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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 Look at Google Home Assistant
As part of my long running look at virtual assistants, started to look at Google Home, in comparison to Amazon Echo for smart home applications. Compared to my...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Standards and Organizations
An examination of and links to standards and related IOT groups. Many I have not seen. Via IOT Central, a good group to join.
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Announces $48 Million to Establish Four Exascale Co-Design Centers
Today the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) today announced that it has selected four co-design centers as part of a 4 year, $48 million funding...
From Schneier on Security
Fooling Facial Recognition Systems
This is some interesting research. You can fool facial recognition systems by wearing glasses printed with elements of other peoples' faces. Mahmood Sharif, Sruti...
From Putting People First
The cognitive psychologist’s view of UX design
Psychologist and cognitive scientist Dr. Susan Weinschenk explains how her science informs UX design. Weinschenk takes research and knowledge about the brain, the...
From Phys.org Technology News
After off-mark polls, some question value of 'big data'
For an American public that relies on data for everything from where to find the best taco to the likely victor in a baseball game, Election Day offered a jarring...
From Apophenia
Media: End Reporting on Polls
We now know that the polls were wrong. Over the last few months, I’ve told numerous reporters and people in the media industry this, but I was generally ignored...
From Computational Complexity
Our Role and Responsibility
It's Trump but not just Trump. Brexit. Right-wing politicians gaining power in France, Netherlands, Austria and beyond. We worry about the future of our country...
From Schneier on Security
Ultrasonic Hacking
Ad networks are surreptitiously using ultrasonic communications to jump from device to device. It should come as no surprise that this communications channel can...
From insideHPC
Custom Liquid Cooling to Support Canada’s Largest Radio Telescope
“We chose to work with CoolIT Systems because their solutions are modular and robust, and as a result the most flexible and efficient for our situation,” says Keith...
From insideHPC
DOE to Showcase Leadership in HPC at SC16
Researchers and staff from the U.S. Department of Energy’s national laboratories will showcase some of DOE’s best computing and networking innovations and techniques...
From insideHPC
Intel Omni-Path Architecture Fabric, the Choice of Leading HPC Institutions
Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel OPA) volume shipments started a mere nine months ago in February of this year, but Intel’s high-speed, low-latency fabric for...
From insideHPC
OpenHPC now available on ARM at SC16
Over at the ARM Connected Community, Darren Cepulis, writes that the popular chip platform is now part of the OpenHPC community. As one of a series of strategic...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Too Many CS Teaching Resources
The Bring IT, Together conference is taking place this week in Niagara Falls, Canada. I’m not there but I have been seeing some social media updates today. Itrobots...
From insideHPC
Maximize Parallelization with Threading On A Core
To get maximum parallelization for an application, not only must the application be developed to take advantage of multiple cores, but should also have the code...
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Awards $34 Million for Software Development
Today the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) today announced the selection of 35 software development proposals representing 25 research and...
From insideHPC
Slidecast: Mellanox Announces 200Gb/s HDR InfiniBand Solutions
In this slidecast, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox announces the world’s first HDR 200Gb/s data center interconnect solutions. "These 200Gb/s HDR InfiniBand solutions...
From Phys.org Technology News
America's aging voting machines managed to survive another election
During this year's voting, the vast majority of states used outdated voting machines perilously close to the end of their projected lifespan. Back in April, we...
From Schneier on Security
Regulation of the Internet of Things
Late last month, popular websites like Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit and PayPal went down for most of a day. The distributed denial-of-service attack that caused the...
From insideHPC