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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
Facebook's AI Chatbots Now Serve a Billion Users
Its claimed that Facebook Messenger now has a billion users, and those billion users can be served by a swarm of AI chatbots, Will those billion users be served...
From insideHPC
Preliminary Agenda Posted for HPC User Forum in Austin, Sept. 6-8
IDC has published the preliminary agenda for their next HPC User Forum. The event will take place Sept. 6-8 in Austin, Texas. The post Preliminary Agenda Posted...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Accelerating PHP hashing by “unoptimizing” it
Hashing is a software trick that can map strings to fixed-length integers, such as 32-bit integers. It is ubiquitous in modern software. Languages like Java and...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Steve Scott on How Intel Xeon Phi is Fueling HPC Innovation at Cray
In this Intel Chip Chat podcast with Allyson Klein, Cray CTO Steve Scott describes the collaboration between Cray and Intel on the Intel Xeon Phi Processor forPodcast...
From insideHPC
ARM to Power New RIKEN supercomputer
ARM processors will provide the computational muscle behind one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, replacing the current K computer at the RIKENARM...
From Schneier on Security
DARPA Document: "On Countering Strategic Deception"
Old, but interesting. The document was published by DARPA in 1973, and approved for release in 2007. It examines the role of deception on strategic warning systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Replacing Humans
Good thoughts from the McKinsey Quarterly. Agree there will be dramatic differences by sector, but do also expect some dramatic speedups. Where machines couldBy...
From insideHPC
University of Tokyo Selects Mellanox EDR InfiniBand
Today Mellanox announced that the University of Tokyo has selected the company's Switch-IB 2 EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Switches and ConnectX-4 adapters to accelerate...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Computing Research Symposium- Computing in the Physical World
The following is a guest blog post by CCC council member Klara Nahrstedt from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and past CCC council member Ross...
From XRDS
Who Owns Your Device?
We live in an amazing era of technology. The Internet has opened doors that have been dreamed of for years. By adding computing technology to everyday devices,Continue...
From insideHPC
Offloading Application Segments to Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors
Offloading to a coprocessor does need to be considered carefully, due to the memory transfer requirements. When the data that is to be worked on resides in theOffloading...
From insideHPC
Scripps Leverages DDN Storage to Research New Medical Treatments
Today DDN announced that The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), one of the world’s largest independent organizations focusing on biomedical research, has deployed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable, IOT Memory
In CWorld: New kinds of very low power memory for Wearables and IoT by Samsung and IBM.
From Phys.org Technology News
Southwest says technology outage fixed but more flights cut
Southwest says it has fixed computer problems that caused hundreds of flights to be canceled, but it is telling passengers to get to the airport early because there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DSC Surveys Data Science Techniques
Index to useful article lists from Data Science Central. Click through to their site for search details. Join the the group. Very nicely done articles from introduction...
From Computational Complexity
Snowbird 2016
Earlier this week I attended the 2016 CRA Snowbird Conference, a biennial meeting of CS chairs and other leaders in the the computing community. I’ve attended every...
From Phys.org Technology News
Oceanographer says Flight 370 could be north of search area
The oceanographer whose calculations helped an American adventurer find potential debris from Flight 370 said Thursday that the Malaysia Airlines jetliner could...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fabric Software for Visual Programming
New way to visually program. I built software for years, so understand the embedded power, but always believed there had to be a better way. Can visual methods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When and Why of Causation
Adam kelleherPhysics PhD; Principal Data Scientist at BuzzFeed : Thoughtful Medium piece:" ... So what is causality good for? Anytime you decide to take an action...
From Phys.org Technology News