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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
Staples Tests Echo Competitor
Seems like an unexpected direction, but is not. Also I like the fact that this could open interactions to the workplace. 'Easy Button', though no longer in their...
From insideHPC
NSF Sponsors Women Engineers for SCinet Buildout for SC16
The Networking at SC (WINS) program officially launched today. Funded through a grant from the NSF and EsNet, the program sponsors eight career women in the research...
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Penguin Computing Adds Pascal GPUs to Open Compute Tundra Systems
Today Penguin Computing announced availability of Open Compute-based Tundra Relion X1904GT and Tundra Relion 1930g servers, powered by NVIDIA Tesla P40 and P4 GPU...
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Video: Jim Ganthier on how Dell EMC Powers HPC & Big Data
"HPC is 'mainstreaming' into many industry verticals and converging with Big Data and Cloud. By 2019, HPC will account for nearly 1 in 4 of all servers sold. Our...
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Mellanox Shipping ConnectX-5 Adapter
"We are pleased to start shipping the ConnectX-5, the industry’s most advanced network adapter, to our key partners and customers, allowing them to leverage our...
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BSC Collaborates with OpenFog Consortium
"To reinforce and continue with our pioneering work on fog computing that started in 2008, we pursue synergies between leading technology companies and academic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers as Furniture
Interesting suggestion, that we are not all that interested in the evolving capabilities of computing. Its furniture, we need it, but the details are unimportant...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Robots for Teaching are everywhere–Which should I use and how?
Do a search for “robots for teaching programming” using your favorite search engine sometime. You’ll find a lot of news about the latest and greatest robot forRoot...
From Schneier on Security
Malicious AI
It's not hard to imagine the criminal possibilities of automation, autonomy, and artificial intelligence. But the imaginings are becoming mainstream -- and the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Big Data Analysis
Automating big-data analysisWith new algorithms, data scientists could accomplish in days what has traditionally taken months.Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeLast...
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Google Re-inventing the WhiteBoard
Have seen a number of attempts at this. None really successful. Perhaps the ultimate solution will be some augmented reality approach. Surprised in particular...
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IBM Announcements: Linking Watson to Reality
Today's announcements, which included considerable new thoughts for the use of Data, Machine learning and Bot shaped designs. So better interfaces to data,IBM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft to Democratize Deep Learning
Continued tendency to create and liberate tools for Cognitive. I like that. Still will take considerable design and data management tools and skills. Deep learning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Marketing to Millennials
In Retailwire. Good overview on the use of channel interactions by millennials in Retail, and discussion. In the discussion, Peter Fader makes a good point:Peter...
From insideHPC
ASML taps Livermore for Extreme UV Chip Manufacturing
Tomorrow's top supercomputers will require chips built using advanced lithography far beyond today's capabilities. Towards this end, Lawrence Livermore National...
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Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Updates for Deep Learning Advances
Today Microsoft released an updated version of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, a system for deep learning that is used to speed advances in areas such as speech and...
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Fujitsu Develops New Architecture for Combinatorial Optimization
Today Fujitsu Laboratories announced a collaboration with the University of Toronto to develop a new computing architecture to tackle a range of real-world issues...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Computer Science and the Good Idea Fairy
The Good Idea Fairy struck again today. I have been taking about data checking and data safety with my freshmen lastly. One of the things we talk about is parity...
From insideHPC
Seagate Launches World’s Fastest Hard Drive
"Performance demands on enterprise datacenters today are increasing as customers consider agile storage solutions to handle diverse workloads. The key to success...
From The Eponymous Pickle