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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF and CISE information related to Hurricane Harvey
The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC Launches R&D Unit for Virtual and Augmented Reality
Bottom line, VR especially needs more content to drive interest from consumers, AR also needs strong interest from companies looking for strong marketing channels...
From insideHPC
Trends in the Worldwide HPC Market
In this video from the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway from Hyperion Research present and update on HPC, AI, and Storage markets. "Hyperion...
From insideHPC
Podcast: HPE Sends a Supercomputer into Orbit
In this TechNative Podcast, Mark Fernandez from HPE describes the company’s collaboration to send a supercomputer into orbit. "“By NASA’s rules, not just any computer...
From insideHPC
X2 Firebird CAE Software Comes to Rescale HPC Cloud
Today Rescale announced plans to offer X2 Firebird CAE software on the company’s ScaleX cloud HPC platform. X2 Firebird will be deployed as the first on-demand,...
From insideHPC
Asetek lands new OEM, Channel Partner, and HPC Installation
Today Asetek announced an order from a new channel partner to service demand from a new OEM customer for an undisclosed HPC installation. All parties remain undisclosed...
From insideHPC
Overview of the MVAPICH Project and Future Roadmap
"This talk will provide an overview of the MVAPICH project (past, present and future). Future roadmap and features for upcoming releases of the MVAPICH2 software...
From Schneier on Security
ShadowBrokers Releases NSA UNITEDRAKE Manual
The ShadowBrokers released the manual for UNITEDRAKE, a sophisticated NSA Trojan that targets Windows machines: Able to compromise Windows PCs running on XP, Windows...
From insideHPC
Canada’s Biggest Radio Telescope to use CoolIT Systems Liquid Cooling
With support from CoolIT Systems with a custom Direct Liquid Cooling solution, the CHIME telescope will map out the entire northern sky each day, aiming to constrain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uber Shows Data and Op Visualization Tools
Impressive examples of visualizing data especially for non technical consumption. Animated examples at the link.Uber shows off its autonomous driving program’s...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Track Held at SSTD 2017
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 15th International Symposium on Spatial & Temporal Databases...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kohl's Tests Echo Smart Home Experience
In RetailWire: " ... Going one step further is Kohl’s, which announced it is opening Amazon smart home experience shops inside 10 stores in the Chicago and Los“We...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
Just Brought to my attention, much more detail at the link.Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA)Overview:Researchers from MILA have pioneered the field...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Sets up Joint Research Lab with MIT
No specific mention of Watson in the article. Uses the word Cognitive. IBM also seems to have stopped most mentions of Watson in major advertising they support...
From Computational Complexity
Statistics on my dead cat policy- is there a correlation?
When I teach a small (at most 40) students I often have the dead-cat policy for late HW: HW is due on Tuesday. But there may be things that come up that don't ...
From insideHPC
Announcing the New MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab
Today IBM announced a 10-year, $240 million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab. "The combined MIT and IBM talent dedicated to this new effort will bring...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Volta GPUs to Help CDDS Advance Medicine with AI
Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Abdul Hamid Halabi writes that the Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS) today received the world’s first NVIDIA DGX systems with Volta...
From insideHPC
The Internet of Things and Tuning
"Understanding how the pipeline slots are being utilized can greatly increase the performance of the application. If pipeline slots are blocked for some reason,...
From insideHPC
Vanguard Infrastructures Teams with Cray for Cybersecurity
Today announced that the Company has signed a solutions provider agreement with Vanguard Infrastructures in order for Vanguard to develop, market, and sell on premise...
From insideHPC