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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
An Update on MarFS in Production
David Bonnie from LANL presented this deck at the MSST 2017 Mass Storage Conference. MarFS is a Near-POSIX File System using cloud storage for data and many POSIX...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interview with Vint Cerf
Non technical view of the history and future of the Internet. I should note that this piece contradicts another piece quoting him regarding AI I recently posted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Mining Memes Online
Interesting progress in text mining that includes repeated memes and context. Technical.A system for extracting and comparing memes in online forumsHéctor Beck...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Basic Attention Token
The BAT, just brought to my attention, the basic attention token, quite an interesting play, with a browser and a blockchain. Makes sense, but what will the advertisers...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Caught Off the Coast of Ireland
It's rare: Fishermen caught a 19-foot-long giant squid off the coast of Ireland on Monday, only the fifth to be seen there since 1673. Also the first in 22 years...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast: Amazon v Traditional Retail
Podcast from Knowledge@Wharton:Why Amazon Is Leaving Legacy Retailers in the Dust?Wharton's Barbara Kahn and Columbia's Mark A. Cohen discuss what's behind Amazon's...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Abandons "About" Searches
Earlier this month, the NSA said that it would no longer conduct "about" searches of bulk communications data. This was the practice of collecting the communications...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 18th, 2017)
Google has announced at its annual conference (I/O 2017) that it has computing pods capable of 11.5 petaflops. They are made of 64 customized TPU (processors specialized...
From insideHPC
A Recap of the 2017 OpenFabrics Workshop
The 13th Annual OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) Workshop wrapped at the end of March with a look toward the future. The annual gathering, held this year in Austin, Texas...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior Scientific App Engineer at Ohio State
The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) seeks a Senior Scientific Applications Engineer to support the overall mission of the group and in particular to contributeJob...
From insideHPC
ISC 2017 Workshop Preview: Optimizing Linux Containers for HPC & Big Data Workloads
Christian Kniep is hosting a half-day Linux Container Workshop on Optimizing IT Infrastructure and High-Performance Workloads on June 23 in Frankfurt. "Docker as...
From insideHPC
Announcing the Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award
The new ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award will be presented every two years, with the first presentation in November during SC17. "The...
From insideHPC
Liqid Showcases Composable Infrastructure for GPUs at GTC 2017
In this video from GTC 2017, from Liqid describe the company's innovative composable infrastructure technology for servers and GPUs. "The Liqid Composable Infrastructure...
From Schneier on Security
WannaCry Ransomware
Criminals go where the money is, and cybercriminals are no exception. And right now, the money is in ransomware. ' It's a simple scam. Encrypt the victim's hard...
From insideHPC
A Seat at the Table – The Value of Women in High-Performance Computing
It’s fair to say that women continue to be underrepresented in STEM, but the question is whether there is a systemic bias making it difficult for women to joinA...
From Schneier on Security
Human Rights Watch Needs an Information Security Director
I'm sure it pays less than the industry average, and the stakes are much higher than the average. But if you want to be a Director of Information Security that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's VPS uses Tango and Lens
Google's new Visual Positioning System takes learning, Navigation to new Levels.By Brad BourqueGoogle has unveiled its Visual Positioning System, which could usher...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Lens
An impressive next step for machine vision on the phone. Which then permits you go perform tasks that have as an element the recognition of an image. Google Lens...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant on iPhone
In Computerworld: With some cautions.Google Assistant for iPhone: An enterprise perspectiveWhat you need to know ... " .... You can use it to make calls, send...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog