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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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New Ocean Current Simulations Reflect Climate Change
Researchers are using the Gordon supercomputer at SDSC to paint a new picture of global warming’s impact on the complex processes that drive ocean mixing in the...
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Video: Megware Direct Liquid Cooling at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Thomas Blum from Germany's Megware describes the company's innovative hot water cooling system. The Slide SX-LC system is cooled by...
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A Personal Pharmacy Assistant
Growth of the focused personal assistants. Named 'Pillo'. Had looked closely at how pharma use compliance could be achieved in the past.Meet 'Pillo,' the robot...
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IOT and Vending Machines: Coke and SAP
Good points, we had looked at related applications with vending, service communications and kiosks, before the advent of IOT. Cognitive application of supply...
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Behavior as Permission to Act
Former colleague Martin Lindstrom looks at the shaping of store behavior. In Fastcompany: " ... How Your Grocery Store And Your Coworkers Unconsciously ShapeWithout...
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A Designers Guide to AI
AI from a design perspective. Most often these days see it from a engineers or data science view. We should also consider it from the point of view of what"...
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Supercomputing and the Search for Dark Matter
Over at CSCS, Simone Ulmer writes that Particle physicists using the Piz Daint supercomputer have determined what is known as the scalar quark content of the proton...
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Video: Discovering the Origin of Stars Through 3D Visualization
This visualization from David Ellsworth and Tim Sandstrom at NASA/AMES shows the evolution of a giant molecular cloud over 700,000 years. It ran on the Pleiades...
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Set Diversity Optimization
A topic not often distinctly mentioned, but it is an element of many problems. Should get more attention. In Open Data Science. Contains a number of good business...
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Surfing Urban Winds
In IEEE Spectrum: Drones that can learn to surf the urban winds? Brings to mind thoughts of hawks and pigeons.
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Tesla driver killed while using Autopilot loved fast cars
Joshua Brown, the first U.S. fatality in a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode, had an adventurous streak with a "need for speed" but also was a brilliant...
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Empirical Creativity
Imagination Man ...Scott Barry Kaufman has been called “the leading empirical creativity researcher of his generation.” Now he wants to use the tools he’s developed...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Ink Cocktails
Here's a Corpse Reviver #2 variant with squid ink. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...
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Cooperation of Humans and AI
A key element of neear future tech. How do we work with AI? Will it be able to solve 'societal' issues? Or is that something we have to do ourselvesThe Partnership...
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Microsoft Wants Linkedin's Algorithms?
What is more important for Microsoft, the data from its huge member base, or the algorithms that Linkedin has developed to utilize that data? Have never noticed...
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Being a Change Agent via Analytics
Like the simplicity angle ....How to be a change agent using analytics By Lisa BodellWhat does it mean to be a change agent in business today? When I spoke to the...
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Job of the Week: Client Service Specialist at Ohio State
Ohio State University is seeking a Client Service Specialist in our Job of the Week. "The Ohio Supercomputer Center provides high-performance computing (HPC) services...
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LLNL Dedicates New Supercomputer Facility
Today officials from the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and government representatives today dedicated a new supercomputing facility...
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Funding Cut for Bull Supercomputer Fighting Zika in Brazil
Rodrigo Viga Gaier writes that scientists in Brazil will have to do without an ally in the race to combat the Zika virus. The Santos Dumont supercomputer has been...
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