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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: Squid Are Colorblind
All cephalopods are colorblind. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Computational Complexity
Typecasting from Avi's 60th Celebration
Lance: Live from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Bill and I are doing a typecast from the Avi Wigderson 60th Birthday Celebration. Hi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Common Sense
In New Scientist: Basic common sense is key to building more intelligent machines ... An unfashionable old technique that helps modern artificial intelligences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target Piloting AddStructure
Retailers responding to devices like the Amazon Echo with natural Language interaction. Looking for more details. In Retailwire: Target piloting Amazon Alexa voice...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Worry over Superintelligent AI
Good piece in Technology Review about worry over 'Superintelligent AI'. I do think this is worth talking about, but not likely to become a direct problem very...
From insideHPC
LLNL Collaboration to Improve Cancer Screening
Computer scientists at LLNL and Norwegian researchers are collaborating to apply high performance computing to the analysis of medical data to improve screening...
From insideHPC
Video: Introduction to Parallel Supercomputing
Pete Beckman presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Here is the Parallel Platform Paradox: The average time required to...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Tornadogenesis
"We're trying to make high resolution simulations of super cell storms, or tornadoes," McGovern said. "What we get with the simulations are the fundamental variables...
From insideHPC
COMSOL Speeds Multiphysics Modeling & Simulation
Today COMSOL announced updates to their software solutions for multiphysics modeling, simulation, app design and deployment. The latest update of the COMSOL software...
From insideHPC
General Atomics Releases Next-Gen Nirvana Data Management Software
Today General Atomics announced the next generation of Nirvana – a premier metadata, data placement and data management software solution for the most demanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emerging Machine Translation
Had heard of some improvements in machine translation in the recent Google announcements. Here are some of the technical details about how this being done at production...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Contractor Arrested for Stealing Classified Information
The NSA has another contractor who stole classified documents. It's a weird story: "But more than a month later, the authorities cannot say with certainty whether...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Concise Algorithms for Machine Learning
Nicely done piece by Ronald van Loon, The 10 Algorithms Machine Learning Engineers Need to Know . I like these concise descriptions of useful techniques. From...
From The Eponymous Pickle
From Shallow Nets to Beyond Deep Learning
We called this 'artificial neural nets' (ANN) and since we used them actively, but shallowly. These have been deepened to be called 'Deep Learning'. And very...
From Schneier on Security
Yahoo Scanned Everyone's E-mails for the NSA
News here and here. Other companies have been quick to deny that they did the same thing, but I generally don't believe those carefully worded statements about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graphs and Machine Learning
Instructive piece in the Google Research blog about how they use machine learning methods that are integrated with graph architectures.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data Spokes Connect Data Scientists with Regional Challenges
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced giving $10 million in awards to 10 “Big Data Spokes” projects in order to facilitate research on topics identified...
From insideHPC
Panasas & Western Digital to Power Life Science Research with iRODS
"Our solutions ultimately make data readily available for users, applications and analytics, helping to facilitate faster results and better decisions,” said Gary...
From insideHPC
ICC Launches Alpha Series of Overclocked Financial Servers
Today International Computer Concepts (ICC) announced the release of a new line of overclocked servers: ICC Alpha. These systems were designed specifically forICC...
From The Eponymous Pickle