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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
Should You Be Allowed to Prevent Drones from Flying Over Your Property?
Good debate in the Wall Street Journal. This isn't an obvious one; there are good arguments on both sides....
From Phys.org Technology News
How does a bike stay upright? Surprisingly, it's all in the mind
It's as easy as riding a bike … or so the saying goes. But how do we manage to stay upright on a bicycle? If anyone ventures an answer they most often say that...
From Phys.org Technology News
Gov't report: Feds spend billions to run ancient technology
The government is spending about three-fourths of its technology budget maintaining aging computer systems, including platforms more than 50 years old in vital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ahold Optimizes Customer Data
How Ahold USA Optimizes Customer dataCollecting customer data and figuring out how to use it is a challenge for all retailers, one that Ahold USA has met by managing...
From insideHPC
Symbolic IO Emerges from Stealth with First Computational-Defined Storage Solution
Today Symbolic IO emerged from stealth mode with a suite of products destined to change the way industry defines storage and computing architecture, by bringing...
From Schneier on Security
GCHQ Discloses Two OS X Vulnerabilities to Apple
This is good news: Communications and Electronics Security Group (CESG), the information security arm of GCHQ, was credited with the discovery of two vulnerabilities...
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Partners with STULZ on Chip-to-Atmosphere Cooling
Today CoolIT Systems announced a commercial partnership with STULZ USA. Under the agreement, the two companies will cooperate closely in delivering unique Chip-to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning with Less Data
In Technology Review: Learning things with far fewer examples. Pushes at the edges of what is meant by learning, and varying kinds of errors that define success...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting Work with VR
Related to recent thoughts. MIT Sloan on the relevance of reinventing work with Virtual Reality, Need some more good examples. If anyone has some, especially...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Track Held at ICSE 2016
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)...
From insideHPC
Dell HPC Community Event Coming to Frankfurt on June 20
The Dell HPC Community will hold their user group meeting on Monday, June 20 at the Movenpick Hotel in Frankfurt. Held in conjunction with ISC 2016, the Dell HPC...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Practices and Concepts in Computer Science Education
Work on a framework for computer science education in grades Kindergarten through grade 12 continues with many of the writers and advisors meeting over the past...
From insideHPC
Cray Urika-GX System to Tackle Big Data Analytics
"We took the Aries system interconnect from our supercomputers, the industry-standard architecture of our clusters, the scalable graph engine from the Urika-GDCray...
From Phys.org Technology News
We need to know the algorithms the government uses to make important decisions about us
In criminal justice systems, credit markets, employment arenas, higher education admissions processes and even social media networks, data-driven algorithms now...
From insideHPC
Satoshi Matsuoka Presents: The Inevitable End of Moore’s Law
"The promising new parameter in place of the transistor count is the perceived increase in the capacity and bandwidth of storage, driven by device, architectural...
From Phys.org Technology News
Algerian authorities destroy mountain of pirated CDs, DVDs
Power shovels and a bulldozer have destroyed a huge mound of 2 million illegally copied CDs and DVDs outside Algeria's Culture Ministry, as part of a government...
From Schneier on Security
Google Moving Forward on Automatic Logins
Google is trying to bring this to Android developers by the end of the year: Today, secure logins -- like those used by banks or in the enterprise environment -...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Head Mounted Displays and Knowing Your Space
In VR Focus, an overview of current announcements in head mounted displays and also notably Project Tango. Advertisers and marketers have taken notice, but I have...
From Computational Complexity
My third post on Gathering for Gardners
(Workshop for women in computational topology in August: see here. For a post about these kinds of workshops see here.) (I have already posted twice on stuffhere...
From The Eponymous Pickle