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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 February 2016
Initially the big deal for me last week was working on the CS K-12 Framework (an effort by code.org, CSTA and ACM) and then the President’s weekly Saturday address...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evaluating Machine Learning Algorithms in R
Part of the problem with open source methods, like those in R, is that there are too many options. How do you know which to use? For research, for production...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Study of Human Capital in the Cognitive Era
Mention and further discussionStudy of Human Capital in the Cognitive Era Via Jim Spohrer. Pointing towards how jobs will evolve. My recent experience has...
From insideHPC
Agenda Published: HPC-Based CFD for Offshore Renewable Energy Workshop
The speaker agenda has been published for the HPC-Based CFD for Offshore Renewable Energy Workshop. The two-day event takes place April 7-8 at Lancaster University...
From insideHPC
Video: DDN’s End-to-End HPC Data Management
In this video, Roger Goff from DDN describes how the company's storage solutions have evolved to address the changing demands and requirements of HPC from compute...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Text Classification
From an introduction, to simple methods, to depth This was an area we used extensively for 'content' analysis to understand consumer responses. Most recentlyText...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ground Based GPS
So many crucial services depend on GPS today. Beacons are a technology that address this. We examined indoor location finding for retail. Also may be keyIn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Syngenta and Soybean Seeds
In Informs. The use of analytics in agriculture. At first blush, the problem seems relatively simple and inconsequential: How do you breed a better soybean seed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The AI Behind Watson
A reexamination of current cognitive methods, and their use of knowledge representations, led me to this 2010 article: The AI behind Watson, from AAAI magazine...
From insideHPC
Video: Massive Data Sheds Light on Your Microbiome
"The human microbiome plays a role in processes as diverse as metabolism, immune function, and mental health. Yet despite the importance of this system, scientists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Raspberry Pi Laptop
In Indiegogo: A proposal that takes the basic board and adds keyboard and display, then lets you update the system. Nice idea that could lead to other innovations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Make Everything Seamless in Retail
Make Everything Happen At OnceExecuting on the hybrid purchase model of online shopping and in-store pickup. ... "
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Failure Of Unique Factorization
A simple example of the failure of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic Ernst Kummer was a German mathematician active in the early 1800s. He is most famous for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
President Obama Announces #CSforAll Initiative
Those of us involved in Computer Science education wer pretty excited when President Obama mentianed computer science education in his State of the Union Address...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer at Ohio Supercomputer Center
The Ohio Supercomputer Center is seeking an HPC Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer at Ohio Supercomputer Center...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
2016: The Year of CS Education
A Prediction Comes True… When asked for a New Year’s prediction a few weeks ago, I responded that 2016 would be the Year of Computer Science Education. I did not...
From Putting People First
Is design thinking the next big thing for U.S. power?
The U.S. Army is already using design thinking to inform its battle doctrine, and now voices go up to apply it to US foreign policy as well. Design Thinking Comes...
From Putting People First
Design thinking for museums
The Design Thinking for Museums site is the outcome of a 2012 partnership between the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and Stanford’s Hasso PlattnerDesign...
From Putting People First
[Book] Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture
Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts Edited by Sun Sun Lim, Cheryll Soriano Routledge, 2016 214 pages Abstract In Asia,[Book]...
From The Eponymous Pickle