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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 Phys.org Technology News
A look at the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in numbers
Telling the story of Chernobyl in numbers 30 years later involves dauntingly large figures and others that are even more vexing because they're still unknown. A...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Powers OpenStack Cloud at University of Cambridge
Today Mellanox announced that University of Cambridge has selected Mellanox End-to-End Ethernet interconnect solution including Spectrum SN2700 Ethernet switches...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An IKEA Virtual Reality App
Always liked the innovation that has come out of IKEA, Here a sims-like VR App. Have not tried yet, but will. How well does this work as VR, as engagement?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Basic Apache Spark Utilization
Good basic, mostly non technical introduction:Basic Spark Utilization for Analytics in Big Databy Atif Farid MohammadApache Spark is a Big Data Analytics Engine...
From Schneier on Security
BlackBerry's Global Encryption Key
Last week there was a big news story about the Blackberry encryption. The news was that all BlackBerry devices share a global encryption key, and that the Canadian...
From Putting People First
How city design is adapting to older populations
As cities experience a demographic shift, the need for age-friendly design is becoming ever more critical. From almshouses to driverless cars, the future of urban...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 April 2016
April vacation! Yes we do things different in New England. After this week we still have 7 to 8 weeks of school left. So this is a good time for a break. I hope...
From Phys.org Technology News
Obama says 'spirit of innovation' turns ideas into jobs
President Barack Obama it putting in a few good words for the "spirit of innovation" that he says turns ideas into jobs and growth.
From Writing
Introducing Gruntwork: get up and running on AWS with DevOps best practices and world-class infrastructure in about 2 weeks
Building infrastructure for a software company is much harder than it should be. There are so many moving parts and so many concepts to learn. How do I build my...
From Computational Complexity
Some short bits from the Gathering for Gardner Conference
I attended G4G12 (Gathering for Gardner) a conference that meets every 2 years (though the gap between the first and second was three years) to celebrate the work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beginners Guide to Chatbots
Well done article in Medium, with reasonable definitions and pointers to examples and resources. The distinction is made between those driven by machine learning...
From insideHPC
HiPEAC Seeks Your Input for the Next Ten Years of Computing
The good folks at the European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) have launched a call for contributions to the 2017...
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Trends from the Trenches at Bio-IT World
In this video, Chris Dagdigian from Bioteam delivers his annual assessment of the best, the worthwhile, and the most overhyped information technologies for life...
From Putting People First
[Book] The Politics of Design
The Politics of Design: A (Not so) Global Manual for Visual Communication By Ruben Pater BIS Publishers May 2015 Many designs that appear in today’s society will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain Numbers at Amazon and Wal-Mart
A look at retail heavyweights, their numbers and some key innovations:Supply Chain News: Walmart and Amazon by the Numbers 2016Our Annual Review of the World'sI...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Failing and Succeeding in the Digital World
Podcast in Knowledge@Wharton: It is counterintuitive to celebrate failures as well as successes. But that is precisely what needs to happen if companies wish to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at the Virtual Assistant Landscape
Nicely done view of what is going on, with considerable variance in the definition of assistant. Useful to see the extensive examples here.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Browsing the Web in Virtual Reality
Has been proposed a number of times. Is this useful? Likely to be created and used? In the relatively early days of the Web you could browse 2D representations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procurement Undergoing Digital Revolution
Thoughts on a Deloitte study in Supply Chain Digest. " .... After a Period of People Expansion, Procurement Now Being Asked to Do More with Less; the Two Tracks...
From The Eponymous Pickle