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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 Writing
A startup is a company that spends most of its time searching
An interview I did with Hakin9 Magazine on startups, agility, security, and more: A startup is a company that spends most of its time searching
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Optimization
Working at business process from the point of view of optimization. Or, at least the improvement of an understood system. Understanding it can be hard, butSome...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Cognitive Era
Recently at the Gartner Conference, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty explained the Cognitive Era in very simple language: " .... “It’s an era of technology and it’s an era...
From Computational Complexity
Predictions for 2016
This is the first post of 2016! (that is not a factorial). Hence I will make some predictions and at the end of the year I'll see how I did 1) The USA Prez election...
From insideHPC
China Develops Darwin Neuromorphic Chip
Researchers from Zhejiang University and Hangzhou Dianzi University in China have developed the Darwin Neural Processing Unit (NPU), a neuromorphic hardware co-processor...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Changing HPC Economics with the Intel Omni-Path Architecture
In this Chip Chat Podcast, Intel's Barry Davis describes how today’s requirements for high performance computing fabrics are outstripping the capabilities of traditional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Field Guide to Data Science
Very nicely done, 126 page, free and shareable introduction to Data Science by Booz Allen Hamilton. Starts very simply, fine for an executive intro. Takes you...![[Book] Holistic Retail Design](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Holistic Retail Design
Holistic Retail Design – Reshaping Shopping for the Digital Era By Prof. Philipp Teufel and Prof. Rainer Zimmermann (Peter Behrens School of Arts, University of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HBR on the Future of Cars
In the HBR: How should we think about the future of cars? Autonomous, Intelligent. As a service? Regulatory? Liability? Beyond?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building VR Cities
An interesting example that reminds me of Second Life. But of course now using headgear rather than on screen. Is the difference in 3D quality important for "...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Blogging Works For Educators
It seems like there is a regular stream of articles, often on blogs, talking about blogging going away. Or changing for the worse. Or other negative comments. But...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Suggests Large Frig Touchscreens
We experimented with having 'smart screens' on the frig, Samsung and LG made them, but was unclear how many they sold. With the advent of the tablet, you could...
From Geeking with Greg
SwipeLingo and Javascript Notebook
I've been working on a couple educational projects since Google, SwipeLingo and Javascript Notebook. SwipeLingo is a quick matching game for touchscreens. Javascript...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating Inexact Spreadsheet Numbers
A free, open source package called Guesstimate was just brought to my attention. In Beta. Overview article here. Essentially a means for modeling uncertain values...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing is now Platinum Member of Open Compute Project (OCP)
Penguin Computing has renewed as a Platinum Member of Open Compute Project (OCP). Leading with the OCP-based Tundra Extreme Scale (ES) Series, Penguin was recently...
From insideHPC
Video: IBM Panel Discussion on Machine Learning
In this video, Dr. Michael Karasick from IBM moderates a panel discussion on Machine Learning. "The success of cognitive computing will not be measured by Turing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Apple Deal gets to 100th App
IBM-Apple deal reaches key milestone with 100th enterprise appCompetitors may find it hard to match this pace, one analyst suggestsby Katherine Noyes Via Simon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI in the Everyday World
In Wired: Which starts by describing work that Chinese group Baidu is doing in this space, still in early prototype: " ... one of the company’s latest prototypes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sloan on the Emergence of the IOT
Sloan Review on the Internet of Things. Many implications and risks: " ... Yes, the potential insights from IoT are enticing. For example, it’s fun to think...
From Writing