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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
Slidecast: ARM Steps Up to Machine Learning
In this slidecast, Jem Davies (VP Engineering and ARM Fellow) gives a brief introduction to Machine Learning and explains how it is used in devices such as smartphones...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Why I Prefer Processing as a First Language to Teach
Once upon a time, almost 5 years ago, I wrote a post about Python vs Processing as a first language to learn. It became my only post to appear on Hacker News and...
From insideHPC
Call for Technical Papers: SC17 in Denver
SC17 has issues its Call for Technical Papers. The event takes place Nov 12-17 in Denver. "The Technical Papers Program at SC is the leading venue for presenting...
From insideHPC
Let The Compiler Do Its Thing
"In the past, developers would get best results if a loop was unrolled, that is, duplicating the body as many times as needed to that the operations could be operated...
From Computational Complexity
International Science
I did some counting and the 35 academic faculty members in the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science come from 14 different countries. My co-authors come from...
From Schneier on Security
Buzzword Watch: Prosilience
Summer Fowler at CMU has invented a new word: prosilience: I propose that we build operationally PROSILIENT organizations. If operational resilience, as we like...
From Putting People First
Exploring how and why we make financial choices
The Think Forward Initiative is an open source initiative by ING, CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research), Dell EMC, Microsoft, Dimension Data and Deloitte.Exploring...
From Putting People First
Business as Unusual: Latest issue of Touchpoint, the service design journal
“Business as Unusual” was the theme of the ninth annual Service Design Global Conference held in Amsterdam and in its play on words, it recognises that serviceBusiness...
From Putting People First
Understanding life’s speed from an anthropological perspective
The latest issue of the Cultural Anthropology journal features a new contribution to the journal’s Openings and Retrospectives section: an Openings collection,Understanding...
From Putting People First
[Report] How US youth navigate the news landscape
Yesterday, the New York research institute Data & Society released the report How Youth Navigate the News Landscape (download) that explores how young people use...
From insideHPC
Apply Now: OSC Summer Institute Programs Introduce Young Women to Exciting STEM Careers
Each summer the Ohio Supercomputer Center offers summer programs for high school students and middle school girls interested in experiencing the dynamic fieldsApply...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning for Machine and Human Performance
Playtime's Over Technology ReviewEmma Brunskill" ... Reinforcement-learning techniques that enabled a computer to beat world-class human Go champions last yearShe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How IOT is Changing the World
Business emphasis and non-technical. Pointer to DSC article:How IoT is Changing the World: Cases from Visa, Airbus, Bosch & SNCFPosted by Ronald van Loon on February...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Track Held at AAAI-17
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 31st Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commercial Alexa to Field Calls
In Engadget. A good direction with very high labor costs. Such conversations are tough to do well. Amazon wants Alexa to answer customer service callsA new suite...
From insideHPC
Fathom Neural Compute Stick Enables Mobile Devices to React Cognitively
Intel-owned Movidius has introduced a fascinating new device called the Fathom Neural Compute Stick, a modular deep learning accelerator in the form of a standard...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Rolls Out New SuperBlade with EDR InfiniBand and OmniPath
"Our new SuperBlade optimizes not just TCO, but initial acquisition cost with industry-leading server density and maximum performance per watt, per square footSupermicro...
From insideHPC
The Long Rise of HPC in the Cloud
"As the cloud market has matured, we have begun to see the introduction of HPC cloud providers and even the large public cloud providers such as Microsoft are introducing...
From insideHPC
Bringing HPC Algorithms to Big Data Platforms
Nikolay Malitsky from Brookhaven National Laboratory presented this talk at the Spark Summit East conference. "This talk will present a MPI-based extension of the...
From Schneier on Security