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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Overview of AI and Machine Learning
From a customer perspective, what is machine learning or AI? by Natalie Petouhoff, Ph.D. Wondering whether you should invest in AI and Machine Learning? That’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ultrasonic Attacks on Voice Devices
Alexa and Siri are vulnerable to 'silent,' nefarious commands in Endgadget by S. Dent Unheard voices could direct your smartphone to malicious websites. .....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shop Home Depot with Voice Using Google Home
Another voice based shopping example in place. I would imagine that DIY interactions could often use visual interaction as well, so assuming the Google Home will...
From insideHPC
Ohio Supercomputer Center open-sources HPC Access Portal
Open OnDemand is an NSF-funded project to develop a widely shareable web portal that provides HPC centers with advanced web and graphical interface capabilities...
From insideHPC
EPFL Building New Particle Detector for Large Hadron Collider
EPFL’s physicists are moving forward in their efforts to solve the mysteries of the universe. A particle detector made up of 10,000 kilometers of scintillatingEPFL...
From insideHPC
Interview: Jeffrey Schwab on Building the World’s Fastest Network at SC17
In this guest feature, Jeffrey Schwab describes his role as SCinet Chair at SC17 and how his team of volunteers is building the fastest and most powerful volunteer...
From insideHPC
Announcing the EuroEXA Project for Exascale
Today, 16 organizations met at the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre to mark the start of the EuroEXA project and the commencement of the execution in the next stage...
From My Biased Coin
Simulated Annealing for JPEG Quantization
I have a new paper on the arxiv (web page describing results, and full version** available) with two Harvard undergrads, Max Hopkins and Sebastian Wagner-Carrena...
From insideHPC
The Intel Scalable System: Kick-Starting the AI Revolution
Like many other HPC workloads, deep learning is a tightly coupled application that alternates between compute-intensive number-crunching and high-volume data sharing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco on Meetings
From the Cisco Blog, good points made, not very new, but worth repeating. Nothing on the possible use of AI attentive methods to gather data about what has happened...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interpreting Machine Learning
Interesting piece, somewhat wordy with embedded technical aspect. But worth the read.Ideas on interpreting machine learningMix-and-match approaches for visualizing...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities in AT&T Routers
They're actually Arris routers, sold or given away by AT&T. There are several security vulnerabilities, some of them very serious. They can be fixed, but because...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa will be a Concierge
Its the ultimate kind of intelligence. We called it a concierge skill. Its not what you know, its who you know, or what you have that knows, and can apply itAlexa...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will we all be Wearing Cams Soon?
Followed this once at the request of a retail research client. Tested it in the aisle. Will it now be common?Why you'll wear a body cameraAs costs go down, quality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Does Music Remix
Google’s Inside Music makes anyone a remix artistIt separates a song’s components, allowing you to turn them off and on.By Mallory Locklear, @mallorylocklear ....
From Schneier on Security
Security Flaw in Estonian National ID Card
We have no idea how bad this really is: On 30 August, an international team of researchers informed the Estonian Information System Authority (RIA) of a vulnerability...
From My Biased Coin
Grace Hopper College
I hadn't seen the news about Yale renaming Calhoun College to Hopper College; it just popped into one of my newslines here in the New York times. I guess I hadn't...
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Curriculum is Hard
Generally speaking I am a roll my own sort of teacher when it comes to curriculum. This year that is a bit overwhelming because I am teaching four different courses...
From The Noisy Channel
10 Things Everyone Should Know About Machine Learning
As someone who often finds himself explaining machine learning to non-experts, I offer the following list as a public service announcement. Machine learning means...
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