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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
Algorithm/Problem Categories for AI and Data Science
Like this statement of solution categories: 10 Algorithm Categories for A.I., Big Data, and Data Science by Chris Pehura: Crunchers: These algorithms use small...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Impact of AI on Jobs
Thoughtful piece with many interesting links. Good this pointed me back to Irving Wladawsky-Berger's blog. Was on a panel with him in the 90s.Irving Wladawsky...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forklift Simulation Using VR
Interesting idea. If was one of the ideas we considered for warehouse and plant training, but the technology was not well enough evolved to make it workable. A...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Processor Design Exploration for Vision Based Mobile Robots
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Christopher B. Harris, the Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Engineering at Brown University...
From Schneier on Security
Research on the Timing of Security Warnings
fMRI experiments show that we are more likely to ignore security warnings when they interrupt other tasks. A new study from BYU, in collaboration with Google Chrome...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorist False Alarm at JFK Airport Demonstrates How Unprepared We Really Are
The detailed accounts of the terrorist-shooter false-alarm at Kennedy Airport in New York last week illustrate how completely and totally unprepared the airport...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 August 2016
I meet my new freshmen students today. I hope they are as excited as I am. Should be a good year with lots of interesting things to try with my students. It starts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sway Storytelling
Brought to my attention, Microsoft's Sway storytelling system. Lets you bring in other content from systems and create stories. Has been criticized as not different...
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More Smart Dust
More on Neural Dust. More IOT nodes in more places? Heard this called 'motes' before, but this takes it smaller yet. The passive use of power generation is...
From insideHPC
OpenPOWER Summit Europe Comes to Barcelona Oct. 26-28
Today the OpenPOWER Foundation announced that their inaugural OpenPOWER Summit Europe will take place Oct. 26-28 in Barcelona, Spain. Held in conjunction with OpenStack...
From insideHPC
Video: What is Driving Heterogeneity in HPC?
Wen-mei Hwu from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented this talk at the Blue Waters Symposium. "In the 21st Century, we are able to understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI in Business
Remember outlining a similar report some time ago. Really helps to layout who will use it and how. I am seeing a move back to the term 'AI' too.The AI business...
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GIF's and All that
A considerable look at the history of the GIF, a graphic format, developed in 1987, that opened the door to online visualization. Even animating things. We...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free NASA Online Research Archive
A wealth of information. Does not contain all research papers produced by NASA.NASA’s new online archive is a treasure trove of free research articles" ... NASA...
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Future of Retailing Technology is Now
Forbes article. Generally put, but good piece:The Future Of Retailing: The Technology Revolution Is Nowby Walter Loeb , ContributorI believe that retailing is...
From insideHPC
NERSC Dungeon Session Speeds Code for Cori Supercomputer
Six application development teams from NERSC gathered at Intel in early August for a marathon “dungeon session" designed to help tweak their codes for the next-generation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Neural Networks with R
Back in the first go around with neural networks we had to write our own, but now its easily available via R. (And many other places) This is a reasonable introduction...
From insideHPC
IIT in Bombay Opens the First OpenPOWER Research Facility
Today IBM announced the opening of the first OpenPOWER Research Facility (OPRF) at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The OPRF will help drive the country's...
From The Eponymous Pickle