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Another good one gone too soon
From CERIAS Blog

Another good one gone too soon

Today, I attended the funeral in Illinois of another good friend in infosec: Ken Olthoff. Ken was my friend for over 25 years, and his death was a surprise to me...

Another good one gone too soon
From CERIAS Blog

Another good one gone too soon

Today, I attended the funeral in Illinois of another good friend in infosec: Ken Olthoff. Ken was my friend for over 25 years, and his death was a surprise to me...

Looking Back at Second Life
From The Eponymous Pickle

Looking Back at Second Life

Yes, it still exists, and has roughly the same number of users.   Surprised me.  We did quite a bit of experimentation with it.  Worked with several large IT  groups...

Spotting a Machine Learning Opportunity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Spotting a Machine Learning Opportunity

 Good thoughts, though not quite enough cautions on the implementation.  It contains risk as well as payout.   Also very much like the immediate inclusion of business...

Geographical Context
From The Noisy Channel

Geographical Context

Location often provides a strong signal of searcher intent. Sometimes location acts as an implicit part of the search query, such as when people are searching for...

Day 1 Computing Research: Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs Symposium
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Day 1 Computing Research: Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs Symposium

So far the 2017 hurricane season has been disastrous, however, as we learned today at Day 1 of the Computing Research: Addressing National Priorities and Societal...

FBI Fails at Device Decryption
From The Eponymous Pickle

FBI Fails at Device Decryption

As the article suggests, one more example of another blind spot in accessing data.   And no indications that the big IT and Communications companies are helping...

IBM Process Systems and Automation Anywhere
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Process Systems and Automation Anywhere

Attended the first webinar given about the partnership of Automation Anywhere and IBM notably about the integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) with other...

CS for All Means All Y’All
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CS for All Means All Y’All

Right about now you should be thinking how great it is to be a K-12 CS educator.  If not, let me give you a few reasons.  How terrific it was to hear that President...

Video: What IBM’s 5 Nanometer Transistors Mean for You
From insideHPC

Video: What IBM’s 5 Nanometer Transistors Mean for You

In this video, Nicolas Loubet from IBM Research describes how IBM's new 5 nanometer transistors will provide huge power savings that could enable mobile devices...

Banshee Makes DRAM Cache 33 to 50 percent more efficient
From insideHPC

Banshee Makes DRAM Cache 33 to 50 percent more efficient

Researchers from MIT, Intel, and ETH Zurich have developed a new cache-management scheme that improves the data rate of in-package DRAM caches by 33 to 50 percent...

From Computational Complexity

Open: PROVE the pumping and reductions can't prove every non-reg lang non-reg.

Whenever I post on regular langs, whatever aspect I am looking at, I get a comment telling me that we should stop proving the pumping lemma (and often ask me to...

Fujitsu Deploys immersion-cooled x86 Cluster for JARI in Japan
From insideHPC

Fujitsu Deploys immersion-cooled x86 Cluster for JARI in Japan

Today Fujitsu announced the deployment of a immersion-cooled cluster at the Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI). The new system will be used simulate automobile...

Cray Supercomputing Comes to Microsoft Azure
From insideHPC

Cray Supercomputing Comes to Microsoft Azure

Today Cray announced a partnership with Microsoft to offer dedicated Cray supercomputing systems in Microsoft Azure. Under the partnership agreement, MicrosoftCray...

Register Now For the Intel HPC Developer Conference 2017
From insideHPC

Register Now For the Intel HPC Developer Conference 2017

Powerful technologies today fuel tomorrow’s HPC and High-Performance Data Analytics innovations and help organizations accelerate toward discoveries. Get aheadRegister...

Challenges to Managing an HPC Software Stack
From insideHPC

Challenges to Managing an HPC Software Stack

The HPC system software stack tends to be complicated, assembled out of a diverse mix of somewhat compatible open source and commercial components. This is theChallenges...

Single Node “Cyclops” Supercomputer Looks to Set Records
From insideHPC

Single Node “Cyclops” Supercomputer Looks to Set Records

Today the Radio Free HPC podcast team announced announced plans to build what they hope will be the “fastest single-node supercomputer in the world" for the High...

Hacking Back
From Schneier on Security

Hacking Back

Hacking back is a terrible idea that just will not die. Josephine Wolff takes apart the new hacking back bill that was introduced in the House recently....

Experientia is hiring! Service design intern
From Putting People First

Experientia is hiring! Service design intern

Service Design Intern: Lausanne, Switzerland and Turin, Italy Experientia, an international experience design consultancy, is looking for service design interns...

Experientia is hiring! Senior Service Designer
From Putting People First

Experientia is hiring! Senior Service Designer

Senior Service Designer: Lausanne, Switzerland and Turin, Italy (*) We are looking for service designers with outstanding design skills, methodical thinking, and...
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