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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
First Impressions: People, Brands?
Quite interesting results. Does a lapse of time still not heal the first impression? Is this also the case with a brand?Science: First Impressions Are EvenNew...
From Apophenia
Why America is Self-Segregating
The United States has always been a diverse but segregated country. This has shaped American politics profoundly. Yet, throughout history, Americans have had to...
From Schneier on Security
Should Elections Be Classified as "Critical Infrastructure"?
I am co-author on a paper discussing whether elections be classified as "critical infrastructure" in the US, based on experiences in other countries: Abstract:...
From Schneier on Security
FDA Recommendations on Medical-Device Cybersecurity
The FDA has issued a report giving medical devices guidance on computer and network security. There's nothing particularly new or interesting; it reads like standard...
From Phys.org Technology News
Science DMZ is focus of latest library of network training videos aimed at global audience
For members of the established research and education (R&E) networking community, attending conferences or sitting in on workshop sessions is the normal way to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BPM Empowering IoT and Defining Analytics
A favorite topic. How Business Process Modeling (BPM) could be used with analytics and AI to really understand and improve business process. Here in the Jan-Feb...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Report on Ensuring Long-Term U.S. Leadership in Semiconductors
The following blog post is by CCC Vice Chair and Executive Council member and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Mark D. Hill. Last week the US White House...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Softbank Pepper Sales Robot
A relook at the SoftBank humanoid Pepper robot. Seems the test they mention that showed increases in sales is far too short, and could have largely been driven...
From insideHPC
Penn State Institute for CyberScience to Host HPC Workshops
The Penn State Institute for CyberScience (ICS) is hosting a series of free training workshops on high-performance computing techniques. These workshops are sponsored...
From insideHPC
Compute Canada Receives Funding for National Supercomputing Platform
Today the Canada Foundation for Innovation announced an award of $69,455,000 through its Major Science Initiative Fund for the Compute Canada project. This award...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Research Scientist for HPC at PNNL
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is seeking a Research Scientist for High Performance Computing in our Job of the Week. "The HPC group is seeking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Important Are Number Bases for pre-University Computer Science?
Do high school or younger computer science students really need to understand number-base conversion and binary, decimal, and hexadecimal number systems? Obviously...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Everything is a Virtual Assistant Now
CW look at the future of virtual assistants, based on the explosion of solutions delivered and embedded, shown at CES last week. Good points made about 'supporting'...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks Forward to New Technologies in 2017
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team shares the things we're looking forward to in 2017. "From the iPhone 8 to storage innovations and camera technologies in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Recognition by Baidu and KFC China
Long have discussed facial recognition uses. Here a test at the point of sale at KFC China. Evan Schuman makes a good case that the proposed use is dangerous...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Predicting the future job market: the librarians
People spend a lot of time worrying that robots and computers are going to wipe out all jobs. My belief is that the job market is a lot more complex and simplistic...
From insideHPC
Scaling Hardware for In-Memory Computing
The two methods of scaling processors are based on the method used to scale the memory architecture and are called scaling-out or scale-up. Beyond the basic processor...
From XRDS
How cloud computing could improve your research.
Processing large datasets or working with huge data is a usual stage in almost any kind of research. The problem appears when processing these data requires long...
From Apophenia
Did Media Literacy Backfire?
Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of propaganda and fake news during this year’s election cycle, many progressives are calling for an increased...
From The Eponymous Pickle