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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
Panel Discussion: The Exascale Endeavor
Gilad Shainer moderated this panel discussion on Exascale Computing at the Stanford HPC Conference. "The creation of a capable exascale ecosystem will have profound...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Accuracy of In-Store Inventory
Have been involved in the analyses based on physical inventory taking. Estimation from Tlog tapes and RFID tags. Have taken laborious physical counts as well....
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Oak Ridge steps up to Active Archive Solutions
Today the Active Archive Alliance announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has upgraded its active archive solutions to enhance the integrity and accessibility...
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Startup Video: Architecting Flash for Scale and Performance in HPC
"High Performance Computing (HPC) is considered the unlimited class of computing where performance is all that matters. Increasingly, business enterprises are looking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supporting Team Cognition
Ultimately quite an important topic. How do groups think? How do we make them better?" ... our Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series on Thursday, February...
From insideHPC
DDN Drives Discoveries at Van Andel Research Institute
“Deploying DDN’s end-to-end storage solution has allowed us to elevate the standard of protection, increase compliance and push the boundaries of science on a single...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Pattern Magnification
Quite interesting, technical.Eulerian Video Magnification and AnalysisBy Neal Wadhwa, Hao-Yu Wu, Abe Davis, Michael Rubinstein, Eugene Shih, Gautham J. Mysore,Communications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Theory in Practice
A apace we worked in, especially to understand and react to models of competitive activity. In practice usually means getting good understanding of how these models...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Brain Activity
A machine driven look at brain activity.Brain Activity Is Too Complicated for Humans to Decipher. Machines Can Decode It for UsBy VoxUniversity of California, Berkeley...
From Schneier on Security
Predicting a Slot Machine's PRNG
Wired is reporting on a new slot machine hack. A Russian group has reverse-engineered a particular brand of slot machine -- from Austrian company Novomatic -- and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots are Coming
Fun history and thoughts of our attempts as bot, past and presesent. I agree, things will be very different. How much will they be models of ourselves? How soon...
From insideHPC
Video: Singularity – Containers for Science, Reproducibility, and HPC
"Explore how Singularity liberates non-privileged users and host resources (such as interconnects, resource managers, file systems, accelerators ...) allowing users...
From Schneier on Security
Profile of Citizen Lab and Ron Diebert
Here's a nice profile of Citizen Lab and its director, Ron Diebert. Citizen Lab is a jewel. There should be more of them....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mr Clean's New Backstory
My colleague Larry Paul points me to a new backstory of Mr Clean brand equity character published for the Superbowl ad. This is amusingly far different from the...
From insideHPC
Dr. Peter Bauer from ECMWF to Keynote ISC 2017
Today ISC 2017 announced that their Tuesday keynote will be delivered by Dr. Peter Bauer from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). As...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple, IBM and AI for the Enterprise
Following, the details will be interesting, especially for enterprise applications. Have seen relatively few AI driven applications in the enterprise. As part...
From insideHPC
Apply Now for the SC17 Student Cluster Competition
Team applications are now being accepted for the SC17 Student Cluster Competition. "SC17 is excited to hold another nail-biting Student Cluster Competition, orApply...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Request for Input on Federal Datasets with Potential to Advance Data Science
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptkeeper Bug
The Linux encryption app Cryptkeeper has a rather stunning security bug: the single-character decryption key "p" decrypts everything: The flawed version is in Debian...
From The Eponymous Pickle