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Dr. William Vanderlinde on Computing Beyond Moore’s Law

In this video from the IEEE Rebooting Computing Workshop, Dr. William Vanderlinde, Chief Scientist at Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA),Dr... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 3, 2017 at 11:19 AM

From insideHPC

Spectra Logic Celebrates Ten Years of Profitability

Today Spectra Logic announced its tenth consecutive year of profitability at the close of calendar year 2016. Spectra Logic’s success is rooted in investing inSpectra... staff
From insideHPC | February 3, 2017 at 11:03 AM

From insideHPC

Hexagon to Acquire MSC Software

Today Hexagon AB from Sweden announced an agreement to acquire MSC Software, a leading provider of computer-aided engineering solutions, including simulation software... staff
From insideHPC | February 3, 2017 at 10:11 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Complexity and Interaction

Interesting thoughts about the complexity of conversation.Caring Cyborgs Asian Scientist (01/03/17) Social robots designed to interact with people could act... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 3, 2017 at 08:41 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Review the revised K-12 Computer Science (CS) Standards

The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) revised K-12 Computer Science (CS) Standards is now available for review. This is not to be confused with the CS... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | February 3, 2017 at 08:34 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Harnessing Automation

In McKinsey. Ultimately we will have to deal with this. To me this will mean better collaboration between humans, machines and evolving tacit knowledge. The... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 2, 2017 at 08:16 PM

From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Montreal researchers “prove” that aging is the result of a genetic program

Unless you are a tree, a lobster, or some other sea creature, you are probably aging over time… which is another way of saying that beyond adulthood, your fitness... Daniel Lemire
From Daniel Lemire's Blog | February 2, 2017 at 06:57 PM

From Computational Complexity

We Are All Iranians

A solidarity rally held at Georgia Tech today There are ten Iranian members of my department, the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, all of whom face... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | February 2, 2017 at 02:15 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Great Innovative Idea- Flexible Road Trains in Autonomous Public Transportation

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Stephan Winter from the University of Melbourne. Winter along with his coauthors Niels Agatz from Erasmus University... Helen Wright
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | February 2, 2017 at 02:08 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Talk: Cyber Social Learning Systems

Good talk today, looking at the complexity of delivering learning to health care systems. The integration of control systems, machine learning and AI with human... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 2, 2017 at 12:37 PM

From insideHPC

Video: A Look at the National Strategic Computing Initiative

In this video, Dr. Carl J. Williams, Deputy Director of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology within the United... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 2, 2017 at 12:30 PM

From insideHPC

Microsoft Releases Batch Shipyard on GitHub for Docker on Azure

"Available on GitHub as Open Source, the Batch Shipyard toolkit enables easy deployment of batch-style Dockerized workloads to Azure Batch compute pools. AzureMicrosoft... staff
From insideHPC | February 2, 2017 at 11:40 AM

From insideHPC

Call for Papers: Workshop on HPC in a post Moore’s Law World

"The impending end of traditional MOSFET scaling has sparked research into preserving HPC performance improvements through alternative computational models. ToCall... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 2, 2017 at 11:23 AM

From insideHPC

ANSYS Enterprise Cloud goes with Cycle Computing for HPC

“Our collaboration with Cycle Computing enables the ANSYS Enterprise Cloud to meet the elastic capacity and security requirements of enterprise customers,” said... staff
From insideHPC | February 2, 2017 at 11:04 AM

From insideHPC

Vectorization Leads to Performance Gains

Applications that can take advantage of the new vectorization capabilities of the Intel Xeon Phi processor will show tremendous performance gains. "When considering... MichaelS
From insideHPC | February 2, 2017 at 10:24 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Linear Regression Visual Geometry

Nice piece in DSC. Technical, but visually enlightening, about our most used analytical technique. Good way to understand it and its components. Posted by ... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 2, 2017 at 09:50 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

SoundHound

Had heard of these folks, in particular of their work with Samsung. Potentially drives voice to assistants and chatbot capabilities. Competitive to Alexa and... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 2, 2017 at 09:41 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Dashboards and Analytics

Brought to my attention LogiAnalyticsCreating Genius AppsLogi helps you seamlessly embed custom analytics in your apps—empowering your customers and employees with... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 2, 2017 at 09:38 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

AI: Getting Closer to Customers at Scale

In Linkedin. Good thoughts, the integration of Cloud and AI ....AI: Getting Closer to Customers at ScalePublished on January 31, 2017by Steve Turner Introduction... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 2, 2017 at 09:32 AM

From Schneier on Security

Pacemaker Data Used in Arson Conviction

Here's a story about data from a pacemaker being used as evidence in an arson conviction.... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | February 2, 2017 at 07:33 AM