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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
Clark.AI for Taking Call Notes
An interesting, relatively focused example, of an AI assistant capability. Once a few of these take off, people will expect this kind of assistance. Have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Myths About an AI Future
Brought to my attention. Its Going to Kill Us! and Other Myths About the Futureof Artificial Intelligence by Robert D Atkinson. Information Technology and Innovation...
From insideHPC
Job Posting: Senior HPC Linux Systems Administrator
Southern Methodist University is seeking a Senior Linux System Administrator for High Performance Computing (HPC) to build, maintain, operate and manage HPC systems...
From Schneier on Security
Periscope ATM Skimmers
"Periscope skimmers" are the most sophisticated kind of ATM skimmers. They are entirely inside the ATM, meaning they're impossible to notice. They're been found...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 September 2016
The big news last week was the launch of the CSforAll Consortium with over 180 members committed to K12 CS Education. That was not all I picked up last week though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Debating the Rules of Brainstorming
In Fastcompany: Still a debate. The key may be to just do it at all with as many participants as possible.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assertiveness
I like this series, which also links to related research. This Is How To Be More Assertive: 3 Powerful Secrets From Research. In particular in this edition:...
From insideHPC
Video: Chapel Productive, Multiresolution Parallel Programming
"Engineers at Cray noted that the HPC community was hungry for alternative parallel programming languages and developed Chapel as part of our response. The reaction...
From insideHPC
Dell Powers New HPC Cluster at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Today the University of Alabama at Birmingham unveiled a new supercomputer powered by Dell. With a peak performance of 110 Teraflops, the system is 10 times faster...![[Book] The Cyber Effect](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] The Cyber Effect
The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online Dr. Mary Aiken Spiegel & Grau, August 2016 400 pages A groundbreaking...
From Putting People First
Better decisions by design: applied behavioral science
Can we design a decision aid that gives us health information we need and counters our biases so that we end up more knowledgeable and confident in our preference...
From Putting People First
Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic on the home of the future
Jasmina Tesanovic (previously) and Bruce Sterling did a residency at The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD (San Diego, USA), working with the...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
HLF2016 / Spotlight on Preethi Srinivas: HCI Researcher Improving Coordination and Communication in Hospital ICUs
This blog post originates from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Blog. The 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum is dedicated to mathematics and computer sciences, and takes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apples Continues Moves in VR
Continued interest by big players in Virtual and Augmented reality moves. Lets see the big workplace applications.Apple continues hiring augmented and virtualBy...
From Phys.org Technology News
Technology at Paralympics sparks advances and controversy
Here's how good technology for prosthetic running blades has become.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Storytelling and Process
Though I have come from a storytelling (marketing) company, its still rarely thought of in the realm of engineers and analysts. Because it rises too far apart...
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Five Things More Important About a Research Project Than Being in Love
I recently talked to an early PhD student trying to decide between two projects: one they were in love with, and one with a much longer list of "pros" including...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Judging the Algorithm
Excellent piece. I have been involved in several projects which look at the correctness of algorithmic methods. One point to make where a distinction is necessary...
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Disruptive Technologies Panel
In this video from the 2016 HPC User Forum in Austin, a select panel of HPC vendors describe their disruptive technologies for high performance computing. Vendors...
From insideHPC