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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
Holacracy
Had heard this term before, but forgotten its exact meaning, seems this is still very uncommon. I wonder what VCs think about this approach to managing their money...
From Phys.org Technology News
How Pokemon Go is helping road safety researchers
Pokemon Go is giving a glimpse of how gaming can keep drivers safer behind the wheel, according to QUT's Dr Ronald Schroeter.
From Schneier on Security
Security Effectiveness of the Israeli West Bank Barrier
Interesting analysis: Abstract: Objectives -- Informed by situational crime prevention (SCP) this study evaluates the effectiveness of the "West Bank Barrier" that...
From Phys.org Technology News
Utah votes to let authorities disable drones near wildfires
Utah authorities likely will be among the first in the nation to be allowed to disable and crash drones for flying too close to wildfires after lawmakers approved...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NodeXL: Creating Network Graphs from Excel
Simple, clever idea.These are network graphs created with NodeXL, a template for graphing network data in Excel® (2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016).NodeXL is a template...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Amazon Prime Day Links to Amazon Technology
Extract from a much longer CGT article. Indication of percent changes from last year and rankings versus exact numbers of interactions. Since most of the technologies...
From Schneier on Security
Visiting a Website against the Owner's Wishes Is Now a Federal Crime
While we're on the subject of terrible 9th Circuit Court rulings: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has handed down a very important decision on the...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Enhances RoCE Software to Simplify RDMA Deployments
Today Mellanox announced the availability of new software drivers for RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet). The new drivers are designed to simplify RDMA (Remote...
From insideHPC
Open MPI 2.0.0 Released
Today the Open MPI Team announced the release of Open MPI version 2.0.0. Version 2 is a major new release series containing many new features and bug fixes. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Functional Packaging
Always an interesting idea, and augmented reality and smartphones bring new capabilities forward. When will they actually create engagement, provide value? To...
From insideHPC
Simulationclusters.com Shows ROI from Intel v4 Processors
Today Simulationclusters.com announced it is now running Intel’s E5-2600 v4 processors. A site for real-time demonstration of the ROI of upgrading from a workstation...
From Schneier on Security
Password Sharing Is Now a Crime
In a truly terrible ruling, the US 9th Circuit Court ruled that using someone else's password with their permission but without the permission of the site owner...
From insideHPC
Video: Nvidia’s Peter Messmer on Co-Design at PASC16
In this video from PASC16, Peter Messmer from Nvidia gives his perspectives on the conference and his work on co-design for high performance computing. "Using a...
From insideHPC
SGI Powers Energy Research at UFRJ in Brazil
The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is embarking on ground-breaking energy research powered by a new SGI Computer. The high performance computing system will...
From insideHPC
Kyoto University Thinks Widening SIMD Will be Key to Performance Gains in New Intel Xeon Phi processor-based Cray System
"With an imminent switchover to a new Cray system with next-generation Intel Xeon Phi Processors (codenamed Knights Landing) planned for October, the ACCMS team...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Connected Vehicle Data Environments from the Following Projects of the Dynamic Mobility Application (DMA) Program are Now Available in the Research Data Exchange
The Research Data Exchange (RDE) is a web-based data resource provided by the USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program. It collects, manages, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Starts to Allow Forgetting
Have not heard about this anywhere else, but has some fascinating implications. In the past we always assumed that knowledge would persist. May that be a thing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Cyber Scams Advance
In Knowledge@Wharton. A forward looking piece on the current and coming waves of cyber scams in retail. Good thing to watch as we continue to add new channels...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo and Business Intelligence
Been looking at potential business applications of the Amazon Echo. Like many virtual advisory applications, you can think of potential 'hands free' scenarios...
From The Eponymous Pickle