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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
1944 CIA Sabotage Manual
It makes for interesting reading. Someone noticed that parts of it read like standard modern office procedures....
From insideHPC
Paul Messina on the New ECP Exascale Computing Project
Argonne Distinguished Fellow Paul Messina has been tapped to lead the Exascale Computing Project, heading a team with representation from the six major participating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Phone Sensing its Environment
Phones sensing their environment in new ways. Have tracked the Project Tango idea for some time. An inverse of the beacon idea, with initiative given to the consumer...
From insideHPC
Intel Developer Summer Workshops Coming to Stanford
Intel is offering a 4-part summer series of developer training workshops at Stanford University to introduce high performance computing tools. The post Intel Developer...
From insideHPC
ACM Elects First All-Female Leadership Team
Today the ACM Association for Computing Machinery announced the election of new officers who will lead the organization for a two-year term beginning July 1. Heading...
From insideHPC
Video: Extreme-Scale Multigrid Components within PETSc
In this video from the PASC16 conference, Patrick Sanan from USi Lugano & ETC Zurich presents: Extreme-Scale Multigrid Components within PETSc. "Elliptic partial...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Laconia Supercomputer Coming to MSU
In this WKAR podcast, Andy Keen from MSU describes the University’s new Laconia supercomputer. The $3-million system is part of a cluster that’s run by MSU’s High...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lecture on Decision Trees
Video " ... Random forests, aka decision forests, and ensemble methods. Slides available at: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~nando/540-2013/... Course taught in 2013 at...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to Production Supercomputing
While HPC has its roots in academia and government where extreme performance was the primary goal, high performance computing has evolved to serve the needs ofinsideHPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pushing the Interface of Voice Commands and Conversation
There is still a considerable way to go, but we have been shown that voice has real value. Most important, we need to accurately define the nature of a conversation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Shapes for Knowledge Specification
What is the shape of your data? Been involved in some related discussions. Deals ultimately with how knowledge and data is stored and utlized, an importanthttps...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open AI Publishes Requests for Research
Nice set of challenge examples in OpenAI, give you a good idea of the possibilities of deep learning applications. Will continue to follow this as it overlaps...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning for Simplifying Migration
A use case for Machine Learning – migration simplification. By its nature machine learning does promote opportunities for simplification. Can think of several...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving Machine Learning Problems in a Distributed Way
Today's talk of interest:“Solving Large-Scale Machine Learning Problems in a Distributed Way” by Martin Takac, Assistant Professor, Lehigh University, gave a great...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality in the Real World
As Virtual Reality Grows, Augmented Reality Hits The SpotlightWith the excitement growing as Facebook's Oculus and HTC's Vive hit homes, the tech industry has begun...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loyalty and Retention
Good idea, with emphasis on good experience design to make this happen.A Loyalty Program Becomes a Retention HubWritten by Alex McEachern | @alexmcea .... Today...
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Partners with ProfitBricks for Elastic HPC
Today Bright Computing announced a partnership with ProfitBricks, the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company based in Germany. "Cloud-based solutions are increasingly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Final Review of the K-12 CS Framework Now Open
Good stuff here. We really need a good review of this framework to make sure it is as good as it can be. The ACM, CSTA, Code.org, CIC, and NMSI, along with lead...
From insideHPC
Compiler Directives for High Performance Computing
"Directives can be used as hints to the compiler to vectorize a loop. The developer would have better knowledge of any dependencies that a compiler, which mustCompiler...
From insideHPC