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West Virginia Using Internet Voting
This is crazy (and dangerous). West Virginia is allowing people to vote via a smart-phone app. Even crazier, the app uses blockchain…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Roasted Squid with Tomatillo Salsa
Recipe and commentary. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Validating UTF-8 bytes using only 0.45 cycles per byte (AVX edition)
When receiving bytes from the network, we often assume that they are unicode strings, encoded using something called UTF-8. Sadly, not all streams of bytes areContinue...
From insideHPC
Video: Building SCinet for SC18
The SCinet team is already at work building the world’s fastest temporary network for SC18. The event takes place Nov. 11-16 in Dallas. "How often does an international...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa on the Facebook Portal
I had initially missed this. Don't like Facebook being involved, but according to below the information from Alexa transcripts are not shared with Facebook. Short...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising on the Facebook Portal
A look at the ads and data involved with Facebook's new Portal. Good overview as to what Facebook may want from this new channel.Here's what Facebook's Portal ...
From The Noisy Channel
Activate 2018: Search in Practice
I don’t always attend conferences. But when I do, I prefer conferences full of search practitioners focused on solving real-world problems.I just came back from...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Launches Ai Practice
Today Penguin Computing announced the formation of the Penguin Computing Artificial Intelligence Practice, a full service consultancy dedicated to working withPenguin...
From insideHPC
Watch 5,000 Robots Merge to Map the Universe in 3-D
In this video, scientists describe how the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion of the universe.Watch...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Systems Aware of Context
Awareness, also known as context, is often an important aspect of intelligence.Two Systems Allow Smart Devices to Have Environmental Awarenessin Electronics360 ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Shoppers Open to Amazon Go
Not unsurprising, providing the interaction is error-free.Amazon Go seen as welcome grocery optionBut not all Americans would embrace cashier-free retail concept...
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: ISC 2019 in Frankfurt
Today ISC 2019 announced that submissions are now open for Research Papers, Research Posters, Project Posters, BoFs, PhD Forum, Tutorials and Workshops. "We encourage...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
London Calling
For chess and science: a cautionary tale about decision models Clarke Chronicler blog source Marmaduke Wyvill was a British chess master and Member of Parliament...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Smart Homes
New directions in smart homes ...A Step Toward Personalized, Automated Smart Homesby Rob Matheson, MIT News OfficeDeveloping automated systems that track occupants...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM SIGARCH Blog- What’s the future of technology scaling?
The following is a blog post from ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today that discusses the dramatic slowing of technology scaling (Moore’s Law). It touches on...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Professional Development Is Expensive–Who Should Pay For It?
I first started to appreciate the cost of professional development when I was working with and for Microsoft. Microsoft at the time was working hard to promoteMoving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Siemens and Artificial Intelligence
Been taking a closer look at what German industrial conglomerate Siemens is doing and thinking in the space of AI. Good section on their thoughts, approaches and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning from B2B Buying Process
From the Gartner Blog, a look at a B2B buying process, diagram at the link. The process diagram is very complex, very messy. I have worked on many, many process...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Human Neurons
Are we smarter than animals because our brain neurons are different? Could this explain why simplistic neural models are not successful? Can we a new kind of Biomimicry...
From The Eponymous Pickle