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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
Google on Beacons Reshaping Marketing
In ThinkwithGoogle:" ... Beacon technology is poised to change the way consumers interact with brands, making devices more helpful and revolutionizing the way retailers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa and the Emerging Art of Conversation
An interesting exploration of conversational interfaces using the Amazon Echo. What has it shown us so far? I like it, but it still has a long way to go. You...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ROI of Customer Engagement
Always looking for new ways to measure. But it takes lots of trials in different contexts, to understand the implications of measurement.Calculating the ROI of...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Stubby Squid
Photo of the cutest squid ever. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at IDF 2016
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the recent 2016 Intel Developer Forum. “How will Intel return to growth in the face of a declining PC market? At...
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Ten Recipes for the Beginner Cook
This blog post is dedicated to my college roommate Brigit, who has been ramping up her cooking efforts. This week I've been on vacation with my college roommates...
From Schneier on Security
Unintentional DOS Attack against Car-Door Openers
Radio noise from a nearby neon-sign transformer made it impossible for people to unlock their cars remotely....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flying a Horse and other Creations
Been reading my former colleague Kevin Ashton's book: How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery. Very nicely done, worth the...
From insideHPC
SC16 Facing Housing Crunch in Salt Lake City
Over at the SC16 Blog, Elizabeth Leake writes that there will be a bit of a housing crunch in Salt Lake City this year during the world's largest supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Links Power BI to R
... By Sharon MachlisI remain pleasantly surprised at Microsoft's enthusiasm for adding R to its analytics ecosystem (and not [at least yet] fulfilling suspicions...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Donates DGX-1 Machine Learning Supercomputer to OpenAI Non-profit
This week Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang hand-delivered one of the company's new DGX-1 Machine Learning supercomputers to the OpenAI non-profit in San Francisco. “The...
From insideHPC
Taming Heterogeneity in HPC – The DEEP-ER take
Norbert Eicker from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre presented this talk at the SAI Computing Conference in London. "The ultimate goal is to reduce the burden on...
From insideHPC
Making Life Easier with Altair Data Center GPU Management Tool
Altair's new Data Center GPU Management Tool is now available to Nvidia HPC Customers. With the wide adoption of Graphics Processing Units, customers are addressing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AliceBot Chatbot Engine
I am reminded of the Alice Bot which we experimented with in the 90s. Now the idea has taken hold as a simpler way of delivering AI, especially for human natural...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Patient Behavior
In every business where there are customers, its about their behavior. Even in healthcare. Knowledge@Wharton talks about a new book: How Patients Think: A Science...
From Phys.org Technology News
It's only rock 'n' roll – and sometimes it's better in mono
While music lovers continue to argue about the relative merits of digital audio and the analogue vinyl disc, another debate is going on about the renaissance of...
From Schneier on Security
More on Election Security
Andrew Appel has a good two-part essay on securing elections. And three organizations -- Verified Voting, EPIC, and Common Cause -- have published a report on the...
From Phys.org Technology News
Experts use drift modeling to define new MH370 search zone
Experts hunting for the missing Malaysian airliner are attempting to define a new search area by studying where in the Indian Ocean the first piece of wreckage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Acquires Nervana: How AI is Disrupting the Largest Industries
Unexpected, but have always been impressed with Intel's deep innovation, want to see hardware enhanced AI.In Medium: Standing on the Shore*: How AI is Disrupting...
From insideHPC