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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
Hardware Bit-Flipping Attacks in Practice
A year and a half ago, I wrote about hardware bit-flipping attacks, which were then largely theoretical. Now, they can be used to root Android phones: The breakthrough...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Fiber Pauses
Many think they have stopped this moonshot, and they say that in their official blog in a rather round about way. Was harder than they thought. In the Google...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Do We Enhance Human Intelligence?
Where is Human Intelligence (HI) going with augmentation? Been trying for a long time, still quite a way to go. 'Starting to identify', is a good embedded phrase...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supershoppers
Google takes a look at the characteristics of supershoppers, with interesting statistics.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Madefire Telling Stories
Brought to my attention at the recent Microsoft announcements regarding 3D image delivery.MadefireA New Storytelling EraExperience StoriesMadefire is undertaking...
From insideHPC
SGI UV Powers Romanian Aerospace Agency
The National Institute of Aerospace Research in Romania will power its scientific and aeronautical research program with a new SGI UV system. "This is the second...
From insideHPC
Will Deep Learning Scale to Supercomputers?
Are supercomputers practical for Deep Learning applications? Over at the Allinea Blog, Mark O'Connor writes that a recent experiment with machine learning optimization...
From insideHPC
New AVX-512 Instructions Boost Performance on Intel Xeon Phi
While there have been previous generations of AVX instructions, the AVX-512 instructions can significantly assist the performance of HPC applications. "The newNew...
From insideHPC
OpenPOWER Gains Momentum in Europe
Growing momentum was the watchword at the inaugural OpenPOWER European Summit this week, where the OpenPOWER Foundation made a series of announcements today detailing...
From insideHPC
It’s Here: The Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC16 in Salt Lake City
At insideHPC, are very pleased to publish the Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC16 in Salt Lake City. We designed this Guide to be an in-flight magazine custom tailored for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain at McCormick
On supply chain and planning at McCormick. Not an uncommon approach. More in the article:In Consumergoods: " ... Fast-forward to today, and ensuring McCormick...
From Computational Complexity
Get Ready
My daughters, now in college, never knew a time when they couldn't communicate with anyone instantaneously. Molly, now 18, takes pride having the same birth year...
From Schneier on Security
How Powell's and Podesta's E-mail Accounts Were Hacked
It was a phishing attack....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why is learning Binary hard?
Why is learning Binary (and various number bases) so hard for students? I don't remember how exactly there were taught to me except that it was in either the 5th...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Health Devices
An example of how predictive weather data might be used to make devices smarter.IBM Is Using Weather Data To Help Predict Asthma AttacksIBM is entering into the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hidden Treasures of Procurement
Was involved in procurement at a number of different levels in the enterprise. This Bain & Co article on the topic. It is a gold mine of possibilities. AUnearthing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH 2 New BRAIN Requests for Applications
The National Institute of Health (NIH) just announced 2 new BRAIN Initiative Requests for Applications (RFAs). The applications are not just limited to neuroscientists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Conversation with David Bunnell
A visionary of the personal computer. I remember reading of his work long ago.David Bunnell (1947-2016): A RemembrancePC MEMORIES, HOW I CREATED THE PCA Conversation...
From Schneier on Security
OPM Attack
Good long article on the 2015 attack against the US Office of Personnel Management....
From The Eponymous Pickle