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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
Classroom Centaurs for Education
Talk this week on educational technology:" .... Kurt VanLehn, Diane and Gary Tooker Chair for Effective Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in...
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Discussion on Samsung's $5799 Digital Frig
Good discussion on Samsung's smart Frig. Apparently not a prototype and is for sale. The the cost is hefty Is the refrigerator the place for the home hub?
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Wal-Mart Decides on Fun Stories
Akin to Story telling, Recall my mention of the local grocery chain Jungle Jim's. Personally I think they should do more in that space to tell fun stories to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Magenta AI Makes Music
Like the idea. When we will see a library of these efforts to consider? What are the bounds of its innovation, creativity? Google enters the Artificial Intelligence...
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An AI Primer. What do we think it is Today?
Good primer in a talk AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: – in Andreessen Horowitz" .... Things are clearly progressing rapidly when it comes to machine...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Importance of CS Education Research
Contributions to this post were provided by Andrew Ko, University of Washington. Andrew J. Ko is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Not all Things Should be Connected
Agreed, recall in my Defense department experience, the only way to have complete security was to have an unconnected network. With emphasis on being truly unconnected...
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Semantic Ecosystems
Continuing a look at modern ontology capabilities, We did work with Stanford's KSL to build ontologies of corporate data.Semantic EcosystemsCreate a semantic ecosystem...
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Emoji Based Targeting
Not unexpected, but how well will it work compared to broader prediction?Twitter Introduces Emoji-Based TargetingIt's Exactly What You Think It Is By George...
From insideHPC
Allinea Programming Tools Release for Intel Xeon Phi Processor
"Our latest product enhancements will solidify our customers’ investment in the next generation Intel Xeon Phi processor," said Mark O'Connor, VP Product Management...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing adds Intel Xeon Phi Processors to Tundra Supercomputers
Penguin Computing, a provider of high performance, enterprise data center and cloud solutions, announced its transition from pre-production deployments last year...
From Computational Complexity
STOC 2016
I attended the 2016 STOC Conference earlier this week in Cambridge, Massachusetts. No shortage of awesome results highlighted by László Babai's new quasipolynomial...
From Schneier on Security
Comparing Messaging Apps
Michah Lee has a nice comparison among Signal, WhatsApp, and Allo. In this article, I'm going to compare WhatsApp, Signal, and Allo from a privacy perspective....
From insideHPC
Latest Irish Supercomputer List Reflects Growing Capabilities
"The June 2016 Irish Supercomputer List represents a seismic shake-up in the Irish HPC landscape. After a 2015 that saw only three new machines, the list has experienced...
From insideHPC
DDN Powers Medical Breakthroughs at Children’s Mercy Kansas City
With DDN’s high-performance GRIDScaler platform, Children’s Mercy can scale up or out to handle massive data ingest, processing, storage and collaboration. NotDDN...
From insideHPC
Programming Many Tasks for Many Cores
"Tasks keep the CPUs busy. When a core is working, rather than waiting for work to be sent to it, the application progresses towards it conclusion. A caveat toProgramming...
From insideHPC
Video: Rolling Out the New Intel Xeon Phi Processor at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Barry Davis from Intel describes the company's brand new Intel Xeon Phi Processor and how it fits into the Intel Scalable System Framework...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI Primer. What do we think it is Today?
Good primer in a talk AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: – in Andreessen Horowitz" .... Things are clearly progressing rapidly when it comes to machine...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do We Teach Design for Everyone?
Summer is a time for me to think about how I want to teach better in the next school year. I’m always looking for ideas about this and recently came across this...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog