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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 insideHPC
Announcing the COMPSs 1.4 Programming Environment from BSC
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center released version 1.4 of the COMPSs programming environment. COMPSs includes new features that improves runtime performance...
From insideHPC
Video: SGI Production Supercomputing
Mark Seamans from SGI presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. "As the trusted leader in high performance computing, SGI helps companies find answers...
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Dr Zoe Cournia to Receive 1st PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Today PRACE announced that Dr Zoe Cournia is the recipient of the 1st PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC. As a Computational Chemist, Investigator – Assistant Professor...
From Schneier on Security
Vulnerabilities in Samsung's SmartThings
Interesting research: Earlence Fernandes, Jaeyeon Jung, and Atul Prakash, "Security Analysis of Emerging Smart Home Applications": Abstract: Recently, several competing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
My Take on a Year with Amazon Echo
Is Amazon Alexa good at understanding your needs vocally? Is it a good assistant? For very narrrow but also useful domains, Yes. For general understanding that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 May 2016
Back to school today after a week of vacation. I’m rested and ready for the final stretch of the school year. About seven weeks left. I spent a lot less time on...
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Myth: "CS Researchers Don't Publish Code or Data"
A collaboration with Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Assistant Professor at Indiana University.There has been some buzz on social media about this "Extremely Angry" Twitter...
From Computational Complexity
Some more bits from the Gathering for Gardner
I posted about the Gathering for Gardner conference and about some of the talks I saw here. Today I continue with a few more talks. Playing Penney's game with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovating and Building the Amazon Echo
Behind the building of the Amazon Echo, and a look at how Amazon builds big innovations. Luck or creativity? " .... The Real Story of How Amazon Built the Echo...
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Look at the SAP IOT Platform
In Medium: " ... As an emerging backbone to Internet of Things (IoT) deployment, SAP’s IoT platform is the key for the future development and scalability of IoT...
From Phys.org Technology News
From new to old, some of the gun safety features over time
Daytona Beach, Florida-based iGun Technology Corp. has been developing a "smart gun," a firearm that uses a ring with a chip in it to send a signal to a circuit...
From Phys.org Technology News
Schumer: Probe billboards using phone data to track shoppers
An outdoor advertising company that owns thousands of billboards across the country, including in Times Square, and around the world, is using mobile phone data...
From Putting People First
Report: User Experience and Usability in Complex Systems
User Experience and Usability in Complex Systems Final Report 1/2015 FIMECC (Finnish Metals and Engineering Competence Cluster) November 2015, 225 pages Five years...
From Phys.org Technology News
James Bond meets Samuel Colt: Seeking to build a safer gun
Jonathan Mossberg is among a small number of pioneers looking to build a safer gun. But unlike many others, he was in the gun business when he started down that...
From insideHPC
GPU-Powered Systems Take Top Spot & Set Performance Records at ASC16
Over at the Nvidia Blog, George Millington writes that, the fourth consecutive year, the Nvidia Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform helped set new milestones in...
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Building Efficient HPC Clouds with MVAPICH2 and OpenStack over SR-IOV Enabled InfiniBand Clusters
"Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) technology has been steadily gaining momentum for high-performance interconnects such as InfiniBand. SR-IOV can deliver...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Human Values
Just this week looked back again at the work by Cyc to understand human common sense. But that is only part of the challenge. We will need to address values...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Advances
Some additional quantum computing advances. Some worry that these methods will make encryption less secure.
From insideHPC
Driving Innovation at the Hartree Centre with the OpenPOWER Architecture
In this video from the OpenPOWER Summit, Dr. Mike Ashworth from the STFC Hartree Centre presents: Driving Innovation at the Hartree Centre with the OpenPOWER Architecture...
From The Eponymous Pickle