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Diane Bryant, executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group at Intel, says the Intel Nervana platforms will “produce breakthrough

The recent crash of a driverless car sends a clear warning about how algorithms can be deadly (1). Similarly, there are clear dangers in vital national services, such as communications, financial trading, healthcare, and transportation. These services depend on sophisticated algorithms, some relying on unpredictable artificial intelligence techniques, such as deep learning, that are increasingly embedded in complex software systems (2⇓–4). As search algorithms, high-speed trading, medical devices, and autonomous aircraft become more widely implemented, stronger checks become necessary to prevent failures (5, 6). Proper independent oversight and investigation of flawed algorithms can help anticipate and improve quality, hence avoiding failures that lead to disaster. Image courtesy of Shutterstock/joloei. What might help are traditional forms of independent oversight that use knowledgeable people who have powerful tools to anticipate, monitor, and retrospectively review operations of vital national services. The three forms of independent oversight that have been used in the past by industry and governments—planning oversight, continuous monitoring by knowledgeable review boards using advanced software, and a retrospective analysis of disasters—provide guidance for responsible technology leaders and concerned policy makers (7). Considering all three forms of oversight could lead to policies that prevent inadequate designs, biased outcomes, or criminal actions. There is a long history of analyses of how poor design, unintentional bias, and malicious interventions can cause algorithms to trigger huge financial losses, promote unfair decisions, violate laws, and even cause deaths (8). Helen Nissenbaum, a scholar who focuses on the impact of technology on culture and society, identified the sources of bugs and biases in software, complaining about the “systematic erosion … [↵][1]1Email: ben{at}cs.umd.edu. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1

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Andy Jassy heads Amazon Web Services, the cloud-computing division that drives much of Amazon.com’s profitability. He spoke with The Seattle Times before re: Invent, an annual AWS conference in Las Vegas that takes place this week.

An upcoming, massive “atlas of the underworld” will allow geologists to rewind geologic time.

A theory posits that the all of our thoughts are a function of a basic algorithm, N=2^i–1. This development may be huge for AI, since artificial neural networks operate much like the brain, applying this formula may be the key to true intelligence.

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Tracing its roots to October 1941, CIA’s Cartography Center has a long, proud history of service to the Intelligence Community (IC) and continues to respond to a variety of finished intelligence map requirements. The mission of the Cartography Center is to provide a full range of maps, geographic analysis, and research in support of the Agency, the White House, senior policymakers, and the IC at large. Its chief objectives are to analyze geospatial information, extract intelligence-related geodata, and present the information visually in creative and effective ways for maximum understanding by intelligence consumers. Since 1941, the Cartography Center maps have told the stories of post-WWII reconstruction, the Suez crisis, the Cuban Missile crisis, the Falklands War, and many other important events in history.

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Like everything in enterprise technology, pricing can be a bit complicated. Here's an analysis from RightScale looking at how discounts alter the cloud pricing equation. Google comes out cheapest in most scenarios.

Complacency may eventually be Amazon’s undoing – more than arrogance, more even than the maladies of massive scale. It’s still a young company. Let’s hope that tech historians of the future don’t end up considering it to be a sudden bright light, only to have faded away too quickly.

Heroku-like experience when using AWS Lambda. Contribute to kubek2k/lambdoku development by creating an account on GitHub.

The company is dropping its ‘pure play’ slogan and evolving a support and services business model around OpenStack cloud.

The demand for faster computing is very high nowadays, and that's one of the main reasons why modern computer hardware cannot seem to keep up with this trend. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is very much aware of this fact and has now set its eyes on rolling out quantum computing hardware…

Ericsson is making the components of its network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVi) platform modular.

Sumo Logic research shows its customers favor AWS for building their apps, Redis for storing data, and Nginx for serving it all up

The Node.js Foundation and NodeSource are improving extensibility and security for the server-side JavaScript platform

The Review Apps feature lets developers create temporary apps for reviewing merge requests before moving to production

Improvements to AWS Lambda ease development pains and could help defray worries about Lambda lock-in

A popular meme is that the cloud is just "someone else's computer." Jack Wallen explains why the cloud is so much more complex than the meme would have you believe.

Kafka and Functional Reactive Programming with Node.js to create a fast, reliable, and scalable data processing pipeline over a stream of events.

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It's possible that you're the way you are, that you do what you do, that you react as you react, and that it can never be changed. Believing this is incredibly sad, though. Each of us is …