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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
Sports Analytics not Always a Slam Dunk
In our Columbia course we have been using sports analytics as a disruptive example of the analytics technology. Movies like 'Moneyball' imply it is fail safe,This...
From insideHPC
Top 10 Things to Love About HPC and the SC Conference
"We go to the show for the technology, the engineering, the science, and the math. It’s HPCMatters and STEM. The vendors are showcasing their technology and the...
From insideHPC
Fireside Chat: Dr. Eng Lim Goh on New Trends in HPC Energy Efficiency & Deep Learning
In this video from SC16, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE/SGI discusses new trends in HPC Energy Efficiency and Deep Learning. "SGI's leadership in data analytics derives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Data Warehousing
This came up in a recent course I gave. What are the implications of better and more intelligent data availability? Better process decisions based on data. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Disrupting Enterprises and the C-Suite
Why is clear, but how and the implications are still unclear. What are the all the dimensions of disruption. What will the clearest use cases be? Likely increasingly...
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A Post-Election Email Exchange on Academia and Politics
Since Tuesday, I've been thinking about what we could be doing better--in terms of encouraging civil participation, in terms of satisfying the needs of the people...
From Putting People First
The time of user empathy
Forbes Product Member, Alec Pomnichowski, describes the parallels between architecture and product development thinking. He asks product-types to be considerate...
From insideHPC
Adaptive Computing Rolls Out New Reporting & Analytics Tool
"Adaptive Computing is driving up our customers’ productivity by helping them gain true insight into how their resources are being used, how to handle future capacity...
From insideHPC
Podcast: How Cycle Computing is Riding the Wave of HPC in the Cloud
In this podcast, Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing provides an update on the world of HPC in the Cloud. After that, he describes how the company is augmenting its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Shelf Analytics
In Retailwire, requires sign-in information to get the report.Aberdeen Study: The Power of Real-Time Analytics on the ShelvesThis study, produced by Aberdeen Group...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Advertising
An area we looked at when it seemed like virtual worlds would become common. Augmentation can have an ad floating in front of us wherever we are. In AdAge: ...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 3D-Printed Underwater Autonomous "Squid"
Pretty neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Phys.org Technology News
Computer outage briefly grounds flights on several airlines
Airlines are dealing with another computer outage that is disrupting flight schedules heading into the weekend.
From insideHPC
Five Reasons Why you Want to Try OpenACC Starting with “Its Free!”
OpenACC is a directive based programming model that gives C/C++ and Fortran programmers the ability to write parallel programs simply by augmenting their code with...
From Phys.org Technology News
$12.9B, 4.5 acres: Navy's next-generation aircraft carrier
The Navy refers to its newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, as "4.5 acres of sovereign U.S. territory." The $12.9 billion warship—the first of the Navy's...
From Schneier on Security
Automatically Identifying Government Secrets
Interesting research: "Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify State Secrets," by Renato Rocha Souza, Flavio Codeco Coelho, Rohan Shah, and Matthew Connelly....
From insideHPC
Tencent Cloud Breaks World Record for Data Sorting with IBM & Mellanox
"Real-time-analytics and Big Data environments are extremely demanding and the network is critical in linking together the extra high performance IBM POWER based...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking About Cooperation
What the implications between people, machines, assistants? Can we include a cooperative ethic inside an assistant?The Cost of CooperatingA Conversation WithWhy...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Global Technology Policy Update – November 2016
ACM PUBLIC POLICY HIGHLIGHTS Computer Security – ACM Europe Policy Committee members attended the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in...
From The Eponymous Pickle