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Teaching a Neural Network to Encrypt
From Schneier on Security

Teaching a Neural Network to Encrypt

Researchers have trained a neural network to encrypt its communications. In their experiment, computers were able to make their own form of encryption using machine...

Bright OpenStack Powers HPC at Stony Brook University
From insideHPC

Bright OpenStack Powers HPC at Stony Brook University

"OpenStack promises to be a standard platform for creating a private cloud but it can be very difficult to configure,” said Dan Kuczkowski, Senior Vice President...

Expert Interview Series: Jim Brikman of Gruntwork on Launching a Startup
From Writing

Expert Interview Series: Jim Brikman of Gruntwork on Launching a Startup

I did an interview for the Paysa Blog where I shared some of my experiences with living the startup life: Expert Interview Series: Jim Brikman of Gruntwork on Launching...

Expert Interview Series - Jim Brikman of Gruntwork on Launching a Startup
From Writing

Expert Interview Series - Jim Brikman of Gruntwork on Launching a Startup

I did an interview for the Paysa Blog where I shared some of my experiences with living the startup life: Expert Interview Series - Jim Brikman of Gruntwork on...

Power BI adds R
From The Eponymous Pickle

Power BI adds R

Interesting that many dashboard level visualization methods are adding links to deeper data science like R.  Should allow us to start with general visualization...

Four Case Studies for a Data Driven Organization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Four Case Studies for a Data Driven Organization

 In the MIT Sloan Review:   Four case Studies for Data Driven OrgsOrganizations across the business spectrum are awakening to the transformative power of data and...

Free Cybersecurity MOOC from F-Secure and the University of Finland
From Schneier on Security

Free Cybersecurity MOOC from F-Secure and the University of Finland

Looks interesting. Finnish residents can take it for credit....

Safety chief: Honda must do more to fix dangerous air bags
From Phys.org Technology News

Safety chief: Honda must do more to fix dangerous air bags

Honda must do more to track down owners of 300,000 cars with highly dangerous Takata air bag inflators and make sure they are repaired, the nation's top auto safety...

Unilever Innovates with Trucking Supply Chain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever Innovates with Trucking Supply Chain

 Trucking Startup Convoy Inks Its Biggest Deal With Unilever   by Dina BassUnilever contract involves 10s of thousands of trucks a yearConvoy Inc., a Seattle-based...

Mellanox Launches OpenNPU for Routers, Load Balancers, and Firewalls
From insideHPC

Mellanox Launches OpenNPU for Routers, Load Balancers, and Firewalls

"The market for networking devices is undergoing a major paradigm shift, moving away from closed proprietary OEM network equipment and migrating towards open platforms...

Ethernet Alliance Maps Out Ethernet’s Future In HPC at SC16
From insideHPC

Ethernet Alliance Maps Out Ethernet’s Future In HPC at SC16

Today the Ethernet Alliance previewed their upcoming SC16 multi-vendor interoperability demo. A premier international conference for high-performance computing,...

Designing AI Systems that Obey Laws and Values
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing AI Systems that Obey Laws and Values

In the CACM.  The currently much discussed issues of laws, ethics and values for advanced computation.  Usually applied to AI, but really also applicable to any...

HPC Trends Survey from DDN Reveals Rising Deployment of Flash Tiers & Private/Hybrid Clouds
From insideHPC

HPC Trends Survey from DDN Reveals Rising Deployment of Flash Tiers & Private/Hybrid Clouds

"The results of DDN’s annual HPC Trends Survey reflect very accurately what HPC end users tell us and what we are seeing in their data center infrastructures. The...

A Cognitive Shopping Research Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Cognitive Shopping Research Assistant

IBM is acquiring expertise to be directly enhanced via Watson methods.  Here aimed at pre shopping research. IBM acquires Watson-based cognitive shopping assistant...

InfiniBand: When State-of-the-Art becomes State-of-the-Smart
From insideHPC

InfiniBand: When State-of-the-Art becomes State-of-the-Smart

Scot Schultz from Mellanox writes that the company is moving the industry forward to a world-class off-load network architecture that will pave the way to Exascale...

IBM Adds New All-Flash, Software-Defined Cloud Storage Solutions
From insideHPC

IBM Adds New All-Flash, Software-Defined Cloud Storage Solutions

Today IBM announced new hybrid cloud all-flash storage solutions developed to modernize and transform storage deployments, providing a strong bridge to the development...

Edward Snowden's Boss at Booz Allen Hamilton Speaks
From Schneier on Security

Edward Snowden's Boss at Booz Allen Hamilton Speaks

Interesting. I have no idea how much of it to believe....

Aviation professor expects boost in fliers for the holidays
From Phys.org Technology News

Aviation professor expects boost in fliers for the holidays

Increases in summer airline travel could be an indicator of things to come for flying during the holiday season.

Microsoft Flow now Open
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Flow now Open

Microsoft’s IFTTT alternative is now open to everyoneMicrosoft Flow comes out of beta and is free to use by Natt Garun .... "  In Verge: A Flow is an action that...

HipChat on Echo for the Office Assistant?
From The Eponymous Pickle

HipChat on Echo for the Office Assistant?

With Alexa providing a more active orientation.  HipChat is team chat and file sharing system.   Akin to Slack, which I have used with a client.   Is this the way...
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