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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 insideHPC
Interview: Seagate Powers Four TOP10 HPC Sites at ISC 2016
"So one of the things that we've really been very proud of, in terms of our progress, particularly in EMEA over the last 12 months, is we've deployed a number of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spoken Voice Recognition
In Datanami: Has improved considerably recently ... I have been following improvements in Siri, Cortana and Echo, and the abilities are now considerable. Now...
From Schneier on Security
Intellectual Property as National Security
Interesting research: Debora Halbert, "Intellectual property theft and national security: Agendas and assumptions": Abstract: About a decade ago, intellectual property...
From insideHPC
Video: Univa Grid Engine Speeds Workloads with Intel Xeon Phi Processor
In this video from ISC 2016, Bill Bryce from Univa describes the company's innovative container technology helps customers manage their computing workloads with...
From insideHPC
TYAN Solutions for Flexible HPC
Organizations that implement high-performance computing (HPC) technologies have a wide range of requirements. From small manufacturing suppliers to national research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Says Shift in Tech Focus
Gartner produces interesting statistics. " ... While investment in new technology for products and services continues to be a priority (55% of the CEOs ranked it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Retail and Consumer Technology
Digital Tech in Retail:" ... The shopper is disrupting the retail food scene much more than technology, speakers at last week's FMI Connect show in Chicago said...
From Phys.org Technology News
Ethicist cites five considerations for a transforming society
New technology often raises new ethical questions—and those questions only multiply as technology advances.
From Phys.org Technology News
Too dangerous to talk? Some cities explore 911 texting
With gunshots ringing out just feet away, Eddie Justice hid in a bathroom in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and frantically texted his mother for help...
From Phys.org Technology News
Apple urges organ donation via new iPhone software
Apple wants to encourage millions of iPhone owners to register as organ donors through a software update that will add an easy sign-up button to the health information...
From Computational Complexity
Is determining if a poly over a finite field is 1-1 hard? Sure seems so.
When I teach cryptography to High School students I begin with shift and linear ciphers which are x --> x+s mod 26 (s is a shift, x is a letter of the alphabet...
From Schneier on Security
"Dogs Raise Fireworks Threat Level to 'Gray'"
Funny: The Department of Canine Security urges dogs to remain on high alert and employ the tactic of See Something, Say Something. Remember to bark upon spotting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching People to Innovate
In Innovation Excellence: Can you teach people to innovate? Good piece: by Jeffrey Phillips" ... The answer to this question is: no. You cannot teach people...
From insideHPC
Spartan HPC Service Launches Down Under
The University of Melbourne has launched a new HPC service called Spartan that combines traditional HPC with a flexible cloud computing component. "Many research...
From insideHPC
Video: DEEP-ER Project Moves Europe Closer to Exascale
In this video from ISC 2016, Estela Suarez from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre provides an update on the DEEP-ER project, which is paving the way towards Exascale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearables Replacing Smartphones?
A number of design changes seem to be pointing that way. More convenience and intelligence with better use of other senses could make it happen. More In CWorld...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4th of July 2016
Happy US independence day for my friends in the US. Also happy birthday to Queen Sonja of Norway. My family in Norway jokes that the American embassy always throws...
From XRDS
Thoughts on Usability studies
In the last months, I conducted a few usability studies and upon reflecting on these I decided to share my experience as it might be helpful to anyone startingContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Digital Flows
From McKinseyDigital globalization: The new era of global flowsBy James Manyika, Susan Lund, Jacques Bughin, Jonathan Woetzel, Kalin Stamenov, and Dhruv Dhingra...
From The Eponymous Pickle