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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
Blockchain Technology Spreading
Not new, but Notably in some unexpected areas.From fine wine to lotteries: Blockchain tech takes offBy Mark Smith Technology of Business reporterImagine a world...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automatic Programming for Swarm Robotics
Interesting thoughts, how do you give multiple robots cooperative goals? In CACM:An automated programming method previously used in manufacturing could make swarm...
From XRDS
Quick introduction to field experiments in usability and user experience
Introduction This entry tries to be a very short guide on how to perform field experiments for usability and user experience. Fields experiments is reported toContinue...
From Phys.org Technology News
US company to sell smartphone-shaped gun
Americans will soon be able to buy a smartphone-shaped gun that can hold two bullets and easily slip into a pocket.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic, Cognitive and Perceptual Computing
via Amit ShethLexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar & Exec. Dir., Kno.e.sisA golden trio of computing paradigms to building more intelligent systems of tomorrow .... ...
From Schneier on Security
A 1976 Congressional Report on Surveillance
Here's a 1,300-page Congressional report on "surveillance technology" from 1976....
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Looks at Digital Marketing
An interview. We worked with Marc Pritchard. He 'grew up' with the emergence of digital marketing, so his thoughts are interesting to follow. In Adage:WhereAhead...
From insideHPC
Video: Best Practices – Applications Performance Optimizations
Pak Lui from the HPC Advisory Council presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "To achieve good scalability performance on the HPC scientific applications...
From insideHPC
Podcast: For Data Network Effects, the Cool Stuff Only Happens at Scale
In this a16z Podcast, Vijay Pande and Alex Rampell share their observations and advice on all things data network effects. "If network effects are one of the most...
From insideHPC
Gary Grider from LANL to Keynote OpenFabrics Workshop
Gary Grider from Los Alamos National Laboratory will keynote the 2016 OpenFabrics Workshop this year with a talk on HPC Storage and IO Trends and Workflows. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at Target's Future Lab
Continue to be a student of spaces devoted to innovation. See my tag links below for years of looking into the space, including a decade plus of my work in CPG...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
South Big Data Hub Summer 2016 Opportunities
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has launched a program on Industry-Academic Collaboration through the Big Data Regional Hubs. The South Hub, which is coordinated...
From insideHPC
Bo Ewald Presents: The Quantum Effect – HPC Without FLOPS
Bo Ewald from D-Wave Systems presented this deck at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference. "This talk will provide an introduction to quantum computing...
From insideHPC
IBM Partners with University of Aberdeen to Drive Cognitive Computing
The University of Aberdeen has become the first Scottish university to partner with IBM to offer students and staff access to its cognitive computing technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Companies Promoting their Master Brand
Reminds me of discussions occurring in big marketing driven enterprises. How does this ultimately successfully drive loyalty that can create company wide engagement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wozniak Plauds the Echo and Voice
In the Business Insider: Apple founder Steve Wozniak loves the Amazon Echo, a smart speaker that users can talk to.In an interview with CNBC that aired Friday,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Truth in Film Visualized
In InformationisBeautiful: An interesting view of film truth versus fiction, visualized in a time line. I took a look at the Turing biopic example 'The Imitation...
From Schneier on Security
Power on the Internet
Interesting paper: Yochai Benkler, "Degrees of Freedom, Dimensions of Power," Daedelus, winter 2016: Abstract: The original Internet design combined technical,...
From Computational Complexity
MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi on David Johnson
More than a week ago, I heard the very sad news that David Johnson has passed away after one year fight with cancer. I felt that I should write a memorial note...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson