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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
Watson Driverless Bus
A intriguing combination of Technical trends. Augmenting ...Olli is an IBM Watson-powered driverless electric bus. At least you can ask where you are going ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Black Swans and the Price of Oil
All systems that predict future states need to predict future related context. Black swans and barrels: How to think about the future of oil pricesNo one can be...
From Schneier on Security
Apple's Differential Privacy
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this week, Apple talked about something called "differential privacy." We know very little about the details...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Process Maps for Supply Chain Applications
From my former colleague, via YourEncore:Process Maps: Turn-by-Turn Directions That Lead to Supply Chain OptimizationPosted by Bob WestonLast week, Dennis Trchka...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Siri Opens to Third Party Developers
Saw this annoncement. A near requirement after Echo moved in this space. Depends too on precisely what 'open source' means here. How narrowly is the API...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Buys Wand Labs
More movement toward conversations, bot style, AI. Read my Bots tag below for some of our experience in this space. Bots have an element of 'cognitive' in the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Growing Up Leadership
I sat in a small conference room in the summer of 2009 with several other CS teachers from around the US. CSTA brought us all there for advocacy leadership training...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Using Instacart to Test and Learn
In Retailwire:" ... Unilever is one of dozens of CPG partners finding Instacart to be more effective in certain ways when promoting their brands than traditional...
From insideHPC
Helping the Compiler Speed Intel Xeon Phi
The vector parallel capabilities of the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor are similar in many ways with vectorizing code for the main CPU. The performance improvementHelping...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and LinkedIn
Twit podcast on the motivations of Microsoft acquiring Linkedin. Useful thought piece. Mention of Office Graph. Privacy implications. Continuing to follow....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rodney Brooks on AI
Famed robotics innovator, we linked with for home applications with IRobot, talks AI and related robotics." .... On how far along artificial intelligence actually...
From insideHPC
SC16 General Chair John West on Moving the HPC Community Forward
For SC16, we’re beginning a three-year thrust that will expand state-of-the-practice discussions with content throughout the conference tracks that emphasizes the...
From insideHPC
Asetek to Showcase Liquid Cooling at ISC 2016
Asetek will highlight its liquid cooling solutions and successful installations at ISC 2016 next week in Frankfurt. For the first time, Asetek will be displaying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: Algorithms to Live by
Interesting idea, not read yet, but having worked with many algorithms and I think we are a considerable way from doing this ..... But we are working with business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Sketches to Artistic Images
I recall this being proposed for generating advertising or architecture art images from sketches. It is an example of providing artistic imagery skill to nonIn...
From insideHPC
NAG Optimizes C and C++ Algorithms for ARM-based Cavium ThunderX Processors
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) has engineered NAG C Library algorithms to execute efficiently on Cavium ThunderX ARMv8-A based Workload Optimized Processors...
From insideHPC
Simulations of Hydrogen Ingestion Flashes in Giant Stars
"My team at the University of Minnesota has been collaborating with the team of Falk Herwig at the University of Victoria to simulate brief events in the livesSimulations...
From Computational Complexity
Karp v Wigderson 20 Years Later
The 48th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing starts this weekend in Boston. Let's go back twenty years to the 28th STOC, part of the second Federated Computing...
From insideHPC
OpenHPC Establishes Leadership & Releases Initial Software Stack
Today the Linux Foundation announced a set of technical, leadership and member investment milestones for OpenHPC, a Linux Foundation project to develop an openOpenHPC...
From insideHPC