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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 Computational Complexity
Math lessons from the Donald Trump Nomination (non-political)
There may be articles titled Donald Trump and the Failure of Democracy. This is NOT one of them. This is about some math questions. I drew upon many sources but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Home Vacuum
In Spectrum IEEE: Extensive technical and practical review of the Neato Botvac. A robotic vacuuming solution for the home. We studied how narrowly focused robotics...
From insideHPC
Video: Enabling High-Performance Storage on OpenPOWER Systems
In this video from the 2016 OpenPOWER Summit, Stephen Bates of Microsemi presents: Enabling high-performance storage on OpenPOWER Systems. "Non-Volatile MemoryVideo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Accurate Translation with AI
In CACM: Teaching computers better translation with AI methods. " ... It is currently possible to translate words with high rates of accuracy via Google Translate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Proximus Retail Analysis
Brought to my attention: Proximus. Acquire. Analyse. Improve.Real-time insightsOur unique technology tracks every single customer in-store to an accuracy of 1...
From insideHPC
Teratec Forum to Put Spotlight on Big Data & HPC
The TERATEC Forum has posted their agenda for their 11th annual meeting. The event takes place June 28-29 in Palaiseau, France. "TERATEC brings together top international...
From insideHPC
Michael Feldman Joins TOP500.org as Managing Editor
Today the ISC Group, promoter of the TOP500 list, is pleased to announce the appointment of high performance computing industry journalist Michael Feldman to the...
From Phys.org Technology News
Phones at the dinner table: Study explores attitudes
Checking email for work. Posting a photo to Facebook. Texting the kids to come downstairs. Sending a quick snap to a friend. People of all ages might use their...
From insideHPC
MarsFS – A Near-POSIX Namespace Leveraging Scalable Object Storage
David Bonnie from LANL presented this talk at the 2016 MSST Conference. "As we continue to scale system memory footprint, it becomes more and more challenging to...
From insideHPC
Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre* Software—High-performance File System
Intel has been working on a new HPC design philosophy for HPC systems called Intel® Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF), an approach designed to enable sustained...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
West Big Data Hub All Hands Meeting
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has launched a program on Industry-Academic Collaboration through the Big Data Regional Hubs. The West Big Data Hub, is...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Copying Code–Steal from the Best
Not every coding mistake makes it into the news but one did recently which carries a cautionary message for students (and others who code.) Nissan app developer...
From Schneier on Security
Children of Spies
Fascinating story of Tim and Alex Foley, the children of Russian spies Donald Heathfield and Tracey Foley....
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Patient Will see You Now
In MIT Sloan:Digital technology empowers patients to set their own course of care." .... Digital technology is empowering patients to participate in developing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Support Vector Machines
On support vector machines. Often for classification. An overview. Somewhat technical." ... Support Vector Machines are perhaps one of the most popular and talked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human Perception and Data Visualization
A look at what we know about the topic. In Medium. Research and art. Nice outline of what we think we know and where to find out more ..." ... There is visualization...
From insideHPC
ACM Awards 2016 Gödel Prize to Inventors of Concurrent Separation Logic
Today the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and the European Association for Theoretical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Revealed on Virtual Assistant Viv
Viv, from Siri's creators, is the virtual assistant of your dreamsIt's one step closer to giving us the AI from "Her."Siri made the world aware of the potential...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenging Metrics
Challenging metrics, usually a good thing to do, even in a thought experiment. In Adage: Why Google's 'Time Spent' Metric May Not Be the Best MeasureMarketers...
From Schneier on Security