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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 Schneier on Security
Fraudsters are Buying IPv4 Addresses
IPv4 addresses are valuable, so criminals are figuring out how to buy or steal them. Hence criminals' interest in ways to land themselves IP addresses, some of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bot Buttons in Slack
A very simple idea. Developers can add interactive buttons in Slack. Of really any level of intelligence they can 'develop', from very simple logic to far beyond...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Week of Making!
Contributions to this post were provided by Meredith M. Lee, Executive Director of the West Data Hub from UC Berkeley. President Obama released a proclamation announcing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inside the Mind of the Shopper, 2nd Edition
Much anticipated. 2nd edition. Pre order it. By a colleague who we used for shopping innovation. An ideal companion to our new world of advancing analytics...
From Putting People First
A united energy economy: Experientia helps wrap up the CITYOPT Nice pilot project
Can behavioral change address local energy issues, raise people’s awareness energy consumption issues, and directly support non-profit organizations at the same...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning for Design
In O'Reilly.Nicely put, requires registration for full report. I still prefer the term 'analytics' for this. But ML is sexier these days.Machine Learning for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Housekeeping
Elon Musk looks at a yet harder problem, the robotic housekeeper. A problem of complex environments.
From Schneier on Security
Issues Regarding Lone-Wolf Terrorism Prevention
Amy Zegert has some good questions, comparing the Orlando Pulse massacre to the Fort Hood massacre from 2009....
From insideHPC
Intel Omni-Path Deployed at Northumbria in the UK
Today Northumbria University announced that its has become one of the first UK sites to deploy Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel OPA) for their centralized HPC...
From insideHPC
Supercomputer Systems Monitoring and Management
The SGI Management Suite’s system health monitoring and management capability collects health status information on fundamental system’s functions such as memory...
From insideHPC
Video: Announcing Intel HPC Orchestrator
In this video from ISC 2016, Figan Ulgen from Intel describes the new Intel HPC Orchestrator. "Intel HPC Orchestrator simplifies the installation, management and...
From insideHPC
Allinea DDT Debugger to be Used for 25 Petaflop Supercomputer at JCAHP in Japan
Today Allinea Software announced that the Joint Center for Advanced High Performance Computing (JCAHPC) in Japan will use the Allinea DDT debugger for its new supercomputer...
From insideHPC
Interview: Dr. Eng Lim Goh on the Latest Trends in High Performance Data Analytics
In this video from ISC 2016, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from SGI discusses the latest trends in high performance data analytics and machine learning. "Dr. Eng Lim Goh joined...
From insideHPC
ASRock Rack Adds Intel Xeon Phi Processor to Server Lineup
Today at ISC 2016, ASRock Rack has rolled out a new 2U server based on the brand new Intel Xeon Phi processor. "The 2U4N-F/X200 from ASrock Rack has four computing...
From insideHPC
Lustre Powers FrostByte HPC Storage from Penguin Computing
FrostByte is a complete solution that integrates Penguin Computing’s new Scyld FrostByte software with an optimized high-performance storage platform. FrostByte...
From insideHPC
SGI Opens European Joint Research Centre at EPCC in Edinburgh
Today SGI announced a significant investment in extreme scale software research at The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the University of Edinburgh...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rulex Analytics
Brought back to my attention, Rulex: More to follow.Fast Big Data ROI with DIY Data ScienceData Monetization means gaining measurable financial value from stored...
From XRDS
The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intensions
A former colleague, a talented and accomplished user experience professional, recently wrote excitedly of her intension to attend an upcoming UX conference. ItContinue...
From Computational Complexity
When does n divide a_n? The answer, though you already know it. The Point, though its not as strong as I wanted. Oh well.
In my last post When does n divide a_n? I gave a sequence: a(1)=0 a(2)=2 a(3)=3 for all n ≥ 4 a(n) = a(n-2) + a(n-3) and I noted that for 2 ≤ n ≤ 23 it looked...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog