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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
Intersect360 Research Site Census Looks at HPC Interconnects
"Intersect360 Research has posted an Executive Summary of their most recent HPC User Site Census on Interconnect Suppliers. The report provides an examination of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wide Scale Hadoop Adoption
Good thoughts on the 'why' at the link. Towards a universal part of IT infrastructure?Opinion: Digital transformation driving wide-scale Hadoop adoption By ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iPhone Convinces us We Need the Web all the Time
I like the broad statement. Though its more complicated. In our enterprise the Blackberry device helped as well. It was as easy to use as the iPhone, thoughThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa and Watson
An unexpected combination. How practical is this? AI helping to build AI.Building Alexa Skills With IBM Watson and OpenWhiskCheck out this open source projectby...
From Schneier on Security
Food Supplier Passes Squid Off as Octopus
According to a lawsuit (main article behind paywall), "a Miami-based food vendor and its supplier have been misrepresenting their squid as octopus in an effort...
From Schneier on Security
Details from the 2017 Workshop on Economics and Information Security
The 16th Workshop on Economics and Information Security was this week. Ross Anderson liveblogged the talks....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistants in the Hospital
One of the earliest suggestions for virtual assistants was to have them answer questions and perform simple non-medical tasks in hospitals and other health care...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 1st, 2017)
Canada is 150 years old today. The iPhone is 10 years old this year. We can safely say that the iPhone 7 is over a hundred times faster, in almost every way than...
From insideHPC
Is Water-Free Cooling the Real Future of HPC?
In this video from ISC 2017, Olivier de Laet from Calyos describes the company’s innovative cooling technology for high performance computing. "The HPC industry...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Why HPC is Vital at NASA
"At NASA, what we're doing is we're really looking at ways of making aircraft more efficient. We're trying to make them quieter. We're trying to make them get to...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Video game review… Nier: Automata
Single-player RPG games are having a tough time. Last year I reviewed Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Though I felt it was an excellent game, it was not a commercialContinue...
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Powers KNL Remote Access Program with Intel HPC Orchestrator
In this video from ISC 2017, Tom Krueger from Intel and John Wagner from Fujitsu describe the new KNL Remote Access Program. Now, with the power of Intel HPC Orchestrator...
From insideHPC
ISC 2017 Wrapup by the Numbers
Today the ISC Group announced that their 2017 ISC High Performance conference drew a record 3,253 attendees from 60 countries. The attendance represented a 5.2ISC...
From insideHPC
Univa Powers Formula 1 Racing and more at ISC 2017
In this video from ISC 2017, Bill Bryce from Univa describes how the company's software powers simulation for everything from Formula 1 racing to manufacturingUniva...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Wave of a New AI
Nice, non-technical overview in CACM look at emerging technologies that are supporting advances in AI. Useful with management to consider areas of interest. Artificial...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Professional Development for the Advanced CS Teacher Teaching Advanced Students
This is sort of a riff from yesterday’s post about what to teach students who are beyond the normal Advanced Placement CS level or perhaps looking to something ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Bixby Starts to Roll
Samsung Reports:*After launch, Bixby's language support will initially begin with Korean, and expand to English and then Chinese. Plans for further language support...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discovering a Million Dollar Idea
Reminded of the use of the term:IKEA's Idea Man Reveals How to Discover Your Own Million Dollar IdeaThe process is called vu jàdé. That's déjà vu backwards, and...
From Schneier on Security
Good Article About Google's Project Zero
Fortune magazine just published a good article about Google's Project Zero, which finds and publishes exploits in other companies' software products. I have mixed...
From The Eponymous Pickle