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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Machine Problems with Deep Learning
Maintenance prediction is something we worked on. Here a related application that has many possibilities. How about very rare breakdown occurences? In IEEEDeep...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Contributions of PCAST
Contributions to this post were made by CCC Chair Beth Mynatt and CCC Director Ann Drobnis. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)...
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Video: AI – The Next HPC Workload
“From new cloud offerings on AWS and Azure, to Summit and Sierra, the 150+ PF supercomputers being built by the US in 2017, new AI workloads are driving the rapid...
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China to Develop Exascale Prototype in 2017
The Xinhua news agency reports that China is planning to develop a prototype exascale supercomputer by the end of 2017. "A complete computing system of the exascale...
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Cray to Develop ARM-based Isambard Supercomputer for UK Met Office
“This is an exciting time in high performance computing,” said Prof Simon McIntosh-Smith, leader of the project and Professor of High Performance Computing at the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Sponsors Data Sciences Education Roundtable at the U.S. National Academies of Sciences
ACM is sponsoring a new 3-year initiative by the National Academy of Sciences on data science postsecondary education. A series of roundtable discussions will bring...
From insideHPC
DDN and Inspur Sign Agreement for Joint Sales & Marketing
Today DataDirect Networks announced a joint sales and marketing agreement with Inspur, a leading China-based, cloud-computing and total-solution-and-services provider...
From insideHPC
Video: A Look at the Mogon II HPC Cluster at Johannes Gutenberg University
In this video, Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Brinkmann from the JGU datacenter describes the Mogon II cluster, a 580 Teraflop system currently ranked #265 on the TOP500....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leadership in a Cognitive era
Discussion starting in the Cognitive Systems Linkedin Group. Join us in the conversation.Points to a Forbes article. How will leadership change in the Cognitive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Raspberry Pi Upgrade
Raspberry Pi upgrades Compute Module with 10 times the CPU performance ... Compute Module for embedded computing gets first big upgrade since 2014. by Jon Brodkin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forbes on Uses of AI today
In Forbes: Mostly well known, and can be said that most of these are very focused applications. The assistant applications like Siri and Alexa, can be said to...
From The Noisy Channel
Living The Dream
A year ago, I decided to take a break from full-time employment and explore a mix of consulting, advising, writing, and speaking. Continue reading on Medium »
From Schneier on Security
WhatsApp Security Vulnerability
Back in March, Rolf Weber wrote about a potential vulnerability in the WhatsApp protocol that would allow Facebook to defeat perfect forward secrecy by forcibly...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Global Technology Policy Newsletter – January 2017
ACM PUBLIC POLICY HIGHLIGHTS Through policy statements, issue briefs, white papers, and reports, ACM delivers knowledge-based analysis and educational materials...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trends in Digital Transformation
Four Trends in Digital TransformationIn CustomerThink by Jacob MorganIf one of the main goals of the future of work is to increase productivity and collaboration...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Best programming language for high performance (January 2017)?
I keep hoping that the field of programming language will evolve. I am a bit tired to program in Java and C… I’d like better languages. I am particularly interested...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Course about AI in the Enterprise
Ajit Jaokar of Futuretext has an upcoming enterprise AI course.I like the idea of aiming this at the enterprise, which is rarely done, but needs to be done more...
From insideHPC
Bull Atos to Build for HPC Prototype for Mont-Blanc Project using Cavium ThunderX2 Processor
Today the Mont-Blanc European project announced it has selected Cavium’s ThunderX2 ARM server processor to power its new HPC prototype. The new Mont-Blanc prototype...
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Radio Free HPC Looks at New Open Source Software for Quantum Computing
In this podcast the Radio Free HPC team looks at D-Wave's new open source software for quantum computing. The software is available on github along with a whitepaper...
From The Eponymous Pickle