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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
Overview of the MVAPICH Project and Future Roadmap
In this video from the 4th Annual MVAPICH User Group, DK Panda from Ohio State University presents: Overview of the MVAPICH Project and Future Roadmap. "This talk...
From The Noisy Channel
Searching for Goldilocks
Many search queries don’t have a single right answer or even an objective best answer. For example, if you’re looking for mailboxes or…Continue reading on »
From The Eponymous Pickle
Triggers of Behavior
BJ Fogg worked with us in a number of projects in the enterprise.Why behavior matters more than thought leadershipTriggering habit-forming behavior Stanford University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Analytics 360 Suite
Screens and more screens, mobile and stationary. How does this change the decision space?Marketing analytics for a multi-screen world.Say hi to the Google Analytics...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
App Challenge! Enter to Win $20,000 for your School
I had an email the other day about the Verizon app challenge. It looks interesting and I may have some students enter this year. The fact that coding IS NOT required...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA is Hoarding Vulnerabilities
The National Security Agency is lying to us. We know that because of data stolen from an NSA server was dumped on the internet. The agency is hoarding information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New and Improved Wolfram Alpha
Another of the general virtual assistants. It has been a while since I have checked it out, but was impressed then. I have yet to see this applied in a real situation...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Faster dictionary decoding with SIMD instructions
A particularly fast and effective compression technique is dictionary coding. Intuitively, it works as follow. Suppose you are given a long document made of millions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk on Understanding Cognitive Systems
Our presenter this week was Jim Spohrer from IBM. who will presented "Understanding Cognitive Systems.". Worth taking a look at. Slides here. .... Presentation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotion Analysis API
More companies are looking at text analysis ....AlchemyLanguage Emotion Analysis API is Generally Available, and It’s Getting BetterMany in the field of Cognitive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power BI Now Does Twitter Analytics
Been looking at the analysis of twitter streams lately, new from MS Power BI. A campaign management solution template.Microsoft Power BI Bloga
From The Eponymous Pickle
FindFace at Large
Was reminded by the Economist: Frankenstein's Paperclips. of the rogue Russian face recognition system called FindFace. Can we expect AI from beyond our regulated...
From insideHPC
Speakers Announced for HPC User Forum in Beijing
IDC has announced the featured speakers for the next international HPC User Forum. The event will take place Sept. 22 in Beijing, China. The post Speakers Announced...
From Schneier on Security
Confusing Security Risks with Moral Judgments
Interesting research that shows we exaggerate the risks of something when we find it morally objectionable. From an article about and interview with the researchers...
From insideHPC
Report: Using HPC for Public Policy Analysis & Water Resource Management
Researchers from the RAND Corporation and LLNL have joined forces to combine HPC with innovative public policy analysis to improve planning for particularly complex...
From insideHPC
Phytium from China Unveils 64-core ARM HPC Processor
This week at the Hot Chips conference, Phytium Technology from China unveiled a 64-core CPU and a related prototype computer server. "Phytium says the new CPU chip...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Data Hackathons: Lessons Learned & Best Practices Workshop
From September 11-17, 2016, data professionals and researchers from all disciplines and from across the globe will convene in Denver, Colorado for the first ever...
From insideHPC
Nor-Tech to Offer Clusters with Intel HPC Orchestrator
Today Nor-Tech announced the imminent rollout of clusters integrated with the Intel HPC Orchestrator. HPC Orchestrator is a licensed, value-add version of OpenHPC...
From insideHPC
Machine Learning and the Intel Xeon Phi Processor
"The Intel Xeon Phi processor, together with tuned libraries, can accelerate the gains the ML applications promise. The second generation Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor...
From Computational Complexity