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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
How Gamification Taps into What Makes Us Human
An interview in K@W. In the midst of reading this book. Quite a goal, which I agree is difficult." ... In their new book The Gamification Toolkit: Dynamics Mechanics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source, In Memory Computing
A trend? " ... Following through on a promise to open-source its data analysis software, Pivotal has released the source code that powers its GemFire in-memory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Brightens Black Box of R&D
In McKinsey: Very true, but how do you apply the analytics to understand what you are seeing?Brightening the black box of R&DAn all-in-one, one-for-all formula...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Description of Blog and Work
I have been running a public blog since I was at Procter & Gamble in 2000. It covers advanced digital innovation topics. Often what we were experimenting with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Theory and Innovation
In Cisco Blog: On game theory and innovation. Had never thought of this quite this way. Innovation is an industry, though managing it well can be difficult.
From The Eponymous Pickle
There is a need for Not Google Glass
There is a market for hands free applications, with easy to wear, inobtrusive ways to view. We tested applications. So the 'failure' of Google Glass may teach...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata Aster
An overvew of Teradata Aster and their community. We visited Aster at a trip to Stanford in around 2010, before their acquisition by Teradata. A number of integrated...
From insideHPC
Video: Supercomputing the Human Brain at Jülich
In this video, Prof. Dr. Dirk Pleiter from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre describes how Jülich is creating a 3D model of the human brain. "Jülich Supercomputing...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Grid Engineer at Open Systems Technologies
Open Systems Technologies in New York City is seeking an HPC Grid Engineer in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Grid Engineer at Open Systems Technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power BI no Tableau yet
A friend is continuing to take a closer look at Microsoft's Power BI, and I am following. A means for doing simple data visualization starting with Excel tables...
From Putting People First
Designing for behavior as the critical path for patient engagement
Forget about features, design behaviors. Tying strategic behavior design to engagement outcomes will lead to more pratical and digitally relevant solutions, writes...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Classic Gary Larson Squid Cartoon
I have always liked this one. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security
Other GCHQ News from Snowden
There are two other Snowden stories this week about GCHQ: one about its hacking practices, and the other about its propaganda and psychology research. The second...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The case for techno-optimism
I define techno-optimism as the belief that technology makes us healthier, richer and smarter at an accelerated rate. Anyone working in information technology cannot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Nurse, Professional Assistant
More from expectlabs.com, Professional assistants.MindMeld & Sense.ly Launch Breakthrough "Virtual Nurse" SolutionThis week, MindMeld is thrilled to announceThis...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes for Friday, June 26
While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. Notable items from this week include new benchmarks for 100GB Ethernet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on WordNet
A short piece on the origins of the semantic ontology called Wordnet. Remarkable and free resource to pull help you pull apart aspects of natural language. We...
From insideHPC
Video: Supercomputing Exoplanets
Astronomers Erika Nesvold (UMBC) and Marc Kuchner (NASA Goddard) essentially created a virtual Beta Pictoris in the computer and watched it evolve over millions...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Benchmarks Ceph on 100Gb Ethernet
Today Mellanox announced a set of 100Gb/s network storage performance benchmark results for Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage. The post MellanoxinsideHPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle