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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching Journalists About Data
Although this seems more about writing it very large than getting it correct and interactive and usable by everyone.The Office of Creative Research, a New York By...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft US MIE Forum 2016–Day 1
I’m in Denver for the Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert Forum this weekend. I’ve spent some time at these events in the past but those times I was there as a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graphs in Smart Data Lakes
Just lately noticed the similarity between the concept of a graphical databases and data visualization. So why not use graph visualization to best understand broad...
From updated sporadically at best
Counter-Advice for the PhD
Recently I attended the Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop, a program to introduce advanced undergraduates and early-stage PhD students to research in general...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Your mail into a Personal Assistant
Interesting piece out of the IFTTT blog. Here with GMail. This shows a pretty trivial example of how to look at a stream like your GMail, apply some logic intelligence...
From insideHPC
Altair Releases PBS Pro Source Code
Open source licensing for Altair’s market-leading HPC workload manager, PBS Professional, is now available. PBS Pro development communities are now forming andAltair...
From insideHPC
Intel to Distribute SUSE High Performance Computing Stack
"The SUSE and Intel collaboration on Intel HPC Orchestrator and OpenHPC puts this power within reach of a whole new range of industries and enterprises that need...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Placemeter for Predictive Analysis
I had mentioned this idea before, because it could detect both traffic and the type of traffic being experienced. We examined methods of this type. Now, howfor...
From Phys.org Technology News
US Navy keeps electromagnetic cannon in its sights
The US Navy is quietly pushing ahead with a radical new cannon that one day could transform how wars are fought, even though some Pentagon officials have voiced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking More Robotic Servants.
Its still hard to do many of the 'simple' tasks that are done in the home. But at least we can prototype a number of them with robot like machines. But when will...
From insideHPC
Context Matters: Distributed Graph Algorithms and Runtime Systems
In this video from the PASC16 conference, Andrew Lumsdaine from Indiana University presents: Context Matters: Distributed Graph Algorithms and Runtime Systems.Context...
From insideHPC
SGI Pangea is Industry’s Top Commercial Supercomputer on TOP500 List
At ISC 2016 this week, SGI announced that Total’s SGI ICE X supercomputer, Pangea, was recognized as the industry’s top commercial supercomputer in the prestigious...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Bioluminescence as Camouflage
Interesting: There is one feature of the squid that is not transparent and which could act as a signal to prey the eyes. However, the squid has a developed protection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Flow
Was reminded of Microsoft Flow today (See also IFTTT)Microsoft FlowWork less, do moreCreate automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to getAutomate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Guide to Cognitive Computing
Nicely done and non technical via SAS. It is interesting that I do not hear the term 'cognitive computing' too often by vendors, except for IBM. Gotten into some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IFTF Writes A Handbook for the Maker City
I note that the Institute for the Future: IFTF, a nonprofit company I worked with for years, wrote for as well, has a Maker City Project underway. They are publishing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Textbooks
My recent connections to developing curriculums and teaching have made me think about all aspects of teaching and supporting teaching. With all the technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Assistant for Documents
Fileee is an intelligent, personal assistant that automatically organizes all of your paper and digital documents in one system. It’s the new filing cabinet of....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing as a Weapon
Hardly a secret weapon. And managing it and understanding how well is works is still an issue. But its always worth examining. What is particularly nice is that...
From Schneier on Security