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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
Semantic Data Lakes
Via Tim Smith. Hadoop, Triple Stores, and the Semantic Data Lake, by Alex WoodieHadoop-based data lakes are springing up all over the place as organizations seek...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Secretary of Education Hosts Tea with Computer Science Teachers
Once a month a small group of teachers is invited to have tea with US Secretary of Education John King. June was the month for computer science teachers and I was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Latency in Voice Command Response
The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming ... by Eugene Kim, Dave Limp Creating the Echo.Reaction: The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Crime
In Forbes: An update on the use of predictive analytics for crime prediction and prevention. With a number of suppliers in the space described. Looks to be...
From Schneier on Security
Hijacking Someone's Facebook Account with a Fake Passport Copy
BBC has the story. The confusion is that a scan of a passport is much easier to forge than an actual passport. This is a truly hard problem: how do you give people...
From insideHPC
CloudLightning Project Looks to Self-Managed HPC Services
In this video, Prof. John Morrison from University College Cork describes the CloudLightning project. CloudLightning’s vision is a European economy that thrives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Prevention of Systemic Risk
Here about financial risks. And in fact what are systemic risks? Here appears to be defined by risks that are driven by external context and that are not considered...
From insideHPC
PBS Pro from Altair Goes Open Source at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Bill Nitzberg provides an update on Alair's release of source code for PBS Professional Workload Manager. "Altair is making a big investment...
From insideHPC
OrionX Reports Position InfiniBand as the Leading HPI Technology and Mellanox the Leading Vendor
"For now, InfiniBand and its vendor community, notably Mellanox appear to have the upper hand from a performance and market presence perspective, but with Intel...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Device Technologist at the ISCA Architecture 2030 Visioning Workshop
The following is a guest blog post by H.-S. Philip Wong from Stanford University. I just came back from the exciting Architecture 2030 Visioning Workshop, organized...
From insideHPC
Russia’s RSC Group Receives Intel HPC Data Center Specialist Status
Today Russia's RSC Group announced that the company has received the elite HPC Data Center Specialist partner status from Intel Corporation, confirming the very...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Showcases Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia P100 Solutions at ISC 2016
At ISC 2016, Supermicro debuted the latest innovations in HPC architectures and technologies including a 2U 4-Node server supporting new Intel Xeon Phi processors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Betting its Future on AI
Microsoft beyond AI and into how the world is presented in conjunction with data and intelligence.In theVerge: " ... Satya Nadella bounded into the conference room...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Three Legs to a Successful Computer Science Curriculum
Summer is a great time to think. I’ve bene fortunate enough to have several opportunities to talk to other computer science teachers this summer. And will have...
From Phys.org Technology News
Electronic voting may be risky, but what about vote counting?
Several advantages of online voting were identified in a recent post by Conversation columnist and software researcher David Glance who backed the introduction...
From Schneier on Security
The Difficulty of Routing around Internet Surveillance States
Interesting research: "Characterizing and Avoiding Routing Detours Through Surveillance States," by Anne Edmundson, Roya Ensafi, Nick Feamster, and Jennifer Rexford...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading People
More psych, on reading people. I like the fact that quoted are less university researchers and more people that need read people as a business. Good links to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Privacy Research Strategy Released
The National Privacy Research Strategy by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) and Networking and Information Technology Research and Development...
From insideHPC
InfiniBand Continues Dominance of TOP500
Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) and the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) today announced that 204 of the world’s most powerful supercomputers accelerate...
From The Eponymous Pickle