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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 …
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CHPC Takes Top Honors Once Again at ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition
Today the HPC Advisory Council announced the final results of the ISC 2016 Student Cluster Competition and the opening of 2017 team submissions. For the third time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Engagement and Marketing
Challenging a metric is usually useful. In Adage: Related to project we did.Why Google's 'Time Spent' Metric May Not Be the Best MeasureMarketers Need an Accurate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science in the Amazon Supply Chain
I worked in the design and implementation of supply chain systems for many years in the enterprise. The following article gives a high level overview of what a21...
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Women in HPC Keynote: Evidence-based Advice on Diversifying the HPC Community
"This workshop aims to recognize and discuss the challenges faced by women, one of many underrepresented groups that exist in HPC, as well as opportunities forWomen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle Open Innovation Platform
Via Idea Connection. Former colleague and P&Ger Pete Blackshaw is quoted. " ... In an interview with The Drum, Pete Blackshaw, global head of digital and social...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Virtual Reality: First impressions with the HTC Vive
I just got my hands on some virtual-reality (VR) goggles. Specifically, we have an “HTC Vive“. We are still in the early days of VR and given that these goggles...
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CFMS in the UK to lead Future Engineering System Research Project
The Centre for Modeling & Simulation (CFMS) in the UK has announced it will be leading the Future Engineering System (FES) Project. FES brings together CFMS, aerospace...
From Schneier on Security
Good Article on Airport Security
The New York Times wrote a good piece comparing airport security around the world, and pointing out that moving the security perimeter doesn't make any difference...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Director IT Engineering and Research Development at University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is seeking a new of Director IT Engineering and Research Development in our Job of the Week. "The Director IT Engineering & ResearchJob...
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Video: Asetek Showcases Liquid Cooling at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Steve Branton from Asetek describes the company's innovative liquid cooling solutions for HPC. "Because liquid is 4,000 times better...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Must and Should Are Not The Same Thing
I came under some criticism for a comment I made on Facebook earlier today. I asked “I wonder how many high schools teach Calc AB to students who have not had math...
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Review of the SGI Management Suite
Properly managed HPC supercomputers can deliver sustained Return on Investment for production supercomputing. To ensure ongoing operations are at peak efficiency...
From Phys.org Technology News
How video can help police – and the public
With three billion camera-equipped cellphones in circulation, we are awash in visual information. Cameras are lighter, smaller and cheaper than ever and they're...
From My Biased Coin
STOC Theory Fest 2017 (Montreal June 19-23)
As SIGACT chair I announced at the STOC’16 business meeting that starting in 2017, STOC will turn into a 5-day event, a Theory Fest. This idea was discussed atspecial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Single Use IOT Devices
Provoking piece. Thinking of applications like the Amazon Dash as a means to attach to narrow markets. And also thinking about the security. As mentioned, it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zero Knowledge Proofs
Intriguing introduction to zero knowledge proofs using graphs, with implementing Python code. Technical, but worth a look. " ... In this post we’ll get a strong...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL: Exploring Mechanisms to Enhance the Economic and Societal Impacts of Fundamental Advances in Information and Communications Technologies
The following is a Dear Colleague Letter from the National Science Foundation (NSF). July 1, 2016 Dear Colleague, Advances in information and communications technologies...
From insideHPC
Video: Transtec Delivers BeeGFS for HPC
In this video from the Transtec booth at ISC 2016, Sven Breuner from ThinkParQ describes how the BeeGFS parallel file system delivers performance, reliability,Video...
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Podcast: What a Supercomputer Does
In this WBEZ podcast, Katherine Riley from Argonne explains what a supercomputer does. "Argonne National Laboratory is celebrating its 70th anniversary. The science...
From The Eponymous Pickle