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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
Imprecision in Computing
In the CACM: Decrease precision. For Saving energy apparently. How is this making anything better? The amount of energy involved seems minimal. Yet understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford and the Smart Home
Somewhat unexpected, but car makers linking to the Smart Home. The further integration between car and home. Major automakers are driving full speed into the smart...
From Schneier on Security
Smartphone Forensics to Detect Distraction
The company Cellebrite is developing a portable forensics device that would determine if a smartphone user was using the phone at a particular time. The idea is...
From insideHPC
HPC Market Update and IDC’s Top Growth Areas for 2016 and Beyond
In this video from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Earl Joseph from IDC presents: 2016 IDC HPC Market Update. "The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote...
From insideHPC
ISC 2016 Announces Award-Winning Research Papers
Today ISC 2016 announced the awards-winning research papers for the PRACE ISC Award and the Gauss Award. The post ISC 2016 Announces Award-Winning Research Papers...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Vintage Computer Festival — five events this year!
If you’re looking for novel ways of inspiring students, then consider giving them some hands-on exposure to the past at a Vintage Computer Festival event. Vintage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building a Reco Engine with a Graph Database
Building a recommendation Engine ... Powering recommendations with a Graph Database. I like the idea of decision process starting with a visualization. "...
From insideHPC
Atos Rolls Out Bull sequana “The World’s Most Efficient Supercomputer”
"Atos is one out of three or four worldwide players having the expertise and know-how to build supercomputers today – and the only one in Europe. It is a source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neglecting Business Process Models
In CIO: Agree, based on my observations, there is less business process modeling (BPM) being done today. Fewer people even know what it is. This is based on the...
From insideHPC
Get Some Big Lunch at the Big Data & HPC Events coming to Portland & Seattle
If you are in the Northwest and you happen to like surf and turf, have I got a deal for you! Dell is hosting a series of Big Data lunch events in Seattle and Portland...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Narrative illusions
Our brain contains lots of neurons and can do great things. I can read, write and speak fluently in two languages made of tens of thousands of words. Millions of...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Showcases New GPU SuperServer at GTC 2016
In this video from the 2016 GPU Technology Conference, Jason Pai from Supermicro describes the new 1028GQ-TRT SuperServer. With support for up to four Nvidia Tesla...
From insideHPC
Discover why GPUs are driving the future of HPC
According to the latest Intersect360 Research site census data, of the 50 most popular application packages mentioned by HPC users, 34 have offer GPU support, including...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
K 12 Computer Science Framework Stakeholders Convening
Most people don’t associate either rain or computer science with Las Vegas Nevada but the last few days have seen plenty of both. In fact they tell me Las Vegas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson, Big Data and Genomics
More emphasis on health applications. " ... IBM Watson takes analytics prowess overseas: Supercomputer to work on big data and genomics in Italy .... Computing...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Lottery Machines
Interesting article about how a former security director of the US Multi-State Lottery Association hacked the random-number generator in lottery software so he...
From Putting People First
The latest on innovation in Energy Efficient Buildings: annual round-up of EU Commission projects
Every year, the Energy-efficient Buildings (EeB) Public Private Partnership (PPP) publishes the EeB PPP project review – a round-up of energy-efficiency projects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing and the Supply Chain
In Gartner: Obviously very dependent on form and assembly needs of the products involved. But will become increasingly in play as the technologies evolve.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Employee Behavior and Attitude
In McKinsey: Leaders must consider new ways to change the attitudes and behavior of employees." ... The psychological contract that traditionally bound employees...
From The Eponymous Pickle