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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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Edison Supercomputer Helps Find Roots of MJO Modeling Mismatches
The MJO occurs on its own timetable—every 30 to 60 days—but its worldwide impact spurs scientists to unlock its secrets. The ultimate answer? Timely preparation...
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Time-lapse Video: Cray Install at UK Met Office
In this video, technicians install a new supercomputer at UK Met Office. The Met Office is the National Weather Service for the UK, providing internationally-renowned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Aboard the Food Truck Revolution
In Retailwire. Here this talks about the Food Truck Concept in retail in particular. A useful conversation. But taking it further, should CPG and other companies...
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HPC and the HDC Datacenter
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Darren Watkins from Virtus Data Centres explains the importance of building a data centre from the...
From Phys.org Technology News
In Tech: Dish techs fix iPhones, Best Buy gets Oculus VR
When Dish technicians aren't busy installing satellite TV services in people's homes, they'll be making house calls to replace iPhone batteries and broken screens...
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An Open Letter to the HPC Community
Altair is making a big investment toward uniting the whole HPC community to accelerate the state of the art (and the state of actual production operations) forAn...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Email: how to be polite and efficient
Email is an old platform, but it still represents the cornerstone of most of our work online. Surprisingly, many people seem to be using email poorly. Here areContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Now Accenture's MyWizard Works
From Accenture Newsroom:Accenture Launches Intelligent Automation Platform to Deliver Smarter, More Efficient Application Services that Improve Business Outcomes...
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What readers think about computer-generated texts
Readers like to read texts generated by computers, especially when they are unaware that what they are reading was assembled on the basis of an algorithm. This,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Homes
Good overview of the state and direction of smart home technology " ... Smartphones, mesh networks and cloud computing are enabling the long-awaited smart home...
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Parallel Graph Analytics
Extensive piece on this in the CACM. This studies the structure of complex graphs, similar to graph analytics. Had never heard exactly this term used for similar...
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Samsung Family Hub Refrigerator
Samsung continues to move ahead, with smart hubs in standard appliances. Very expensive appliances. Such white goods appliances have the problem of dealing with...
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Claude Shannon
Historical piece on one my favorite pioneers of the computing era. A problem we are still dealing with, the relationship between knowledge and data. Rarely have...
From Schneier on Security
Fake Security Conferences
Turns out there are two different conferences with the title International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS 2016), one real and one fake. Richard Clayton has...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Announces New Leadership
Today we are happy to announce the new CCC leadership. Elizabeth Mynatt and Mark Hill will assume their roles as Chair and Vice Chair respectively for two-year...
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Innovation Takes Focus
About the focusing of innovation. In Innovation Excellence. Well done with historical examples about mission and strategy.
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Ontology Editing
Brought to my attention. We worked with Stanford Knowledge Systems Lab in the past. They have made some progress since thenProtogeA free, open-source ontologyProt...
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Women in HPC to Host Events at ISC 2016
The Women in HPC organization will host a Workshop and a BoF at ISC 2016 in Frankfurt. "Once again we will bring together women from across the international HPC...
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