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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
Introduction to Data Science with Spark
The Data Science with Spark Workshop addresses high-level parallelization for data analytics workloads using the Apache Spark framework. Participants will learn...
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Accelerating the Alibaba Cloud with Intel Arria FPGAs
The Alibaba Cloud has announced a pilot program with Intel for a cloud-based FPGA acceleration service with the goal of enabling customers to have virtual access...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What’s New in C# 7.0 for Beginning Programmers
Well it looks like Visual Studio 2017 is out. I've installed the of the community edition on my Surface (not enough disk for everything I'd like :-( ) but enough...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cooking Techniques
Here are some squid cooking tips. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security
Podcast Interview with Me
Here's a video interview I did at RSA on the Internet of Things and security....
From insideHPC
Video: Mont-Blanc Project Advances HPC for TermoFluids
In this video, Ricard Borrell from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center describes how the Mont Blanc Project Industrial End User Group on TermoFluids is advancing...
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New Paper Surveys Cache Partitioning Techniques
A new paper from IIT Hyderabad in India surveys cache partitioning techniques for multicore processors. Now accepted in ACM Computing Surveys 2017, the survey by...
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Interview: XTREME DESIGN Automates HPC Cloud Configurations
Tokyo-based Startup XTREME DESIGN recently announced it has raised $700K of funding in its pre-series A round. Launched in early 2015, the Startup’s XTREME DNAInterview...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbot Concierge for your Hair
Not far different from some of our own attempts to provide a concierge style link that could help both the consumer and the brand. An advisoryWhat a Chatbot Can...
From insideHPC
Moving to Exascale – Closer Than We Think?
"Back in 2013 I wrote the following blog expressing my opinion that I doubted we would reach Exascale before 2020. However, recently it was announced that the world...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 10, 2017)
In Mnemonic Training Reshapes Brain Networks to Support Superior Memory (published in Neuron, March 2017), we learned that 6 weeks of mnemonic training at a rate...
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E4 Computer Engineering’s Showcases New Petascale OCP Platform
Today E4 Computer Engineering from Italy showcased a new PetaFlops-Class Open Compute Server with "remarkable energy efficiency" based on the IBM POWER architecture...
From Schneier on Security
Defense Against Doxing
A decade ago, I wrote about the death of ephemeral conversation. As computers were becoming ubiquitous, some unintended changes happened, too. Before computers,...
From Putting People First
How many users are enough in user research?
The British consumer cooperative Co-op uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches to make decisions about products. While quantitative research is best when...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walking the Experience Talk
In Customerthink, good consideration.What is Walking the Customer Experience Talk? Featured Column by Lynn Hunsaker CustomerThink Advisor featured columnist Top...
From Computational Complexity
The Beauty of Computation
Lisa Randall wrote a New York Times book review of Carlo Rovelli's Reality Is Not What It Seems with some interesting responses. I want to focus on a single sentence...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Scaling Maps To Zettabytes and Beyond
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Mohamed Sarwat, Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University. Sarwat presented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing for Alexa
Intriguing thoughts, and I then ask: Is Alexa Skill management best architected to produce easy to create and maintain knowledge? The latter is a huge deal,...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at University of Oxford
"Would you like to help manage and develop a state-of-the-art High Performance Compute (HPC) facility to enable cutting-edge biomedical research? This is an exciting...
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