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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
Open-source vs. Proprietary – Keeping Ideology Out of the Equation
"One of the most recurrent themes is that of open-source vs. proprietary code. This debate is often painted with the idealistic open-source evangelists on one side...
From insideHPC
Insilico Applies Deep Learning to Drug Discovery
"The world of artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving and affecting every aspect of our daily life. And soon this progress will be felt in the pharmaceutical...
From insideHPC
Vela Software Acquires Tecplot Fluid Dynamics Software
Today Vela Software announced that it has acquired Tecplot, a leading provider of fluid dynamics visualization and analysis software for engineers and scientists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Launches Free Data Viz Tool
In CWorld:" ... Google is doubling down on its commitment to the business analytics market with the launch of a new free data visualization tool. The company has...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
You’re the Variable
One of my big goals this year has been to make my classes more interactive. I want to get kids involved and not be just passive listeners. Surprisingly students...
From Schneier on Security
The Unfalsifiability of Security Claims
Interesting research paper: Cormac Herley, "Unfalsifiability of security claims: There is an inherent asymmetry in computer security: things can be declared insecure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Misunderstanding Positive Emotions
Misunderstanding Positive Emotion A Conversation With June Gruber" ... This work we've been doing in positive emotion and psychopathology has the potential to change...
From Phys.org Technology News
Hang up: Dutch look at banning use of cellphones on bikes
The Dutch government is considering banning the country's millions of cyclists from using their cellphones while riding, saying pedaling and phones are a dangerous...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NTIA Multistakeholder Meeting on Consumer Privacy and Facial Recognition on June 15
The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will convene a multistakeholder meeting on the commercial use of facial recognition technology...
From insideHPC
Video: Developing, Configuring, Building, and Deploying HPC Software
"The process of developing HPC software requires consideration of issues in software design as well as practices that support the collaborative writing of well-structured...
From XRDS
Exascale computing: Why we need it and some of the challenges to conquer it.
Exascale computing, the ability of a computer system to perform a million trillion operations per second, has been long anticipated as the next major step in computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flu Prediction Cognitive System
Using Watson, Twitter and CDC Data for predicting flu epidemics. Modeling under specific contexts. By Prof. Dr. Gordon Pipa, University of Osnabrueck Embeddedin...
From insideHPC
Teratec Forum to Spotlight HPC and IoT
The TERATEC Forum 2016 will host a June 29 workshop on HPC, Connected Objects, and IoT Infrastructures. The full event takes place June 28-29 in Palaiseau, France...
From insideHPC
Weather Prediction and the Scalability Challenge
"Weather prediction using high performance computing relies on having physically based models of the atmosphere that can deliver forecasts well in advance of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Food Supply in the Hands of AI
Any complex system that requires the direction and interaction of many people and machines. And whose output also depends on many uncontrollable external variables...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Bias in Algorithms
In Engadget: Pointers to a paper from Carnegie. Though a quick read would say that this would address only certain kinds of algorithmic bias. Technical. Worth...
From insideHPC
Vectorization Steps
The process to vectorize application code is very important and can result in major performance improvements when coupled with vector hardware. In many cases, incremental...
From Computational Complexity
Theory Jobs 2016
In the fall we point to theory jobs, in the spring we see who got them. How is the CS enrollment explosion affecting the theory job market? We've seen some big ...
From Schneier on Security
Suckfly
Suckfly seems to be another Chinese nation-state espionage tool, first stealing South Korean certificates and now attacking Indian networks. Symantec has done a...
From Writing