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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
Waymo Training Cars
Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving CarsAn exclusive look at how Alphabet understands its most ambitious artificial intelligence projectAlexis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Airbags for Robots (To protect the Humans they Work With)
From Idea Connection. Includes a video. Via Ideaconnection. Airbags for Robots Protect Co-Workers Inflatable airbags for robots could help to protect their fragile...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analyzing Social Tone
Instructive Watson Example, via O'ReillyHow can I use IBM Watson to analyze the tone of social media posts?Learn how to use IBM Watson's APIs and natural language...
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing 2018
Several of my students have applied for this award and all found it quite worthwhile.There are many benefits for students in high school and college. It’s really...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Voice Assistant Systems with Inaudible Voice Commands
Turns out that all the major voice assistants -- Siri, Google Now, Samsung S Voice, Huawei HiVoice, Cortana and Alexa -- listen at audio frequencies the human ear...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple on Virtual and Augmented Reality
Saw these presentations today. Relatively little was presented on AR and VR, except in the game space. But apparently it will be presented live in their visitor...
From insideHPC
Cavium Joins the OpenMP Effort for ThunderX2 Processor
Today the OpenMP ARB organization announced that Cavium has joined as a new member. "Cavium’s membership in the OpenMP ARB further highlights our strong beliefCavium...
From insideHPC
CCIX Project to link ARM Processors to FPGAs for HPC
Today ARM, Xilinx, Cadence, and Taiwan Semiconductor announced plans to produce the first test chip for the Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX)CCIX...
From insideHPC
Seeking Teams for the 2018 Student Cluster Competition at ISC in Frankfurt
The HPC Advisory Council has officially kicked off the ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition (SCC) with an open call for team entries in the 2018 competition. "The...
From insideHPC
Video: Characterization and Benchmarking of Deep Learning
Natalia Vassilieva from HP Labs gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "Our Deep Learning Cookbook is based on a massive collection of performanceVideo...
From Apophenia
Data & Society’s Next Stage
In March 2013, in a flurry of days, I decided to start a research institute. I’d always dreamed of doing so, but it was really my amazing mentor and boss – Jennifer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reshaping Business with AI
Good executive view.Reshaping Business with Artificial IntelligenceClosing the Gap Between Ambition and Actionby: Sam Ransbotham, David Kiron, Philipp Gerbert and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy of Home Robotic Data
Thoughful piece that follows up on the use of home robots building models of homes, and potential sharing of that data. More broadly we will see this kindInterview...
From insideHPC
Solving AI Hardware Challenges
For many deep learning startups out there, buying AI hardware and a large quantity of powerful GPUs is not feasible. So many of these startup companies are turning...
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
National Briefing Call on K-12 Computer Science Education
I'm told this will be very well worth the time. I may even join with my Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles students.We are pleased to invite you toCSforAll...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clearpath Moderizes TurtleBot
Clearpath Modernizes TurtleBot With Intel Euclid and iRobot Create By Evan Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum Clearpath Robotics, in partnership with Intel and iRobot,For...
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Yet Another Example of the Importance of Good Names
A little Tuesday humor. I think I may use this to help students understand the importance of good variable names and other identifiers.
From Schneier on Security
Securing a Raspberry Pi
A Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer designed for markers and all sorts of Internet-of-Things types of projects. Make magazine has an article about securing it. Reading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Sound Environments
We experimented with managing sound environments in retail. Perhaps a more rigorous way to look at the problem? See my tags on this. A New Mobile Application...
From The Noisy Channel