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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
Watson Personality Insights
Just today I happened to be reintroduced to Personality Insights on the Watson Developer Cloud. Had taken an earlier look. Basic version is free to work with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Based Learning
An obvious space for the idea, would like to see it taken further. See my long term coverage of gamification and serious games at the links below. We even had...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Alpha Sidebar Assistant
Been away from it for a while, but now you can put add-ons for Google Drive as a Wolfram Alpha Assistant sidebar. Free, A sometimes forgotten interactive AI...
From insideHPC
14 Students Awarded SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowships
Today SIGHPC announced the first-ever recipients of the ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowship. The fellowship is funded by Intel and was announced...
From Phys.org Technology News
Bay Area girls stream into summer coding camps
It already feels like the dead of summer, but the girls over at Adobe's coding camp are making it snow.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being a Change Agent via Analytics
Like the simplicity angle .... How to be a change agent using analytics By Lisa BodellWhat does it mean to be a change agent in business today? When I spoke to...
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Technology and Skills
In Medium: A look at how technology is influencing our skills. Technology has always moved skills to new places. Retraining takes time and experiences. So...
From insideHPC
Call for Participation & Student Travel Support: MVAPICH User Group
The MVAPICH User Group (MUG) meeting has issued its Call for Participation and Student Travel Support. The event takes place August 15-17 in Columbus, Ohio. "Student...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Symposium on Accelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI
The following is a guest blog by Vasant G Honavar, a Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member and a Pennsylvania State University professor. The emergence...
From insideHPC
Video: Platform Independent Profiling of a QCD Code
"We present a procedure of implementing the intermediate profiling for openQCD code that will enable the global reduction of the cost of profiling and optimizing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Study on Big Data and Imaging Analysis Yields High-Res Brain Map
National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded researchers have more than doubled the knowledge of the functional areas of the human brain. NIH Director, Francis Collins...
From insideHPC
Enter Your Machine Learning Code in the Cognitive Cup
"OpenPOWER is all about creating a broad ecosystem with opportunities to accelerate your workloads. For the Cognitive Cup, we provide two types of accelerators:...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Computer & Information Analyst at University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati is seeking a Computer & Information Analyst in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: Computer & Information Analyst at University...
From insideHPC
Video: HPE Enhances Software Stack for High Performance Computing
In this video from ISC 2016, Dave Sundstrom from Hewlett Packard Enterprise describes the newly enhanced HPE Software Stack for High Performance Computing. "The...
From insideHPC
Offloading vs Native Execution on Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors
"Native execution is good for application that are performing operations that map to parallelism either in threads or vectors. However, running natively on theOffloading...
From Schneier on Security
Real-World Security and the Internet of Things
Disaster stories involving the Internet of Things are all the rage. They feature cars (both driven and driverless), the power grid, dams, and tunnel ventilation...
From Computational Complexity
GAMES/EC 2016
This week I report from Maastricht in the Netherlands from the GAMES 2016, the 5th World Congress of the Game Theory Society. By having their congress every four...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Working with Emerging Market Data
Working with emergent market data, some useful rules of thumb. In the HBR. " ... Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson