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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
Radio Free HPC Looks at Machine Learning and Data Locality
Is Machine Learning more of a Data Movement problem than a Processing problem? In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at use cases for Machine LearningRadio...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Whistling Past the Graveyard: What the End of Moore’s Law Means to All of Computing
The following is a guest blog post from Tom Conte of Georgia Tech. Is “Moore’s Law” ending? If so, what does this mean to all of us in the field of Computing? These...
From Phys.org Technology News
Delta resumes some service after hours of global outage
Delta Air Lines canceled around 300 flights Monday after its computer systems crashed worldwide, stranding thousands of passengers on a busy travel day.
From insideHPC
E8 Storage Launches NVMe Rack Scale Flash Appliance
Today E8 Storage launched the storage industry’s first-ever centralized, highly available rack scale flash appliance based on Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe)...
From Phys.org Technology News
Why technology makes us dishonest—ways to reduce cheating at self-service checkouts
Despite some technological safeguards, self-service checkout machines in supermarkets rely heavily on customer honesty to scan, and pay for, their shopping. It...
From insideHPC
Riken’s Shoubu Supercomputer Leads Green500 List
Today the Green500 released their listing of the world's most energy efficient supercomputers. "Japan’s research institution RIKEN once again captured the top spot...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Announcement of New NITRD NCO Director – Dr. Bryan Biegel
The following is an announcement from the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO). The Networking...
From Phys.org Technology News
Study examines use of drones to aid emergency responders in mass casualty events
In the wake of a disaster, a difficult challenge for emergency response crews is to quickly assess damage and identify victims. Researchers at UMass Medical School...
From Schneier on Security
More on Voting Machine Security
Good article. And I was interviews on WGBH on the topic....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 August 2016
Today is back to school for some students. Also for some teachers. I know some teachers who reported to school last week. Whoa! It’s getting close for the restCollege...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New ACM Text Mining Book
Newly received:We are pleased to present the newest ACM Books title: Text Data Management and Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Information Retrieval and Text...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Threads
Researchers Invent 'Smart' Thread That Collects Diagnostic Data When Sutured Into Tissue Tufts University researchers have integrated nanoscale sensors, electronics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Expands AI with Acquisition
More machine learning acquisition for AI. I have not examined Turi. More on them here.Apple expands its AI lineup by acquiring machine learning startup Turi...
From Computational Complexity
A Game Theory Conference! That sounds like fun!
Bill: Lance just came back from Games, a conference on Game Theory. Darling: That sound like fun! From what you tell me there is some nice math behind Monopoly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Models of Virtual Changes from Physical Interactions
A interesting effect. Here you create a model of how a real world object reacts to physical interactions. Say using a videotape of the object in motion under...
From insideHPC
AMD Boltzmann Initiative Promotes HPC Freedom of Choice
AMD’s motivation for developing these open-source GPU tools is based on an opportunity to remove the added complexity of proprietary programming frameworks to GPU...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wide and Deep Learning with Tensorflow
Google open sources its Tensorflow for 'wide and deep' learning. I very much like the thought. In our own exploration of pattern matching with neural nets we...
From insideHPC
Leslie Greenguard Presents: Modeling Physical Systems in Complex Geometry
In this video from The Digital Future conference in Berlin, Leslie Greengard from the Simons Center for Data Analysis presents: Modeling Physical Systems in Complex...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fog Computing for Distributed IoT Analytics
I like the emergence of new ways to address the complexity and volume of data.How IoT Can Benefit from Fog Computing By Ben Dickson. ...What I’m mentioning a lot...
From The Eponymous Pickle