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Facebook’s leading artificial-intelligence researcher Yan Lecun wrote: In the history of science and technology, the engineering…
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IOT Security with Microsoft's Sopris
Security is important for devices that have to be safe in the wild.A Tiny New Chip Could Secure the Next Generation of IOTBy Lily Hay Newman in WiredThe Internet...
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Supercomputing How First Supernovae Altered Early Star Formation
Over at LBNL, Kathy Kincade writes that cosmologists are using supercomputers to study how heavy metals expelled from exploding supernovae helped the first stars...
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IBM Spectrum LSF Powers HPC at SC17
In this video from SC17, Gabor Samu describes how IBM Spectrum LSF helps users orchestrate HPC workloads. "This week we celebrate the release of our second agile...
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Report on Quick Draw
Report from the Google Blog: An example of how to get data with a game. A data game.Since November 2016, people all around the world have drawn one billion doodles...
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McKinsey on the Chinese Consumer
A considerable look at the China consumer. Much more in the article.Double-clicking on the Chinese consumerBy Wouter Baan, Lan Luan, Felix Poh, and Daniel Zipser...
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Dell EMC Powers HPC at University of Liverpool with Alces Flight
Today Dell EMC announced a joint solution with Alces Flight and AWS to provide HPC for the University of Liverpool. Dell EMC will provide a fully managed on-premises...
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Video: Enabling the Future of Artificial Intelligence
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Andres Rodriguez describes his presentation on Enabling the Future of Artificial Intelligence. "Intel has...
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AI to Replace Coders
Seeing indications of this, perhaps not so soon, but inevitable. The implications? transparency perhaps the major issue.AI Will Replace Coders by 2040, Warn ...
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Unsupervised Decision Trees
Nicely done piece. Big supporter of decision trees in general, since that have a basic element of transparency.Have You Heard About Unsupervised Decision Trees...
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Cybersecurity
A piece that looks at the history and math background of modern cyber security. Not overly technical video.Cybersecurity, Nuclear Security, Alan Turing, andMartin...
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Better Recommendation Engines
Researchers Devise Better Recommendation Algorithm Improved recommendation algorithm should work especially well when ratings data are “sparse.”MIT News By Larry...
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Document Classification with Deep Learning
Once again, a good introduction. And demonstration of how these systems can be constructed.Best Practices for Document Classification with Deep Learning by Jason...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
P=NP: Perhaps I Change My Mind
An old result put a new way Albert Meyer knows circuit lower bounds. He co-authored a paper with the late Larry Stockmeyer that proves that small instances of the...
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Ultimate PDF Converter
Always interested in making things more productive. I was told about this method and giving it a try. Remember having some messy experiences with the problem...
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NVIDIA TITAN V GPU Brings Volta to the Desktop for AI Development
Today NVIDIA introduced their new high end TITAN V GPU for desktop PCs. Powered by the Volta architecture, TITAN V excels at computational processing for scientific...
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Video: DDN Applied Technologies, Performance and Use Cases
James Coomer gave this talk at the DDN User Group at SC17. "Our technological and market leadership comes from our long-term investments in leading-edge research...
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Data Vortex Technologies Teams with Providentia Worldwide for HPC
Data Vortex Technologies has formalized a partnership with Providentia Worldwide, LLC. Providentia is a technologies and solutions consulting venture which bridges...
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CS Education Week 2017!
The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation...
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