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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
Forces that Shape our Decisions
Podcast: In his new book, Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior, Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger takes us inside the conscious and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of Legal Robots
Have examined related problems, like the legal examination of contracts. So not unexpected we are seeing attempts for legal AI to replace elements of expensive...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Architecture 2030 Visioning Workshop
The following blog post is by CCC executive council member and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Mark D. Hill, who was loosely involved in the planning...
From Computational Complexity
Excalibur
Goro Hasegawa passed away last week at the age of 83. Hasegawa created and popularized the board game Othello based on an old British game Reversi. Back in the...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Getting to the Roots of Factoring
We revisit a paper from 1994 Richard Lipton is, among so many other things, a newlywed. He and Kathryn Farley were married on June 4th in Atlanta. The wedding was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensing Computer Data
We tested related methods, so this research recalled some of the ideas. How do you extract data from unconnected computers? By sensing other things computersIN...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast random shuffling
In a random shuffle, you want to take the elements of a list and reorder them randomly. In a “fair” random shuffle, all possible permutations must be equally likely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Hand that has an Eye
In CACM: More on robotic touch out there. Here an eye is added to a hand. Don't remember seeing something similar. " .... Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent and Secure Learning Hub for the Smart Home
Hubs should learn ... " .... With the emerging ecosystem of connected devices – often dubbed the “Internet of Things” – consumers are rightly worried about theAt...
From insideHPC
Analytics Frameworks
This whitepaper is an excellent summary of how a next generation platform can be developed to bring a wide range of data to life, giving users the ability to take...
From insideHPC
Video: Bob Wisniewski on OpenHPC at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Bob Wisniewski from Intel provides and update on OpenHPC community activities. "OpenHPC is a collaborative, community effort that initiated...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
100 Examples of Obama’s Leadership in Science, Technology, and Innovation
The White House recently released their list of 100 examples of President Obama’s leadership in science, technology, and innovation. The list includes many computing...
From XRDS
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs): An Illustrated Explanation
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are used everyday for tackling a broad spectrum of prediction and classification problems, and for scaling up applications which...
From insideHPC
Exxact to Build HPC Solutions Using NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs
Today Exxact Corporation announced its planned production of HPC solutions using the NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU accelerator for PCIe. Exxact will be integrating theExxact...
From insideHPC
Video: Steve Conway from IDC Recaps ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Steve Conway from IDC recaps the event. "Attended by over 3,000 individuals, ISC is a not-to-miss event for the high performance computing...
From insideHPC
Interview: Why DDN is Dominating the TOP500
Today DDN announced it has increased its leadership as the dominant storage provider of the world’s fastest supercomputers for the eighth consecutive year withInterview...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco on Digital Transformation
Cisco blog looking at the basic elements of digital transformation. The details still need lots of work, and they need to be forward forecast against likely technology...
From insideHPC
Intel Furthers Machine Learning Capabilities
"Intel provided a wealth of machine learning announcements following the Intel Xeon Phi processor (formerly known as Knights Landing) announcement at ISC’16. Building...
From insideHPC
SGI to Power 1.9 Petaflop Supercomputer at University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo has chosen SGI to perform advanced data analysis and simulation within its Information Technology Center. The center is one of Japan's major...
From The Eponymous Pickle