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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Acoustical Attacks against Hard Drives
Interesting destructive attack: "Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs": Abstract: Among storage components, hard disk drives (HDDs) have become the most commonly...
From insideHPC
Deep Learning and Automatic Differentiation from Theano to PyTorch
Inquisitive minds want to know what causes the universe to expand, how M-theory binds the smallest of the small particles or how social dynamics can lead to revolutions...
From insideHPC
Trinity Supercomputer lands at #7 on TOP500
The Trinity Supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory was recently named as a top 10 supercomputer on two lists: it made number three on the High Performance...
From insideHPC
Xtreme Design Demo at SC17
In this video from SC17, Naoki Shibata from Xtreme Design demonstrates the company's innovative solutions for deploying and managing HPC clouds. "Customers canXtreme...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading on Screens
Scientists say screens hurt our ability to comprehend the information we read By Luke Dormehl... According to a new piece of research coming out of Pennsylvania...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Balancing Social Media?
Intriguing, but seems this could also be directly misused.Conflicting Views on Social Media Balanced By an AlgorithmAalto UniversityResearchers at Aalto University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Map's Moat
Google Map's Moat. Mapping is modeling, for and about a particular context. So the details and comparison between Apple and Google are fascinating. Been using...
From insideHPC
12 Days of Christmas from Radio Free HPC & Dan Olds
In this video, Dan Olds from Radio Free HPC offers up his rant-filled rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas. The Radio Free HPC podcast is a joint production by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leveraging Consumer DNA
Should marketers personalize products using consumers’ DNA? by Tom Ryan in Retailwire with discussion.According to a study from the University of South Carolina...
From insideHPC
2018 Technology Trends from Mellanox CTO Michael Kagan
In this video, Mellanox CTO Michael Kagan offers his view of technology trends for 2018. "Mellanox is looking forward to continued to Technology and Product Leadership...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Submits Comments Supporting Security Research DMCA Exemption
On December 19, USACM submitted a short comment to the Copyright Office in support of an exemption to the prohibitions against circumvention of copyright protection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business History
Video and transcript from Bain:The prevailing paradigm that has underpinned business for the past 50 years is beginning to shift. Over the next 10 years, we will...
From insideHPC
Ace Computers Offers OpenStack Solutions
Today Ace Computers announced four leading-edge OpenStack applications for clusters, servers and workstations. Although the company has been working with top open...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fjord Trends from Accenture
Brought to my attention:Fjord Trends (Design and Innovation from Accenture) A look at what's ahead for the future of business, technology and design.PhysicalDigital...
From insideHPC
Video: Taking the Nanoscale to the Exascale
Theresa Windus from Iowa State University gave this Invited Talk at SC17. "This talk will focus on the challenges that computational chemistry faces in taking the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Machines of Wal-Mart
Been following Wal-Mart's tech for many years, worked with them in in the realm of RFID systems and supply chains. Been reviewing the history. Much writtenThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Insurance
Some of our earliest work in advanced analytics and AI work dealt closely with risk and thus with elements of insurance. And then talking to the insurance industry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shazam for Data on Music Behavior
Have been recording my music listening habits via IFTTT, and smart speakers and then analyzing it over time. As a means of predictively understanding this over...
From The Eponymous Pickle