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Congressional App Challenge Launches Today
Something that looks interesting at least in Congressional Districts where there is a sponsor. Visit the web site to check it…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Drama Therapy: A Math Viewpoint
What is drama therapy? Kathryn Farley obtained her PhD from Northwestern University in performance studies in 2007. After almost a decade working in that area,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Powered Lamp by GE
Had heard of this late last year, it is here:GE's Sol lamp is the world's first Alexa-powered desk lamp, and it's brilliant ... "Amazon's Alexa voice assistant...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Hardware’s Ongoing Metamorphosis, as reported in the New York Times
The following is a guest blog post from CCC Vice Chair and Post Moore’s Law Computing Task Force Chair Mark Hill from University of Wisconsin-Madison and former...
From insideHPC
Intel offers up AI Developer Resources in the Cloud
Today at the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Francisco, Intel’s Lisa Spelman announced the Intel Nervana DevCloud, a cloud-hosted hardware and...
From insideHPC
China Upgrading Milky Way 2 Supercomputer to 95 Petaflops
Researchers in China are busy upgrading the MilkyWay 2 (Tianhe-2) system to nearly 95 Petaflops (peak). This should nearly double the performance of the system,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI is Marketing Hype?
My team and I were involved in the last big hype cycle of AI. We lost a large chunk of investment in the space. So the question is a reasonable one. What should...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of Practical Augmented Reality (AR)
I am a long time experimenter with the concept of AR in Business. We experimented with very early (1980s) applications with specialized hardware. For things like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and in Aisle Checkout
Continue to follow the idea of in-aisle checkout, see my tag below.Walmart deploying tech that lets in-store shoppers check out — on their own By Deena M. Amano...
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Designing Projects for Programming Students
Last night a teacher friend of mine gave me a USB stick with the projects he uses with his students. I have projects for C++, Python, Java, and Visual Basic from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Constructing an Amazon Echo Skill via Java
How to construct an Amazon Echo Skill using Java An introduction in Github.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nike Customizing Sneakers
Customization or perhaps late stage differentiation. But note only for a limited time and place. Plays to the current craze for fast delivery. Adds a level of...
From insideHPC
NASA Perspectives on Deep Learning
Nikunj Oza from NASA Ames gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "This talk will give a broad overview of work at NASA in the space of data sciences, data mining...
From insideHPC
JAIST in Japan installs Cray XC40 Supercomputer
Today Cray announced the Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (JAIST) has put a Cray XC40 supercomputer into production. The Cray XC40 supercomputers...
From insideHPC
GPUs Accelerate Population Distribution Mapping Around the Globe
With the Earth’s population at 7 billion and growing, understanding population distribution is essential to meeting societal needs for infrastructure, resources...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon, Robotics and Jobs
Amazon Just Showed Us What Really Happens When Robots Replace JobsThey've already got 100,000 robots and are adding (a lot) more. By Lisa Calhoun in Inc. Video...
From Schneier on Security
Apple's FaceID
This is a good interview with Apple's SVP of Software Engineering about FaceID. Honestly, I don't know what to think. I am confident that Apple is not collecting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open AI Framework by Microsoft and Facebook
From the Facebook research blog. A further indication of the progress in standardizing how such systems should be built and maintained. Would be useful to now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quartz Guide to AI
Appears to be a guide useful for the non technical executive. Good definition of terms at the end. Intriguing view of the recent progress of AI and why companies...
From insideHPC
Northrop Grumman to Acquire Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion
Today Northrop Grumman Corporation announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Orbital ATK for approximately $7.8 billion in cash, plus the...
From Schneier on Security