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Friday Squid Blogging: Gonatus Squid Eating a Dragonfish
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Gonatus Squid Eating a Dragonfish

There's a video: Last July, Choy was on a ship off the shore of Monterey Bay, looking at the video footage transmitted by an ROV many feet below. A Gonatus squid...

Amazon Acquires Blink
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Acquires Blink

Why does Amazon acquire rather than work in collaboration?  Are there particular nuggets of innovation in Blink beyond the obvious?  I have voice driven assistants...

Case for Digital Reinvention
From The Eponymous Pickle

Case for Digital Reinvention

We have seen the start of this digitally driven innovation.   It has been happening for some time.  Good thoughts on its continuation.The case for digital reinvention...

Science and Technology links (December 22nd, 2017)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (December 22nd, 2017)

Bitcoins are electronic records that are meant to be used as currency. They have become increasingly popular and expensive. Reportedly, the famous investment bank...

Looking Back on Computer Science Education in 2017
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Looking Back on Computer Science Education in 2017

Time to look back on the past year I think. I wrote a post in January about what I was watching (Computer Science Education Things I’m Watching in 2017) so I think...

SC17 Awards Ceremony and Conference Recap
From insideHPC

SC17 Awards Ceremony and Conference Recap

In this video from SC17, Jeff Hollingsworth and Paul Hovland host the Conference Finale Event announcing the winners of the Best Paper, Best Poster, ACM GordonSC17...

PRACE Launches Outreach to Universities Program
From insideHPC

PRACE Launches Outreach to Universities Program

The European Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is expanding to make its programs and training offerings more accessible for university students...

Report: Future Software and Data Ecosystem for Scientific Inquiry
From insideHPC

Report: Future Software and Data Ecosystem for Scientific Inquiry

“The tremendous progress that we’re making toward the achievement of exascale systems, both here in the United States and in the European Union and Asia, will be...

Marketing via Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marketing via Augmented Reality

Do such focused AR experiences for purchase work?    Has been driving some interest.Patrón mixes e-commerce and AR    by Jonathan GrossWhen Apple opened up ARKit...

Video: Inside the Award-Winning Stanford Living Heart Project
From insideHPC

Video: Inside the Award-Winning Stanford Living Heart Project

In this video, Staffan Hansson from AdvaniaDC chats with Wolfgang Gentzsch from The UberCloud about the award-winning Stanford Living Heart Project, how the partnership...

Managing Data and Video Content
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Data and Video Content

I just reexamined their online presence.  Join in ....JambaarEasily Manage the Entire Lifecycle of all your Data and Video Content from a Single Platform  The Intelligent...

Amazon's Door Lock Is Amazon's Bid to Control Your Home
From Schneier on Security

Amazon's Door Lock Is Amazon's Bid to Control Your Home

Interesting essay about Amazon's smart lock: When you add Amazon Key to your door, something more sneaky also happens: Amazon takes over. You can leave your keys...

Happy new year 2018!
From Putting People First

Happy new year 2018!

The post Happy new year 2018! appeared first on Putting people first.

Happy new year 2018!
From Putting People First

Happy new year 2018!

The post Happy new year 2018! appeared first on Putting people first.

I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do…
From The Noisy Channel

I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do…

I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do so with the expectation that their public profile will appear...

Assistive Tech Examples
From The Eponymous Pickle

Assistive Tech Examples

Emphasizing help for the disabled using Emerging Technology:Assistive tech is progressing faster than ever, and these 7 devices prove it  By Luke Dormehl in DigitalTrends...

Thank you for the kind words.
From The Noisy Channel

Thank you for the kind words.

Thank you for the kind words. As for your second point, Nick Bostrom defines “superintelligence” as “an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains...

Augmenting  Human Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmenting Human Intelligence

Quite an interesting piece.   Obvious at one level.  Its always about augmenting human intelligence,  at least in any near term view.   So then its about how well...

Announcing a Series of Worldwide GPU Hackathons in 2018
From insideHPC

Announcing a Series of Worldwide GPU Hackathons in 2018

ORNL is hosting a series of GPU Hackathons in 2018. The first event will take place March 5-9 at TU Dresden in Germany. "The goal of each Hackathon is for current...

Advanced Protein Prediction Using Deep Learning on Blue Waters Supercomputer
From insideHPC

Advanced Protein Prediction Using Deep Learning on Blue Waters Supercomputer

Researchers at NCSA used the Blue Waters Supercomputer and Deep Learning to achieve a breakthrough in protein structure predictions. As published in the Cell Systems...
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