K-SEC
Meeting Summary
December 19, 2016
Here is a summary of the materials we read at the K-SEC meeting on December 19, 2016.
- Attendees (in ABC order):
Ishikuro, Kanzawa, Kotake, Nishimura, Nishiwaki, Sadayasu, Sekiguchi, Shirashoji, Tomozawa, Tsurumoto, Umemura (Total of 11)
- Reading materials
- Watson (Computer) Summary - Tomozawa
Watson is a question answering computer system capable of answering questions
posed in natural language,[2] developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led
by principal investigator David Ferrucci.[3] Watson was named after IBM's first CEO and
industrialist Thomas J. Watson.[4][5] The computer system was specifically developed to
answer questions on the NBC’s quiz show Jeopardy!.[6] In 2011, Watson competed on
Jeopardy! against former winners Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings.[4][7] Watson received
the first place prize of $1 million.[8]
Watson had access to 200 million pages of structured and unstructured content
consuming four terabytes of disk storage[9] including the full text of Wikipedia,[10] but
was not connected to the Internet during the game.[11][12] For each clue, Watson's three
most probable responses were displayed on the television screen. Watson consistently
outperformed its human opponents on the game's signaling device, but had trouble in a
few categories, notably those having short clues containing only a few words.
According to John Rennie, Watson can process 500 gigabytes, the equivalent of a million
books, per second.[21] IBM's master inventor and senior consultant Tony Pearson
estimated Watson's hardware cost at about three million dollars.[22] Its Linpack
performance stands at 80 TeraFLOPs, which is about half as fast as the cut-off line for
the Top 500 Supercomputers list.[23] According to Rennie, all content was stored in
Watson's RAM for the Jeopardy game because data stored on hard drives would be too
slow to be competitive with human Jeopardy champions.[21]
In February 2013, IBM announced that Watson software system's first commercial
application would be for utilization management decisions in lung cancer treatment at
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in conjunction with health insurance company
WellPoint.[13] IBM Watson's former business chief Manoj Saxena says that 90% of
nurses in the field who use Watson now follow its guidance.[14]
2. Trump Is Setting a Terrible Precedent – Sekiguchi
DEC 1, 2016 9:09 PM ESTMichael Schuman, Bloomburg
Factory workers should be cheering. Donald Trump, actually living up to a campaign
promise, has been badgering corporate America to keep manufacturing jobs at home.
Many of you are probably saying: Hey, why haven't we done this sort of thing all along?
Finally, we've got a tough guy in the White House who can stop those fat cats from
moving our jobs overseas!
The problem is thatTrump's bullying will undermine the rule of law -- and ultimately prove
detrimental to the U.S. economy. We know this because he's far from the first
government official to try such meddling. In Japan bureaucrats were once famous for it
as the notorious "administrative guidance."行政指導
Even worse, Trump is pressuring these firms to act against their self-interest. As part of
the deal, they will receive millions of Dollar incentives from the states. In other words,the
costs will be borne by the hardworking taxpayers of USA.
My advice to Trump is to not become a Japanese bureaucrat. Press Congress for explicit
policies to encourage local manufacturing -- if you can. But don't resort to public
shaming,back-room haggling and implicit threats. The U.S. economy has long been
based on transparency, rule of law and free enterprise. It should stay that way
The summary of KSEC discussions were as follows
Trump’s politics have both good points and bad. His certain issues are pretty fresh ,
which has never been displayed by the previous Presidents . The reason is they behaved
in gentle and generous manners, which they can afford with the background that USA
was anyway, the super and sole power of the world.
We Japanese may be asked to share certain burdens which were up to now granted as
USA cost. Time has come to start a maiden voyage after 70 years
Role assignment for January 16, 2017
Kotake, Sadayasu
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