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From insideHPC

Video: Modern Code – Making the Impossible Possible

In this video, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC moderates a panel discussion on Code Modernization. "SC15 luminary panelists reflect on collaboration with Intel and... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | January 20, 2017 at 09:45 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Scan and Go Again

Scan and Go Again In Retailwire.by Matthew Stern with expert comments.Some ideas were ahead of their time and that’s how Walmart appears to see its Scan & Go mobile... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 19, 2017 at 06:35 PM

From insideHPC

China Oceanwide to Acquire IDG & IDC

"We will be fully honoring all IDC HPC contracts and deliverables, and will continue our HPC operations as before," said Earl Joseph of IDC. "Because the HPC group... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | January 19, 2017 at 03:50 PM

From Putting People First

Anthropologist Sally Applin on the automation of qualitative methods

Anthropology and its methodologies cannot easily be automated. However, both design and engineering based organizations are attempting it. Anthropologist SallyAnthropologist... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2017 at 02:29 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Big Data to Knowledge Updates

The Data Science and the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have a number of upcoming opportunities, events, and... Helen Wright
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | January 19, 2017 at 02:04 PM

From insideHPC

Oracle Cloud to add PBS Works for Technical Computing

Today Altair announced plans to build and offer HPC solutions on the Oracle Cloud Platform. This follows Oracle’s decision to name Altair PBS Works as its preferred... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | January 19, 2017 at 12:12 PM

From insideHPC

Call for Proposals: SC17 Workshops

The SC17 conference is now accepting proposals for independently planned full- or half-day workshops. SC17 will be held Nov. 12-17 in Denver. The post Call forinsideHPC... staff
From insideHPC | January 19, 2017 at 11:57 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Help Every Child Learn to Read

Curious Learning.Help Every Child Learn to Read2 Years Of Early Literacy Education, Delivered By Smartphone Or Tablet.Slides. Created At MIT, Backed By Research... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 19, 2017 at 11:56 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Revealing the Limits of AI

So what can AI really do today? Here a list of questions which aim to indicate the current limitations. Includes inputs by Roger Schank, AI researcher we have... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 19, 2017 at 11:54 AM

From insideHPC

Managing Lots of Tasks for Intel Xeon Phi

"OpenMP, Fortran 2008 and TBB are standards that can help to create parallel areas of an application. MKL could also be considered to be part of this family, because... MichaelS
From insideHPC | January 19, 2017 at 11:30 AM

From insideHPC

NERSC Selects Six Teams for Exascale Science Applications Program

Following a call for proposals issued last October, NERSC has selected six science application teams to participate in the NERSC Exascale Science Applications Program... staff
From insideHPC | January 19, 2017 at 11:14 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Mobile Platforms for Early Literacy Education

This was quite good, included mention of the use of screen robots to provide learning companions to children. Quite a good example of the use of smartphones."... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 19, 2017 at 10:58 AM

From insideHPC

Speeding Workloads at the Dell EMC HPC Innovation Lab

This is the final entry in an insideHPC series of features covering high performance system interconnect technology, HPC networking and computing. This entry is... Peter ffoulkes
From insideHPC | January 19, 2017 at 09:30 AM

From Computational Complexity

Infinite Series and Markov Chains

There's a wonderful new series of math videos PBS Infinite Series hosted by Cornell Math Phd student Kelsey Houston-Edwards. Check out this latest video on Markov... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | January 19, 2017 at 08:25 AM

From Putting People First

Social science must return to qualitative research to understand social and political shifts

Social science has become increasingly beholden to analysis derived from big data: large numerical sets analysed computationally, write Pamela Prickett and Elaine... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2017 at 07:48 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Resolving Customer Disputes

Note the use of personality profiles. How accurately can this be done?Can AI resolve customer service disputes? by Matthew Stern A phone call with a customer... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 19, 2017 at 07:44 AM

From Schneier on Security

Heartbeat as Biometric Password

There's research in using a heartbeat as a biometric password. No details in the article. My guess is that there isn't nearly enough entropy in the reproducible... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 19, 2017 at 07:22 AM

From Putting People First

Don Norman on what Apple, Google and Tesla get wrong

Don Norman is a technological optimist. The author of The Design of Everyday Things and head of UC San Diego’s Design Lab believes that artificial intelligenceDon... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2017 at 05:06 AM

From Putting People First

[Report] Consuming Differently, Consuming Sustainably: Behavioural Insights for Policymaking

The objective of this report, published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is to shed light on opportunities to strengthen the effectiveness of[Report]... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2017 at 04:54 AM

From Putting People First

[Report] Behavioural Insights at the United Nations – Achieving Agenda 2030

In 2016, the UNDP Innovation Facility collaborated with the newly engaged UN Behavioural Science Advisor to work on behaviorally-informed design with 8 UNDP Country... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2017 at 04:35 AM