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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
Wi-Next and Advanced Analytics
I recently attended a webinar from Wi-Next. This is a natural next step. Process control is an area we first experimented with rule based AI systemsIBM will bring...
From Schneier on Security
Memphis Airport Inadvertently Gets Security Right
A local newspaper recently tested airport security at Memphis Airport: Our crew sat for 30 minutes in the passenger drop-off area Tuesday without a word from anyone...
From insideHPC
Improving Storm Forecasts with the Stampede Supercomputer
Performing experimental weather forecasts using the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, researchers have gained a better understanding...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Previews the GPU Technology Conference
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the GPU Technology Conference coming up April 4-7 in Silicon Valley. "GTC is the largest and most important event...
From insideHPC
Video: Protecting Your Data, Protecting Your Hardware
"Thanks to the arrival of SSDs, the performance of storage systems can be boosted by orders of magnitude. While a considerable amount of software engineering has...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Declarative programming is a dead-end for the lowly programmer
Most programmers focus on software execution. We want to understand what the computer is actually doing. Java, C, JavaScript, PHP, Python… all these languages make...
From insideHPC
OpenACC Building Momentum going into GTC
Today the OpenACC standards group continues announced a set of additional hackathons and a broad range of learning opportunities taking place during the upcoming...
From Schneier on Security
Interesting Lottery Terminal Hack
It was a manipulation of the terminals. The 5 Card Cash game was suspended in November after Connecticut Lottery and state Department of Consumer Protection officials...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Intelligent Crowdsourcing
Always thought there would be value in intelligently directing a crowdsourcing effort. Our own experiments showed it was difficult to manage. The below appears...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Sonification
Using sound to detect patterns in data. Never got this idea to work in practice, but others have. Under certain circumstances our ears can discern patterns better...
From The Noisy Channel
Hand-coded rules won’t scale.
But a bit of QA would go a long way. And we should all know better than to set an unsupervised bot free on Twitter.Continue reading on Medium »
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Lessons From Two Artificial Intelligences
Artificial Intelligence has been in the news. Last week Google got a lot of great press with some AI software that learned how to play the ancient game of Go. (...
From Schneier on Security
FBI vs. Apple: Who Is Helping the FBI?
On Monday, the FBI asked the court for a two-week delay in a scheduled hearing on the San Bernardino iPhone case, because some "third party" approached it with...
From The Noisy Channel
Our AI Children Need Supervision
Reading about Microsoft’s misadventures with it’s “Tay” chatbot, I immediately remembered a similar incident several years ago.Continue reading on Medium »
From Computational Complexity
Complexity versus Complexity
For those interested, I've started writing posts for the Predictwise Blog. Predictwise makes predictions of future events such as who will win the Republican Nomination...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Building Amazon Echo Rival?
Been involved in examination of the voice channel in the enterprise and smart home for some time now. The Amazon Echo has received much attention, but is Google...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Just How Smart are Smart Machines?
Very good piece from some of our communications with MT Sloan. Read the whole thing. May require some registration. Again, very non technical, management approach...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Affordable Technology to Mitigate Hearing Loss
Contributions to this post were made by Elizabeth Mynatt, CCC Vice Chair and Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech. Dr....
From insideHPC
Video: The State of Linux Containers
"With Docker v1.9 a new networking system was introduced, which allows multi-host network- ing to work out-of-the-box in any Docker environment. This talk provides...
From The Eponymous Pickle