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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Encounters with HCI pioneers: a personal photo journal
The following is a guest blog post by Beth Mynatt, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Vice Chair and professor of Interactive Computing and the executive director...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Moments for Online Purchasing
Good think with Google piece. More statistics about key micro moments.30% of all online purchases now occur on Mobile Phones.Mobile Retail Apps and Sites: Designing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco on the Digital Company
Talk by John Chambers of Cisco: How significant is the digital era? It’s the biggest technology transition in history, according to Cisco’s executive chairman—and...
From The Noisy Channel
Technology Can Help Us Collaborate
In my previous post, I argued that collaboration isn’t purely — or even primarily — a technical challenge.Continue reading on Medium »
From insideHPC
Nominations Open for PRACE Ada Lovelace HPC Award
Nominations are now open for the PRACE Ada Lovelace HPC Award. The new award recognizes woman who are making an outstanding contributions to HPC in Europe. TheNominations...
From insideHPC
Industry Shifts to Open Infrastructure as OpenPOWER Foundation Gains Momentum
Calista Redmond from IBM presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as an open technical membership organization...
From insideHPC
Techila & Google Bringing on-demand HPC to Every Desk
"The Techila user experience available in Google Cloud Launcher revolutionizes simulation and analysis. Techila’s patented end-to-end solution integrates the scalable...
From Putting People First
Ford’s quest to remake itself into a master of UX
Ford, bastion of the old-school American economy, is now trying to recast itself as a company built around user experience. It’s finally trying to see its carsFord’s...
From Schneier on Security
Brennan Center Report on NSA Overseas Spying and Executive Order 12333
The Brennan Center has released a report on EO 12333, the executive order that regulates the NSA's overseas surveillance. Much of what the NSA does here is secret...
From insideHPC
Learn the Latest Cognitive and Big Data Tools at the Hartree Hack
The STFC Hartree Centre in the UK will host a Hackathon for coders, developers, designers, entrepreneurs and start-ups in May. The event will take place May 18-20...
From insideHPC
Video: Welcome to HPC in Switzerland
Michele de Lorenzi from the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre presented this talk at the 2016 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference. "Founded in 1991,Video...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 March 2016
It’s Spring! And as I work on this Sunday afternoon I am wondering if we will have enough snow to cancel school tomorrow. I’m thinking we will not but it’s still...
From Computational Complexity
Hillary Putnam passed away on March 13
Hillary Putnam passed away on March 13, 2016. Some of the obits say he was a philosopher, mathematician, logician, and computer scientist. He is probably best...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pluto and its Moons Influence our World of Data
This blog isn't about astronomy, but it is my background, and just this week, new papers and remarkable images regarding Pluto and its Moons. We can now see so...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Analytics Driving Grocery
Interesting view of Grocery and Big Data. The complexity of grocery and its data, driving the utilization of the aisle.Consumer buying behavior: How grocery stores...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Capital One is on the Echo
Music, Shopping lists, Trivia. Simple Games. All entertainment interactions. But now Capital One is on the Amazon Echo. Quite an interesting uptick on the seriousness...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Service Data Preparation
Watson linking to Cognos. And note too the link to data preparation, often a messy issue.New! Self-service Data Preparation Tool for Watson Analytics and Cognos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need a Smart Home Air Freshener?
Brought to my attention. Note the ability to link to smart home hub. How much consumer interest will there be? Novelty vs value? Another leveraging of Febreze...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Faster Machine Unlearning
In the CACM: " ... Researchers at Lehigh and Columbia University have developed a machine-learning method that involves making such systems forget the data's "lineage"...
From The Eponymous Pickle