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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
Perspective on Cognitive
Dear Professors, Students, IBMers and others, This a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series tomorrow, Thursday, November 10, 2016 at...
From insideHPC
Free to Attend: StartupHPC Summit Monday, Nov. 14 in Salt Lake City
Today StartupHPC posted their final agenda for their Workshop at SC16 in Salt Lake City. StartupHPC is focused on fostering entrepreneurship in high performance...
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Tackling HPC Storage Bottlenecks with Bull Director for HPSS
Today Atos announced Bull Director for HPSS, Data Management software dedicated to High Performance Computing. Bull Director for HPSS optimizes current large scale...
From Schneier on Security
Whistleblower Investigative Report on NSA Suite B Cryptography
The NSA has been abandoning secret and proprietary cryptographic algorithms in favor of commercial public algorithms, generally known as "Suite B." In 2010, an...
From Apophenia
I blame the media. Reality check time.
For months I have been concerned about how what I was seeing on the ground and in various networks was not at all aligned with what pundits were saying. I knew...
From insideHPC
ECI to Demo 400G Optical Backbone on SC16 SCinet
Today ECI announced plans to demonstrate a 400G backbone at SCinet, the world's largest and fastest high-performance network at SC16 in Salt Lake City. "ECI was...
From insideHPC
Cray Joins iEnergy Oil & Gas Community
"By joining iEnergy, Cray can offer Landmark processing customers access to its high-performance hardware platform to help software users maximize their benefits...
From Schneier on Security
Self-Propagating Smart Light Bulb Worm
This is exactly the sort of Internet-of-Things attack that has me worried: "IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction" by Eyal Ronen, Colin OFlynn, Adi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Strategies
In MIT Sloan: Thinking Digital Strategies. " ... To succeed today, companies need a a unique value proposition that incorporates digital technologies in a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Exploration Tutorial
A Comprehensive Guide to Data ExplorationPosted by Emmanuelle Rieuf ... This article on a complete tutorial on data exploration, was posted by Sunil Ray. SunilIntroduction...
From Schneier on Security
Election-Day Humor
This was written in 2004, but still holds true today....
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Unskewing the Election
Not the polls but voter impulse this time Cropped from source Nate Silver has gone out on a limb. Four years ago we posted on how the forecast of his team at FiveThirtyEight...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarming, Folding Robotics
Quite a trick to consider:Harvard Building Swarm of Self-Folding Origami RobotsOne of the challenges with swarms of robots is manufacturing and deploying the swarm...
From insideHPC
Slidecast: How SGI is Meeting Manufacturing’s Need for Production Supercomputing
In this slidecast, Tony DeVarco from SGI describes how the company delivers Production Supercomputing for SMEs. “As the trusted leader in high performance computing...
From insideHPC
Local’s Guide to Food & Entertainment at SC16 in Salt Lake City
SC16 returns to Salt Lake City this year. And while SLC is known for its gorgeous views of the mountains, what our readers may not know is that Salt Lake City is...
From insideHPC
Our Top Recommendation for a Great Dinner at SC16 in Salt Lake City
With SC16 coming to Salt Lake City, we asked the local's for their top pick for a great dinner place. The winner was Copper Onion. "The restaurant located on busy...
From insideHPC
Preparing Developers for Tomorrow’s Systems
In this special guest feature, Bill Mannel from Hewlett Packard Enterprise writes that upcoming Intel HPC Developer Conference in Salt Lake City is a great opportunity...
From ACM on Huffington Post
Internet Voting: Not Ready For Prime Time
By Barbara Simons, Former President Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Jeremy Epstein, Vice Chair of ACM US Public
From insideHPC
FlyElephant Collaborates with HPC-HUB for High Performance in the Cloud
Today FlyElephant announced a collaboration with HPC HUB, a developer of complex software and hardware solutions in high performance computing. Now entering its...
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