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ACM-W Connections — December 2018
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Student Chapters Grace Hopper India 2018 News from ACM-W…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Killing the Password
When we traveled in the enterprise we always took a key generating device with us as a means to replace the password, which was then combined with the use of aYour...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Helps Augmented Reality
Pointed at by some of our retail experiments.Eye-Tracking Technology Could Help AR The Dartmouth by Anthony RoblesDartmouth College researchers have developed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Architecture for Complete Talking Buildings
Smart homes are still built up in fairly unstructured ways. Mine still has pieces of it fail, and can be difficult to repair or add to if the supplier piecesThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microlearning and the Brain
Interesting idea for thinking about how to classify useful learning.Microlearning and the BrainMicrolearning is effective for hard skills but detrimental when it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nature of Human Trust in Machines
This topic came up in a recent discussion of AI. Past evidence had said that in certain contexts people trust AI better than humans, simplistically because the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 15th 2018)
Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. There is weak correlation between grades and job performance. Grant reviews the evidence inContinue...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Data Scientist at Booz Allen
Booz Allen is seeking a Data Scientist in our Job of the Week. "We have an opportunity for you to use your analytical skills to improve geospatial intelligence....
From insideHPC
Atos to Build Bull Supercomputer for C-DAC in India
Today Atos announced a HPC announced plans to deploy a large-scale supercomputer at C-DAC in India. This contract is part of the NSM (National Supercomputing Mission)...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Explaining The Jaccard Metric
Why is it a metric? Composite of source 1, source 2 Paul Jaccard was a botanist who worked at ETH in Zurich during much of the first half of the 20th century. He...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Radical New Neural Network Design
Less definition of the architecture it seems and training adapts to results.Radical New Neural Network Design Could Overcome Big Challenges in AI in Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learn Chinese from a Smart Speaker
Have been experimenting with smart speakers to learn, teach and improve conversational language skills.Here is an example from Indiegogo. Note this is still in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Stop Selling Facial Recognition for Now
Hmm, most everyone else will be selling face recognition products. Can they also be also be 'having no potential for evil'? Other technical topics of this sort...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mastering Conversations
In the Google Blog, some useful thoughts on conversations. We need to think about how we talk to machines, and with people. How the Google Assistant masters—and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensing in Complete Darkness: One Photon Per Pixel
Appears to be a very valuable development in a number of sensing domains.MIT engineers have found a way to use AI to reveal objects in total darkness–even transparent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Medical Records
Amazon is Showing Healthcare is the Next Big Thing for Machine LearningAmazon will save Healthcare industry $Billions via machine learning algorithm that extracts...
From insideHPC
IBM Publishes Compendium of Ai Research Papers
Today IBM Research released a 2018 retrospective and blog essay by Dr. Dario Gil, COO of IBM Research, that provides a sneak-peek into the future of AI. Today we...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Sub Goal Labeling in Computer Science
One of the interesting ideas in teaching computer science I have been looking at is sub-goal labeling. I’m experimenting with it but to be honest I don’t feel near...
From insideHPC
Oracle Offers Bare Metal Instances for HPC in the Cloud
In this video from SC18, Karan Batta from Oracle describes how the company provides high performance computing in the Cloud with Bare Metal speed. "Oracle BareOracle...
From Schneier on Security