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Designing Computer Science Classrooms
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Designing Computer Science Classrooms

Computer science is being taught in all kinds of classrooms across the country, not just in computer labs. As more schools increase their computer science offerings...

Ellexus Container Checker looks to Revolutionize Cloud Container Use
From insideHPC

Ellexus Container Checker looks to Revolutionize Cloud Container Use

Ellexus has launched Container Checker on Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace, a pioneering cloud-based tool that provides visibility into the inner workings of Docker...

From Computational Complexity

Matching and Complexity

Given a group of people, can you pair them up so that each pair are Facebook friends with each other? This is the famous perfect matching problem. The complexity...

Pagoda Project Rolls Out First Software Libraries for Exascale
From insideHPC

Pagoda Project Rolls Out First Software Libraries for Exascale

The Pagoda Project—a three-year Exascale Computing Project software development program based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory—has successfully reachedPagoda...

Visualizing with Software Rendering with Intel Xeon Phi
From insideHPC

Visualizing with Software Rendering with Intel Xeon Phi

There are two main categories or uses where rendering on the Intel Xeon Phi processors should be investigated. The first is what could be called "Professional rendering"...

CS Educator Interview: Steven Floyd
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CS Educator Interview: Steven Floyd

Computer Science education is important all over the world. Recently Steven Floyd who teaches at Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School in London, Ontario, Canada...

Heart Size: Yet Another Biometric
From Schneier on Security

Heart Size: Yet Another Biometric

Turns out that heart size doesn't change throughout your adult life, and you can use low-level Doppler radar to scan the size -- even at a distance -- as a biometric...

Avoiding Your Teacher's Mistakes: Training Neural Networks with Controlled Weak Supervision
From Mostafa Dehghani

Avoiding Your Teacher's Mistakes: Training Neural Networks with Controlled Weak Supervision

This post is about the project I've done in colaboration with Aliaksei Severyn, Sascha Rothe, and Jaap Kamps, during my internship at Google Research. Deep neural...

Alexa at Berlin IFA 2017
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa at Berlin IFA 2017

A list of Alexa driven capabilities being shown at IFA, from Slashgear.   Not enough detail, but of interest to show the pickup of the digital assistant.     Amazon...

Links vs Privacy vs Asset Value?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Links vs Privacy vs Asset Value?

The researchers want to implement this as a browser extension.  Could a variation on this be used to estimate asset value of data over time?   ....Algorithm shows...

Predictive Maintenance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predictive Maintenance

Some of the earliest examples of useful AI were in the area of maintenance, and predictive diagnosis.  We examined a number. of engineering applications.  The market...

“The Ultimate Trading Machine” from Penguin Computing sets Record for Low Latency
From insideHPC

“The Ultimate Trading Machine” from Penguin Computing sets Record for Low Latency

The world of High Frequency Trading is all about reducing latency to make money. At the recent STAC Summit in Chicago, a Penguin Computing device called The Ultimate...

Supermicro Showcases Volta GPU Systems at GTC Washington DC
From insideHPC

Supermicro Showcases Volta GPU Systems at GTC Washington DC

This week at GTC DC, Supermicro is showcasing GPU server platforms that support NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCI-E and V100 SXM2 GPUs. “Our high performance computing solutions...

NVIDIA Expands Deep Learning Institute
From insideHPC

NVIDIA Expands Deep Learning Institute

Today NVIDIA announced a broad expansion of its Deep Learning Institute (DLI), which is training tens of thousands of students, developers and data scientists with...

Video: The State of Linux Containers
From insideHPC

Video: The State of Linux Containers

"Linux Containers gain more and more momentum in all IT ecosystems. This talk provides an overview about what happened in the container landscape (in particular...

Guide to Amazon SEO
From The Eponymous Pickle

Guide to Amazon SEO

Received this invitation to get and forward this offer for a PDF guide,  you do have to provide some registration information.   Via Retailwire.Ultimate Guide to...

Vicki Davis Interviews Alfred Thompson about CS Education
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Vicki Davis Interviews Alfred Thompson about CS Education

Vicki Davis has a wonderful podcast with interesting educators. Over the summer she interviewed me about teaching Computer Science. Topics include: How to get kids...

Agenda Posted for DDN User Group at SC17
From insideHPC

Agenda Posted for DDN User Group at SC17

The DDN User Group has posted their agenda for their meetup at SC17. The meeting takes place 2:30pm - 6:30pm on Nov. 13 at the Embassy Suites in Denver. "The DDN...

Solving Problems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Solving Problems

Nice general view of many techniques used to address problem solving ...  We used all of these from time to time.   Often one method is good to check another.13...

UvA at CIKM2017
From Mostafa Dehghani

UvA at CIKM2017

CIKM2017's notifications are out. So there will be nine papers (full/short/demo/workshop) co-authored by our research group at the University of Amsterdam this...
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