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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
Digital Shopping Booming
In Retailwire: More on the emergence of digital grocery shopping. Delivery versus pickup remains a challenge.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE AD Issues Letter to Community on Submission Dates
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following...
From insideHPC
Hero Performance is about the Applications
During last month’s PRACE Days in Dublin – where I enjoyed talks on improvements in codes and methods in areas as diverse as CFD, RTM in geophysics, and in genomics...
From Schneier on Security
Tracking People By Smart Phone Accelerometers
Interesting research: "We Can Track You If You Take the Metro: Tracking Metro Riders Using Accelerometers on Smartphones": Abstract: Motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers)...
From insideHPC
Video Preview of the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition
In this video, Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting and Brian Sparks from the HPC Advisory Council discuss the competitors in the upcoming ISC 2015 Student ClusterVideo...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting links 8 June 2015
Final exam week at my school. Friday will be the last day for teachers. Assuming I get my grading done by then it will be summer time. I lot to do around the46...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Search of Value of the Internet of Things
I am continuing to look at valuation of data as an asset and its valuation. This Forbes article by Joe McKendrick looks at another angle, how can we value the internet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Marketing Breakthroughs
In Adage: Perhaps obvious, but worth thinking about. Prompted by recent conversations which started with 'Does this work?' " ... .... Best Practices: How...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recipes for Control: If This Then That: IFTTT
Brought to my attention: IFTTT. If this then That. With connection to Amazon Echo. What is IFTTT?IFTTT gives you creative control over the products and apps you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Pets
Emergence of Robotic pets. Remember well the Tamagotchi craze, examined it for possible tie ins. See the tag below. Are we heading back that way with new robotic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics, Machine Learning and the Internet of Things
Good overview article.Analytics, Machine Learning, and the Internet of Things ...Our increasingly connected world, combined with low-cost sensors and distributed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Many Eyes to Shut Down
We examined this method when it first emerged. A kind of crowd sourcing visualization. It was never used internally because it did not allow for making the results...
From insideHPC
Call for Posters: New York Scientific Data Summit
"This annual meeting aims to accelerate data-driven discovery and innovation by bringing together researchers, developers and end-users from academia, industry,...
From Wild WebMink
On Equality
Extract from an imaginary equality policy: The only life experience any of us can truly know is ourself. We perceive others as objects outside ourselves, so it’s...
From insideHPC
Video: Parallel Algorithms Reconsidered
"Parallel algorithms have been a subject of intensive algorithmic research in the 1980s. This research almost died out in the mid 1990s. In this paper we argueVideo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fraud Detection with Graph Analytics
In Analytic Bridge: A quick look at the value of graph analytics for fraud detection and analysis in retail.
From insideHPC
Announcing the SimScale for Startups Program
Entrepreneurs got a potential boost this week with the announcement of the SimScale for Startups Program. Described as a way for startup companies to develop their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Feeling Virtual Reality
In TechDirt: An area we examined to communicate feelings like 'softness' to consumers. This is a Kickstarter thing, don't know how well it works, but worth an...
From CERIAS Blog
Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Attack on Encryption
Preface by Spaf Chair, ACM US Public Policy Council (USACM)† About 20 years ago, there was a heated debate in the US about giving the government mandatory access...
From CERIAS Blog