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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
German Manufacturing Revolution
In the HBR:" ... Germany’s automakers, auto suppliers, machinery companies, and machine tool builders have long been considered the world’s leaders in manufacturing...
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Rescale HPC Cloud to Foster Return of Supersonic Travel
Denver-based Boom Technology is leveraging Rescale’s cloud-based simulation and optimization system to enable a rebirth of supersonic passenger travel. "Rescale...
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Urban Intelligence
A system called Placemeter takes as input video feeds and analyzes images to determine what is going on outside your doors. Possible retail measures? Video ...
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Mellanox Introduces BlueField SoC Programmable Processors
Today Mellanox announced the BlueField family of programmable processors for networking and storage applications. "As a networking offload co-processor, BlueField...
From XRDS
Presentation smells: How not to prepare your conference presentation
Recently, I was in Austin, Texas to attend ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering) and MSR (Mining Software Repositories) conferences. The authors...
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Call for Participation: ISAV2016 Workshop at SC16
The ISAV2016 Workshop has issued it Call for Participation. Held at SC16 in cooperation with with SIGHPC, the In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT Failure Prediction
Attended this webinar of interest, with a largely nontechnical approach, other parts will follow: " Industrial IoT and Failure Prediction on event signals | Part...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Adds Persistent Memory to Server Portfolio
"As the industry’s leading server vendor, HPE is committed to bringing new infrastructure innovations to the market that enable organizations to derive more value...
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Interview: Women in HPC to Host Special Events at ISC 2016
This week, the Women in HPC organization announced a series of special events coming up at ISC 2016. To learn more, we caught up with WHPC Director Dr. Toni Collis...
From Phys.org Technology News
Is photoshopping science universally wrong?
"Photoshop should be banned from every scientific research institution".
From The Eponymous Pickle
Helping Humans Work Better with Smart Machines
Useful thoughts, because we will have to deal with increasingly smarter machines.How to Help Humans work Better with Smart Machinesby Thomas H Davenport, It’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curriculum for Cognitive Science
Fascinating new discussion I am participating in is underway. Follow along. Will pass along excerpts here.A New “Science of Cognitive Computing” CurriculumPosted...
From XRDS
My Diary on the “The Hour of Code”
So what is Hour of Code? The Hour of Code is a global movement with an one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code, showing that anybody...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Giving your Assistant a Personality
How much personality does a virtual assistant need to get acceptance from the public? At what point is it entertainment, engagement .. even trust? Usually'Google...
From Schneier on Security
The Fallibility of DNA Evidence
This is a good summary article on the fallibility of DNA evidence. Most interesting to me are the parts on the proprietary algorithms used in DNA matching: William...
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for Exacom 2016 – Communication Architectures at Extreme Scale
The International Workshop on Communication Architectures at Extreme Scale has published its Advance Agenda. Now in its second year, Exacom 2016 will be held in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will A Robot Be Your Boss?
Inevitably. Maybe not your next boss. But soon. Also depends upon the definition of boss and robot ... but machine learning systems will be tracking what is...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Frontiers Lecture: World-Scale Personalized Learning Through Crowdsourcing and Algorithms
The Office of the Associate Director for Data Science at the National Institute of Health (NIH) invites you to attend World-Scale Personalized Learning Through...
From The Noisy Channel
False positives suck, of course.
If you ignore the bigrams, then most of your results are irrelevant. Boost bigram matches a little bit? Then you still have a lot of…Continue reading on Medium...
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