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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 Schneier on Security
Hacking in the Movies
New Atlas has a great three-part feature on the history of hacking as portrayed in films, including video clips. The 1980s. The 1990s. The 2000s....
From insideHPC
XSEDE Conference Morphs into PEARC17
The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) annual conference is transforming into an independent entity designed to unite the high-performance...
From insideHPC
ISC 2016 Workshop Papers Available as Free Download
Workshop Papers from ISC 2016 are now available as a free download. "The 21 workshops were held on June 26, 2016 at the Frankfurt Marriott Hotel with over 600 registered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot has a Tail
In IEEE Spectrum: Robot uses actuator tail for transport.
From insideHPC
LCS to Unveil Immersive-cooled Servers at SC16
Today LiquidCool Solutions (LCS) announced plans to unveil two new liquid submerged servers at SC16 in Salt Lake City. Based on a clamshell design, the SCS Submerged...
From insideHPC
SGI Powers Cancer Research at AbbVie Stemcentrx
"Our new SGI UV 300 capabilities will help us achieve major milestones sooner than predicted,” said Albert Park, senior director, Bioinformatics, AbbVie Stemcentrx...
From insideHPC
Kx Breaks STAC Benchmark Record with Dell EMC DSSD D5
'Trading firms in the STAC Benchmark Council designed the STAC-M3 suite to represent a range of performance challenges that are common in financial time-seriesKx...
From insideHPC
Transportation Guide to SC16 in Salt Lake City
Are you coming to SC16 in Salt Lake City? As far as transportation goes, SLC has gone through remarkable changes since we last visited at SC12. As you’ll learnTransportation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT as an Integration of Things
Nicely done article. Clear it is an integration of things. But the how and details need to be closely considered. In Readwrite: " ... When comparing this market...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Medicine and Chatbots
Been using email with my doctors for some time. Even the point of sharing data and its interpretation, at least at a high level. Seems they still run nervous...
From The Noisy Channel
Overcoming Information Asymmetry
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Information Asymmetry in the Workplace” that discussed compensation in the Alliance… Continue reading on »
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Marketers Fail in Product Innovation
In Knowledge@Wharton:Why Marketers Often Miss the Mark in Product InnovationsWhy do most new products fail? According to Clayton Christensen, the author of Competing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Columbia University Course on Analytics Change
Next week I will be giving Course in Columbia University's School of Professional Studies entitled: Applied Analytics PS5700 Analytics and Leading Change. Any...
From Computational Complexity
Do We Still Need Great Minds?
An anonymous comment on a recent post on alternate histories. As far as science is concerned I don't believe that the great minds are needed anymore. They only...
From Schneier on Security
Google Linking Anonymous Browser Tracking with Identifiable Tracking
Google's new ways to violate your privacy and -- more importantly -- how to opt out....
From insideHPC
SC16 to Showcase Latest Advances in HPC
SC16 returns to Salt Lake City on Nov. 13-18. The Six-day supercomputing event features internationally-known expert speakers, cutting-edge workshops and sessions...
From insideHPC
Seeking Innovators for the StartupHPC Workshop at SC16
In this special guest feature, Cydney Ewald Stevens writes that Salt Lake City will soon host the return of the SC conference along with the third annual StartupHPC...
From insideHPC
HPC Modernization Program Boosts Supercomputing at DoD
Today the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program announced details of its fiscal year 2016 investment in supercomputing capability...
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Phi Processor: A Look at the Basic Architecture
"Designing a new generation of hardware with such high performance needs to make sure that developers understand the basics, and are familiar with the architecture...
From The Eponymous Pickle