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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Will Conversational Commerce be Next?
Conversational Commerce. First I heard that specific phrase. Consider the posts made in this blog in just the past few days as evidence, by very big players.In...
From insideHPC
Overview of the Exascale Additive Manufacturing Project
John Turner from ORNL presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Fully exploiting future exascale architectures will require a rethinking of the algorithms used...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 28th, 2017)
It is estimated that our species, homo sapiens, appeared in Africa as far back as 200,000 years ago, and that we left Africa about 60,000 years ago. Confusingly...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Software Engineer at the NSA
The National Security Agency in Maryland is seeking an HPC Software Engineer in our Job of the Week. "NSA's High Performance Computing team develops and integrates...
From insideHPC
Jülich to Build 5 Petaflop Supercomputing Booster with Dell
Today Intel and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre together with ParTec and Dell today announced plans to develop and deploy a next-generation modular supercomputing...
From insideHPC
10 Things You’re Wrong About in HPC
Rich Brueckner from insideHPC presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conferene. "While High Performance Computing has gone through dramatic changes since Seymour...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Will Improve and Even Replace Bad Management
Yes, to the extent that it will improve all management. The way many decades of digital methods have improved the process of management. Making it faster, better...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner on Future Customer Experience
In the Gartner Blog. Towards more AI intervention to drive user experience. The Customer Experience of the Future by Jessica EkholmGreater competition and growing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring Your Data
Nathan Yau in FlowingData points to some teachers of information visualization banning the phrase 'exploratory data analysis' in dataviz applications. As pointing...
From Schneier on Security
Stealing Browsing History Using Your Phone's Ambient Light Sensor
There has been a flurry of research into using the various sensors on your phone to steal data in surprising ways. Here's another: using the phone's ambient light...![[Book] Quantitative Ethnography](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Quantitative Ethnography
Quantitative Ethnography David Williamson Shaffer Boswell Press Available April 2017 > Download Introduction > Watch video presentation This is a book about understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Doubles Down on Echo Ecosystem
Amazon is 'doubling down' on the Echo ecosystemAmazon's future includes Alexa, AI and AWS. by Jessica Conditt ....Amazon is off to a profitable start in 2017."We're...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Dash Buttons for Replenishment
Now there are also Virtual Dash Buttons, software shortcuts that work the same as physical buttons, can work on devices like tablets and phones. Allow for quick...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Build the Google Assistant on Anything
Let the competition begin for assistance. Taking a close look at the architecture. Rumors of similar capabilities from Apple/Siri are also emerging.The Google...
From insideHPC
STEM: Keeping the Interest
In this special guest feature, Kim McMahon writes that helping get young people interested in STEM is the job of every HPC professional. "The ISC High Performance...
From insideHPC
LANL Prepares Next Generation of HPC Professionals at New Mexico High School Supercomputing Challenge
More than 200 New Mexico students and teachers from 55 different teams came together in Albuquerque the week to showcase their computing research projects at the...
From insideHPC
European Exascale System Interconnect & Storage
"The project, called ExaNeSt, is based on ARM processors, originally developed for mobile and embedded applications. Where ExaNeSt differs from Mont Blanc, however...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Insider Attacks Are A Bigger and Harder Threat?
There is a new trend apparently emerging to defend against data loss and data damage as a result of external hacking. Some organizations have been removing their...
From insideHPC
Rock Stars of HPC: James Phillips
Recipient of a Gordon Bell Award in 2002, James Phillips has been a full-time research programmer for almost 20 years. Since 1998, he has been the lead developer...
From insideHPC