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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 insideHPC
DOE Funds 13 HPC4Mfg Clean Energy Projects
The Department of Energy has funded $3.8 million fro 13 new industry projects as part of its HPC4Mfg program. "We're excited about this second round of projects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nimble Resource Allocation with Analytics
Good piece on resource allocation by McKinsey. I always point to this as a place to start to use analytics. It is all about resources. Using them better, to"...
From Computational Complexity
I have consulted four times. Really!
Those who know me know that I work on stuff that is not readily applied. Or perhaps not applied at all. Certainly my current state of knowledge does seem like it...
From insideHPC
Indiana University to Launch Three New HPC Systems
Indiana University plans to unveil three new HPC resources at a launch event on Sept 1: Jetstream, Big Red II+, and Diet. "With these new systems, IU continuesIndiana...
From Schneier on Security
Using Wi-Fi Signals to Identify People by Body Shape
Another paper on using Wi-Fi for surveillance. This one is on identifying people by their body shape. "FreeSense:Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals":...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Humans, Machines and the Future of Work Conference Call for Posters
The De Lange Conference X has released a call for posters for inclusion in their conference, Humans, Machines and the Future of Work. The conference, organized...
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing – What are the Goals and the Baseline?
Thomas Schulthess presented this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "Implementation of exascale computing will be different in that application performance is supposed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Consumer Drones
IEEE Spectrum looks at Drones. In particular a drone that incorporates advanced autopilot capabilities.
From insideHPC
WINS Program Selects Seven Women to Help Build SCinet at SC16
Seven women who work in IT departments at research institutions around the country have been selected to help build and operate the high performance SCinet conference...
From insideHPC
Requesting Your Input on the HPC Customer Experience Survey
We'd like to invite our readers to participate in our new HPC Customer Experience Survey. It's an effort to better understand our readers and what is really happening...
From insideHPC
SGI Opens European Research Centre at ICHEC in Ireland
Today SGI announced a significant investment in extreme scale software research at the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), a top European center. The investment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developer as CEO
In CIOInsight. My reaction: True, most CEO's in consumer facing companies come out of marketing, which is a kind of strategic, high level interface between...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Databases Explosion
Always like the method because it directly integrates visualization and analytical methods. Though most real data examples are difficult to understand directly...
From Schneier on Security
Keystroke Recognition from Wi-Fi Distortion
This is interesting research: "Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals." Basically, the user's hand positions as they type distorts the Wi-Fi signal in predictable...
From Putting People First
Intel’s Todd Harple proposes new toolkit for fashion designers
Fashion designers must integrate software, sensors, processors and new synthetic and biological materials into their toolkit, argues Intel anthropologist Todd...
From The Noisy Channel
Melinda, you’re right: it should not have taken an experience like this to teach me to be more…
careful. That said, I met the company through someone I trust, and I did spend some time with the team before becoming an advisor.Continue reading on »
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selling AI to Business Now
Have been involved in several era's that pushed the idea of AI. So am interested in how it is being positioned today. I also get inquiries from past and current...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Just released: Video interviews on computational thinking
What is computational thinking? How is computational thinking distinctive from other thinking skills? How can teachers assess computational thinking skills? Have...
From The Noisy Channel
Lesson Learned
This morning, I woke up to find out that a job-matching company I’d been advising, WrkRiot (formerly known as 1for.one and apparently also…Continue reading on...
From Schneier on Security