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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
Surveillance State as a Gadget
Quite an extensive look at how advanced surveillance is now 'affordable':What Happens When the Surveillance State Becomes an Affordable Gadget?Maybe it doesn’t...
From Phys.org Technology News
Video gamers turn to science for virtual edge
For some people, video gaming is an activity relegated to the weekends and that all too rare spare time.
From Phys.org Technology News
How computer algorithms shape our experience of the real world
The use of algorithms to filter and present information online is increasingly shaping our everyday experience of the real world, a study published by Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Promoting Scientific Papers to the Public
Promoting, and often translating scientific papers and ideas to the more general public. Its a little like what this kind of blog does. And what I did in various...
From Schneier on Security
New Presidential Directive on Incident Response
Last week, President Obama issued a policy directive (PPD-41) on cyber-incident response coordination. The FBI is in charge, which is no surprise. Actually, there's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Intelligence and the Supply Chain
In Financial Experess: Artificial Intelligence: The next big thing in Supply Chain ManagementImagine the endless possibilities of learning from 2.5 quintillion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The State of our General Assistants
Two major general assistance capabilities for computing platforms, Cortana and Siri continue to improve and expand. It looks like this kind of voice driven intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Service Innovation Center
This week’s presenter for the ISSIP Service Innovation Weekly Speaker Series is Craig Wirkus, Innovation Program Manager, Cisco Services Innovation Excellence Center...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities in Wireless Keyboards
Most of them are unencrypted, which makes them vulnerable to all sorts of attacks: On Tuesday Bastille's research team revealed a new set of wireless keyboard attacks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seymour Papert Dies
We followed him closely in our AI years. Also a developer of the Logo language and Lego Mindstorms. Developed much in the area of technology driven learningSeymour...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and Data Leakage
Admit I knew the concept, but not the term itself. Data Leakage. Using data outside a training set to build a model. Well, surprise, this is in practice always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does it Mean for Everything to be Smart
What are the challenges for invention on the Internet of Things? In the early days of our use the only application was an indicator of what a thing was. So it...
From insideHPC
NCI in Australia Receives $14 Million Investment
The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Australia's high-performance supercomputer, cloud and data repository, has received a $7M boost from the Australian...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Increased Functions of Mobile Wallets
And consider also the integration of virtual assistance?How to increase customer engagement with mobile walletsOne method of connecting with users on mobile, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introduction to Graph Databases
My latest blog is An Introduction to Graph Databases. William McKnightAn Introduction to Graph Databases -- UpsideGraph databases are one of the fastest growing...
From insideHPC
Cray’ Steve Scott Presents: Supercomputing Technologies and Trends: Where do we go from here?
Cray's Steve Scott presented this talk at The Digital Future Conference. "Research and development at Cray is guided by our adaptive supercomputing vision. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cutting a Display for Experimental Packaging
In Engadget. An example where you can now cut up a computer display with a pair of scissors. Interesting, once looked at a packaging design project where this...
From insideHPC
Panasas Rolls Out ActiveStor 20
Today Panasas introduced ActiveStor 20, its latest generation hybrid scale-out NAS appliance, featuring a 65 percent increase in flash and a 25 percent increase...
From insideHPC
Raj Hazra Presents: Driving to Exascale
Raj Hazra presented this talk at ISC 2016. "As part of the company's launch of the Intel Xeon Phi processor, Hazra describes how how cognitive computing and HPC...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog