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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 …
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Altair HPC Cloud Challenge Shows Customers a New Way Forward
Today Altair announced that eleven international customers participated in the company's recent HPC Cloud Challenge. The contest was set up to demonstrate the benefits...
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XSEDE Awards 324 Million CPU hours to NSF Research Projects
The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), a five-year project supported by the US National Science Foundation, has awarded 324 millionXSEDE...
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Video: Europe’s Fastest Supercomputer and the World Around It
Michael Resch from HLRS gave this rousing talk at the HPC User Forum. "HLRS supports national and European researchers from science and industry by providing high...
From Phys.org Technology News
Transport security focus at London counter-terror fair
The computer screen lights up as a man with a dummy gun in the back of his trousers and a fake suicide vest under his jacket demonstrates a body scanner at a counter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Data Science
In the DSC:Data Scientists Automated and Unemployed by 2025!Posted by William Vorhies Summary: The shortage of data scientists is driving a growing number of developers...
From Putting People First
Co-creating policy and public services in Ireland
Governments, public sector and community organisations are addressing increasingly complex challenges such as the ageing society, climate change, sustainable behaviour...
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Slidecast: Advantages of Offloading Architectures for HPC
In this slidecast, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox describes the advantages of InfiniBand and the company's off-loading network architecture for HPC. “The path to Exascale...
From Schneier on Security
Details about Juniper's Firewall Backdoor
Last year, we learned about a backdoor in Juniper firewalls, one that seems to have been added into the code base. There's now some good research: "A Systematic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing Facebook Chatbots
Certainly Facebook has the largest and most varied domain to test the idea. How 'AI strong' can a chatbot be? Does it need to be? Companies testing: In CWorld...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Books Copyright Case
Success, I think for broad knowledge access. Long followed. In the CACM:Fair Use Prevails as Supreme Court Rejects Google Books Copyright CaseThe Supreme Court...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inventory Accuracy with RFID
Ultimately we sought accuracy in inventory at shelf and warehouse by RFID driven transparency. Here an example of success:RFID Brings Lululemon's Inventory Accuracy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Listening to Customers
Are you really listening to what your customers are saying? We did, but many companies do not. McKinsey writes:Too many companies squander the treasure that is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Form of Driverless Cars
Driverless Cars Must Have Steering Wheels, Brake Pedals, Feds SayAutonomous vehicles could meet current safety standards, but only if they include standard features...
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ORiGAMI – Oak Ridge Graph Analytics for Medical Innovation
Rangan Sukumar from ORNL presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. "ORiGAMI is a tool for discovering and evaluating potentially interesting associations...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How close are AI systems to human-level intelligence? The Allen AI challenge.
With respect to artificial intelligence, some people are squarely in the “optimist” camp, believing that we are “nearly there” as far as producing human-level intelligence...
From Schneier on Security
Kuwaiti Government will DNA Test Everyone
There's a new law that will enforce DNA testing for everyone: citizens, expatriates, and visitors. They promise that the program "does not include genealogical...
From insideHPC
Intersect360 Publishes New Report on the Hyperscale Market
Today Intersect360 Research published a new research report on the Hyperscale market. This report provides definitions, segmentations, and dynamics of the hyperscale...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
2016 State of the Net Wireless
Join top government officials and private sector experts this afternoon for this year’s State of the Net Wireless. Beginning at 2 pm ET, the forum provides a lively...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH Talk- Crypto Wars: Plus ça Change, Plus c’est la Même Chose
The next WATCH talk, called Crypto Wars: Plus ça Change, Plus c’est la Même Chose is Thursday, April 21, 2016 from Noon-1pm EDT. The presenter will be Susan Landau...
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