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SkyScale Announces “World’s Fastest Cloud Computing Service”
From insideHPC

SkyScale Announces “World’s Fastest Cloud Computing Service”

Today SkyScale announced the launch of its world-class, ultra-fast multi-GPU hardware platforms in the cloud, available for lease to customers desiring the fastest...

Signed integer division by a power of two can be expensive!
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Signed integer division by a power of two can be expensive!

Remember when you learned the long division algorithm in school? It was painful, right? It turns out that even on modern processors, divisions are expensive. So...

One Stop Systems Showcases High-Density GPU Appliances at GTC 2017
From insideHPC

One Stop Systems Showcases High-Density GPU Appliances at GTC 2017

One Stop Systems announced plans to exhibit a wide array of its high-density GPU appliances at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. "One Stop Systems offers...

Jennifer Rexford Announced as the 2017 NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Award Recipient
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Jennifer Rexford Announced as the 2017 NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Award Recipient

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Dr. Jennifer Rexford, Professor and Computer Science Department Chair at Princeton University, has been named...

What Does the Next Virtual Assistant Need to do?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Does the Next Virtual Assistant Need to do?

I agree with the three innovations needed for new assistants, like the rumored Apple/Siri:Easy giving/taking/managing phone calls.Have true conversations /  interactions...

Marketer as Technologist
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marketer as Technologist

Its not a perception,  at least in recent years.  More likely is that the technologists don't know marketing.  Or you insert the business process at hand.  ButThe...

How to Build an Alexa Skill
From The Eponymous Pickle

How to Build an Alexa Skill

Another good example of what an Alexa skill means, both its abilities, its limitations and the underlying architecture.  Instructive even if you don't build one...

Facebook's Observations on Information Operations and the 2016 US Election
From Schneier on Security

Facebook's Observations on Information Operations and the 2016 US Election

Facebook published paper on the information operations it has seen, as well as some observations regarding the recent US election. It's interesting reading....

Data ethnographies: how do people live with data?
From Putting People First

Data ethnographies: how do people live with data?

Data Ethnographies is a Lab of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC), at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Data Ethnographies investigates the implications...

Startup DNA: the formula behind successful startups in Silicon Valley
From Writing

Startup DNA: the formula behind successful startups in Silicon Valley

“Successful startups are all alike; every unsuccessful startup is unsuccessful in its own way.”

Startup DNA: the formula behind successful startups in Silicon Valley
From Writing

Startup DNA: the formula behind successful startups in Silicon Valley

“Successful startups are all alike; every unsuccessful startup is unsuccessful in its own way.”

Recrafting the Pharma Journey
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recrafting the Pharma Journey

Like the attention to the Journey.  Its a key part of processHas CVS crafted a promising new drugstore shopping journey?  By Tom RyanWhile announcing plans to expand...

Harmon-Kardon and Cortana
From The Eponymous Pickle

Harmon-Kardon and Cortana

More details, but still some time before release.  Will Siri also participate?Harman Kardon’s Cortana-powered speaker leaks ahead of launchMicrosoft wants in on...

Microsoft Reveals Hololens Progress
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Reveals Hololens Progress

VRFocus on Upcoming applications to be shown at the Microsoft Build Event.  Good indication of what is being worked onMicrosoft Build 2017 Sessions RevealedThe By...

Gartner on Performance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gartner on Performance

Yes, we are fallible.   Worth understanding how.Optimize Performance through a Positive Interplay of Cognition, Emotion and Creativityby Manjunath Bhat  |  April...

Real Time Aviation Data Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Real Time Aviation Data Analytics

More and more data is being gathered and acted upon in real time. Here is a nice example where students are participating, from the SAScom Blog.  With video.Students...

DARPA Broad Agency Announcement- Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M)
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

DARPA Broad Agency Announcement- Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) just released a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) on Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M) with a June 21, 2017,...

Pseudo Random Numbers Are Confusing
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Pseudo Random Numbers Are Confusing

Random numbers are really useful in computer science. We use them a lot for simulations (or games – pretty much the same thing) and to make programs more interesting...

AI Technology from China Helps Radiologists Detect Lung Cancer
From insideHPC

AI Technology from China Helps Radiologists Detect Lung Cancer

Today Infervision introduced its innovative, deep learning solution to help radiologists identify suspicious lesions and nodules in lung cancer patients fasterAI...

MapD Open Sources High-Speed GPU-Powered Database
From insideHPC

MapD Open Sources High-Speed GPU-Powered Database

Today MapD Technologies released the MapD Core database to the open source community under the Apache 2 license, seeding a new generation of data applications.MapD...
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