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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
Video: Managing Large Production Cloud Deployments
"Cycle Computing software leverages cloud resources to make computation in the cloud productive at any scale, by orchestrating workflows, managing data, balancing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco and Much Smarter LED Lighting
Taking LEDs beyond lighting, to the Internet of Things:" ... In PoE lighting, both electricity and data flow over Ethernet cables that connect to LED troffers and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Research in a Virtual World
Can you do research in a virtual world? Simulation has often been used to create a model of a system, and then do research, such as sensitivity analysis, in that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power of How Google Search Works
Its been a while since I have thought of Google search beyond the basics. I knew there was more power and subtlety there, but not how to apply it. Now in the ...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
We know a lot less than we think, especially about the future.
The inventors of the airplane, the Wright brothers, had little formal education (3 and 4 years of high school respectively). They were not engineers. They wereContinue...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Get A Job
Doo wop, doo wop Richard Lewis, Bill Horton, Earl Beal, Raymond Edwards, and John Wilson—the Silhouettes—were a doo wop/R&B group whose single Get A Job was a number...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Using Docker for Science at TACC
In this TACC podcast, Joe Stubbs from the Texas Advanced Computing Centter describes potential benefits to scientists of open container platform Docker in supporting...
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Video: ASC16 Student Supercomputing Challenge Wraps Up in China
In this video from CCTV News, ASC16 wraps up their Student Supercomputing Challenge. Huazhong University of Science won the overall competition, which concluded...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data's Problem
Good piece with an apt warning. Its always about some form of sampling. Even if you could get all observations of the data, say if you are controlling an experiment...
From insideHPC
Understanding Your HPC Application Needs
Many HPC applications began as single processor (single core) programs. If these applications take too long on a single core or need more memory than is available...
From Schneier on Security
Two Good Readings on the Encryption "Going Dark" Debate
Testimonies of Matt Blaze and Danny Weitzner, both on April 19th before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And the hearing....
From Phys.org Technology News
Paralyzed by indecision? Forget therapy—you need an algorithm
Information overload and "fear of missing out" may rank among the biggest contributors to chronic indecision. But help is at hand.
From Phys.org Technology News
Reducing the transmission of infectious diseases in transport hubs
Transport plays a major role in the spread of transmissible diseases. PANDHUB, a project coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, develops ways...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kasisto Virtual Assistant
My continued look at virtual assistants " ..... AI-Driven Virtual Assistant from Kasisto Powers India's First Mobile-Only Bank ... Asian banking innovator DBSin...
From insideHPC
Cray Moves Minnesota Offices from St. Paul to Mall of America
"After a careful consideration of all our options, we have made the decision to leave our current location in downtown St. Paul and relocate our employees to The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Processor Runs from Ambient Radio Waves
In Extremetech: Consider the Internet of Things or Wearable implications" .. A new research initiative between a University of Washington team and TU-Delft in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge for Discovery
Brought to my attention, a topic always brought up that we also experimented with:Accelerating Discovery: Mining Unstructured Information for Hypothesis Generation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boosting Scientific Discovery CSI Talk
Dear Professors, Students, IBMers and others, Just a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series on Thursday April 28, 2016 at 10:30 amXiaolin...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Kevin Fu Comments on FDA’s Postmarket Cybersecurity Guidance
Contributions to this post were made by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member Kevin Fu, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. Kevin also...
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