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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
Innovation and the Language of the Corner Office
Reminds of work we did to enhance executive information systems. Back then and then later when we had more technology and live data to leverage. Language is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing Three Data Science Concepts
Nice quiz and a demonstration of the imprecision of the terms in useAI vs Deep Learning vs Machine Learning Posted by William Vorhies Summary: Which of these...
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Neural Dust Health Sensors
In Cnet: Beyond Fitbit: 'Neural dust' puts invisible cyborg tech deep inside you ... New, tiny sensors could create superpowerful fitness trackers, move prosthetics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cooperative Robotics for Amazon
Like humans being augmented by AI, here in the physical world.How Locus Robotics Plans to Build a Successor to Amazon's Kiva RobotsBy Evan AckermanLocus’ robotHumans...
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Towards Decision Networks
Of interest: Decision Networks ... ... Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (9:30am CT, 7:30 am PT)...
From insideHPC
SC16 to Feature 38 HPC Workshops
Today SC16 announced that the conference will feature 38 high-quality workshops to complement the overall Technical Program events, expand the knowledge base of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examples of AI in Marketing
Most of these are obvious, but I like them in a list. They also are only AI in a limited sense. Useful to think of every one of these for marketing applications...
From insideHPC
DOE to Invest $16 Million in Supercomputing Materials
Today the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it will invest $16 million over the next four years to accelerate the design of new materials through use ofDOE...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Disputes Intel’s Maching Learning Performance Claims
"Few fields are moving faster right now than deep learning," writes Buck. "Today’s neural networks are 6x deeper and more powerful than just a few years ago. There...
From Schneier on Security
Major NSA/Equation Group Leak
The NSA was badly hacked in 2013, and we're just now learning about it. A group of hackers called "The Shadow Brokers" claim to have hacked the NSA, and are posting...
From insideHPC
NASA Optimizes Climate Impact Research with Cycle Computing
Today Cycle Computing announced its continued involvement in optimizing research spearheaded by NASA’s Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) and the University of...
From insideHPC
TYAN Showcases NVMe Servers and Storage Platforms at IDF 2016
"In order to address data intensive workloads in need of higher performance for storage, TYAN takes full advantage of Intel NVMe technology to highlight hybridTYAN...
From insideHPC
Making it Easy to Introduce Liquid Cooling to the Data Center
With the release of high wattage processors liquid cooling is becoming a necessity for HPC data centers. Liquid cooling’s ability to provide the direct removalMaking...
From Phys.org Technology News
Professors see a positive relationship between gaming and human behavior
You are a gamer. The majority of us are and might not realize it. Your participation was subtly recruited by purchasing a soda with a twist top, signing up for...
From Schneier on Security
Powerful Bit-Flipping Attack
New research: "Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack," by Kaveh Razavi, Ben Gras, Erik Bosman Bart Preneel, Cristiano Giuffrida, and Herbert...
From Computational Complexity
Is the examiner being pedantic? Whats really going on here?
The following are two real conversations. For each one: (1) Is the examiner correct?, and (2) Where and when do you think this conversation took place? I give...
From Schneier on Security
Yet Another Government-Sponsored Malware
Both Kaspersky and Symantec have uncovered another piece of malware that seems to be a government design: The malware -- known alternatively as "ProjectSauron"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monetizing Data, Considering Risk
Data as an asset is a continued exploration, mentioned many times here. Our original view also looked at the risk of capturing and holding assets. Negative valued...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Open Data Board Game
I like the idea of using games to show how systems work. We used it to teach corporate and supply chain economics. But it does not often work very well. Not...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog