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The municipalists : a novel
\"In Metropolis, the gleaming city of tomorrow, the dream of the great American city has been achieved. But all that is about to change, unless a neurotic, rule-following bureaucrat and an irreverent, freewheeling artificial intelligence can save the city from a mysterious terrorist plot that threatens its very existence. [This book] is a thrilling, funny, and touching adventure story, a tour-de-force of imagination that trenchantly explores our relationships to the cities around us and the technologies guiding us into the future\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Winning the Race With Ever-Smarter Machines
Rapid advances in information technology computer hardware, software and networks are yielding applications that can do anything from answering game show questions to driving cars. But to gain true leverage from these ever-improving technologies, companies need new processes and business models. The authors observe that automated activities that once seemed impossible are becoming real, because of plentiful accurate data, powerful sensors, massive storage capacity and increasing processing power. The capabilities of computers are now improving so quickly that concepts can move from the realm of science fiction into everyday life in just a few years, rather than a lifetime. This remarkable progress is due to two concepts: Moore's Law (now generally accepted as the doubling of computing capacity every 18 months) and the power of exponential growth. The authors point out that digitization is an ongoing process of creative destruction that innovators use to make deep changes at the level of the task, the process and the organization itself. Its effects can be seen in all industries and sectors. Rather than positioning these changes as humans against machines, the authors propose that the key is to win by using machines to invent new organizational structures, processes and business models that mix human and machine capabilities. They detail several strategies, including creating processes that combine the speed of technology with human insight, leveraging IT to enable new forms of human collaboration and commerce, using human insight to apply IT in order to improve processes, and using IT to propagate the new processes that people develop. When businesses are based on bits instead of atoms, the possibilities for innovation are endless. This article also includes a list of new technologies to watch such as voice recognition and translation software and one of skills that will remain in demand. As computers get better at pattern recognition, complex communication and other skills, many kinds of jobs will become obsolete. But computers limitations such as an inability to think outside the box or to empathize ensure that skills such as negotiation, good writing and good management will continue to be needed.
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Three laws lethal
\"The place, New York City; the time, the very near future. The streets of Gotham are swarming with self-driving cars, which are now a reality, and the competition between two entrepreneurs for this cutthroat futuristic business grows increasingly fierce. But when the escalating technological warfare produces superintelligent AI computers that use data to decide who should live and die, the results are explosive . . . and deadly.It is left to young Naomi Sumner, inventor of the virtual world in which the AIs train, to recognize that the supercomputers are developing goals of their own - goals for which they are willing to kill. But can she stop these inhuman machines before it is too late? More importantly, will she stop them?\"--Publisher description.
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Unforgettable
\"Due to a fluke of quantum mechanics, no one can remember Nat Morgan for more than a minute after he's gone. It's a useful ability for his career as a CIA agent, even if he has to keep reminding his boss that he exists. Nat's attempt to steal a quantum chip prototype is thwarted when a former FSB agent, Yelena Semyonova, attempts to steal the same technology for the Russian mob. Along with a brilliant Iranian physicist who wants to defect, Nat and Yelena must work together to stop a ruthless billionaire from finishing a quantum supercomputer that will literally control the fate of the world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Goldstrike : a thriller
After escaping Camp Twilight, eighteen-year-old Carl Hobbes and Beth, his girlfriend, begin a new life in London, England, where he attempts to program Sphynx Cargo's highly intelligent supercomputer to help protect them from the CIA and assassins.
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DRAM Errors and Cosmic Rays: Space Invaders or Science Fiction?
It is widely accepted that cosmic rays are a plausible cause of DRAM errors in high-performance computing (HPC) systems, and various studies suggest that they could explain some aspects of the observed DRAM error behavior. However, this phenomenon is insufficiently studied in production environments. We analyze the correlations between cosmic rays and DRAM errors on two HPC clusters: a production supercomputer with server-class DDR3-1600 and a prototype with LPDDR3-1600 and no hardware error correction. Our error logs cover 2000 billion MB-hours for the MareNostrum 3 supercomputer and 135 million MB-hours for the Mont-Blanc prototype. Our analysis combines quantitative analysis, formal statistical methods and machine learning. We detect no indications that cosmic rays have any influence on the DRAM errors. To understand whether the findings are specific to systems under study, located at 100 meters above the sea level, the analysis should be repeated on other HPC clusters, especially the ones located on higher altitudes. Also, analysis can (and should) be applied to revisit and extend numerous previous studies which use cosmic rays as a hypothetical explanation for some aspects of the observed DRAM error behaviors.
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