that can extract useful energy.
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Opportunities in Deep Learning
"This talk will provide empirical evidence from our Deep Speech work that application level performance (e.g. recognition accuracy) scales with data and compute...
From Phys.org Technology News
Groundbreaking review on counteracting mobile phone distraction while driving
With mobile phone use by drivers now a reality, a groundbreaking QUT review looking at the issue as a task-sharing problem has recommended further research into...
From XRDS
CHI PLAY 2016 – Day 3
Highlights from the third day of ACM CHI PLAY 2016 - the international conference on human-computer interaction in play. Continue reading → The post CHI PLAY 2016...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Invitation to the NIH Open Data Science Symposium
The Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) and the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would like to invite you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sailfish Suite
Just recently saw this: Big Data Analytics using the Sailfish Suite. " ... MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An algorithm that predicts consumer retail trends down...
From insideHPC