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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 XRDS
An Introduction to Gamification in Human-Computer Interaction
User experience (UX) is a field within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that studies the whole experience of a user with a product, system, or service. UX focuses...
From insideHPC
TYAN Servers and Motherboards Add Support for Broadwell Processors
Today TYAN announced support for the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family (Broadwell). Incorporating Intel’s new processor technologies allows TYAN...
From insideHPC
Optalysys Wins DARPA Grant for Optical Computing
Today Cambridge University spin-out Optalysys announced that the company has been awarded a $350k grant for a 13-month project from the US Defense Advanced Research...
From insideHPC
Flow Science Expands to Latin America
Today Flow Science announced that it has formed a new subsidiary, Flow Science Latin America SAS (FSLA), to sell and support Flow Science’s suite of computational...
From The Noisy Channel
Hari Seldon, Data Scientist
Like many people who grew up reading science fiction, I idolized Hari Seldon. For those unfamiliar with Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series…Continue reading on Medium...
From insideHPC
Leveraging HPC for Alzheimer’s Research and Beyond
"In this presentation, Joe Lombardo will discuss specific NSCEE projects that leverage HPC workload management to increase speed and performance for compute-intensive...
From Schneier on Security
People Trust Robots, Even When They Don't Inspire Trust
Interesting research: In the study, sponsored in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the researchers recruited a group of 42 volunteers...
From insideHPC
Interview: LANL’s Gary Grider on the new MarFS Object Storage Project
"We wanted to get away from the complexity of POSIX for data, yet retain the parts of POSIX that people are used to (metadata manipulation). By divorcing ourselves...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hands On with the BBC Micro:Bit
Recently a padded envelop showed up in the mail. No return address. No identifying information. Inside was a BBC Micro:Bit. Now I have played with one once or twice...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Omnichannel Complicates Demand Planning
Interesting conversation in Retailwire:How is omnichannel complicating demand planning?By Tom RyanDemand planning "has become an enigma" for supply chain professionals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retirement a Flawed Concept
Interesting thoughts in the HBR: Retirement is a Flawed Concept. Will comment when I finally try it.
From The Eponymous Pickle
NeuroWine Claimed
A more direct sensory link than the usual examples. SA neuroscientists develop first NeuroWineBy Admire Moyo, ITWeb's senior news journalist.Johannesburg, 20 Apr...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Sensors for an Internet of Things
An internet of things is also connected to its environment, which needs sensors to detect context. Context can drive analytics with data. Looking for new ways...
From XRDS
Rise of the Chatbots
Almost two decades ago I saw in the arcades the futuristic fighting game “Rise of the Robots”. As a youngster I was imagining what the future of computing and robotics...
From insideHPC
Video: Intel Omni-Path Fabric Management and Tool Features
In this video from the 2016 OpenFabrics Workshop, James Wright from Intel presents: Intel Omni-Path Fabric Management and Tools Features. "The Intel Omni-Path Fabric...
From insideHPC
X-Stack PI Meeting Showcases Exascale Code
Berkeley Lab recently hosted the fourth annual X-Stack PI event, where X-Stack researchers, facilities teams, application scientists, and developers from national...
From Schneier on Security
Graffiti by Drone
Drones can graffiti walls that no person can reach. (Note that wired.com blocks ad blockers. My trick is to copy the page and then paste it into my text editor.)...
From insideHPC
Huazhong University of Science Wins ASC16 Student Cluster Challenge
In news from China this week, the Huazhong University of Science has won the ASC16 Student Cluster Challenge. The final round of the competition concluded Friday...
From insideHPC
Performing Simulation-Based, Real-time Decision Making with Cloud HPC
Zach Smocha from Rescale presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Manor Racing is partnering with San Francisco based Rescale as a key technology provider for...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog