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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
New on IFTTT This Month
A number of new channels on IFTTT this month. For those that might want to sculpt out the operation of their smart home (or even smart office). Including from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Media Lab Changes Software Default to Encourage Open Source
MIT pushes free and open source, in Medium:The MIT Media Lab is part of an academic ecosystem committed to liberal sharing of knowledge. In that spirit, I’m proud...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Showcases New GPU SuperServer at GTC 2016
"Supermicro’s new SuperServer and SuperBlade platforms optimized for next generation GPU technology offer the most flexible architecture for the future of extreme...
From insideHPC
Texas A&M is the Latest Intel Parallel Computing Center
Texas A&M University’s High Performance Research Computing (HPRC) center is the latest Intel® Parallel Computing Center. "HPRC is proud to be recognized as an Intel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spectral Clustering and Decision Process Improvement
Good, detailed piece in DSC on motivation for Spectral Clustering. Not a method we used in the enterprise, never getting beyond K means and forest methods, but...
From Computational Complexity
Are perfect numbers bigger than 6 initial sums of odd cubes?
I pose two questions today (Monday April 4). I will post the answers tomorrow (Tuesday April 5). Feel free to comment about the answers. If you don't want clues...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings – Week of April 4
Thursday, April 7, 2016 Field Hearing: Cyber Preparedness and Response at the Local Level House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Accelerates OpenPOWER-based Magna Servers
Today Penguin Computing announced Open Compute Project (OCP)-based systems that reinforce both its continued collaboration with NVIDIA and new options in Penguin...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Could virtual-reality make us smarter?
When the web initially took off, there were major concerns that it was “dumbing us down”. There are similar concerns with e-books making us dumber. I am quite sure...
From insideHPC
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Expands HPC Portfolio
As high performance and webscale applications become mainstream, HPE's continued focus on this market is yielding positive results for our customers," said Bill...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Rolls Out EDR InfiniBand Routers
Today Mellanox announced a new line of InfiniBand router systems. The new EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Routers enable a new level of scalability critical for the next...
From Phys.org Technology News
Why lightsabers would be far more lethal than George Lucas envisioned
Research is an unpredictable process. Sometimes you end up making a really cool discovery that you didn't see coming. I recently uncovered a fundamental property...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Empowering the Smart Phone
Makes sense, we are already seeing voice integration and the gathering and assembly and analysis of sensor data. Better virtual assistants for given contexts should...
From Phys.org Technology News
Aging voting machines threaten election integrity
Imagine you went to your basement and dusted off the laptop or mobile phone that you used in 2002. What would happen if you tried to turn it on? We don't have to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improvisation and Virtual Onboarding
We experimented with this, but it was never implemented, perhaps for cultural reasons. Found it to be be fascinating approach, especially the process involved....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technical Revolution in the Ear
In Co.DesignThe Next Big Tech Revolution Will Be In Your EarExperts in UX, AI, and product design weigh in on the next big modality in computing. ..
From insideHPC
Why New Intel® Xeon Processors Make Sense for HPC Applications
Through the microarchitecture improvements, increased core counts, and faster memory speeds of the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family based on the...
From insideHPC
The Lustre Parallel File System—A Landscape of Topics and Insight from the Community
Since its beginnings in 1999 as a project at Carnegie Mellon University, Lustre, the high performance parallel file system, has come a long, long way. DesignedThe...
From Phys.org Technology News
Drone company demos how blood air-drops will work in Rwanda
Drone delivery might be years away in the U.S., but it's becoming a reality in Rwanda this summer.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson