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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 Geeking with Greg
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A tightly curated list of what I enjoyed in the news recently: Bezos: "Every single important thing we’ve done has taken a lot of risk, risk-taking, perseverance...
From Putting People First
Design fiction as a strategy for engaging with dystopian futures
The limits of our imagination: design fiction as a strategy for engaging with dystopian futures By Joshua Tanenbaum, Marcel Pufal and Karen Tanenbaum (UC Irvine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Delivers Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Ads
A new automation play in the works with a number of participants. Note also the natural language and voice interaction components. New channels of automatedWeather...
From insideHPC
Stampede 2 Supercomputer at TACC to Sport 18 Petaflops
Over at the Dell HPC Community, Jim Ganthier writes that TACC is planning to deploy its 18 Petflop Stampede 2 supercomputer based on Dell servers running IntelStampede...
From insideHPC
Singularity 2.0 Software
Today LBNL released version 2.0 of its innovative Singularity container software. Mobility of Compute is the encapsulation of an environment in such a manner to...
From insideHPC
Interview: Ken Claffey on Seagate HPC Innovation On Deck at ISC 2016
"One of the benefits of our ClusterStor modular architecture is its flexibility - we can deliver a very comparable performance with either Lustre or Spectrum Scale...
From insideHPC
Platform Rebrands as IBM Spectrum Computing with Focus on HPDA
Today expanded its portfolio of software-defined infrastructure solutions with cognitive features to help clients improve the management of computing resourcesPlatform...
From insideHPC
Data Layout for High Performance
For maximum performance, data needs to flow into and out of the vectorization units. There are a few things to remember regarding laying out the data to gain high...
From Computational Complexity
CCC 2016
Earlier this week I attended the 31st Computational Complexity Conference in Tokyo. I've been to thirty of these meetings, missing only the 2012 conference in Porto...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Automation Animation
Marketing automation defined in a 60 second animation. Well done, but simplistic and fairly obvious. Still a good starting point for thinking about automation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alteryx and Tableau Guide
Used Tableau for years in the enterprise, mostly known for data visualization. here a 'definitive guide' for using it with Alteryx, which is known for data preparation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
True Omnichannel Retailing
Amazon being Omnichannel. In Retailwire. Discussion prompted by Amazon recently opening physical locations. Of course one way to look at this is the scale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wages and Jobs, a Future with More Robotics
Consider the interaction between, wages, jobs and getting things done. Starting to see more robotics in kiosks to replace labor in additional contexts. Implications...
From Schneier on Security
Stealth Falcon: New Malware from (Probably) the UAE
Citizen Lab has the details: This report describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried out by a sophisticated operator, which we call Stealth Falcon....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Celebrate European Maker Week 30 May – 5 June 2016
This week is the inaugural European Maker Week with celebrations and events across Europe. The week is an initiative promoted by the European Commission to engage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Disturbing Loss of Linkedin Security Most of You Should Still Care About
A few days ago I got a message from Linkedin. You know them, the near-monopoly of professional credential information for many millions of people? They saidmy...
From My Biased Coin
STOC 2017 (and STOC 2016)
I'm starting to get asked about STOC 2017 dates -- we recently executed the hotel contract, and STOC will be June 18-23 in Montreal. (It will really "start" the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence...
From insideHPC