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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 The Eponymous Pickle
What Exactly is a Bot?
The word Bot has started to be used again. But what is it? I was struck by Matt Galligan's piece in Medium which takes a broad look at the definition. We built...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Replicating Reflecting Squid Tissue
New research. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Poets and Script Writers for Virtual Assistants, Bots
In the WaPo: Intriguing idea. Make a Virtual Assistant as human and engaging as possible with clever writing and narratives. I have seen aspects of this work...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Binary with a Clock
There has been a Binary clock on my desk at school for some years now. I like using it to help students learn Binary numbers. A few years ago I wrote a software...
From insideHPC
Video: Exploiting HPC Technologies to Accelerate Big Data Processing
"This talk will present RDMA-based designs using OpenFabrics Verbs and heterogeneous storage architectures to accelerate multiple components of Hadoop (HDFS, MapReduce...
From insideHPC
Learn Apache Hadoop with Spark in One Day
Hadoop and Spark clusters have a reputation for being extremely difficult to configure, install, and tune, but help is on the way. The good folks at Cluster Monkey...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Economics in Machine Learning
Makes sense. Both economics and machine learning are driven by pattern detection and re application. " .... Economists have largely preferred to act within their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stormy Evolution of Mathematics
A network visualization of the evolution of mathematics. Pretty narrow interest but still an example of how to visualize networks.
From insideHPC
Silicon Mechanics is Intel’s ‘Channel Cares’ Partner of the Year
Today Silicon Mechanics announced that the company was recently named one of the Intel Corporation’s 2015 ISS Partner’s of the Year, specifically with Intel’s Channel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Media Services Getting Smarter
A continuing trend. Intelligence can consist of including higher level services. But these have to be correct and consistent under varying data contexts. That...
From insideHPC
Distinguished Speaker Series Coming to ISC 2016
iscToday ISC 2016 announced that five renowned experts in computational science will participate in their new Distinguished Speaker series. Topics will include...
From insideHPC
How Verne Global is Moving HPC Workloads to Iceland
"At Verne Global we combine low power costs, free cooling for 365 days of the year and optimized infrastructure to reduce the total costs of ownership for yourHow...
From Schneier on Security
IRS Security
Monday is Tax Day. Many of us are thinking about our taxes. Are they too high or too low? What's our money being spent on? Do we have a government worth paying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accenture Builds a Virtual Assistant called MyWizard
Continued efforts to build virtual assistants. Named MyWizard. Note the industry specific elements and knowledge. How much local learning? I like the statement...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture- Daniela Rus
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a distinguished lecture on...
From insideHPC
Monitoring Power Consumption with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface
"NWPerf is software that can measure and collect a wide range of performance data about an application or set of applications that run on a cluster. With minimal...
From insideHPC
Video: The Internet of Machines
In this video, Steve Hebert from Nimbix presents: The Internet of Machines. "The good folks at Nimbix have also posted full a set video presentations from their...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Dwarf Dark Galaxy Hidden in ALMA Gravitational Lens Image
Astronomers are using the Blue Waters supercomputer and the ALMA telescope in Chile to investigate the location of a dwarf dark galaxy. Subtle distortions hidden...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots Auto Captioning Photos
An area I worked in both in the enterprise, and with a startup. Google and Facebook have done work in this area. Now Microsoft is also doing such captioning,...
From insideHPC