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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
Cavium to Acquire QLogic
"Today’s acquisition of QLogic is highly complementary and strategic to Cavium and it creates a diversified pure-play infrastructure semiconductor leader,” stated...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
Imagine diagnosing a hospital patient with septicemia 25 hours before the onset of sepsis shock, dispatching the right police officer to de-escalate a situation...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast is tabulation-based hashing? The downsides of Zobrist…
In practice, hashing is the process of taking an input, such as a string, and turning it into an integer value. It is a fundamental tool in programming, as most...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Tests Robotic Shopping Carts
In Bloomberg. This is different from the 'smart cart' idea heavily prototyped previously. Now including self powering and navigating features. Previously self...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Computer Chips
Early on had an introduction to the optimization of computer chip making. Fascnating piece here on the state of the art of chip making today. In Bloomberg.
From insideHPC
IBM POWER8 System to Advance Genomic Health Research at University of Calgary
Today IBM and the University of Calgary announced a five-year collaboration to accelerate and expand genomic research into common childhood conditions such as autism...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Watson Analytics Experience
New piece on how to get started with Watson Analytics, worth a closer look. Good user experience in place. Question remains how autonomous such systems can be...
From Putting People First
Six recent articles from UXMatters
UXMatters has a new design and this seems to have benefited the quality as well, as there are more inspiring articles than ever. Here my pick: June 14 edition Algorithms...
From insideHPC
How to Control Your Supercomputing Programs
Pressures by management for cost containment are answered by improving software maintenance procedures and automating many of the repetitive activities that have...
From insideHPC
Slidecast: Announcing Mellanox ConnnextX-5 100G InfiniBand Adapter
“Today, scalable compute and storage systems suffer from data bottlenecks that limit research, product development, and constrain application services. ConnectX...
From Schneier on Security
Infecting Systems by Typosquatting Programming Language Libraries
Typosquatting is an old trick of registering a domain name a typo away from a popular domain name and using it for various nefarious purposes. Nikolai Philipp Tschacher...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Genetic Medicine in Africa
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is helping change the way genetic medicine is researched and...
From insideHPC
New Developer Platform to Accelerate Adoption of Knights Landing
With the release of a Developer Access Program for the Intel Xeon Phi Processor codenamed Knights Landing, Intel and its partner Colfax are widening early levels...
From insideHPC
Host an HPC Workflow Workshop at your Site in August
The NCSA Blue Waters project is offering a Workflows Workshop virtual course in August. To share this class with as many students as possible, they are seekingHost...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Polynomial Prestidigitation
Suddenly a sharp bound on progression-free subsets is revealed Ernie Croot, Vsevolod Lev, and Péter Pach (CLP) found a new application of polynomials last month...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Open Sources Machine Learning Library
Can't say I have been following Linkedin in the machine learning space, but a correspondent says they are doing some very interesting things there. So now that...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM