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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
Choosing Empathy
In the Edge on choosing empathy. " ..... If you believe that you can harness empathy and make choices about when to experience it versus when not to, it adds a...
From Schneier on Security
Should We Allow Bulk Searching of Cloud Archives?
Jonathan Zittrain proposes a very interesting hypothetical: Suppose a laptop were found at the apartment of one of the perpetrators of last year's Paris attacks...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science/Coding Education Graphic from SMU
Guest author: Shane Ryan; Community Manager, DataScience@SMU DataScience@SMU, the online data science program offered by Southern Methodist University recentlyContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Psych and Economics in Hindsight
In Knowledge@Wharton: " .... In the new book Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Richard Thaler, coauthor of Nudge and a behavioral science and economics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping in the Virtual Aisle
Another example of virtual aisle interaction. See my previous writing on this approach. The laboratory approach is useful for easily setting up experiments,...
From insideHPC
2015 Site Budget Map Reflects HPC Spending
Today Intersect360 Research released its eighth 2015 Site Budget Allocation Map, a look at how HPC sites divide and spend their budgets. The post 2015 Site Budget...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Lottery Inspired Projects
This week’s monsturous PowerBall lottery jackpot (1.6 million US dollars) had a lot of people talking. I bought a ticket but didn’t win. On the other hand discussion...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Harvard Symposium: Brain + Machines
The Institute for Applied Computational Science at Harvard University is hosting a one day Symposium: Brain + Machines on Friday, January 22, 2016 to explore the...
From insideHPC
Video: An Overview of Supercomputing
"Computers are an invaluable tool for most scientific fields. It is used to process measurement data and make simulation models of e.g. the climate or the universe...
From insideHPC
Accelerating Machine Learning with Open Source Warp-CTC
Today Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL) released Warp-CTC open source software for the machine learning community. Warp-CTC is an implementation of the #CTC...
From insideHPC
In Search Of: A Quantum Leap in Processors
The fastest supercomputers are built with the fastest microprocessor chips, which in turn are built upon the fastest switching technology. But, even the best semiconductors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re-using Analytics Models in the Enterprise
Just revisited the Knime open source analytics visualization capability. In particular for the ability to re-use templates for analytics in the enterprise. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Future Supply Chain
In Gartner. Excellent piece on transitions that will shape the future supply chain. " ... Six transitions that will shape the future of Supply Chain ... ". ...
From Schneier on Security
Spamming Someone from PayPal
Troy Hunt has identified a new spam vector. PayPal allows someone to send someone else a $0 invoice. The spam is in the notes field. But it's a legitimate e-mail...
From Putting People First
Qualitative study of Apple Watch users shows enthusiasm is cooling
Apple Watch usage is dropping off as the novelty factors fades away, according to a qualitative study by MBLM, a “brand intimacy agency”, reports Luke Dormehl in...
From Putting People First
Intel study on how people “feel” about their computing devices
Recently, Intel UX Innovation Manager Dr. Daria Loi and her team conducted a study to determine how technology users around the world feel about their computing...
From Computational Complexity
A limit on the DFA-CFG divide for finite sets
It is easy to see that for Ln = {a,b}*a{a,b}2n There IS a CFG of size O(n) ANY DFA is of size double-exp-in-n I was wondering if we can increase this gap. That...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam and Updates
The Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) will host its annual “Tech Jam” event in March 2016. Information about the dates and location of the event will be announced...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Whitepaper- Future Directions in Computing Education Research
The time is now for computer science education! With the shifting economy, educators are increasingly recognizing computer science as a new basic requirement. In...
From Schneier on Security