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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
CUDA Made Easy: An Introduction
"CUDA C++ is just one of the ways you can create massively parallel applications with CUDA. It lets you use the powerful C++ programming language to develop high...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing Cancer Research and the Human Brain
In this WUOT podcast, Jack Wells from ORNL describes how the Titan supercomputer helps advance science. "The world’s third-most powerful supercomputer is located...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Update on D-Wave
Been following, sometime interacting with D-Wave for some time, a relatively optimistic update in Nature. Controversy remains.D-Wave upgrade: How scientists are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Whiteboards
Over the hears have met with a number of companies aiming to make meetings more effective, and attended many meetings. Have yet to see it well done. Usually the...
From insideHPC
Achieving High-Performance Math Processing with Intel MKL 2017
"Many of the libraries developed in the 70s and 80s for core linear algebra and scientific math computation, such as BLAS, LAPACK, FFT, are still in use today with...
From Schneier on Security
Security Risks of the President's Android Phone
Reports are that President Trump is still using his old Android phone. There are security risks here, but they are not the obvious ones. I'm not concerned about...
From Putting People First
New toolkit to create digital government services
The UK’s Government Digital Service has launched a service toolkit that aims to be a one stop shop for service design resources (reports PublicTechnology). TheNew...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
How to Check a Proof
What to do about claims of hard theorems? Cropped from source Shinichi Mochizuki has claimed the famous ABC conjecture since 2012. It is still unclear whether or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pulse Response Biometrics
Had never heard of this biometric, but as a student of 'biometrics' was intrigued. No idea how unique such a signature is. Article is non technical.Authentication...
From insideHPC
Apply Now for 2017 International Summer School on HPC Challenges
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the eighth International Summer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Year of the Virtual Assistant
In NASDAQ.comWhy 2017 Will Be the Year of the Virtual AssistantJanuary 24, 2017, by Danny Vena, Motley FoolIn its annual mobile apps survey, Research firm Gartner...
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Russian RSC Group Becomes Elite Intel Lustre Reseller
Today RSC Group from Russia announced that the company has achieved highest Elite status in the Intel Solutions for Lustre Reseller Program. Only 9 Intel partners...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education at SxSWEdu 2017
SxSWedu is one big conference I have never been to. Seeing how it is tied to the big South By SouthWest Interactive and Music conferences it has always fascinated...
From insideHPC
Scaling HPC at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre
In this special guest feature, Tim Gillett from Scientific Computing World interviews Norbert Attig and Thomas Eickermann from the Jülich Supercomputing CentreScaling...
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INRIA to Host Workshop on HPC Roadmap for Energy Industry
The HPC for Energy (HPC4E) project is organizing a workshop entitled HPC Roadmap for Energy Industry. Hosted by INRIA, the event takes place Feb 1 at the French...
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Former SGI’s CEO Jorge Titinger Joins TransparentBusiness as Chief Strategy Officer
Today TransparentBusiness announced the appointment of Jorge Luis Titinger as its Chief Strategy Officer. Mr. Titinger is best known as the former CEO of SGI, a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sewing Robots
Moat interesting direction, change the materials to conform to the robotics. I recall seeing some of the same videos which showed how human-complex sewing is....
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Google VR
Good Wired piece on how Google is looking at VR, where the user becomes the interface. The Inside Story of Google's Daydream, where VR feels at home ... "
From Schneier on Security
Capturing Pattern-Lock Authentication
Interesting research -- "Cracking Android Pattern Lock in Five Attempts": Abstract: Pattern lock is widely used as a mechanism for authentication and authorization...
From Putting People First