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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
Seeking Submissions for the SC16 Impact Showcase
"Organizations who are currently employing high performance computing to advance their competitiveness and innovation in the global marketplace can highlight their...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Technology Accelerates the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
Today Mellanox announced that the company's interconnect technology accelerates the world's fastest supercomputer at the supercomputing center in Wuxi, China. The...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A fast alternative to the modulo reduction
Suppose you want to pick an integer at random in a set of N elements. Your computer has functions to generate random 32-bit integers, how do you transform suchContinue...
From insideHPC
Calyos Demonstrates Water Free Cooling at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Olivier de Laet from Calyos describes the company’s innovative cooling technology for high performance computing. "The HPC industry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning by Analogy
Particularly interesting suggestion of how people are 'intelligent'.Making Computers Reason and Learn by AnalogyStructure-mapping engine enables computers to reason...
From insideHPC
Industries That Need Flexible HPC
Organizations that implement high-performance computing technologies have a wide range of requirements. From small manufacturing suppliers to national researchIndustries...
From Phys.org Technology News
Court dismisses Snowden request for safe travel to Norway
A Norwegian court has dismissed a lawsuit that sought a legal guarantee to allow Edward Snowden to travel to Norway without risk of being extradited to the United...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Opens Culinary Training Center in Cincinnati
In Supermarketews: Shows the direction of retail to better understanding of the art and science of food. Reminds me of our own work in innovation, can focus on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT for Product Performance
Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform" .... Yet it would be a mistake to think the IoT is a game only for high rollers and crack technologists....
From Schneier on Security
Crowdsourcing a Database of Hotel Rooms
There's an app that allows people to submit photographs of hotel rooms around the world into a centralized database. The idea is that photographs of victims of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Authentically Engaging Your Customers
From Kellogg Insight: " ... For decades, one-off marketing campaigns were the biggest game in town.Since the rise of the internet, however—and, in particular, the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Quantum Computer Primer
Via Andreessen Horowitz A 28 minute video:" .... So what is a quantum computer and “qubits” — especially as compared to a traditional computer and bits? What...
From Computational Complexity
There is now a Bounded Discrete Envy Free Cake Cutting Protocol!
Lance: Bill, there is a new result on cake cutting that was presented at STOC! Do you want to blog about it? Bill: Do snakes have hips! Does a chicken have lips...
From Computational Complexity
There is now a Bounded Discrete Envy Free Cake Cutting Protocol!
Lance: Bill, there is a new result on cake cutting that was presented at STOC! Do you want to blog about it? Bill: Do snakes have hips! Does a chicken have lips...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching Hard Math to Children
Adventures in math metaphors for teachers and parents. How to you teach what most students fear, even to the very young? Pass it on. In Reddit.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft US MIE Forum 2016–Day 2
Day two started with a keynote by Stephen Reid about game playing in education. It was very interesting and he showed samples of a lot of games. He spent the most...
From insideHPC
Video: How HPC Unlocks Competitive Advantage
In this video, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research shares how HPC can unlock innovations for a competitive advantage. "Dell HPC solutions are deployed across...
From insideHPC
Mellanox and PNNL to Collaborate on Exascale System
Today Mellanox announced a joint technology collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to architect, design and explore technologies for future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Performance Metrics
Bernard Marr concisely writes on the 'little data' of performance metrics. This links well with my constant refrain, the data, big or otherwise, however cleverly...
From The Eponymous Pickle