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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 Putting People First
Introducing the upcoming Biennial of Democracy in Turin
Every two years the city of Turin hosts the Biennial of Democracy, an event of conversation and debate, that seems to become more timely and necessary as yearsIntroducing...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Rolls Out Intel Optane SSD Platforms
Today SuperMicro rolled out a wide range of NVMe Flash server and storage systems with support for the new Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X based on 3D XPoint technology...
From insideHPC
SuperMUC Helps Discover New Species Critical to Rainforest Ecosystems
Researchers using the SuperMUC cluster in Germany have discovered a set of unknown species in rainforest soils. As described in a new paper published in NatureSuperMUC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Issues of Face Recognition
Had always thought that bio face recognition would make us more secure. But improvements in AI based systems may change this.It's time to face the ugly reality...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Black Hole Speed Limit
Supermassive black holes have a speed limit that governs how fast and how large they can grow,” said Joseph Smidt of the Theoretical Design Division at LANL. Using...
From insideHPC
DDN Names Bret Costelow VP of Global Sales
“Bret Costelow is an inspiring sales leader with a clear understanding of our customers’ needs and a vision of how DDN’s technologies and solutions can best solve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Incubates Buzzword Solutions
Giving it more direct access to rapidly emerging technologies.Walmart is opening its own tech incubator in Silicon ValleyThe retail giant wants to get a foothold...
From insideHPC
Allinea Software Powers Heart Simulation Framework
The Allinea Forge parallel code development suite is helping to speed up exciting computational cardiology research at the Medical University of Graz. "Utilizing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Does Commercial Bockchains
Broad group of uses for the enterprise.IBM Goes Live With First Commercial BlockchainsMichael del Castillo (@DelRayMan) |Tech giant IBM is set to unveil what it's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Datasets For Use in Teaching Computer Science
I found this thanks to the APCS A mailing list. CORGIS Datasets Project The Collection of Really Great, Interesting, Situated Datasets “The CORGIS Datasets...
From Schneier on Security
WikiLeaks Not Disclosing CIA-Hoarded Vulnerabilities to Companies
WikiLeaks has started publishing a large collection of classified CIA documents, including information on several -- possibly many -- unpublished (i.e., zero-day)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Samsung Bixby Assistants
With backstory, and an indication of Samsung's considerable investment into AI. Plus integration into more devices. Seems a competitive position as advisoryGalaxy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stickers vs SnapChat
Can Apple’s new iMessage ad convince you that stickers are as cool as Snapchat? There is a heavy history of the use of stickers, especially in Japan. Difficult...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Does software performance still matter?
This morning, a reader asked me about the real-world relevance of software performance: I’m quite interested in your work on improving algorithm performance using...
From Schneier on Security
Friedman Comments on Yardley
This is William Friedman's highly annotated copy of Herbert Yardley's book, The American Black Chamber....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple and Augmented Reality
In CW: Some thoughts and speculations about how Apple might implement augmented reality. Outside the obvious game spaces. Apparently in evidence by their recent...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
WHISPER: A New Persistent Memory Benchmark Suite
The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While he is coauthor of the paper discussed...
From insideHPC
Intel’s Diane Bryant on How AI Will Change Lives
"Artificial Intelligence will deliver the next wave of societal transformation on parallel with the industrial, technical and internet revolutions that preceded...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Unveils Bixby as Assistant
Another new virtual advisor emerges, competing it seems for now just for the S8 phone and competing with Siri. and Google Assistant. Can we also expect this on...
From insideHPC