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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
Biases in High Stakes Decision Making
Talk today on a favorite topic: Cognitive Bias. I will post links to presentation afterwards:" ... Just a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Group...
From insideHPC
Prefetching Data for Intel Xeon Phi
"Prefetching on a coprocessor such as the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor can be more important than on a main CPU such as the Intel Xeon CPUs. Since the cores on the...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Joins Nutanix Alliance for Enterprise Infrastructure
Today Mellanox announced that it has joined the Nutanix Elevate Technology Alliance Program to provide a simple to use and fully converged solution for compute,...
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A Game Called "Professor"
I first wrote this as a Facebook post and am reposting it here so it's easier to find. I have been playing a game called "Professor." Still learning the rules,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making AI more Human
This direction makes sense, have not looked at the details yet. In TechRepublic: Towards more human Watson APIs . That's good " ... IBM Watson, Big Blue's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business is as Valuable as Your Customers
In K@W: Some useful, perhaps obvious thoughts here. As I always say, stay closer to the business." .... Many businesses will say that their customers are their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Urban Stores
In WCPO: Would think there would be more opportunities to make smaller footprint urban stores more profitable with smart interactions with the consumer.
From Computational Complexity
Primary Game Theory
[Nominations open for the SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize. Deadline: April 1] The US presidential primaries have not gone as expected as you can see from the...
From Schneier on Security
The Importance of Strong Encryption to Security
Encryption keeps you safe. Encryption protects your financial details and passwords when you bank online. It protects your cell phone conversations from eavesdroppers...
From Putting People First
Patients know best: Qualitative study on how families use patient-controlled personal health records
Patients Know Best: Qualitative Study on How Families Use Patient-Controlled Personal Health By Hanna Schneider, Susan Hill, and Ann Blandford Journal of Medical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Powering Aircraft Systems
From the Bike Shop: Smart Power:" .... In addition to optimizing performance, efficiency and reliability in aircraft power systems, “GE Aviation is taking onTo...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computational Thinking — What does it mean to you?
How do you integrate computational thinking (CT) concepts and strategies into your teaching? Have you heard your colleagues talk about it and wondered if they have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NBC Programmatic Selling
I am following the widening thread here here. Recall my mention of our work in this area, see the tag below. Don't know exactly what analytics are being doneIn...
From Apophenia
What is the Value of a Bot?
Bots are tools, designed by people and organizations to automate processes and enable them to do something technically, socially, politically, or economically....
From insideHPC
Video: The Road to the Sierra/Coral Supercomputer
"As it readies for Sierra, a new IBM-based platform, LLNL is not only defining the metrics as it paves the road to Coral, it is taking the first giant steps onVideo...
From insideHPC
TUM Munich Researchers Develop Nanolasers for Silicon Photonics
Scientists have developed a process to deposit nano-lasers directly onto silicon chips, paving the way for fast and efficient data processing using silicon photonics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Think More about the Causality
Nicely done, and for the method I often give for driving value in analytics, bring your business reasoning closer to the analytics. Its the business that is of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nokia's Cognitive Services Platform
Been looking at how 'cognitive' can be integrated with services in platforms. Here is an example from Nokia: " ... Our Nokia AVA cognitive services platform delivers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Push on Wearables in the Enterprise
Push for wearables in the enterprise. Mostly watches it seems, which are not much different than smartphone devices. Devices that engage more deliberately...
From The Eponymous Pickle