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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 Eponymous Pickle
Train Your Brain to Think About the Future
We all do this, but how well? Here looking at it early.Train Your Brain to Think About the Future by Katie KingWhat fraction of your time is spent thinking about...
From Schneier on Security
$7 Million Social Media Privacy Mistake
Forbes estimates that football player Laremy Tunsil lost $7 million in salary because of an ill-advised personal video made public....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data Government Funding Opportunities
Check out these big data funding opportunities from four different federal agencies. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) – BD2K is...
From insideHPC
New Report Charts Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure
A newly released report commissioned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and conducted by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Gives Access to its Quantum Computer
I like the idea you can try it yourself from the article at the link. Now, digital, but non binary computing. Is it clear this is the future of computing? To...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring the Wiring of the Mind
Further exploring the wiring of the mind. Its not only the wring, but also the 'software', apparently not of the kind we typically deal with. In Newsweek.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Search for a Better Battery
I am no longer in the battery business, but always thought that portable energy was important. Where is portable and conveniently store able energy going? ...
From Phys.org Technology News
European aviation agency sets up drone collision task force
The European Aviation Safety Agency is setting up a task force to examine the risk of collisions between drones and aircraft.
From insideHPC
Ron Perrott to Receive ACM Distinguished Service Award
Today ACM announced that Ron Perrott, an international leader in the development and promotion of parallel computing, will receive ACM’s prestigious Distinguished...
From insideHPC
GCS in Germany Allocates Record Number of Core Hours for Research
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in Germany has allocated a record 1,648 million core hours of computing time to 21 scientifically outstanding national...
From insideHPC
Kick the Tires on Quantum Computing with the IBM Cloud
In its latest move to build a practical quantum computer, IBM Research for the first time ever is making quantum computing available in the cloud to anyone interested...
From insideHPC
Video: A Journey to a Holistic for Data-intensive Workflows at CSIRO
In this video from the 2016 MSST Conference, Ian Corner from CSIRO in Australia presents: A Journey to a Holistic for Data-intensive Workflows. "At CSIRO, we are...
From Phys.org Technology News
How to hide secret messages using fizzy drinks
Next time you see someone spilling a drink in a bar, you could actually be witnessing a spy secretly decoding an encrypted message. This might sound like something...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Making Numbers More Interesting
Last night I lay awake thinking about numbers and programming languages. Yes I know – weird. One of the first programming languages I was paid to write code in...
From Schneier on Security
Credential Stealing as an Attack Vector
Traditional computer security concerns itself with vulnerabilities. We employ antivirus software to detect malware that exploits vulnerabilities. We have automatic...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing van der Waals Forces on Mira
Over at ALCF, Katie Jones writes that researchers are using the Mira supercomputer to validate a new “wave-like” model of the van der Waals force—a weak attraction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google OnHub with IFTTT is Looking Like an Echo
When Google first introduced the OnHub, it looked like a too complex and expensive Wifi hub. Did not give it much thought. But when hooked to the IFTTT engine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Semantic Ecosystem
A big challenge. What is a semantic Ecosystem? By Topquadrant: A like the thoughts to a combination of data, metadata and services ... via an ontology.SEMANTIC...
From insideHPC
Video: DSSD Scalable High Performance FLASH Systems
Jeff Bonwick from EMC DSSD presented this talk at the MSST conference. "Jeff Bonwick is co-founder and CTO of DSSD, where he co-invented both the system hardware...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog