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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 Putting People First
The psychology of scarcity: what behavioral economics can teach design
Eldar Shafir, professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University and coauthor, with Sendhil Mullainathan, of the book Scarcity: The New ScienceThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco and Retailer of the Future
In the Cisco Blog:" ... More than ever before, today’s consumers have more options about what to buy and where to buy it. With each interaction, they choose which...
From Putting People First
New book on how corporate anthropology can help businesses grow
On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights by Andi Simon PhD Greenleaf Book Group Press July 2016, 184 pages Abstract Innovation has become...
From insideHPC
Post K Supercomputer Delayed in Japan
Nikkei in Japan writes that the Post K supercomputer is facing 1-2 year delay for deployment as part of the Flagship2020 project. Originally targeted for completion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and Jet
Podcast on Knowledge@Wharton:" .... Wal-Mart this week brought more muscle to its competition with Amazon by buying online shopping site Jet.com. Wal-Mart Stores...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AWS IoT Button
Had heard of this recently, but just started to take a look. Like the Dash buttons I still have in test for retail. Consider it for the simple acquisition of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Flow
On the arrival of Microsoft's IFTTT competitior, Flow. Note the connection to Slack. Examining. "... Flow works much the same way as IFTTT but focuses more heavily...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Still Looking for Full Featured Smart Mirrors
We featured the idea, and saw it at other consumer innovation labs a decade ago. Mostly it dealt with using the mirror for cosmetics options and delivering basic...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Not Killing New Zealand Sea Lions
Experts are blaming bacteria, not squid nets....
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at HPE’s Pending Acquisition of SGI
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks HPE's pending acquisition of SGI. "Will the acquisition be good for SGI and HP customers? Our RFHPC team is in unprecedented...
From Phys.org Technology News
California may beef up electric vehicle mandate
A California lawmaker told The Associated Press on Friday that she's introducing legislation to require that 15 percent of new vehicles be emission-free in less...
From Schneier on Security
Cyberattacks via Submarine
Some minimal information about the NSA's abilities to hack networks via submarine....
From The Eponymous Pickle
User Friendly and Visual Simulation Langauge
In the MIT News, Faster and friendlier ... and thus more easily testable and maintainable, is always of interest. Note the direct link to the visualization of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers and Brands Leverage Omnishopping
Makes sense, brand can leverage product value and other marketing. Link may require free registration. Why retailers, brands should team up in the omnishopping...
From insideHPC
New Report Looks at European Exascale Projects
"Between 2011 and 2016, eight projects, with a total budget of more than €50 Million, were selected for this first push in the direction of the next- generation...
From insideHPC
Video: The Impact of the Computing and Data Revolution on Science an Society
Ed Seidel from NCSA presented this talk at The Digital Future conference in Berlin. "The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a hub of transdisciplinary...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Expands GTC to Eight Global Events
Nvidia is expanding its popular GPU Technology Conference to eight cities worldwide. "We’re broadening the reach of GTC with a series of conferences in eight cities...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Electronic Safes
Nice attack against electronic safes: Plore used side-channel attacks to pull it off. These are ways of exploiting physical indicators from a cryptographic system...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Build a Chat Bot in 10 Minutes
Though this is not quite the depth of conversation and language that I implied in my previous thoughts, it does represent some aspects of conversation like flow...
From The Eponymous Pickle