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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 Schneier on Security
Reddit's Warrant Canary Just Died
Reddit has received a National Security Letter. I have long discounted warrant canaries. A gag order is serious, and this sort of high-school trick won't fool judges...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots as the Path Forward
Out of this weeks developer conference, some more useful thoughts. We saw this early, but did not have the sensor or AI capabilities to make it work. But areWhy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Caution with False Patterns
A favorite topic of mine, and a nice piece on caution about finding patterns in data. Our brains are wired to find patterns, for survival and efficiency. Worth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Dot Throughout the Home
A clever short ad about the Amazon Dot, the new cheaper mini version of the Amazon Echo virtual assistant and smart home enabler. Just released this week. Have...
From Putting People First
Financial Times: the inflation enigma requires ethnographic analysis
Gillian Tett is the Financial Times’ US Managing Editor, a very frequent writer, and an anthropologist. Her column this week unconventionally argues for on-the-ground...
From Putting People First
Two appealing books by designer Robert Curedale
This morning we received two books by designer Robert Curedale (who seems to be an extremely productive writer): Comprehensive step-by-step Guide to Experience...
From insideHPC
TYAN to Showcase 4U, 4x GPU Platform at GTC 2016
The FT76-B7922 is the first multi-purpose server platform that simultaneously supports scale-up (fat node) and scale-out (many-core CPU node). With 1:1 CPU to GPU...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Primes Strike Again
And lead to new kinds of cheating and ideas for our field src Faadosly Polir is the older brother of Lofa Polir. He is now working as a full time investigative...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
International Conference on Software Engineering 2016
The 38th International Conference on Software Engineering 2016 (ICSE) — the premier conference in software engineering sponsored by ACM and IEEE CS — is coming...
From insideHPC
NNSA Unleashes Advanced Computing Capabilities to Serve Researchers at Three National Labs
NNSA's next-generation Penguin Computing clusters based on Intel SSF are bolstering “capacity” computing capability at the Tri Labs. "With CTS1 installed in April...
From insideHPC
INCITE Seeking Proposals to Advance Science with Leadership Computing
The DoE INCITE program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering and computer...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Elections in Latin America
Long and interesting article about a fixer who hacked multiple elections in Latin America. This isn't election hacking as in manipulate the voting machines or the...
From insideHPC
Creating the Largest Map of the Universe with the New AMD FirePro S9300 x2 Server GPU
Researchers at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) will harness AMD FirePro S9300 x2 Server GPUs to analyze extraordinary amounts of data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Quantum Computing Discovery
The search continues.This New Discovery Could Put Quantum Computers Within Closer ReachResearchers at Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory...
From insideHPC
Exxact to Showcase HPC Hardware at the GPU Technology Conference
Today Exxact Corporation, a leading provider of high performance computing solutions and professional workstation graphics, announced that the company will showcase...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Encouraging Innovation
Broadly, make it happen in a number of ways. Here in Innovation Excellence, music is used as a metaphor.
From Computational Complexity
The Machine Learning Turk
Google's AlphaGo took the world by storm when it won its match with Lee Sedol but Demis Hassabis now acknowledges the dark truth. Google wanted to promote its cloud...
From Putting People First
Five cognitive biases to avoid in user research
Fabio Pereira of Australia’s Digital Transformation Office (DTO) explains why we need to be aware of our own biases and how they can affect user research (or “Discovery”...
From Putting People First
Should financial advisors nudge their clients?
Should advisors nudge clients to make prudent saving and spending decisions, asks Morey Stettner in Investor’s Business Daily. Or should they step aside after educating...
From The Eponymous Pickle