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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
Service Innovation Talk: Emotional Intelligence
Intriguing ..." ... Eric J. McNulty’s presentation for the ISSIP Service Innovation Weekly Speaker Series.Title of his presentation is “Integrating Human Factors...
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Why We Need to Talk About the Collaboration Problem
Today I spoke with a Computer Science professor who is finishing a semester of teaching a notoriously challenging advanced undergraduate course."I figured out the...
From Phys.org Technology News
Growing fears of IS use of weaponised drones
The Mosul battle in Iraq has seen the Islamic State group increasingly resort to weaponised drones, which Western governments fear could lead to a new type of attack...
From XRDS
The World’s Most Active ACM Chapters Series in Video, Episode 1: UPES ACM Student Chapter, Uttarakhand, India
Working as Departments Chief for ACM XRDS Magazine over the past few years has put me in contact with talented individuals and interest groups ranging from California...
From insideHPC
SGI Paves the Way to the Future with HPE at SC16
In this video from SC16, Gabriel Broner from SGI describes the company's full breadth of HPC solutions. Recently acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, SGI's product...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Genes, Games, Randomness and the Power of Algorithms
In the CACM: Sex as an algorithm. Fascinating piece. Not really technical, but a conceptually dense description. Reminds me of some of our own experimentsgenetically...
From insideHPC
New InfiniBand Architecture Specifications Extends Virtualization Support
"As performance demands continue to evolve in both HPC and enterprise cloud applications, the IBTA saw an increasing need for new enhancements to InfiniBand’s network...
From Blog@Ubiquity
The Funny Side of Science
Some people have the strange idea that science is too straight-laced to be funny. These people are not scientists. True scientists love to tell jokes about themselves...
From insideHPC
How Dell EMC Delivers HPC Cloud with R-Systems
"Learn how you can cost effectively accelerate innovation with a secure private cloud environment, hosted and managed by Dell and R Systems Bare Metal Solution....
From insideHPC
13.7 Petaflop MareNostrum 4 Supercomputer Coming to BSC
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center announced plans to MareNostrum 4, a 13.7 Petaflop supercomputer that will be 12.4 times more powerful than the current...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT and Marketing
A fairly broad look at what IOT is, but interesting statistics on adoption.Among Marketers, IoT Is Seen as Critical Emerging TechnologyMore businesses are in mature...
From insideHPC
Avere Speeds Hybrid Cloud at SC16
"Avere Hybrid Cloud is a groundbreaking solution that changes the economics and functionality of data storage and computing. Avere Hybrid Cloud enables companies...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Global Cities Team Challenge Public WiFi SuperCluster Conference Call
The Global Cities Team Challenge (GCTC) will hold their first group conference call for the Public WiFi SuperCluster. Anyone who is interested in the Public WiFi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pitfalls in the Internet of Things
Video and Transcipt from Bain.Ann Bosche: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in the Internet of ThingsEnthusiasm for the Internet of Things continues to grow—already, leading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rain and Echo for Marketing
Interesting view of how skills are being built for voice channels. How This Agency Built Its Own App Using Amazon Echo Voice skills have become big business for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting More Insights from Data
Good piece from Tableau: Find hidden insights in your data: Ask why and why again by Andy Cotgreave. I will add, always check with your business process context...
From Schneier on Security
You, Too, Can Rent the Murai Botnet
You can rent a 400,000-computer Murai botnet and DDoS anyone you like. BoingBoing post. Slashdot thread....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots as Filters and Beyond
Been examining the current uses and extent of bots, Since our own experiments with bots we always looked at bots as a means to augment.This Fortune article reminded...
From Schneier on Security
San Francisco Transit System Target of Ransomware
It's really bad. The ticket machines were hacked. Over the next couple of years, I believe we are going to see the downside of our headlong rush to put everything...
From The Eponymous Pickle