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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
Amazon Dash Moves Ahead, Usage Data
Adage reports data on the share of Amazon Dash button pushes, via 1010Data. Article has other interesting data." ... In reporting that consumer packaged goodsIn...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Where The Jobs Are – 2016 Edition
The following is a guest blog post from Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and Founding Chair...
From insideHPC
Intel Rolls Out New Xeon Processors & 3D NAND SSDs
Today Intel announced new technologies, investments and industry collaborations that make it easier for any business to harness the power of the cloud. The news...
From insideHPC
OpenSFS Releases Lustre 2.8.0 for LUG 2016 Conference
Today the Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS) community announced the release of Lustre 2.8.0, the fastest and most scalable parallel file system. OpenSFS, founded...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Spike those “Luddite” Awards: Not all innovation is good
Luddites attacking powered looms, 1812 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) published its annual “Luddite Awards...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Intel Moves HPC Forward with Broadwell Family of Xeon Processors
In this podcast, Rich Brueckner interviews Hugo Saleh, Director of Marketing for the Intel High Performance Computing Platform Group. They discuss the new Intel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multimodal Robotic Drones
From the University of PA Grasp lab, in IEEE Spectrum. Bimodal, here meaning it can walk or fly. Applications that make sense? Bi specialization for specific...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Google is Approaching AI
Its not all just about winning the game 'Go', but how an increasing number of components can be used to address performance of cognitive intelligence. Still aIn...
From insideHPC
Video: Huawei Powers Efficient and Scalable HPC
"Huawei focuses on R&D of IT infrastructure, cooling solutions, software integration, and provides end-to-end HPC solution by building ecosystems with partners....
From insideHPC
Allinea Taps the Power of GPUs for High Performance Code
Today Allinea announced plans to showcase its software tools for developing and optimizing high performance code at the GPU Technology Conference April 4-7 in San...
From Phys.org Technology News
Should we 3D print a new Palmyra?
The destruction at the ancient city of Palmyra symbolises the suffering of the Syrian people at the hands of the terrorist group known as Islamic State (IS). Palmyra...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Ken Calvert Appointed as NSF CISE/CNS Division Director
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following...
From Schneier on Security
ISIS Encryption Opsec
Tidbits from the New York Times: The final phase of Mr. Hame's training took place at an Internet cafe in Raqqa, where an Islamic State computer specialist handed...
From insideHPC
Reducing the Time to Science with Efficient Clouds
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Dr Bruno Silva from The Francis Crick Institute in London writes that new cloud technologies will...
From Writing
Infrastructure as code: running microservices on AWS using Docker, Terraform, and ECS
Docker and Amazon ECS are a powerful combination. In previous posts, I showed how to use Docker to package your code and how to manually deploy Docker containers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Customer Reviews
In HBS Working Knowledge: On the issue of managing customer reviews. I discover that I have personally started to read more of them and considering them as a group...
From Schneier on Security
Lawful Hacking and Continuing Vulnerabilities
The FBI's legal battle with Apple is over, but the way it ended may not be good news for anyone. Federal agents had been seeking to compel Apple to break the security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Can Smart Homes go Mainstream?
A look at the challenge. In Knowledge@Wharton:" ... Amazon’s popular Echo device powered by an artificial intelligence personal assistant called Alexa has rekindled...
From insideHPC
Jeff Squyres on Building Community at OpenHPC
"As a community, we are excited about enabling HPC for everyone. If OpenHPC can really make it so easy to install HPC systems that more people join the ecosystem...
From insideHPC