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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
Khandu Cards: Design for Kids… and grown-ups!
I recently received a set of Khandu cards after backing a Kickstarter. These cards are designed by a company called Seven Thinkers, their aim is to get kids thinking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Surface Pro 4 Unboxing
My Surface Pro 3 has been my constant companion and major computer workhouse ever since I got it over a year ago. It’s pretty much ideal for a school computer....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST Video Analytics in Public Safety (VAPS) Workshop
On June 6, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host the 2016 Video Analytics in Public Safety (VAPS) Workshop, a satellite workshop of the...
From insideHPC
Video: UPC++ Parallel Programming Extension
In this video from the 2016 OpenFabrics Workshop, Zili Zheng from LBNL presents: UPC++. "UPC++ is a parallel programming extension for developing C++ applications...
From insideHPC
RCE Podcast Looks at the Impala Project
In this RCE Podcast, Marcel Kornacker from Cloudera describes the Impala project. Impala brings scalable parallel database technology to Hadoop, enabling usersRCE...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: New York Scientific Data Summit
The New York Scientific Data Summit (NYSDS) has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place August 14-17 in New York City. The post Call for Papers: New York...
From insideHPC
WOS Object Storage Increases Momentum at DDN
Today DDN announced a year of unprecedented growth in the usage of its advanced WOS object storage platform. In less than a year, use of the company’s object storage...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
No more leaks with sanitize flags in gcc and clang
If you are programming in C and C++, you are probably wasting at least some of your time hunting down memory problems. Maybe you allocated memory and forgot toContinue...
From insideHPC
Video: AMD ROC – Radeon Open Compute Platform
Gregory Stoner from AMD presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "With the announcement of the Boltzmann Initiative and the recent releases of ROCK and ROCR,Video...
From Blog@Ubiquity
An Evolutionary Singularity
The drumbeats of the singularity advocates is getting louder with the constant refrain that humanity is doomed at the hands of machine intelligence. Although their...
From Schneier on Security
Helen Nissenbaum on Regulating Data Collection and Use
NYU Helen Nissenbaum gave an excellent lecture at Brown University last month, where she rebutted those who think that we should not regulate data collection, only...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: 2016 Hot Interconnects Conference
The 2016 Hot Interconnects Conference has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place August 24-26 at Huawei in Santa Clara, California. "Hot Interconnects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Following Neuromarketing Beyond the Hype Cycle
In Adage: Interesting view of the apparent advance of the use of neuromarketing, especially by Nielsen. Often covered here. Have followed this progress for some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Addressing Counterfeit Drug Problem
Blockchain Technology Could Help Solve $75 Billion Counterfeit Drug ProblemCounterfeit drugs are a growing problem, but one company wants to use blockchain technology...
From Schneier on Security
GCHQ Gets Involved in Mundane Surveillance Matters
GCHQ detected a potential pre-publication leak of a Harry Potter book, and alerted the publisher. Is this what British national intelligence is supposed to be doing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Inclusive Access Workshop Report
The organizing committee for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored Promoting Strategic Research on Inclusive Access to Rich Online Content and Services...
From insideHPC
Spectra Logic Rolls Out World’s Largest Capacity Tape Library
Today Spectra Logic announced the Spectra TFinity ExaScale Edition, the world’s largest and most richly-featured tape storage system. "Since 2008, Spectra Logic...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science for All – Are We Asking the Right Questions?
Every two weeks, the CSTA K-8 task group hosts a twitter chat using the hashtag #CSK8. These twitter chats help teachers like me connect with other computer science...
From insideHPC