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What I Want from Computer Science Education Professional Development
The CSTA 2020 Call for Proposals is out and as usual it has me thinking. Two questions come to mind. One is, what can/should…
From Computational Complexity
`Are you a math genius?' `Can you fix my Iphone?' `What do you think about Facebook and Privacy?'
When I meet non-math people and tell them I am a computer science professor I get a range of responses. Here are some and my responses. 1) Are you a math genius...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deloitte Launches Blockchain Demonstrator
Helpful idea to have out there, since the process involved is still mysterious to many.Deloitte launches ‘Blockchain in a Box’ hands-on demonstratorThe consultancy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monetizing Your Dark Data
Worked several projects along these lines. Good provocative thoughts here. More links to process using data and the means to monetizing that description of business...
From insideHPC
Video: InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology and Roadmap
Gilad Shainer from Mellanox gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "In-Network Computing transforms the data center interconnect to become a "distributed CPU"...
From insideHPC
Podcast: HPC & AI Convergence Enables AI Workload Innovation
In this Conversations in the Cloud podcast, Esther Baldwin from Intel describes how the convergence of HPC and AI is driving innovation. "On the topic of HPC &Podcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Appian and Business Process
Happened to look at Appian which we used in the enterprise.We used them for BPM (Business process management) And we talked to them first around 2007. Had some...
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Assisting Visually Impaired Web Browsing
Screen reading plus voice assistance. Good idea.New Tool Makes Web Browsing Easier for the Visually Impaired University of Waterloo NewsAugust 20, 2019Researchers...
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Data Labeling
We worked with both the crowdsourcing methods for this and automated methods. AI's New Workforce: The Data-Labeling Industry Spreads Globallyin Financial Times...
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Papercraft Inspired Math
I had previously reported on the use of Origami and Kirigami for real problems, here more out of Harvard:Papercraft-inspired math turns any sheet into any shape...
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More on Imminent Audible Captioning
Recently have been reading/hearing long texts in Audible and Kindle, usually non-fiction. So gaining an appreciation for the difference in the way we utilize...
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Qualcomm Won't Have to Offer Patent Licenses Yet
Intriguing insight to antitrust vs patent licensing. Note the embedded predictive aspect included here. Predicting Qualcomm's income from patent licensing?Qualcomm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pfizer Using Mutiple Data Sources for Shopper Insight
Makes sense to get multiple sources, at very least to check the accuracy of predictions. And inthis case because shoppers usually go to many places, tracking their...
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Simple Statistics Types in one Picture
A good, nontechnical infographic that describes commonly used simple statistics. Just enough to use with non-technical management and decision makers. Make sure...
From insideHPC
Video: PCI Express 6.0 Specification to Reach 64 GigaTransfers/sec
In this video, PCI-SIG President and Board Member, Al Yanes, shares and overview of PCI Express 5.0 and 6.0 specifications. “With the PCIe 6.0 specification, PCI...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 24th 2019)
The net contribution of the Amazon ecosystem to the world’s oxygen is effectively zero. Furthermore, there is a lot of oxygen in the air and it would be excessively...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Supercomputing Applications Specialist at CSIRO
Pawsey’s Supercomputing Team is responsible for providing the infrastructure to fulfill the needs of the Australian research community and to engage with that community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bold Bridge Advisors
New Affiliation: Bold Bridge AdvisorsBold Bridge Advisors Values:1. Clarify WHY, WHO, SO WHAT, before technology and solutions are defined.2. Seek and speak truth...![[Book] The Costs of Connection](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] The Costs of Connection
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias Stanford University Press August...
From Putting People First
End user perceptions of smart home device data practices and risks
“I don’t own the data”: End User Perceptions of Smart Home Device Data Practices and Risks Madiha Tabassum, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Tomasz Kosinski...
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