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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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NCAR Awards 42 Million Core Hours on Yellowstone Supercomputer
The Wyoming-NCAR Allocations Panel evaluated a record-high nine requests,” says Bryan Shader, UW’s special assistant to the vice president for research and economic...
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RSC Tornado with Intel Xeon Phi Sports 528 Teraflops Per Cabinet
Today the RSC Group out of Russia announced a new generation of high-performance scalable and energy-efficient RSC Tornado solution with direct liquid cooling based...
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CCC Welcomes New Council Members and Leadership!
Today, July 1st, is the start of a new term at CCC! The new Computing Community Consortium (CCC) leadership, Elizabeth Mynatt and Mark Hill will assume their roles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Watson and Cisco to Build a Workmate
Another potential commercial example of virtual assistants ... Natural extension for Cisco who is already providing advanced business technologies. IBM and Cisco...
From CERIAS Blog
Changes for CERIASand Spaf
Today (June 30) is my last day as CERIAS Executive Director. This marks the end of a process that began about 15 months ago, when it was unexpectedly announcedProfessor...
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Changes for CERIAS…and Spaf
Today (June 30) is my last day as CERIAS Executive Director. This marks the end of a process that began about 15 months ago, when it was unexpectedly announcedProfessor...
From CERIAS Blog
Changes for CERIAS…and Spaf
Today (June 30) is my last day as CERIAS Executive Director. This marks the end of a process that began about 15 months ago, when it was unexpectedly announcedProfessor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Rise of Social Bots
In the July issue of the Communications of the ACM. The cover article is "The Rise of Social Bots"Good background, future, value and cautions. Not very technical...
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Tesla driver killed in crash while using car's 'Autopilot'
The first U.S. fatality using self-driving technology took place in May when the driver of a Tesla S sports car operating the vehicle's "Autopilot" automated driving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Digital Potential of Europe
Interesting McKinsey overview with statistics. Having dealt with regulatory data issues in the EU, had always thought they were forced to be more digital as a result...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Projects Funded by SIGCSE
Earlier this week I received email about several grants that SIGCSE has awarded. I think they look pretty interesting. I’m especially excited about the first one...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring the Current State of AI
Nicely done talk today by Ken Forbus of Northwestern. Sobering view of what AI can do today. So what is intelligence? I was always somewhat unsatisfied by the...
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SUSE Powers OpenHPC at ISC 2016
With the OpenHPC stack, you can leap forward with a validated, tested and secure infrastructure software stack and get to product in a fraction of the time. This...
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Nor-Tech HPC Clusters Power Groundbreaking Projects
Today system integrator Nor-Tech disclosed that the company is working closely with some of the world’s top researchers and innovators to develop, build, deploy...
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ISC 2016 Sets Record for Attendance and Program
Today the ISC Group announced that ISC 2016 drew 3,092 attendees from 53 countries, exceeding all previous attendance records. The conference and exhibition were...
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Video: Student Cluster Competition Awards Ceremony at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016 in Frankfurt, Gilad Shainer from the HPC Advisory Council hosts the Student Cluster Awards Ceremony. "The overall winning team thisVideo...
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Supercomputing the Mystery of Astrophysical Jets
Over at NICS, Scott Gibson writes that researchers are using XSEDE supercomputing resources to simulate the gaseous outflows from black holes known as astrophysical...
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Aussie innovation changing how we experience the Tour de France and Rio Olympics
Sports fans are about to get a whole new way of experiencing the upcoming Tour de France and select endurance sports at the Rio 2016 Olympics thanks to a start-up...
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