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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 Computational Complexity
Best. STOC. Ever.
The Panel on TCS: The Next Decade Last week I attended STOC as its first new TheoryFest in Montreal. Pretty much everything about TheoryFest went extremely...
From insideHPC
Video: Scaling Climate and Weather Forecasting on Sunway TaihuLight
Haohuan Fu from Tsinghua University in China at the PASC17 conference in Lugano. "This talk reports efforts on refactoring and optimizing the climate and weather...
From Schneier on Security
The FAA Is Arguing for Security by Obscurity
In a proposed rule by the FAA, it argues that software in an Embraer S.A. Model ERJ 190-300 airplane is secure because it's proprietary: In addition, the operating...
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HPC Capacity Doubles on Irish Supercomputer List
The 8th Irish Supercomputer List was released last week, featuring two new Top500-class machines. The new entrants, from an undisclosed software company, feature...
From insideHPC
Video: The Amazing Lustre through the Alps Tour
We interrupt our stream of serious HPC news for this post-ISC update from Europe. "After ISC wrapped up last week, I had the good fortune to join the First Annual...
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Proceedings from ISC 2017 are now available for download
The Proceedings from ISC 2017 are now available for download at no cost for a limited time. "We are pleased to announce that many fascinating topics in HPC areProceedings...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Theory of Agile Constraints
Newly discovered in InfoQ:Evan Leybourn of IBM on the Theory of Agile Constraints ... Business Agility in general ..... He defines (full interview at the link)...
From insideHPC
PEARC17 Seeds Next Generation of HPC Professionals
Today PEARC17 announced that 66 students will attend their conference coming up July 9-13 in New Orleans. PEARC17—Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing...
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How Zettar Transferred 1 Petabyte of Data in Just 34 Hours Using AIC Servers
In the world of HPC, moving data is a sin. That may be changing. "Just a few weeks ago, AIC announced the successful completion of a landmark, 1-petabyte transfer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Award at 50
Twitter Stream from ACM's 'Turing Award at 50' meeting this week. Watched small part of it, inspirational and am glad to see it will be made available on going...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Origami Folding Algorithm
A favorite and surprisingly useful topic. Heard of this being developed. 'Any structure' is an interesting statement, but will the folding itself be usefully...
From Geeking with Greg
Two decades of Amazon.com recommendations
IEEE Internet Computing just celebrated its 20th anniversary. On its 20th anniversary, the editorial board created its first ever “The Test of Time” award. I'm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snap Getting Better Store Sale Measures
Snap acquires Placed to better measure in-app ads to in-store salesPlaced is able to attribute brand’s digital, TV and out-of-home campaigns to store visits and...
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Getting Direct to Consumer Right
From CustomerThink, detailed piece on how Gillette is doing direct to consumer, followiing un a number of moves to deliver quality razor blades with new pricing...
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Procter Captures Flying Insects
Not a thing normally in their space. No IOT dimension indicated. Procter & Gamble Introduces Zevo™ Flying Insect Trap for 24/7 Flying Insect Protection in Your...
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AFRL Taps IBM to Build Brain-Inspired AI Supercomputer
Today IBM announced they are collaborating with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on a first-of-a-kind brain-inspired supercomputing system poweredAFRL...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SiriusXM Now Streams on Amazon Echo
Full subscriptions or streaming individual shows from SiriusXM are now accessible via voice on Echo. Trial subscriptions available.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping with AR
What the best way to shop using Augmented Reality? Apple and IKEA team up. Planning for the advanced AR capabilities in future I-Phones.Apple Team Up With IKEA...
From Computational Complexity
Joan Clarke (1917-1996)
I'm in San Francisco for the ACM conference celebrating 50 years of the Turing Award. I'll post on STOC and the Turing award celebration next week. Today though...
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