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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Academies Final Report on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose and Irene Qualters,...
From Phys.org Technology News
Innovations are needed if Big Data is to boost jobs, says new research
Phenomenal quantities of valuable data are now being collected and created by UK businesses but much of its commercial potential remains untapped.
From Schneier on Security
Primitive Food Crops and Security
Economists argue that the security needs of various crops are the cause of civilization size: The argument depends on the differences between how grains and tubers...
From insideHPC
PRACEdays16 Wraps Up in Prague
PRACEdays16 was held May 10-12 in Prague, Czech Republic. More than 220 participants joined the plenary and parallel sessions for keynote presentations and discussions...
From insideHPC
Univa Manages Enterprise Container Workloads on Kubernetes Distros
Today Univa announced Navops Command, a ground breaking software suite that implements sophisticated workload placement and advanced policy management for enterprises...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality Changing Lives
A non technical piece by the BBC about how involved experts believe virtual reality is changing our world. " ... Virtual Reality (VR) has been with us for many...
From XRDS
CHI 2016: Diverse, Global, Good
What can a 1000 scientists achieve when they invest one hour doing voluntary work? This year, and at the heart of Silicon Valley, the CHI conference raised theContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Komiko Focuses on Sales Relationships
Former colleagues of mine brought this to my attention, embedded analytics.Focus on relationships, not management.Why are you spending your weekends updating awhen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Barriers to Growth
In the HBR: Intriguing views by executives. " ... It’s a common story in business today. Eighty-five percent of executives say that the greatest barriers to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will We be Able to Talk to Machines?
Stephen Wolfram on talking to machines and AI. All about talking to and at machines. The classic case of Eliza, the first conversational system is brought up...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target Selling Connected Health
Interesting piece in Retailwire, with discussion. Consider if these could ultimately create a digital hub, connected to health practitioners at the store, live...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Automated In-Patient Monitoring in the ICU with Application to Septic Shock Prediction
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Katie Henry, a current PhD student in computer science at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to the department, Henry...
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre Update from Seagate Technologies
Peter Bojanic presented this talk at LUG 2016 in Portland. "At LUG 2016, Seagate announced it will incorporate Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre (IEEL), a big...
From insideHPC
Internet2 Celebrates 20 Years by Recognizing Contributions to Research
Internet2 celebrated their 20th anniversary this week at the 2016 Internet2 Global Summit in Chicago. As the operator of the nation’s largest and fastest, coast...
From insideHPC
Nvidia in the Driver’s Seat for Deep Learning
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World describes why Nvidia is in the driver's seat for Deep Learning. "Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's...
From insideHPC
New DDN Flashscale Array Delivers NVMe Performance for HPC
Today DataDirect Networks announced DDN Flashscale, a new family of all-flash scale-out and scale-up storage solutions, which delivers the highest performance and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Dash Button for an Internet of Things
I have been testing the Amazon Dash buttons for some time. Nice, simple idea. That implemented some of our innovation center ideas. Now Walter Riker reportsIn...
From Phys.org Technology News
France deploying anti-drone technology to protect Euro 2016
France will deploy anti-drone technology to interfere with and take control of any flying machines that violate no-fly zones over stadiums at the European Championship...
From Schneier on Security
More NSA Documents from the Snowden Archive
The Intercept is starting to publish a lot more documents. Yesterday they published the first year of an internal newsletter called SIDtoday, along with several...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson