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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 Phys.org Technology News
Move to OK commercial drone flights over people
A government-sponsored committee is recommending standards that could clear the way for commercial drone flights over populated areas and help speed the introduction...
From Schneier on Security
Smart Essay on the Limitations of Anti-Terrorism Security
This is good: Threats constantly change, yet our political discourse suggests that our vulnerabilities are simply for lack of resources, commitment or competence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Industry 4.0
Interesting characterization of industry from the beginning to the Industrial Internet, mentioned here previously, we were members of its inception. See tag links...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Does the Analytics?
This came to light in a recent project. .... and no one was willing to consider both alternatives.Human or Machine: The Most Important Question in AnalyticsTom...
From insideHPC
Call for Proposals: ALCF Data Science Program
The 2016 ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP) at Argonne has issued its Call for Proposals. The new initiative is targeted at "big data" science problems that require...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metcalf's Law
A bit of research led me to look further at the background of the empirical Metcalf's Law:Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Look at the Dark Side of Metcalf's Law
The problem with the increasing size of your network, statistics:Bain & Company:" ... Telecommunications networks in general—and the Internet in particular—have...
From insideHPC
Video: OpenPOWER Roadmap Toward CORAL
"Last year IBM together with partners out of the OpenPOWER foundation won two of the multi-year contacts of the US CORAL program. Within these contracts IBM develops...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Needs Another Decade
In Computerworld: Disagree with the broad premise. Applications have existed in RFID, process control and beyond. It continues to evolve and requires attention...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Menu Collection
An example of crowdsourcing and identifying complex data. Or consider a menu a kind of expertise presentation.Help The New York Public Library improve a unique...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What has caught my attention lately: "We simply don't know how to securely engineer anything but the simplest of systems" ([1]) Impressive at their scale: "Facebook...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Isn't Enough
Colleague Martin Lindstrom's recent book: Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends, was recently covered in a Fortune article. " .... It can’t give...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Shipping Broadwell Servers and Storage Solutions in Volume
Today Supermicro announced its extensive support for the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family across SuperServer, SuperBlade, SuperStorage, SuperWorkstation...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Lustre Software Integrator at GDH
GDH Consulting in Albuquerque is seeking a Lustre File Systems HPC Software Integrator Integrator in our Job of the Week. "A systems programmer with proficientJob...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blackberry Radar for Goods Security
Worked on related ideas for the supply chain enterprise a decade ago that used tagging and communicating capabilities to track trucks. There are suppliers that...
From Putting People First
A selection of Interaction 16 videos
In this post we highlight a number of Interaction 16 conference videos especially relevant to the Putting People First readers. They are grouped thematically. Algorithm...
From Putting People First
Special Issue: Digitised Health, Medicine and Risk
Health Risk & Society is a new international scholarly journal devoted to a theoretical and empirical understanding of the social processes which influence theSpecial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Goals, Art and Engagement of Visualization
I was struck by the question: " ,,, Is the ultimate goal (of data visualization) communication, or engagement? ... " . My answer is that it should be clear communications...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Setting up a “robust” Minecraft server on a Raspberry Pi
My kids are gamers, and they love Minecraft. Minecraft sells its client software, but the server software is freely available. Since it is written in Java, it can...
From Schneier on Security