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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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UPCRC Illinois Summer School for Multicore
The Universal Parallel Computing Research Center has announced a series of courses this summer designed to introduce programmers to multicore programming paradigms...
From CERIAS Blog
Symposium Summary: Distinguished Lecture
A summary written by Nabeel Mohamed. The main focus of the talk was to highlight the need for “information-centric security” over existing infrastructure centric...
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Symposium Summary: Fireside Chat
A panel summary by Utsav Mittal. Panel Members: Eugene H. Spafford, CERIAS Ron Ritchey, IATAC John Thompson, Symantec It’s an enlightening experience to listen...
From CERIAS Blog
Symposium Summary: Security in the Cloud Panel
A panel summary by Ashish Kamra. Panel Members: Lorenzo D. Martino, College of Technology, Purdue University Keith Watson, CERIAS, Purdue University Dennis R...
From CERIAS Blog
Symposium Summary: Transitive Security & Standards Adoption Panel
A panel summary by Jason Ortiz. Panel Members: Pascal Meunier, CERIAS, Purdue University Tim Grance, NIST Shimon Modi, Biometrics Standards, Performance and...
From insideHPC
Monsters vs. Aliens: 100 Terabytes, 1,000 years of rendering, and
The boys and I saw Monsters vs. Aliens this weekend. They loved it, I enjoyed it, and I was astonished at the visual quality of what used to be the hard stuff in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Colgate's Mini Disposable Toothbrush
Colgate continues to do very well. " ... Colgate thinks it could score with the Wisp, set to debut on Apr. 6. Several years in development, it's a disposable mini...
From insideHPC
Work with NCSA in the Google Summer of
The optics on this are great: marry an HPTC research organization with the cool hip chic-ness of Google. From the release NCSA has been selected as a mentor organization...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 30
March 31 Markup: The Research and Science Education Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will markup pending legislation, including the STEM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google on Emotion and Computing
All intelligence has an emotional component. Thus it is not unexpected that artificial intelligence has an emotional element. We all experience it. The frustration...
From Wild WebMink
Manchester, Olso, San Francisco - Upcoming Gigs
I've got some speaking engagements coming up, two of them free of charge. This Wednesday I'll be at Manchester United FC delivering the opening keynote at the Local...
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Macedonia
There was sketchy news on the computerwebs on Friday that Macedonia has just installed its very first supercomputer (no, I didn’t where Macedonia was either: it’s...
From insideHPC
Intel Details Future Graphics
On Friday of last week, Intel decided to unveil more details on its upcoming graphics chip, Larrabee.
From insideHPC
Cray option buy back
Remember back at the end of February when insideHPC broke the news that Cray was offering to buy back drowning options from employees as a gesture of goodwill?...
From insideHPC
Today
I wrote a feature last week for HPCwire on solid state drives. I had two goals: first, to provide a little background for those wondering exactly what an SSD is...
From insideHPC
The week in
My regular weekly feature at HPCwire was up late last week; from that article’s introduction Sun sells supers down under for weather prediction; new Rackable solution...
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Oxford installs supercomputer from Streamline
In mid-March I had an email show up in the insideHPC news hopper with a pointer to news that the University of Oxford had just installed a new cluster from Streamline...
From insideHPC
Academic HPC
A couple weeks ago I invited vendors with academic discounts to send me info and I’d do a round up here in response to what looked like a growing trend. I only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fun not Fear
Barb Didrichsen points me to a new site by Phil Terry: Fun not Fear. " ... The science and math behind 'bad news' With the "fun not fear" Facebook campaign, we...
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