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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 Phys.org Technology News
How much should air traffic controllers trust new flight management systems?
With airfares at their lowest point in seven years and airlines adding capacity, this year's Thanksgiving air travel is slated to be 2.5 percent busier than last...
From Phys.org Technology News
Researchers discover most winter boots are too slippery to walk safely on icy surfaces
A team of researchers from the iDAPT labs at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network are dedicated to keeping Canadians safer this winter by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP HANA and Amazon Echo
Have always been interested in how there might be practical business uses of voice driven assistant systems. I am sure there are examinations occuring in industry...
From Schneier on Security
Securing Communications in a Trump Administration
Susan Landau has an excellent essay on why it's more important than ever to have backdoor-free encryption on our computer and communications systems. Protecting...
From insideHPC
Video: Supermicro Showcases Machine Learning Solutions on Intel Architecture
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Akira Sano from Supermicro describes the company’s Machine Learning Solutions on Intel Architecture. “Supermicro...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney Canvas for Storytelling
We long wanted to see something like this. For the non artist to express themselves in stories. Is it easy enough? Something closer to storyboarding might be...
From insideHPC
CERN Selects T-Systems and Huawei for Helix Nebula Science Cloud
Today CERN announced that it has selected T-Systems and Huawei to design, prototype the pilot phase of the Helix Nebula Science Cloud. T-Systems and Huawei will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slack Handling Your Mail
Still some time before we get to this but it would be nice. Fine tuning the details, and handling exceptions well will be key. Current Slack is no where close....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Software evolves by natural selection
Software evolves by natural selection, not by intelligent design. It is a massive trial-and-error process. There are many thousands of programmers working every...
From insideHPC
Asetek Liquid Cooling Delivers Savings and Flexibility for HPC
In this video from SC16, Steve Branton from Asetek describes the company's innovative liquid cooling systems for high performance computing. Unlike one-size-fits...
From insideHPC
Chinese Research Team Wins Gordon Bell Prize using #1 Sunway TaihuLight Supercomputer
A weather science team from China has won 2016 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their research project, “10M-Core Scalable Fully-Implicit Solver for Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric...
From insideHPC
Why Intel Omni-Path is Growing Fast on the TOP500
In this video from SC16, Joe Yaworsky describes how Intel Omni Path is gaining traction on the TOP500. As the interconnect for the Intel Scalable System Framework...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using IBM Watson in Business
This oversimplifies the task of using a capability like IBM/Watson, but is still a good introduction. Non technical, suggestive as to the possibilities. AlsoWilliam...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain for Tracking the Supply Chain
More depth on this effort. Reliable tracking and trransparency creates potential data for many kinds of analytics. And simply knowing where things are to recall...
From Schneier on Security
Headphones as Microphones
Surprising no one who has been following this sort of thing, headphones can be used as microphones....
From Phys.org Technology News
Police worried they lack powers to probe phone involvement in crashes: new study
Police officers are worried they lack the right powers and resources to properly investigate whether a mobile phone was being used by a driver at the time of a...
From Computational Complexity
Music Theory for Theorists
I fully completed and passed my first MOOC, Fundamentals of Music Theory, a Coursera course out of the University of Edinburgh. I played the tuba in college and...
From Putting People First
Where’s Wally? In Search of Citizen Perspectives on the Smart City
Where’s Wally? In Search of Citizen Perspectives on the Smart City by Vanessa Thomas, Ding Wang and Louise Mullagh of the HighWire Centre for Doctoral TrainingWhere...
From Phys.org Technology News
Most expensive destroyer in Navy history breaks down
The most expensive destroyer ever built for the Navy suffered an engineering problem in the Panama Canal and had to be towed to port.
From Schneier on Security