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How Different Stakeholders Frame Security
From Schneier on Security

How Different Stakeholders Frame Security

Josephine Wolff examines different Internet governance stakeholders and how they frame security debates. Her conclusion: The tensions that arise around issues of...

Practical Uses of AR in Maintenance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Practical Uses of AR in Maintenance

Practical case of the use of AR, with some similarity to our investigations before the tech had evolved to this point.  Some of the biggest issues, we discovered...

Speakers Announced for Dell HPC Community Meeting at SC16
From insideHPC

Speakers Announced for Dell HPC Community Meeting at SC16

The Dell HPC Community at SC16 has posted their Meeting Agenda. "Blair Bethwaite from Monash University will present OpenStack for HPC at Monash. After that, Josh...

Brainspace Data Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brainspace Data Visualization

BrainspaceAugmenting intelligence to accelerate human potentialWelcome to the future of digital investigations.  ... Discovery 5 is the fastest and most powerful...

Argo Project Developing OS Technology for Exascale
From insideHPC

Argo Project Developing OS Technology for Exascale

Today's operating systems were not developed with the immense complexity of Exascale in mind. Now, researchers at Argonne National Lab are preparing for HPC's next...

Thinking Drive Through Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking Drive Through Data

Been involved in several drive-through retail analyses.    So this is interesting.  It is pointed out that this will allow the connect of your car generated data...

End of the Data Scientist Era?  Not Right Away.
From The Eponymous Pickle

End of the Data Scientist Era? Not Right Away.

In Forbes.  Insightful article by Margaret Harrist of Oracle.   An interesting view of how data science is moving towards becoming automated.     Agree this is"...

Microsoft Releases five Data Viz and Storytelling Courses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Releases five Data Viz and Storytelling Courses

 Following up now ...Microsoft Power BI team releases courses on data visualization and storytelling by PradeepWith Microsoft Power BI, data journalism goes beyond...

Buckminster Fuller Page
From The Eponymous Pickle

Buckminster Fuller Page

I was brought to the attention of the Buckminster Fuller page of Artsy.net.  We had some brief interactions in the 70s about his innovation and architectural design...

Longer Career Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Longer Career Models

A look at exended and multiple careers, from the view of the company and individual.In the HBR: What Happens When Careers Last 20 Years Longer?  by Avivah Wittenberg...

IP addresses might only be accurate to the city level.
From The Noisy Channel

IP addresses might only be accurate to the city level.

But that’s still useful, e.g., for determining that New York Pizza (http://www.nypizza.info/) Continue reading on »

[Book] Org Design for Design Orgs
From Putting People First

[Book] Org Design for Design Orgs

Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams By Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner Publisher: O’Reilly Media August 2016, 198 pages Design...

Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre Updates in time for SC16
From insideHPC

Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre Updates in time for SC16

Intel has announced the availability of Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre* software V3.0.1.3. This maintenance release has the latest CVE updates from RHEL 7.2...

Supercomputing the Cancer Moonshot and Beyond
From insideHPC

Supercomputing the Cancer Moonshot and Beyond

In this video, Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov from the U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration presents: Supercomputing the Cancer Moonshot and...

Keep Your Home Devices from Being Hacked
From The Eponymous Pickle

Keep Your Home Devices from Being Hacked

Apparently yesterday's denial of service attack that brought down a number of key services on the Internet was caused by a distributed denial of services (DDOS)...

DDoS Attacks against Dyn
From Schneier on Security

DDoS Attacks against Dyn

Yesterday's DDoS attacks against Dyn are being reported everywhere. I have received a gazillion press requests, but I am traveling in Australia and Asia and have...

Machine for all Trades
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine for all Trades

Watson as a machine of all trades.  Or at least some trades for now.   A good view of where IBM has been applying cognitive applications based on the Watson model...

Beginners Guide to Convolutional Neural Nets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Beginners Guide to Convolutional Neural Nets

A beginners intro by a student, about how they work, how they are used and the data required.  Nicely explained.

Consumer Brands Using Chatbots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Brands Using Chatbots

I have in the talked some of our efforts about using chatbots for consumer brands.  FastCompany more generally has an examination of current brands that use chatbots...

Who is keeping an eye on the tech companies?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Who is keeping an eye on the tech companies?

A corporation such as Spotify was founded a few years ago by a 23-year-old man, and it now plays a key role in the music industry. YouTube is now the big-boss of...
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