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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ethics and Computer Science Education
Are ethics and the effects of computer science a reason to teach CS to everyone? Increasingly we are seeing all sort of impacts on daily life because of computing...
From insideHPC
How PBS Works Makes HPC Easy to Use
In this video from ISC 2017, Bill Nitzberg from Altair demonstrates how easy it is to launch jobs with PBS Pro. "Altair’s PBS Works workload management suite is...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 14th, 2017)
PC shipments are at the lowest level of the last 10 years, and they have been declining for the last two years. Using smartphone data, researchers are able forContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Machine Learning
If this says what I think it does, it could rapidly advance machine learning in a quantum computing world. Will this kind of thing bring true machine intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Critical Knowledge
Always liked the idea of using a map, especially for group interactions. Does require some paying attention to maintaining the knowledge involved. Here in Knowledge...
From Schneier on Security
Forged Documents and Microsoft Fonts
A set of documents in Pakistan were detected as forgeries because their fonts were not in circulation at the time the documents were dated....
From insideHPC
Lustre 2.10.0 Released
Today OpenSFS announced that the Lustre 2.10.0 release has been declared GA and is available download. "Thanks to all those who have contributed to the creation...
From Computational Complexity
Solutions to some Hat Problem AND some points of interest.
In my last blog here I asked three (known) hat problems since they may be new to you (one of them I just learned last week) and I had a point to make about them...
From insideHPC
Teradata Acquires StackIQ
Today Teradata announced the acquisition of StackIQ, developers of one of the industry’s fastest bare metal software provisioning platforms which has managed the...
From insideHPC
Panel Looks at Improving Diversity in HPC
In this video from ISC 2017, Lara Kisielewska moderates a panel discussion on Diversity in HPC. "Through collaboration and networking, the Women in HPC community...
From insideHPC
WekaIO Unveils Industry’s First Cloud-native Scalable File System
Today WekaIO, a venture backed high-performance cloud storage software company, today emerged from stealth to introduce the industry's first cloud-native scalable...
From insideHPC
Interview: Dr. Christoph Schär on Escaping the Data Avalanche for Climate Modeling
"There are large efforts towards refining the horizontal resolution of climate models to O(1 km) with the intent to represent convective clouds explicitly rather...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DataScience@NIH Updates
Check out the following updates from Data Science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Data Science Opportunities: The NIH is looking for mentors for the...
From insideHPC
Alan Turing Institute to Acquire Cray Urika-GX Graph Supercomputer
Today Cray announced the Company will provide a Cray Urika-GX system to the Alan Turing Institute. “The rise of data-intensive computing – where big data analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Pipelines
So rarely well thought out in the enterprise, a high level view. Well presented. Via O'Reilly and in Medium:How to build a data science pipeline by BalázsStart...
From insideHPC
Cycles Per Instruction – Why it matters
To compare how one version of a part of the code is running to another version, since this is a ratio, it is important to keep one of the values constant in order...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Omnichannel in Retail
With some good expert discussion:Are retailers measuring omnichannel all wrong? by Nikki BairdThrough a special arrangement, what follows is an excerpt of an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Pushes AI Research
Microsoft creates an AI research lab to challenge Google and DeepMind by Darrell Etherington (@etherington)Microsoft has created a new research lab with a focus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Banning Recordings
I used to work gathering data about retail practices, and it was drilled into us that we needed to get permission from a store manager to do picture or video recordings...
From Schneier on Security