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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
Watson Analytics for Superbowl Front Office Data Analysis
Good, fairly simple example of the automation of analytics. Here using Watson analytics. With commonly used exploratory goals. Explore it for freeIn Business...
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K Nearest Neighbor Using Python
Good instructional piece for a common kind of machine learning. Clustering. Easier to do in R, but the comparison is also very useful. In DSC: K-nearest neighbor...
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Beyond Automation
Talk today by Tom Davenport: In particular how can we look at the current influence of fognitive/AI in the workplace? ... “Beyond Automation: Smart Machines +,...
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Model Discovery, Process Mining with Fluxicon
This software, Fluxicon Disco, was new to me. Described in KDNuggets. I recall doing something similar in R, but this appears to cover the whole realm of process...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Request
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France A. Córdova outlined President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2017 budget request to Congress for NSF. The FY17 request...
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Crowdoscope from Unilever
Of interest is the involvement of the CPG giant Unilever. A data source, likely linked to real time analytics.Crowdoscope – a breakthrough survey and discussion...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Beyond the PC toward virtual and augmented reality
PC sales have entered a slow decline. Today, you can literally work on your Microsoft Office documents no matter where you are, no matter what computing deviceContinue...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: International Workshop on Performance-Portable Programming Models for Accelerators
The first annual International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators has issued its Call for Papers. Known as P^3MA, the workshop...
From Schneier on Security
Worldwide Encryption Products Survey
Today I released my worldwide survey of encryption products. The findings of this survey identified 619 entities that sell encryption products. Of those 412, or...
From insideHPC
Creating an Exascale Ecosystem Under the NSCI Banner
“We expect NCSI to run for the next two decades. It’s a bit audacious to start a 20 year project in the last 18 months of an administration, but one of the things...
From insideHPC
UW Projects Awarded 42 Million Core Hours on Yellowstone Supercomputer
"A new supercomputer, dubbed Cheyenne, is expected to be operational at the beginning of 2017. The new high-performance computer will be a 5.34-petaflop system,...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Molly Rector from DDN on the Changing Face of HPC Storage
In this Graybeards Podcast, Molly Rector from DDN describes how HPC storage technologies are mainstreaming into the enterprise space. "In HPC there are 1000s of...
From insideHPC
MultiLevel Parallelism with Intel Xeon Phi
"The combination of using both MPI and OpenMP is a topic that has been explored by many developers in order to determine the most optimum solution. Whether to use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stories can be Dangerous
Have been always intrigued by storytelling, establishing a narrative, as a powerful way to convince, to advertise, to market. It also a way to convert your analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kognit for Mixed Reality
Brought to my attention, understanding the limits of cognition and how it can be augmented with accessory augmentation. Note the use of the term: 'Mixed Reality'...
From Computational Complexity
Test of Time Award- a good idea but...
The ESA Conference (European Symposium on Algorithms) has a test-of-time award which recognizes outstanding papers in algorithms research that were published in...
From Schneier on Security
Make Privacy a 2016 Election Issue
EPIC has just launched "Data Protection 2016" to try to make privacy an issue in this year's elections. You can buy swag....
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
First Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing (CAN-CWIC)
For the first time ever, I attended a women-in-computing conference with absolutely no student affiliation whatsoever (I recently de-registered from my PhD forCanadian...
From Schneier on Security
AT&T Does Not Care about Your Privacy
AT&T's CEO believes that the company should not offer robust security to its customers: But tech company leaders aren't all joining the fight against the deliberate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson