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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 Phys.org Technology News
Air power now weapon of choice
Air power has become the weapon of choice for Western politicians because it causes maximum destruction with the minimum of commitment, according to new research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Materials
In Nature: A look at how machine learning can be used for material design. Visually realized. So why not for any other kind of parameter, or structure driven...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Rejection
Some fun rejection comments Joshua Gans and George Shepherd were doctoral students in economics at Stanford University back in the 1990s. They wrote an interesting...
From Schneier on Security
White House Report on Big Data Discrimination
The White House has released a report on big-data discrimination. From the blog post: Using case studies on credit lending, employment, higher education, and criminal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Burberry Using IOT
Wooing millennial shoppers with Internet of things." ... As an early adopter of IoT and connected digital technologies Burberry has successfully blended both physical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
May-June 2016 Issue of Analytics Magazine
Informs May/June issue of Analytics Magazine focuses on getting the most out of big data & analytics with both mankind and machines.Lead StoryFulfilling the Promise...
From insideHPC
IBM Makes HPC Easier
IBM has introduced a new way for organizations of all sizes to buy and acquire a full HPC management suite including a community edition for those just starting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supermarket of the Future: Coop Italia
Akin to our own smart retail laboratory work. Much more in the tabs below. Quite a bit of detail and video: This is from Microsoft:The supermarket of the future...
From insideHPC
Superfacility – How New Workflows in the DOE Office of Science are Changing Storage Requirements
Katie Antypas from NERSC presented this talk at the 2016 MSST conference. Katie is the Project Lead for the NERSC-8 system procurement, a project to deploy NERSC's...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture- Helen Nissenbaum
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a distinguished lecture on...
From Computational Complexity
Open Questions
Through the years I've mentioned a few of my favorite open problems in computational complexity on this blog that have perplexed me through the years. Let me mention...
From insideHPC
Peta-Exa-Zetta: Robert Wisniewski and the Growth of Compute Power
While much noise is being made about the race to exascale, building productive supercomputers really comes down to people and ingenuity. In this special guest feature...
From insideHPC
Basics For Coprocessors
"The Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor is an example of a many core system that can greatly increase the performance of an application when used correctly. Simply taking...
From insideHPC
Local or Cloud HPC?
Cloud computing has become another tool for the HPC practitioner. For some organizations, the ability of cloud computing to shift costs from capital to operating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Cloud Machine Learning in the Mainstream
In Techexplore:" .... The move is all about taking Cloud Machine Learning mainstream, "giving data scientists and developers a way to build a new class of intelligent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Pushes Data and Decision Making
In the WSJ, make require registration. I particularly like that this includes decision making, not just raw data science. I have now seen too many examples of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combining Data in Novel Ways: Data as Asset, Risk.
Risks and rewards. In O'Reilly. A favorite topic, but there needs to be a better way to do this, its often so messy that people abandon the process. This also...
From Schneier on Security
Own a Pair of Clipper Chips
The AT&T TSD was an early 1990s telephone encryption device. It was digital. Voice quality was okay. And it was the device that contained the infamous Clipper Chip...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BlockChain for Industry
A transformative change when when you look at this as a ledger: Not Just Bitcoin: Why the Blockchain Is a Seductive Technology to Many Industries
From The Eponymous Pickle