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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
Supercomputer Power Management
Today’s HPC supercomputers have significant power requirements that must be considered as part of their Total Cost of Ownership. In addition, efficient power management...
From Putting People First
UX in government: Why we need to stop calling it “citizen experience”
Cultural anthropologist Jamie Lee writes that she is fully on board with UX’s role in the public sector, and that she is an advocate for its unique role in more...
From Schneier on Security
Interview with an NSA Hacker
Peter Maas interviewed the former NSA official who wrote the infamous "I Hunt Sysadmins" memo. It's interesting, but I wanted to hear less of Peter Maas -- I already...
From Schneier on Security
Security Analysis of TSA PreCheck
Interesting research: Mark G. Stewart and John Mueller, "Risk-based passenger screening: risk and economic assessment of TSA PreCheck increased security at reduced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Software Social Organisms: Implications for Measuring AI progress
" ... Just a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series on Thursday June 30, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (9:30am CT, 7:30 am PT). Our presenter...
From insideHPC
Thomas Sterling presents: HPC Achievement and Impact 2016
Thomas Sterling presented this keynote at ISC 2016 in Frankfurt. "Even as the hundred petaflops era is coming within sight, more dramatic programs to achieve exaflops...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House OSTP Request for Information on Artificial Intelligence
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) just released a Request For Information (RFI) on Artificial Intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ask for A Skill You Need
You can now enable an Amazon Echo skill by just asking for it. Makes lots of sense. Does assume you know the name of the skill and how it works. More important...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Gravitational Waves at NCSA
"Gravitational wave astrophysics will enter a new phase during the second observing run," said Eliu Huerta, head of the relativity group at NCSA and leader of the...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Link Between Life and Water
"For a long time, scientists have been trying to figure out how water interacts with proteins. This is a fundamental problem that relates to protein structure,Supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Value of Bots for Banks
We were closely involved in the knowledge architecture for bots for consumer interfaces, so this is a very interesting development. How does this adapt to the...
From insideHPC
KAUST Empowers Researchers to Think Big
In this special guest feature, Jane Glasser writes that Saudi Arabia has moved into the global supercomputing top ten with Shaheen II, a 200,000-core behemoth that...
From insideHPC
For SGI, This is Supercomputing at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Gabriel Broner from SGI describes the company's innovative solutions for high performance computing. "As the trusted leader in high...
From Schneier on Security
Facebook Using Physical Location to Suggest Friends
This could go badly: "People You May Know are people on Facebook that you might know," a Facebook spokesperson said. "We show you people based on mutual friends...
From Putting People First
Politicians need to commit to ethnographic research if they want to understand people
Business anthropologist Simon Roberts has campaigned hard for the “Remain” side in the UK referendum and is deeply disappointed. He now explores a topic that IPoliticians...
From Putting People First
[Book] The Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavioral Science
The Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavioral Science by Cass R. Sunstein Cambridge University Press, September 2016 In recent years, ‘Nudge Units’...
From Phys.org Technology News
US Navy turns to cloud technology to reduce drunken driving
An American sailor has tapped a cloud-based technology for mobile phones to make it easier to have volunteers take turns driving drunk friends home, an initiative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numerical to Categorical
From DSC, my comments: Converting Numerical to Categorical variables. Simple, largely non technical piece on the topic. Whats nice about this approach, when...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Project Tango Video
Video of project Tango, using a smartphone, here used to map and discover contents of a Barcelona complex museum floor. Consider retail applications to make navigation...
From The Eponymous Pickle