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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
A Look at Less well Known Visual Tools
Visualization is a key way to understand your data. I believe it is the key first step to any analytics problem. Here a look at a number of tools, many of which...
From insideHPC
SURFsara in the Netherlands Upgrades Bull Supercomputer to 1.8 Petaflops
Today SURFsara in the Netherlands announced it will expand the capacity of their Cartesius national supercomputer in the second half of 2016. With an upgrade to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Showing Computers a Better Way to Learn
Interesting view. Still think there is a big gap understanding the hardware, software and algorithms used by the brain. Yet this is a good first step, accurately...
From insideHPC
HPE to Deliver SGI UV Technology for Mission Critical Solutions
Today, SGI and Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced an agreement in which HPE will OEM the SGI UV technology as the foundation for an 8-socket system – the HPEHPE...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power of How to Videos
Google on how to videos, pitching YouTube, with as always, interesting stats. I remember the family using a 'how to tie a necktie' in the early days of the Web...
From Schneier on Security
Large-Scale FBI Hacking
As part of a child pornography investigation, the FBI hacked into over 1,300 computers. But after Playpen was seized, it wasn't immediately closed down, unlike...
From Computational Complexity
The Moral Hazard of Avoiding Complexity Assumptions
Moshe Vardi's CACM editor letter The Moral Hazard of Complexity-Theoretic Assumptions practically begs a response from this blog. I also encourage you to read the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
L'Oreal and Programmatic Digital Advertising
We did early work in this area. By analytically matching advertising to predicted outcomes based on costs. Essentially a big data optimization problem. This...
From Schneier on Security
Data and Goliath Published in Paperback
Today, Data and Goliath is being published in paperback. Everyone tells me that the paperback version sells better than the hardcover, even though it's a year later...
From insideHPC
Students: Apply for International Summer School on HPC Challenges by Feb. 15
The deadline is just one week away for Students to apply for the International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences. "Graduate students and...
From insideHPC
Call for Contributions: Hot Chips 2016
hotchipsThe Hot Chips 2016 conference has issues its Call for Proposals. The event takes place August 21-23 in Cupertino, California. "Presentations at HOT CHIPS...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Academy of Engineering Elects New Members
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 80 new members and 22 foreign members. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,275 and the number of foreign...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
New NAE Members
More computer scientists are elected to the academy Dan Mote, the President of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), just announced this year’s class of members...
From insideHPC
Watson for President Foundation Explores AI as Commander-in-Chief
If the current set of Presidential candidates has you down, the Watson for President Foundation may just have an answer for you. As an independent organizationWatson...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Imagining the future trumps intelligence…
Whenever I meet young people, I alway stress how their future will be very different from the present. To anyone who lived through the first Great War (1914-1918)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deepmind Navigates a 3D Maze
In CACM: Pointing to an article in New Scientist: " ... Google DeepMind just entered the 90s. Fresh off their success in playing the ancient game of Go, DeepMind...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms and Amazon Workers
In the BBC: Am particularly interested in how algorithms and workers interact. There has always been an interpretation of the results provided by computing...
From insideHPC
Video: AMD’s next Generation GPU and High Bandwidth Memory Architecture
"HBM is a new type of CPU/GPU memory (“RAM”) that vertically stacks memory chips, like floors in a skyscraper. In doing so, it shortens your information commute...
From Schneier on Security
Exploiting Google Maps for Fraud
The New York Times has a long article on fraudulent locksmiths. The scam is a basic one: quote a low price on the phone, but charge much more once you show up and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson