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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 XRDS
Positive Computing: a novel research field to promote human wellbeing
Technology has undoubtedly improved at vertiginous speeds in the last decades. However, there is no evidence that all this technology is helping increase the people’s...
From insideHPC
NSF Awards $110 Million for XSEDE 2.0
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $110 million award to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and 18 partner institutions to continue...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Blue Sky Ideas Conference Tracks
Are you helping organize a conference in the near future? Consider having a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dangers of Marketing Optimization
Have been involved in a number of marketing optimization projects in the brands. Are the new attempts at predictive analytics causing us to expect too much with...
From insideHPC
Avere Systems Teams with Cycle Computing for High Performance Multi-cloud Orchestration
Today Avere Systems and Cycle Computing announced a technology integration that enables hybrid high-performance computing (HPC) in popular public cloud computing...
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Unveils Processor Details for Post-K Computer
The Fujitsu Journal has posted details on a recent Hot Chips presentation by Toshio Yoshida about the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the Post-K processor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Scoop Speaker
A competitor to the Amazon Echo? Indications of voice activation. Samsung Scoop. Advanced cognitive skills are unclear. But note Samsung previous devices like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Consulting Book
Friend and colleague David Sibbet who taught us many visualization techniques is writing a new book. Many links below at the tab to his work." ...President and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Consulting
Friend and long time colleague David Sibbet writes about visualization. Read his site for insight and visual tools. " ... President and Founder of The Grove Consultants...
From Schneier on Security
Privacy Implications of Windows 10
The EFF has a good analysis of all the ways Windows 10 violates your privacy....
From Phys.org Technology News
Feds: Ignore that post about banning driver cellphone use
Briefly Monday, it looked like the federal government was going to push all 50 states to ban the use of cellphones and other wireless devices while people are driving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Limits to Prediction
Santa Fe Institute workshop on the limits to prediction. Every practitioner knows there are limits to prediction. Systems may be chaotic, or influenced by unknown...
From Computational Complexity
Chrisitan Comment on the Jesus Wife Thing misses the important point
In 2012 a Professor of Divisinity at Harvard, Karen King, announced that she had a fragment that seemed to indicate that Jesus had a wife. It was later found to...
From insideHPC
ARM Ramps up for HPC with SVE Scalable Vector Extensions
Over at the ARM Community Blog, Nigel Stephens writes that the company has introduced scalable vector extensions (SVE) their A64 instruction set to bolster high...
From insideHPC
Tutorial: GPU Performance Nuggets
In this video from the 2016 Blue Waters Symposium, GPU Performance Nuggets – Carl Pearson and Simon Garcia De Gonzalo from the University of Illinois present: GPU...
From insideHPC
SimScale Integrates with Autodesk Fusion 360
Today SimScale in Germany announced a partnership with Autodesk, a leader in 3D design and fabrication software. The SimScale add-in for Autodesk Fusion 360 aims...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Case Based Reasoning and Chatbots
Resources for integrating Case based reasoning (CBR) and bots. The integration could be a natural way to deliver intelligence in a bot. We used CBR in a number...
From insideHPC
Video: Combining Simulation & Experiment for Nanoscale 3-D Printing
In this video, ORNL researchers use supercomputers to simulate nanomanufacturing, the process of building microscopic devices atom by atom. Simulated here is the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re Emergence of Google Glass
According to this piece it has never gone away. We spoke with Google on uses, and never got a very supportive answer. I get the idea that at the time the snarky...
From insideHPC