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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
Blockchain Applications Beyond Finance
Blockchains Potential Extends Beyond the Financial IndustrySeptember 2016 | by Jim UtslerMany have heard about the cryptocurrency bitcoin, but few are familiarAs...
From Phys.org Technology News
Navy's futuristic destroyer makes port call in Rhode Island
The U.S. Navy's futuristic Zumwalt destroyer has arrived in Rhode Island for its first port visit since leaving the shipyard to join the fleet.
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Shipping Platforms with NVIDIA Tesla P100 for PCIe
Today One Stop Systems (OSS) announced that its High Density Compute Accelerator (HDCA) and its Express Box 3600 (EB3600) are now available for purchase with the...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
HLF2016 / Spotlight on Hana Khamfroush: Research Associate in Wireless Communications and Networking
This blog post originates from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Blog. The 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum is dedicated to mathematics and computer sciences, and takes...
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Cluster to Power Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Experiments
Today Fujitsu announced that the company has received an order for an experiment-analysis system from Kamioka Observatory, part of the Institute for Cosmic RayFujitsu...
From insideHPC
Deep Learning with the Intel Xeon Phi Processor
"An environment that assists in deep learning usually consists of algorithms that can draw conclusions from data that is run at very high speeds. Processors such...
From insideHPC
Argonne to Develop Applications for ECP Exascale Computing Project
Today Argonne announced that the Lab is leading a pair of newly funded applications projects for the Exascale Computing Project (ECP). The announcement comes on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SmartStones Wins Singularity Grand Challenge Award
Been a while since I have mentioned Smartstones, have been slightly connected with their efforts for some time. Still awaiting some test versions of this to review...
From insideHPC
Dell & EMC in HPC The Journey so far and the Road Ahead
Ed Turkel and Percy Tzelnic from Dell Technologies presented this pair of talks at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "This week, Dell Technologies announced completion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Piggly Wiggly 100th Anniversary
The US grocery chain Piggly Wiggly, is said to be the creator of the modern model grocery store, where the customers walk the aisles doing self service. They celebrate...
From insideHPC
DDN Powers High Performance Data Storage Fabric at University of Queensland
The Universitys researchers are making landmark discoveries in fields spanning human heritable disease, cancer, agriculture and biofuels manufacture and they depend...
From insideHPC
New OpenPOWER Servers Accelerate Deep Learning with NVLink
Today IBM unveiled a series of new servers designed to help propel cognitive workloads and to drive greater data center efficiency. Featuring a new chip, the Linux...
From Schneier on Security
Apple's Cloud Key Vault
Ever since Ian Kristi, Apple's Head of Security Engineering and Architecture, presented the company's key backup technology at Black Hat 2016, people have been...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Technological Hype Cycle
I was sent Baseline Magazines's summary commentary on the Gartner Hype Cycle report and asked to comment on it. As usual an interesting document. Reasonable forecasts...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH Talk- The Weakest Link
The next WATCH talk, called The Weakest Linkis Thursday, September 15th, from Noon-1pm EDT. The presenter,Kelly Caine, is a researcher and professor working at...
From Phys.org Technology News
Pride, not money, the spur to eGames King
Golf has the Ryder Cup, tennis the Davis Cup and now the fast-growing eSports will have the eGames in Pyeongchang in 2018, the main mover behind it, Chester King...
From Phys.org Technology News
US rules for targeted killing using drones need clarifying, RAND report asserts
Current U.S. policies on using drones for targeted killing are characterized by ambiguities in interpretations of international law and too many generalities, despite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Movidius Acquired by Intel
Autonomous devices will require vision as their most important sense. In January, 2016 the company announced a partnership with Google. Movidius has been active...
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Yet Another Blog Post on Industry vs. Academia for CS PhDs
I recently had the following chat conversation with a Former Student about the possibility of doing a PhD in Computer Science*. FS: What's the value of grad school...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson