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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
On the Edge of Eclipses and P=NP
A topical look at Norbert Blum’s paper and wider thoughts. Thales of Miletus may—or may not—have accurately predicted one or more total solar eclipses in the years...
From insideHPC
ORNL Readies Facility for 200 Petaflop Summit Supercomputer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is moving equipment into a new high-performance computing center this month which is anticipated to become one of the world’s premier...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Respecting Absurd Ideas
Always liked the idea of exploring the edge of possibilities. Here a look at how to exploit absurd suggestions. Which break down into Respect the idea, and Play...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
35 Innovators Under the Age of 35
Every year the MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 35 innovators under the age of 35. They recently published the list for 2017. Of the 35 innovators, 14 are...
From insideHPC
Nuñez-Corrales Awarded SIGHPC Computational Data and Science Fellowship
Santiago Nuñez-Corrales, a graduate researcher at NCSA and Ph.D. student in Informatics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was one of twelve recipients...
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Powers Bioinformatics Research at Rockefeller University
In this video, researchers describe how the new HPC facility at Rockefeller University will power bioinformatics research and more. This is the first time thatVideo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Classifications
We all like to classify things, its efficient. Mathematicians just like to classify more formally. And we use that in data science so we can make use of the...
From Computational Complexity
The World is Not for Me
I wanted to address diversity after the Google memo controversy but that shouldn't come from an old white man. I asked my daughter Molly, a college student trying...
From insideHPC
xDCI Infrastructure Manages 3D Brain Microscopy Images at RENCI
Researchers at RENCI are using xDCI Data CyberInfrastructure to manage brain microscopy images that were overwhelming the storage capacity at individual workstations...
From insideHPC
Kathy Yelick to Keynote ACM Europe Conference
Kathy Yelick from LBNL will give the HPC keynote on Exascale computing at the upcoming ACM Europe Conference. With main themes centering on Cybersecurity and High...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile in the C-Suite
In Bain & Company:How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite By Eric Garton, Andy NobleMany companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inc Looks at Skillz
I see that former colleague Andrew Paradise's game company continues to grow. An article in Inc has lots of detail:How the No. 1 Fastest-Growing Company in America...
From insideHPC
More Than Ever, Vectorization and Multithreading are Essential for Performance
Employing a hybrid of MPI across nodes in a cluster, multithreading with OpenMP* on each node, and vectorization of loops within each thread results in multiple...
From Schneier on Security
Do the Police Need a Search Warrant to Access Cell Phone Location Data?
The US Supreme Court is deciding a case that will establish whether the police need a warrant to access cell phone location data. This week I signed on to an amicus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Messenger's M
Been asked to go back and look at some of the AI/Assistant components of Facebook M, just launched in the UK after some time in the US. Facebook's work in theEverything...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Calls with the Google Home
I just complained about this, and to be clear it has still not rolled out to me. But apparently is on its way. Some of the apparent differences are described...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Pays for Popular Skills
One time small payment, it seems, so does not seem sustainable. The incentive is to get you to go back to the device. Classic engagement. While I have been...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Ranks AI as top Tech to Watch
No surprise, Gartner ranks AI as the top technology to watch in coming years. Includes their time-hype graph of many other technologies. Via SiliconAngle. ...
From insideHPC
Purdue Adds New Resource for GPU-accelerated Research Computing
A new computing resource is available for Purdue researchers running applications that can take advantage of GPU accelerators. The system, known as Halstead-GPU...
From insideHPC