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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
Update on HoloLens
More on the Hololens. I can think of many applications, but yet to see one in the wild that really makes sense in context. Its all about the details. Waiting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Capitol Hill Presentation on “Deconstructing Precision Agriculture”
Contributions to this post were made by Shashi Shekhar, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Distinguished University Professor at the University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenge of Cognitive Assistants
Via the Cognitive Systems Institute. Some excellent points are made in this slideshare. Advisory systems are probably the most important approach to AI for typical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Innovation Canvas
Talk today given at the Cognitive Systems Institute: Michael Wollowski “The Innovation Canvas: A tool to design products and business models” Rose-Hulman School...
From insideHPC
Podcast: A Tour of the Universe & Selected Cosmic Mysteries
In this podcast from the Swinburne University of Technology Astrophysics and Supercomputing series, Katherine Mack from the University of Melbourne presents: A...
From Computational Complexity
(1/2)! = sqrt(pi) and other conventions
(This post is inspired by the book The cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths which I recently read and reviewed. See here for my review.) STUDENT: The factorial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Wave of Restructuring
In Adage: Seen much of this in recent weeks, received lots of offers to chat. " ... Leaving P&G? Giant Advertiser's Restructuring Spawns an Ad Campaign Retirement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Mission Critical Knowledge
There are all kinds of levels of knowledge. Also, knowledge has direct value, and risk. In the HBR:" ... When executives talk about “knowledge management” today...
From insideHPC
ClusterStor Solution for HPC and Big Data
The ClusterStor SDA is built on Seagate’s successful ClusterStor family of high performance storage solutions for HPC and Big Data, providing unmatched file system...
From Schneier on Security
Now Corporate Drones are Spying on Cell Phones
The marketing firm Adnear is using drones to track cell phone users: The capture does not involve conversations or personally identifiable information, according...
From Putting People First
Smartphones are addictive and should carry health warning, say academics
University of Derby finds smartphone users in study spent average 3.6 hours a day on devices, often causing severe distraction from relationships and ‘real life...
From insideHPC
Video: Bill Kramer on How Blue Waters Advances Science
In this video, Bill Kramer from NCSA describes the ground-breaking science enabled by the Blue Waters supercomputer.
From Putting People First
Is it time to re-examine human-centered design?
Is it time to re-examine our anthropocentrism in design, asks ASU design professor Prasad Boradkar and to extend design’s locus of action towards biocentrism. “Clearly...
From insideHPC
NSF Grant to Expand Indiana University GlobalNOC in Asia-Pacific
Today the Indiana University Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) today announced the award of a major new five-year, $4.8 million grant from the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Acquires AlchemyAPI Text and Image Mining
Makes sense that IBM would add select capabilities to Watson that it does not have in house. Unstructured text and image mining are an excellent example. In our...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Homo Ludens: People are at Play
Why think about game dynamics? It can be useful in the right context. Any sufficiently advanced work is indistinguishable from play - @sebpaquet See Wikipedia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Human Touch in Retail
In K@W: We examined a number of touch based methods in retail engagement:When Does the ‘Human Touch’ Matter in Retail? While retailers will see failures and successes...
From insideHPC
Code Modernization – Why it is so Important
For about 40 years, developers and users could count on an increase in CPU performance that would make applications run faster. However, with the slowdown in constant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GMA Out of Stock Report
Well done report, with lots of useful statistics and guidance." ... FMI/GMA Trading Partner Alliance report: Solving the out-of-stock problem ... Out-of-stocks...
From The Eponymous Pickle