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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
Microsoft Slack Competitor via Skype?
A Microsoft Slack Competitor via Skype?Might Microsoft show off its Slack competitor at November 2 event?Microsoft is planning to talk up team collaboration technologies...
From insideHPC
TotalView: Debugging from Desktop to Supercomputer
Peter Thompson from Rogue Wave Software presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "TotalView breaks down barriers to understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Microsoft Slack Competitor via Skype?
Might Microsoft show off its Slack competitor at November 2 event?Microsoft is planning to talk up team collaboration technologies at a November 2, 2016, eventBy...
From insideHPC
SGI Powers New SPICE System for Weather Forecasting at UK Met Office
"With the new SPICE system from SGI, we have seen a step-change in performance for our researchers and scientists doing post-processing of weather and climate data...
From Schneier on Security
Security Lessons from a Power Saw
Lance Spitzner looks at the safety features of a power saw and tries to apply them to Internet security: By the way, here are some of the key safety features that...
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Underwater drone to investigate sonar contacts in MH370 hunt
A ship involved with the deep-sea sonar search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is being fitted with a drone that will examine several sonar contacts of...
From XRDS
CHI PLAY 2016 – Day 2
Highlights from the second day of ACM CHI PLAY 2016 - the international conference on human-computer interaction in play. Continue reading → The post CHI PLAY 2016...
From The Noisy Channel
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From The Eponymous Pickle
MicroStrategy Desktop Now Free
Examined MicroStrategy for the enterprise some time ago, and found it to be very good. Nice to see this added to the growing free BI viz options. For students...
From insideHPC
UK Met Office Research Simulations Predict European Winter One Year Ahead
In a paper published today in Nature Geoscience, scientists at the Met Office have demonstrated significant advances in predicting up to one year ahead the phases...
From Schneier on Security
Intelligence Oversight and How It Can Fail
Former NSA attorneys John DeLong and Susan Hennessay have written a fascinating article describing a particular incident of oversight failure inside the NSA. Technically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Announces Speech Recognition Breakthrough
Continued advances in Cognitive interaction. While speech recognition is good today, making it better will remove one barrier to interacting nimbly with spoken...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Investment Portfolios
Makes sense to think of this as a portfolio analysis. Which leads to thinking about how their business value can be measured. ROI is notoriously difficult to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards AI Best Practices
Industry Leaders Establish Partnership on AI Best Practices .... 28 Sep 2016: Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Microsoft today announced that...
From XRDS
CHI PLAY 2016 – Day 1
Highlights from the first day of ACM CHI PLAY 2016 - the international conference on human-computer interaction in play. Continue reading → The post CHI PLAY 2016...
From insideHPC
CSCS in Switzerland to Celebrate 25 Years of Supercomputing
Over at CSCS, Simone Ulmer writes that the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre is turning twenty-five. First opened in 1991, CSCS supports users from Swiss and...
From Putting People First
Behavioral economics, UX design and insurance
The key to unlocking the insurance industry, writes Richie Hecker in TechCrunch, is understanding behavioral economics. The most successful players in insurance...
From Putting People First
Interaction Design is dead. What now?
Ralph Ammer argues that interaction design is based on technological thinking and restricted to profitable applications, and proposes a new direction, which heInteraction...
From Putting People First
Flaws of the Smart City – A design friction kit
Flaws of the Smart City is a critical, workshop-tailored kit to explore the dark faces of the so-called Smart Cities. As any hardware or software piece, the connected...
From insideHPC