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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
Max Planck Institute Adopts ScaleMP Cluster Virtualization Software
"We selected vSMP Foundation from ScaleMP as the sole available solution turning cluster hardware into an SMP; as a single machine, it allows us to distribute the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Initial Look at Samsung Bixby
The plan is to include Bixby on other Samsung appliances. Also its not the same thing as 'S Voice', which had been announced earlier. Notable capabilities are...
From insideHPC
Adaptive Computing Releases Moab HPC Suite 9.1.1
Today Adaptive Computing announces the latest release of Moab HPC Suite and related add-ons. The new release extends ease-of-use submission and workload management...
From insideHPC
Video: Omni-Path Status, Upstreaming, and Ongoing Work
Todd Rimmer from Intel presented this talk at the OpenFabrics Workshop. “Intel Omni-Path was first released in early 2016. Omni-Path host and management software...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Quantum Startup Rigetti Computing
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the week's top stories: Quantum Startup Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million in Funding, Rex Computing has their...
From Schneier on Security
Soon You'll Be Able to Hijack Weaponized Police Drones in Connecticut
Not content with having a fleet of insecure surveillance drones, the state of Connecticut wants a fleet of insecure weaponized drones. What could possibly go wrong...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Global Technology Policy Newsletter – April 2017
ACM PUBLIC POLICY HIGHLIGHTS ACM provides independent, nonpartisan, and technology-neutral research and resources to policy leaders, stakeholders, and the public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Shuts Down Diapers.com
Does this mean that Amazon cannot compete with directly with certain kinds of CPG plays? In Recode: Amazon is shutting down Diapers.com — whose founder is now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Neuroscience at Nielsen
Had reason to look at what Nielsen was now doing in the area, and revisited their site. They have assembled an impressive number of technologies to gather biometric...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
A carefully picked list of some of the tech news I enjoyed recently: So, you know that prototype we showed you? Turns out AI in real world conditions is hard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience, Buying and Selling
New thoughts from Neuroscience and Zaltman. Obvious? : In Customerthink:Neuroscience Confirms We Buy on Emotion & Justify with Logic & yet We Sell to Mr. Rational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Guide to Blending Bots
Good thoughts about all the different options for delivering and sharing information. I like the fact that it includes thinking about how this 'AI' stuff can be...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: International Conference on HPC & Simulation in Genoa
The International Conference on HPC & Simulation has issued its Call for Papers. Also known as HPBench, the event place in July 17-21 in Genoa, Italy. "Benchmarking...
From insideHPC
Accelerating Apache Spark with RDMA
Yuval Degani from Mellanox presented this talk at the OpenFabrics Workshop. "In this talk, we present a Java-based, RDMA network layer for Apache Spark. The implementation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retiree Discovers Elusive Math Proof
I like this because is shows that retirees make real discoveries. And recall hearing about this challenge long ago, it has real use. Problem is well described...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM U.S. Public Policy Council Submits Comments on Internet of Things
The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council submitted comments in response to a green paper on “Fostering the Advancement of the Internet of Things,” issued by the U.S....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flying-Rolling Drone
Makes perfect sense, and has been mentioned before. Would make delivery of things more point to point. But things rolling about will get even more in the way...
From Geeking with Greg
Book review: Radical Candor
This just came out, the book Radical Candor by Kim Scott. It's a good read on managing and focused on people. I'd recommend it if you are a manager or help others...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Manufacturing
Excellent points made. Lots of legacy, lack of complete standards. Where are the ontologies?CPG manufacturers need a comprehensive strategy for digitizationBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle