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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 Apophenia
Where Do We Find Ethics?
I was in elementary school, watching the TV live, when the Challenger exploded. My classmates and I were stunned and confused by what we saw. With the logic of...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
DRAFT 2016 CSTA K-12 CS Standards: We Need Your Feedback—Again!
Much excitement and activity continues to take place in the K-12 Computer Science Education space. The K-12 Computer Science Framework and the Computer ScienceContinue...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Launches Tesla P100 Hyperscale Accelerator
"Our greatest scientific and technical challenges -- finding cures for cancer, understanding climate change, building intelligent machines -- require a near-infinite...
From Phys.org Technology News
MLB approves wearable technology
Wearable technology is coming to Major League Baseball.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Learn from Insects
Have heard relatively little about genetic methods lately, here as a means of adapting initial descriptive solutions. Worth considering to achieve some processIn ...
From insideHPC
Seagate Adopts Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre
Today Seagate announced it will incorporate Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre (IEEL), a big data software platform, into its market-leading ClusterStor storage...
From insideHPC
Announcing the ISC Student Cluster Competition Alumni Network
Today the ISC Group, organizers of the annual ISC High Performance conference, is pleased to announce the launch of the ISC Student Cluster Competition (SCC) Alumni...
From insideHPC
Allinea Speeds Tomorrow’s Meteorological Code
Allinea Software reports that the company is helping weather and climate researchers to adapt advanced weather models to better exploit today’s technology capability...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Northeast Big Data Hub – Call for Proposals
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has launched a program on Industry-Academic Collaboration through the Big Data Regional Hubs. The Northeast Hub, coordinated...
From insideHPC
Video: HPC and Hyperscale Trends for 2016
Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "Based on updated research studies, Addison Snell of Intersect360...
From Schneier on Security
WhatsApp is Now End-to-End Encrypted
WhatsApp is now end-to-end encrypted....
From insideHPC
DWD Weather Service in Germany Upgrades Cray Systems
Today Cray announced a contract to upgrade the supercomputers at Germany’s National Meteorological Service – the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). Located in Offenbach...
From insideHPC
Video: Seagate Exascale HPC Storage
"Traditionally, storage have been using brute force rather than intelligent design to deliver the required throughputs but the current trend is to design balanced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qlik Sense Stories
Via Qlik Sense:" ... Charts and graphs may be some of the most commonly used tools for bringing data sets to life, but Narrative Science wants you to consider another...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Principal Component Analysis using R
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was a favorite technique of ours for a long time, because it addressed the dimensionality of a problem, So important for problems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Enterprise Splunk
Splunk, A package that I used for an application some time ago, for datastream analysis, but is relatively little known, reports their enterprise version 6.4. ...
From Computational Complexity
Are Perfect Numbers Bigger than Six initial sums of odd cubes (answered)
(NONE of this is my work. In fact some of it is on Wikipedia.) In my last blog I noticed that 28 = 13 + 33 496= 13 + 33 + 53 + 73 noting that 28 and 496 are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Datawheel to Visualize Open US Data
This looks to be a very good idea. Automatically generated visualizations. In Datanami: New Platform Visualizes Open U.S. Databy George LeopoldFederal agencies...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Forty Thousand Dollar Coin Flipper Program
Have you heard about the $47,400 piece of software that randomly points an arrow left or right? TSA says its Randomizer app only cost $47,400 This doesn’t seemTSA...
From The Eponymous Pickle