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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 insideHPC
Altair Showcases PBScloud.IO at ISC 2017
In this video, Jérémie Bourdoncle from Altair describes the company's new PBScloud.IO offering for private clouds. "Altair is excited to announce the availability...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Software Engineer at NCAR
NCAR in Boulder is seeking a Software Engineer in our Job of the Week. "This position focuses primarily on the development of tools to meet the needs for the NCAR...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Caught Off the Coast of Ireland
It's the second in two months. Video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Physical Therapy
This came to mind in a recent physical therapy session, with my PT describing how muscles could be trained back into health Why not hook up a sensory means to...
From insideHPC
OpenACC Brings Directives to Accelerated Computing at ISC 2017
In this video from ISC 2017, Sunita Chandrasekaran and Michael Wolfe describe how OpenACC makes GPU-accelerated computing more accessible to scientists and engineers...
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: August MVAPICH User Group Meeting in Ohio
The MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG) has posted its meeting agenda. The event takes place August 14-16, 2017 in Columbus, Ohio. "As the annual gathering of MVAPICH2...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Lights-Out Fulfillment
'Lights-Out' used to be a favorite term when we worked in AI applications for the enterprise. Dramatically implying no humans, or lights needed to be involved.Bezos...
From insideHPC
Red Hat Ceph Storage Powers Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Today Red Hat announced that the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is using Red Hat Ceph Storage to support the growing needs of its research community....
From insideHPC
Video: Towards Quantum High Performance Computing
"Following an introduction to the exceptional computational power of quantum computers using analogies with classical high performance computing systems, I will...
From Wild WebMink
Assume Good Faith
You feel slighted by a comment on a mailing list, or a forum post has failed to be moderated live. How should you react? A recent exchange on a user forum caught...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 21st, 2017)
Want proof that you live in the future? Ok. There is this “cryptocurrency” called ethereum and it is causing a shortage of microprocessors: Demand from Ethereum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Exceeding Human Performance
Predictions are cheap, machines have been faster than humans for some time, but when inserted in a set of tasks that that need to be done can be very different...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking a Segway
The Segway has a mobile app. It is hackable: While analyzing the communication between the app and the Segway scooter itself, Kilbride noticed that a user PIN number...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Five Must Read Blogs for Computer Science Teachers
I maintain a computer science education blog roll with as many good blogs for computer science teachers as I can find. It's a good like for the most part. SomeDoug...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sears Integrates Alexa in Appliances, Sells on Amazon
Have noted earlier that GE is also integrating voice control on appliances. In Adage: Sears to Integrate Alexa Into Appliances and Start Selling on AmazonShares...
From Computational Complexity
I would call these Galois Games but I can't
Here is a game (Darling says I only blog about non-fun games. This post will NOT prove her wrong.) Let D be a domain, d ≥ 1 and 0 ≠ a0 ∈ D. There are two players...
From XRDS
The Power of WordNet and How to Use It in Python
In this post, I am going to talk about the relations in WordNet (https://wordnet.princeton.edu) and how you can use these in a Python project. WordNet is a database...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Spark Crowdsources Advertising?
Amazon takes another step forward. I would imagine this will also emerge on the new Amazon Show screen as well. A crowdsourcing of advertising to enthusiastic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine
The latest analytics Magazine from Informs. A practically oriented view of how analytics can be used in business today. Industry News and Articles.
From The Eponymous Pickle