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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
A TSP Breakthrough
A new approximation algorithm Composite of src1, src2, src3 Ola Svensson, Jakub Tarnawski, and László Végh have made a breakthrough in the area of approximation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa as Companion for Hospital Stay
An example of AI and chatbot digital assistants being tested for hospital patient interaction. See the tag below: 'Hospital Virtual Assistants' for more diverse...
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: Supercomputing Asia 2018 in Singapore
The inaugural Supercomputing Asia conference has issued its Call for Technical Papers. The event takes place March 26-29, 2018 in Singapore. The post Call for Submissions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics in Hospital Operations
Continuing my look at Hospital Operations and AI/Robotics/Assistants, especially with regard to patient interaction and comfort.Adoption of Robotics Into a Hospital's...
From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Who Wants to be the DNS Server?
We’re studying how the Internet works in my AP CS Principles course. I wanted a little exercise to help students understand how DNS servers work and maybe through...
From insideHPC
MIT Paper Sheds Light on How Neural Networks Think
MIT researchers have developed a new general-purpose technique sheds light on inner workings of neural nets trained to process language. "During training, a neural...
From insideHPC
Video: The DOE Exascale Computing Project
Doug Koethe from ORNL gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. “The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) was established with the goals of maximizing the...
From insideHPC
New OrionX Survey: Insights in Artificial Intelligence
In this Radio Free HPC podcast, Dan Olds and Shahin Khan from OrionX describe their new AI Survey. "OrionX Research has completed one the most comprehensive surveys...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Resources
Good list, mostly courses, on these topics.Writing about AI/ML, growing @YupTechnologies. Previously @Upstart, @Yale, @TrueVenturesTEC. By Vishal Maini The Best...
From Schneier on Security
A Hardware Privacy Monitor for iPhones
Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Edward Snowden have designed a hardware device that attaches to an iPhone and monitors it for malicious surveillance activities, even...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing Better Passwords
Just started to rethink the effective use of passwords here ....Choose Better Passwords With the Help of Science in The ConversationLorrie Cranor; Blase Ur; Lujo...
From Computational Complexity
The Scarecrow's math being wrong was intentional
In 2009 I had a post about Movie mistakes (see here). One of them was the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz after he got a Diploma (AH- but not a brain) he said The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Webinar on AI Fueling the Retail Supply Chain
A.I.’s role in fueling the retail supply chainRetail operators are at a Darwinian crossroads, facing a future in which evolution equates to survival. Many retailers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and MIT Say Materials and Quantum will Supercharge AI
IBM and MIT Bet That Materials and Quantum Advances Will Supercharge AI Technology ReviewBy Will Knight; Elizabeth WoykeThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbots, Theory and Practice
Very nicely done piece on Chatbots, and especially conversations that they claim to produce. Non technical overview.By Jonathan Mugan in Medium:AI and machineDeepGrammar...
From insideHPC
HPC Challenges in Simulating the World’s Most Powerful Tornados
"What makes this work significant is the use of supercomputing resources to produce simulations of supercells where data is saved with extremely high spatial and...
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: GTC 2018 in San Jose
The GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2018) has issued their Call for Participation. The event takes place March 26-29 in San Jose, California. "Don’t miss this unique...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Plantoids: Plant Robotics
I am a botanist from way back, so from time to time you will see tech oriented agri and horti cultural notes. Here from Kickstarter, a still unavailable robotic...![[Book] Everyday Schooling in the Digital Age](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Everyday Schooling in the Digital Age
Everyday Schooling in the Digital Age: High School, High Tech? By Neil Selwyn, Selena Nemorin, Scott Bulfin, Nicola F. Johnson Routledge 2018 – 224 pages [Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle