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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Apple and GE Join for Industrial Mobile IOS
Apple isn't known for industrial, so this is an interesting spin. Note also the predictive spin using I assume machine learning. Much more about the work atApple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Show vs Google YouTube
Brought to my attention weeks ago. Just because they are in competition with assistants? Or is it some technical aspect of how marketing value is shared in Youtube...
From insideHPC
MareNostrum Supercomputer to contribute 475 million core hours to European Research
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre announced plans to allocate 475 million core hours of its supercomputer MareNostrum to 17 research projects as part of...
From insideHPC
HPC I/O for Computational Scientists
Phil Carns from Argonne gave this talk at the 2017 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Darshan is a scalable HPC I/O characterization tool. It...
From Schneier on Security
IoT Cybersecurity: What's Plan B?
In August, four US Senators introduced a bill designed to improve Internet of Things (IoT) security. The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017 is a modest piece...
From insideHPC
How Manufacturing will Leap Forward with Exascale Computing
In this special guest feature, Jeremy Thomas from Lawrence Livermore National Lab writes that exascale computing will be a vital boost to the U.S. manufacturing...
From insideHPC
1000x Faster Deep-Learning at Petascale Using Intel Xeon Phi Processors
A cumulative effort over several years to scale the training of deep-learning neural networks has resulted in the first demonstration of petascale deep-learning...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Am I Doing It All Wrong?
My programming students are learning about methods. Functions, subroutines, what ever you want to call them they are important. Coming up with examples for demos...
From Putting People First
Innovate through service design – Experientia and Intesa Sanpaolo for “Torino Design of the City”
by Erin O’Loughlin – Photos: Naz Kazazoglu In Turin, you only need to tell your taxi driver “Take me to the skyscraper” to end up at the impressive Innovation Center...
From insideHPC
Intel to Ship Neural Network Processor by end of year
Intel's Naveen Rao writes that Intel will soon be shipping the world’s first family of processors designed from the ground up for artificial intelligence. As announced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon, Microsoft and Healthcare
Will it be head to head or collaborative? Microsoft has already said they were collaborating with Alexa systems in their recent meeting. Future health systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Workflow Drones
Logical, first I had seen this stated this way. But then anything that does work to perform useful tasks or gather data should ideally be integrated into a workflow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms teaching Algorithms
The ultimate AI play has devices teaching each other in context.AI Algorithms Are Starting to Teach AI AlgorithmsAutomating machine learning will make the technology...
From insideHPC
ESnet’s Science DMZ Could Help Transfer and Protect Medical Research Data
The Science DMZ architecture developed for moving large data sets quick and securely could be adapted to meet the needs of the medical research community. "Like...
From insideHPC
Call for Contributions: PEARC18 in Pittsburgh
The PEARC18 Conference has issued its Call for Contributions. The conference takes place June 22-27 in Pittsburgh. "The Practice & Experience in Advanced Research...
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Jesús Labarta from BSC to receive Ken Kennedy Award
Today ACM and IEEE Computer Society named Jesús Labarta of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center as the recipient of the 2017 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. Labarta...
From insideHPC
Video: The AI Initiative at NIST
Michael Garris from NIST gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "AI-enabled systems are beginning to revolutionize fields such as commerce, healthcare, transportation...
From insideHPC
OpenSFS Announces Maintenance Release 2.10.1 for Lustre
OpenSFS today announced the first Long Term Support (LTS) maintenance release of Lustre 2.10.1. "This latest advance, in effect, fulfills a commitment made by Intel...
From Schneier on Security
Security Flaw in Infineon Smart Cards and TPMs
A security flaw in Infineon smart cards and TPMs allows an attacker to recover private keys from the public keys. Basically, the key generation algorithm sometimes...
From insideHPC