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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 …
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Podcast: TACC Powers Zika Hackathon to Fight Disease
In this TACC podcast, Ari Kahn from the Texas Advanced Computing Center and Eddie Garcia from Cloudera describe a recent Hackathon in Austin designed to tacklePodcast...
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42 Tips to Increase Your Website’s Rank from UConn Students
At the University of Connecticut, undergraduate students majoring in Computer Science studied Google’s PageRank algorithm as a practice on stochastic processesContinue...
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Nvidia M60 GPU to Speed Virtual Desktops on IBM Cloud
"With NVIDIA GPU technology on IBM Cloud, we are one step closer to offering supercomputing performance on a pay-as-you-go basis, which makes this new approachNvidia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Store and Modern Retail
We used the Apple store as a model for potential future retail. In Retailwire, recent look and criticism of its redesign and implications for complex technical...
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Larry Smarr Presents: Using Supercomputers to Reveal your Inner Microbiome
"I have been collecting massive amounts of data from my own body over the last ten years, which reveals detailed examples of the episodic evolution of this coupled...
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Is Kelly Slater's artificial wave the future of surfing?
Surfers had never seen a spot like it: head-high waves unfurling like wrapping paper in pristine, tapering cylinders for more than a quarter-mile, with not a soul...
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Supercomputing Hidden Lava Lakes
The Piz Daint supercomputer spotted a large reservoir of magma right below the tiny South Korean island of Ulleung. No harm to humans is expected, but the origin...
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IBM to Fight Zika with World Community Grid
"Enlisting the help of World Community Grid volunteers will enable us to computationally evaluate over 20 million compounds in just the initial phase and potentially...
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Could Hollywood technology help your health?
The same technology used by the entertainment industry to animate characters such as Gollum in The Lord of The Rings films, will be used to help train elite athletes...
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Amsterdam as a Smart City
Via MIT Sloan, only available for a limited time. What overlaps exist with supply chain issues? How about cognitive data interaction? May require registration...
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Blackchain for Data data Origin and Accuracy
Have worked on several projects in the last few years that dealt directly with this broad concept. Is your data correct? Accurate? A governance challengeIn...
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Google Creates an Assistant
Technology review reports on today's I/O presentations:I like the model of a 'Concierge', it was the same method we used in our own bot experiment. Break up information...
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Dynamic dazzle distorts speed
Dazzle camouflage, as used on World War I battleships to fool U-boat commanders, has been modernised for the twenty-first century with moving patterns.
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Football fans to get smartphone vote to substitute player
An English Premier League club wants to allow supporters to vote via smartphone for the player they want substituted during a match, a data analyst has told a Doha...
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Store your (Big) Data in the Code of Life?
The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Executive Council Member Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Full disclosure: He is...
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Dr. Pam McCauley to Keynote XSEDE16
Today XSEDE announced that Dr. Pamela McCauley has been named a plenary speaker for the XSEDE16 conference. In this dynamic keynote address, McCauley will discuss...
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Video: Best Practices in HPC Software Development
"Scientific code developers have increasingly been adopting software processes derived from the mainstream (non-scientific) community. Software practices are typically...
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Nvidia CTO Steve Oberlin to Discuss Rise of GPUs at NCSA 30th Anniversary
Steve Oberlin, chief technology officer for accelerated computing at NVIDIA, will give two NCSA 30th Anniversary Featured Lectures on May 26. The morning talk is...
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Data Sensemaking in a Noisy World
CSIG invited talk today by K. Selcuk Candan Arizona State University : ... “Data-Driven Sensemaking in an Evolving, Noisy World”. which is almost always the...
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