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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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Intel Launches Movidius Neural Compute Stick
Today, Intel launched the Movidius Neural Compute Stick, the world’s first USB-based deep learning inference kit and self-contained artificial intelligence accelerator...
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Fernanda Foertter Elected SIG HPC Education Vice Chair
Today the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) announced that Fernanda Foertter from ORNL is theFernanda...
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Interview: The Computational Challenges of Fusion Energy
In this video from PASC17, Idamura Yasuhiro from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Laurent Villard from EPFL discuss the computational challenges of developing...
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Interview: DDN’s Jessica Popp on the Importance of Diversity in HPC
In this video, ISC Diversity Chair Kim McMahon interviews Jessica Popp from DDN about the importance of fostering diversity in High Performance Computing. “Through...
From Schneier on Security
Ethereum Hacks
The press is reporting a $32M theft of the cryptocurrency Ethereum. Like all such thefts, they're not a result of a cryptographic failure in the currencies, but...
From insideHPC
Go with Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library and Go*
Use of the Go* programming language and it’s developer community has grown significantly since it’s official launch by Google in 2009. Like many popular programming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Theory for Competitive Strategy
A favorite topic for corporate strategy considerations, but as we discovered, somewhat hard to apply in realistic circumstances. Especially for competitive interactions...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Algorithms, Bias, and Beautiful Women
I've been keeping my eyes open for things to discuss with students this fall, especially in Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles. This week bias in algorithms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Alibaba Works with Retail Data
Via O'Reilly.How Alibaba does retail dataWhat does it take to compete in a global market in which retail and the cloud are increasingly intertwined? Alibaba says...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM And Automation Anywhere Partner to Produce BPM Bots
I had been wondering for some time how IBM might be integrating business process management (BPM) and their cognitive methods to approach improving real business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Min Basadur's Simple Question
A former colleague of mine at Procter & Gamble, Min Basadur's work is described. Clever and very simple use of the question "How Might we ... ?" is mentioned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Journals its AI/Machine Learning Efforts
Apple has started blogging to draw attention to its AI work : Sorry, it’s a ‘Journal’ by James Vincent@jjvincent in theVerge:" ... The company’s new website,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Claude Shannon
Great to see this article about Claude Shannon, who is little mentioned these days, but truly was a key element of understanding the value of knowledge in systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass Better for Business Applications
To put it simply, Google Glass just looks more business-like than Augmented Reality Goggles. It at least implies that you are still attached to solving problems...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
GP–A General Purpose Block Programming Language
I added GP to my list of block programming languages this morning. Mark Guzdial announced on his blog that it was available in Beta (The General Purpose Blocks)...
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: Hot Interconnects Conference in Santa Clara
The Hot Interconnects conference has posted their program Agenda. The event takes place Aug. 28-30 in Santa Clara, California. "Join us for our 25th year of anAgenda...
From Schneier on Security
Password Masking
Slashdot asks if password masking -- replacing password characters with asterisks as you type them -- is on the way out. I don't know if that's true, but I would...
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Supercomputing the Signature of Chaos in Ultracold Reactions
Researchers have performed the first ever quantum-mechanical simulation of the benchmark ultracold chemical reaction between potassium-rubidium (KRb) and a potassium...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Core Program Solicitations Released
Three divisions at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) have just released new solicitations...
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