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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
Towards Multi-Step Expert Advice for Cognitive Computing.
Dear Professors, Students, IBMers and others, This a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series this week, Thursday, October 13, 2016 at...
From insideHPC
Cheyenne – NCAR’s Next-Gen Data-Centric Supercomputer
In this video, Dave Hart, CISL User Services Manager presents: Cheyenne - NCAR's Next-Generation Data-Centric Supercomputing Environment. "Cheyenne is a new 5.34...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: PASC17 Conference in Lugano
The PASC17 Conference has issued its Call for Submissions. Co-sponsored by ACM and SIGHPC, the event will take place June 26-28, 2017 in Lugano, Switzerland. "The...
From insideHPC
Allinea Tools Helping Science Move to Intel Xeon Phi
“Being ready with full support for Intel Xeon Phi from day one has been a key strategy for Allinea and underpins our approach for supporting customers, such asAllinea...
From insideHPC
DDN Collaborates with Lenovo at HPC Innovation Center in Germany
"The Lenovo HPC organization is delighted to welcome DDN into our HPC Innovation and Benchmark center and strengthen our close collaboration,” said Rick Koopman...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Material Science Trivia
This bit of material science trivia would have been useful in a problem from long ago. What force does it take to push an object through muddy or sandy material...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sirens and Geofeedia
Had not heard of the Geofeedia system. Previously wrote about Siren approaches to detecting unrest. Had heard of the growing centralized systems that integrate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching For Change
This post by Valerie Barr (How We Teach Should Be Independent Of Who We Are Teaching) really resonates with me. A lot of what education is about is helping students...
From Schneier on Security
The Psychological Impact of Doing Classified Intelligence Work
Richard Thieme gave a talk on the psychological impact of doing classified intelligence work. Summary here...
From Writing
How to use Terraform as a team
In the previous parts of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series, we explained why we picked Terraform, introduced the basic syntax and features of Terraform...
From ACM on Huffington Post
Internet and Society - Looking Toward the Future
Computers, computational algorithms, new forms of computing such as quantum computing, and the aggregation of large amounts of measured data have set the stage...
From Schneier on Security
Indiana's Voter Registration Data Is Frighteningly Insecure
You can edit anyone's information you want: The question, boiled down, was haunting: Want to see how easy it would be to get into someone's voter registration and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The White House Frontiers Conference
This Thursday President Obama will host the White House Frontiers Conference, a national convening co-hosted with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Most Innovative Spaces
In the building of our innovation centers we took early looks at what it meant to be innovative. I was in particular about what it took to be interactive withFastCoDesign...
From insideHPC
StartupHPC at SC16 Announces Keynote Speakers
The StartupHPC Conference has announced their keynotes speakers for their upcoming meeting at SC16. Now in its third year, the event takes place Nov. 13 at theStartupHPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Changing Home Shopping
Well, yes, Smartphones already change the way most people behave in many spaces. So its natural that once they strongly embed the behavior, it will change howIn...
From insideHPC
Gen-Z Consortium to Promote New High-Performance Interconnect
Today a group of leading technology companies today announced the Gen-Z Consortium, an industry alliance working to create and commercialize a new scalable computing...
From insideHPC
Reader Survey: Is Machine Learning in Your Future?
Will this be the year of artificial intelligence, when the technology comes into its own for mainstream business? There are big pushes for AI in manufacturing,Reader...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Happy
Another interesting overview on research driven ways to be happy.There's no shortage of advice on how to live a great life. Research has answers... but, frankly...
From The Eponymous Pickle