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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
Simulating Human Behavior
From the CACM: " ... Researchers at the Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M) in Spain are working on the IBSEN project, which is investigating how to build a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Students and Cognitive Assistants
Via Jim Spohrer. More broadly the concept and direction of COG assistants is covered here." .... CEOs need cognitive assistants, and on the other side of the spectrum...
From Schneier on Security
El Chapo's Opsec
I've already written about Sean Penn's opsec while communicating with El Chapo. Here's the technique of mirroring, explained: El chapo then switched to a complex...
From Putting People First
Target CEO goes on ethnographic tour of customers’ homes
Target CEO Brian Cornell’s quest to understand shoppers takes him inside customers’ homes, looking in their cupboards and closets during pre-arranged visits. The...
From Computational Complexity
The Growing Academic Divide
The decreases of the past three years bring the number of advertised jobs to a new low, below the level reached after the severe drop between 2007–08 and 2009...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Additive Manufacturing at GE Aviation
In GE Aviation's Bike Shop Blog:" ... TIME magazine noted that GE Aviation is producing the interior of its fuel nozzles for the new CFM LEAP engine by using additive...
From insideHPC
Do IT Systems Joins Bright Partner Program
Today Bright Computing announced that Italy-based Do IT Systems has signed up to the Bright Partner Program. "Together, Bright Computing and Do IT Systems offer...
From insideHPC
Video: Accelerating Cognitive Workloads with Machine Learning
In this video, Ruchir Puri, an IBM Fellow at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center talks about building large-scale big data systems and delivering real-time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing the Internet of Things
Teradata's Bill Franks on the IOT. Nice concise thoughts. Like Big Data, the IOT's engine is analytics and then translating that to decison. Not sure we need...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alchemy API Language
Brought Back to my attention.Build Smarter Apps With AlchemyLanguage12 Semantic Text Analysis APIs Using Natural Language ProcessingPioneering Easy-to-build Smart...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Connected Vehicle Data Sets from the Safety Pilot Model Deployment (SPMD) Program Are Now Available on the Research Data Exchange
The Research Data Exchange (RDE) is a web-based data resource provided by the USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program. It collects, manages, and...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Supercomputing Frontiers in Singapore
The Supercomputing Frontiers 2016 conference has issued its Call for Papers. Held in conjunction of the launch of the new Singapore National Supercomputing Center...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of Programming
Have become involved in looking how algorithmic knowledge is stored lately, and this has required looking at alternative coding methods. Visualization of process...
From insideHPC
ACTnowHPC Joins UberCloud Marketplace
Today the ACTnowHPC on demand cloud cluster joined the UberCloud online marketplace, where engineers, scientists and their service providers discover, try, andACTnowHPC...
From insideHPC
TACC’s Lonestar 5 Begins Full Production
Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced that the Lonestar 5 supercomputer is in full production and is ready to contribute to advancing science...
From Schneier on Security
France Rejects Back Doors in Encryption Products
For the right reasons too: Axelle Lemaire, the Euro nation's digital affairs minister, shot down the amendment during the committee stage of the forthcoming omnibus...
From Putting People First
Forrester Research: Mobile marketing companies lack ethnographic capabilities
In June 2015, Google commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate how prepared mobile marketers are to deliver to consumers during quick mobile “moments” – i.e...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rules for Tough Decisions
3 Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions In the HBR: by Peter BregmanSome good simple thoughts. Now might these also be systematized as part of a simulation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Employee Engagement Formula
How do companies engage with their own employees? In the HBR:" .... IDEO’s origin story sometimes sounds like a myth or a fable, but it’s actually true. David...
From The Eponymous Pickle