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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
Network Economics of Cybercrime and Data Assets
In Analytics Magazine: This connects with some of my recent work looking at data asset and risk value. Technical details at the link, reviewing. " ... A new...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Advnces in Facial Recognition
In Forbes: " .. Google: Our new system for recognizing faces is the best one ever ... Last week, a trio of Google ... researchers published a paper on a new...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Alex Bouzari on How DDN Helps Customers Solve their Toughest Data Challenges
In this podcast, Michael Yorba from the Traders Network Radio Show interviews Alex Bouzari, Co-Founder & CEO of DataDirect Networks. Bouzari discusses how DDN helps...
From insideHPC
QCT to Develop First x86 Servers with Nvidia’s NVLink Interconnet
Today Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) announced plans to build the first x86 CPU-based servers with Nvidia’s NVLink high-speed GPU interconnect technology. "NVLink...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenge of Cognitive Assistants for Knowledge Workers
Just attended a talk by Hamid R Motahari Nezhad of IBM Almaden, on Cognitive Work Assistants. His slides here. As part of the Cognitive Systems Institute series...
From insideHPC
Better Concurrency with HMB
Ocean modelling is complex from an algorithm standpoint and can require significant amounts of computing power to arrive at a simulation endpoint. However, many...
From Schneier on Security
Understanding the Organizational Failures of Terrorist Organizations
New research: Max Abrahms and Philip B.K. Potter, "Explaining Terrorism: Leadership Deficits and Militant Group Tactics," International Organizations. Abstract:...
From insideHPC
Livestream: GTC Keynote on Deep Learning at Baidu at 11:00am PT
"Deep Learning has transformed many important tasks, including speech and image recognition. Deep Learning systems scale well by absorbing huge amounts of data...
From Computational Complexity
Feeling Underappreciated
As academics we live and die by our research. While our proofs are either correct or not, the import of our work has a far more subjective feel. One can see where...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Machines Now Seen at Work
Good look at how machines replace people at work. Similar concerns were written about in the late 80s. Clearly AI will change how we work, the systems are'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Anonymity not Possible
In Retailwire: Good piece on how little information it takes to reveal an account. " ... A new study led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Washington News – Alerts and Updates
* Congress continues to hold budget hearings. * The White House invites nominations for the National Medal of Science. The deadline is April 27. * The White House...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Went Wrong with Glass?
Thoughts from a former Google exec. Will Microsoft's HoloLens learn from this experience? I still want a workable means to do augmented reality. I have seen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rebooting the Retail Beacon for Experience
In Retailwire: A look at beacons and their purpose. from SXSW. Certainly you don't want them to assault you, or erode your privacy. Now how can they serve you...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CCC Postdoc Best Practices Arizona Conference April 10-11
The Principal Investigators for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Postdoc Best Practices Arizona Program, Chitta Baral,...
From insideHPC
Allinea Supports OpenPOWER Debugging
Today Allinea Software announced that the C, C++ and F90 debugger Allinea DDT is now available for the OpenPOWER POWER8 architecture – marking a significant arrival...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do You Want To Write Some Code?
OK I feel better. I was overcome with an urge to write some code. Now I have a program I should write. I want to combine my seating chart program (with pictures)...
From insideHPC
OpenPOWER Showcases Real Hardware including Prototype HPC Server
The OpenPOWER Foundation showed off real hardware for the first time today with 13 systems including a a prototype HPC server from IBM and new microprocessor customized...
From My Biased Coin
Double Hashing (Lueker and Molodowitch)
A subject I've grown interested in, related to multiple-choice hashing schemes, is when (and why) double hashing can be used in place of "random hashing" with an...
From Putting People First