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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
Alexa Dot Now Being Sold in Volume
Add Alexa to any room. Only $49.99The All-New Echo Dot uses the same farfield voice recognition as Echo and is a convenient addition to any room of the house....
From insideHPC
Nvidia Expands Deep Learning Institute
Over at the Nvidia Blog, Jamie Beckett writes that the company's is expanding its Deep Learning Institute with Microsoft and Coursera. The institute provides training...
From insideHPC
Video: Intel Scalable System Framework
Gary Paek from Intel presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "Traditional high performance computing is hitting a performance wall. With data volumes...
From insideHPC
PRACE Awards Time on Marconi Supercomputer
PRACE has announced the winners of its 13th Call for Proposals for PRACE Project Access. Selected proposals will receive allocations to the following PRACE HPCPRACE...
From insideHPC
OnDemand 3.0 Portal to Power Owens Supercomputer at OSC
"Were currently installing the most powerful supercomputer in the history of the center, but its just a roomful of hardware without fast and easy access for our...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Starting high school in 2016
My oldest boy started high school this year. He goes to an accessible private school nearby. We went to a parent’s meeting last night. Personal electronics is banned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Assistants Adapting to Us
Ultimately we will need more of this, although it is still probably a very subtle thing. Today, like in search, we just want an answer. As the answer becomes...
From The Noisy Channel
Seniority Considered Harmful
Technical hiring in Silicon Valley aspires to be a meritocracy, but anyone who has looked at the data knows that there is rampant… Continue reading on
From Schneier on Security
Organizational Doxing and Disinformation
In the past few years, the devastating effects of hackers breaking into an organization's network, stealing confidential data, and publishing everything have been...
From Phys.org Technology News
Turbulence not as dangerous as flyers think
You're sitting in an aeroplane, maybe reading a book or watching a movie, a tray of unopened food in front of you. Suddenly, the plane jolts and starts to bump...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Columbus Ohio Wins Smart City
In the CACM:" .. And The Winner Is...Columbus! By Gary AnthesRust Belt city Columbus, OH, emerged as the high-tech winner among 78 U.S. cities competing in the...
From Schneier on Security
Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Low-down on Speaking at GHC
So you're speaking at GHC16. What do you need to know? How can you prepare to be the best you can be? How do you calm your nerves?!Although I wasn't lucky enough...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Weakly Supervised Cyberbullying Detection in Social Media
The following Great Innovative Idea is fromBert Huang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science atVirginia Tech. Huang presented his poster, Weakly Supervised Cyberbullying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Smart Appliances
GE Smart Appliances are now controllable through the Amazon Alexa Commands and IFTTT. New integration of smart home and Intelligence.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science and Cortana Intelligence
Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning BlogRecent Updates to the Microsoft Data Science Virtual MachineSeptember 13, 2016 by Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog...
From insideHPC
Podcast: How PyLadies are Increasing Diversity in Coding and Data Science
In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Dr. Julie Krugler Hollek, co-organizer of PyLadies San Francisco and Data Scientist at Twitter, joins Alyson Klein to discuss efforts...
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Announces Reseller Agreement with SGI
"SGI and Bright Computing have been working together for the last year to provide our joint customers with enterprise level clustered infrastructure managementBright...
From insideHPC
HPC4mfg Seeks New Proposals to Advance Energy Technologies
Today the Energy Departments Advanced Manufacturing Office announced up to $3 million in available funding for manufacturers to use high-performance computing resources...
From insideHPC