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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 …
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Parallel Applications Speed Up Manufacturing Product Development
The product design process has undergone a significant transformation with the availability of supercomputing power at traditional workstation prices. With over...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Rebecca Dovi–the update
Rebecca Dovi is a ball of energy. She is full of ideas and always doing cool things. When I last interviewed her (http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/08/cs-educator...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Identifiying Plant Disease
Out of the fall garden and back to the possibilities of pattern recognition. Back to my alternate botanic tech universe. Penn State work using deep learning to...
From Apophenia
Your Data is Being Manipulated
Excerpt from “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine,” Sergey Brin and Larry Page (April 1998) What follows is the crib from my keynote at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing Human Body Parts
3D-Printing Human Body Parts By Keith Kirkpatrick Communications of the ACM, Vol. 60 No. 10, Pages 15-17 The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing is already...
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Field Farmed by Drones
A Field Farmed only by DronesThe experience of the Hands Free Hectare team suggests that drone agriculture offers some substantial benefits. ... Across the United...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Millennial Attitudes
Millennials' Attitudes Toward IT Consumerization in the WorkplaceBy Heiko Gewald, Xuequn Wang, Andy Weeger, Mahesh S. Raisinghani, Gerald Grant, Otavio Sanchez...
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SC17 Highlights Nobel Prize Winning LIGO Collaboration
In this video from SC17, researchers discuss the role of HPC in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of gravitational waves, originally theorized 100 years ago bySC17...
From The Eponymous Pickle
D-Wave and Quantum Computers
Have followed D-Wave systems for years. Quite a good and detailed piece about what they are doing, their clients and direction.Is Quantum Computing for Real?An...
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Clemson to complete $1 million upgrade of Palmetto HPC Cluster
A $1-million upgrade to Clemson University’s Palmetto Cluster is expected to help researchers quicken the pace of scientific discovery and technological innovation...
From The Noisy Channel
Why Voice isn’t Selling…Yet
Originally published in VentureBeat.Personal digital assistants have taken the world by storm. We have Siri and Google Assistant on our phones, and many of us have...
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HPC Powers High Pressure Casting Simulation at Shiloh Industries
Hal Gerber from Shiloh Industries gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "Shiloh is the global leader in high-integrity, high-vacuum, high-pressureHPC...
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Argonne’s Data Science Program Doubles Down with New Projects
Today Argonne announced that the ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP) has awarded computing time to four new projects, bringing the total number of ADSP projects for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ubiquity Blog from the ACM
New blog by the ACM. The digitally connected world has become a large, swirling sea of information stripped of context. We help our readers make sense of it, find...
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Fighting the West Nile Virus with HPC & Analytical Ultracentrifugation
Researchers are using new techniques with HPC to learn more about how the West Nile virus replicates inside the brain. "Over several years, Demeler has developed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Seeking to Dominate VR
Technology Review reports on Microsoft's view. Again, lets see examples beyond gaming. There is real value here.Microsoft Is Going All-in on Virtual and Augmented...
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Explaining Smart Contracts
Have worked with companies that set simple alarms to warn them of renewal dates and expiration of contracts. This takes it much further. Good simplified view....
From Schneier on Security
HP Shared ArcSight Source Code with Russians
Reuters is reporting that HP Enterprise gave the Russians a copy of the ArcSight source code. The article highlights that ArcSight is used by the Pentagon to protect...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Michael Cohen 1992-2017 and Vladimir Voevodsky 1966–2017
Two more tragic losses coming before a greater tragedy Composite of crops from src1, src2 Michael Cohen and Vladimir Voevodsky were in different stages of their...
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