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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 insideHPC
OCF Staffs Up Largest HPC Delivery Team in the UK
OCF in the UK reports that the company continues to expand its operations. The high performance computing integrator is recruiting a number of new staff to meet...
From insideHPC
Learnings from Operating 200 PB of Disk-Based Storage
Gleb Budman from Backblaze presented this talk at the 2016 MSST Conference. "For Q1 2016 we are reporting on 61,590 operational hard drives used to store encrypted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tango Mapping Phone Hands on
In Engadget: Mapping interior spaces.Up close and Personal with the First Tango phoneLenovo's Phab2 Pro has a lousy name, but Google's 3D mapping technology could...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Trippy VR Experiment
Google and their deep dream experiment." ... Google's latest VR experiment involves feeding footage captured by its 360-degree camera rig through the DeepDream...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Freight Forwarding via Flexport
Addressing the opportunity in outwardly boring businesses. Good overview." .... To get the best deal on each leg of the journey and handle the hand-offs through...
From Putting People First
Reflecting on the Enterprise UX conference
Anthropologist and UX professional Natalie Hanson attended the Enterprise UX conference in San Antonio, Texas this week. The conference is dedicated to delivering...
From Putting People First
Time for big anthropology
“Big data” is one of the most promising developments in health care in a decade. Yet, writes Dan Beckham, they too often breed myopic overconfidence. “The numbers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Because Students Like It
Code.org posted this image of the class students like the most on their blog. The full survey data is on slide 48 of this PowerPoint from the researchers who did...
From insideHPC
Video: Speeding Up Code with the Intel Distribution for Python
David Bolton from Slashdot shows how ‘embarrassingly parallel’ code can be sped up over 2000x (not percent) by utilizing Intel tools including the Intel PythonVideo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Siri Playing Catch up
Siri was the first general assistant of its kind, but despite the fact that I have had it at my fingertips for a long time, I find myself using it less. My take...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Associate Director for Computation at Livermore
Lawrence Livermore National Lab is seeking an Associate Director for Computation in our Job of the Week. LLNL seeks to fill the position of Associate Director (AD)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getty Images Adapts to VR
An indication of seriousness, business adapts to needs. Here we are starting to build libraries of virtual reality content.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buiding Morality into Machines
Remember when this was discussed during the last emergence of smart machines. The problem has not gone away. Good detailed piece with a number of useful case...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Beautiful Squid Sculpture
Two years ago, I posted a photograph of a beautiful giant bronze squid sculpture by Kirk McGuire. He has a new sculpture: a squid table base. it's also beautiful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Project CargoChain
[Notes]http://readwrite.com/2016/06/10/blockchain-and-iot-can-solve-the-challenges-of-international-freight-pl1/
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain and IOT in the Supply Chain
In Readwrite:Can the blockchain and IoT solve international freight’s issues?It’s become well established that the blockchain has an almost infinite range of functional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where to Look for the Next Big Thing
In Innovation Excellence: I like this because it combines art and science. " ... Great innovators are not just smart, they are curious. They are rarely purists...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Congressional Briefing Marks the Fifth Anniversary of the National Robotics Initiative
In celebration of the fifth anniversary of the National Robotics Initiative (NRI), the Congressional Robotics Caucus Advisory Committee including IEEE-USA, Computing...
From Schneier on Security
Financial Cyber Risk Is Not Systemic Risk
This interesting essay argues that financial risks are generally not systemic risks, and instead are generally much smaller. That's certainly been our experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle