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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 Phys.org Technology News
Software firm's glitch stops travelers from booking tickets
A technology company says it's fixed a problem that had prevented travelers from booking trips with some U.S. airlines this week.
From insideHPC
HPC Bear Cloud to Power Research at University of Birmingham
Designed specifically with researchers in mind, the Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Cloud will augment an already rich set of IT services at...
From Computational Complexity
This university does not discriminate based on....
I recently came across the following (I delete the name of the school) and also add my own comments in caps as they relate to UMCP hiring of professors. X-University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tim Cook Talks Apple AI Plans
Clear to be a major player simply because it owns such a large part of the infrastructure that will provide data to AI systems. Some indications of their becoming...
From insideHPC
Slidecast: Running HPC Simulation Workflows in Microsoft Azure
In this video from the Microsoft Ignite Conference, Tejas Karmarkar describes how to run your HPC Simulations on Microsoft Azure - with UberCloud container technology...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Thoughts from White House Frontier’s Conference and the National AI R&D Strategic Plan
This blog post was co-authored by CCC Staff, Greg Hager, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Past Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Evolution of Selling Propositions
Term new to me, but like in many systems, we implemented early simple versions.What Is a Meta-DSP and Why Should Advertisers Care? By Chris Dobson. As Landscape...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Businesses investing in AI
Gartner: A.I. to become a top business investment priorityAnalysts make subtle point about the potential of these systems to respond in unexpected ways ... "Such...
From insideHPC
The High Performance Virtual Computer for Graphics-Intensive Applications
Many industries deploy graphics-intensive applications on single user workstations with individual GPU resources. For those who have switched to a virtualization...
From Phys.org Technology News
Mystery swirls around Assange's status at Ecuadorean Embassy
Midway through releasing a series of damaging disclosures about U.S. presidential contender Hillary Clinton, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his hosts at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skipflag Rover
Furthers look at workplace bots. What would you first want from a workplace conversation bot? Reminders of how the current conversation relates to the knowledge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Workplace Bots
Interesting on state of the art. Slackbots and beyondJassim Latif on workplace botsThe O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Bots that can respond to groups of users.By Jon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Courseware from MIT
Via O'Reilly, ... 22 full-length lecture videos from MIT's OpenCourseWare AI course... " MIT has been known to produce quality, free, technical courseware...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The BD2K Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science Section 2 and Upcoming Events
Section 2 of The BD2K Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science online lecture series, titled Data Representation Overview, starts October 28th with an overview...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Useful Excel Add-ins for Analytics
I have been brought in to clean up after the use of Excel for data storage and analysis. Still, it is unavoidable to address it's use, especially, but not limited...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
K–12 Computer Science Framework Released
After over a year of hard work by a lot of people (I had a small role myself) the K–12 Computer Science Framework is now officially out. Frankly I expect some criticism...
From insideHPC
Streamlining HPC Workloads with Containers
"While we often talk about the density advantages of containers, it's the opposite approach that we use in the High Performance Computing world! Here, we use exactly...
From insideHPC
PASC17 Conference to Focus on HPC & Precision Medicine
Today the PASC17 Conference announced a track focused on Precision Medicine as Special Topic for Emerging Domains. "Precision medicine, also referred to as personalized...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Update to my VR bet with Greg Linden
I have an ongoing bet with Greg Linden stating that we are going to sell 10 million virtual-reality (VR) units per year by 2019. I have been paying close attention...
From insideHPC