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The New Intel: How Nvidia Went From Powering Video Games To Revolutionizing Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia cofounder Chris Malachowsky is eating a sausage omelet and sipping burnt coffee in a Denny's off the Berryessa overpass in San Jose.
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Europe Is Leading the Way in AI and Machine Learning (and Even Silicon Valley Wants In)
Europe is either ahead of or on equal footing with the U.S. in terms of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other technologies.
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Genevieve Bell: 'humanity's Greatest Fear Is About Being Irrelevant'
Genevieve Bell is an Australian anthropologist who has been working at tech company Intel for 18 years, where she is currently head of sensing and insights.
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Erich Bloch, IBM Pioneer Who Later Led National Science Foundation, Dies at 91
Bloch was the first U.S. National Science Foundation director to come from a business rather than academic background, and the first without a doctoral degree. ...
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Network Operators Beef p Last Mile For Cord-Cutters
Consumers increasingly are bypassing traditional content providers to download content a la carte via broadband connection.
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Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI
Fei-Fei Li is a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of...
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China's Driverless Trucks Are Revving Their Engines
China is gearing up to overhaul its road delivery with fleets of self-driving long-haul trucks.
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Why the Software Industry Needs Computing Education Research
Job opportunities for software development abound, but schools are producing coders of less-than-adequate skill, according to University of Washington professor...
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Mathematical Algorithms Calculate Social Behavior
Predicting and influencing human behavior is well on its way to becoming reality, according to researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TU Munich) in...
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Tackling Society's Big Problems With Systems Theory
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society doctoral program is underway.
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The 'smart City' Is Increasingly Global
Municipalities all over the world are building greater intelligence into their infrastructures.
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Real or Not? SC Study Finds Many Political Tweets Come From Fake Accounts
University of Southern California researchers found bots made up nearly 20% of the political conversation on Twitter during the U.S. presidential campaign season...
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Robovote Helps Groups Make Decisions sing AI-Driven Methods
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Harvard universities have launched an online service that enables optimal group decisions.
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The Fun Work of Technology Crystal Ball Gazing at Sc16
Next week's International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis will feature a workshop on Post-Moore Era Supercomputing.
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Paas Enables Greater Customization
Platform-as-a-Service environments foster development of custom cloud applications.
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Will Computer Vision Help France Take a Lead in Ai?
A key factor for France emerging as a leader for research and development in artificial intelligence is overcoming public concerns and outdated government regulations...
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China Adopts Cybersecurity Law Despite Foreign Opposition
China has green-lit a sweeping and controversial law that may grant Beijing unprecedented access to foreign companies' technology and hamstring their operations...
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Computer Science/stem Leaders Explain How to Spark STEM Interest in Youth
The time is ripe to encourage science, technology, engineering, and math interest in today's youth, according to scientists leading the SC16 international conference...
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Machine Learning to Help Physicians
New software from researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute can aid physicians who must visually judge medical images to determine the course of cancer treatment...
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