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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 insideHPC
Video: The Nvidia Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform
"Accelerated computing is transforming the data center that delivers unprecedented through- put, enabling new discoveries and services for end users. This talkVideo...
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Seeking Students and Instructors for the Blue Waters Intro to HPC Virtual Course
The Blue Waters project at the University of Illinois is offering a new graduate course entitled Introduction to High Performance Computing. The course will beSeeking...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What the heck is interesting research?
I have long advocated that the world would be better off if more people did research. But what the heck is research? In simple terms, I know of two types of interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Addressing the Supply Chain
We worked on early, optimization based uses of SAP data to improve the operation of the enterprise supply chain. Note the mention of constraint based systems,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH Talk- The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
The next WATCH talk, called The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work is Thursday, March 24, 2016 from Noon-1pm EDT. The presenter will be Phillip Rogaway, professor...
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Leveraging Internet of Things for Competitive Advantage
Leveraging the Internet of Things for Competitive AdvantageIn collaboration with Dell, Mar 22, 2016 Operations Management Partner Collaborations Global FocusNorth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Voice Interfaces
From Mindmeld. Registration information is required." ... Did you know predictions are that, by 2020, 50% of web searches will be done using voice queries? IfDownload...
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Andrew Grove Dies
We hosted Andrew Grove, former Intel Chairman and founder, to our innovation centers several times. A short bio in CACM.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Confirmation Bias
Via Linkedin: Have seen this kind of bias in many parts of the enterprise. On challenging the idea.
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Emerging Trends in Data Analytics
In DSC: On emerging trends in data analytics. " .... Data Science Central shared its predictions for 2016. More predictions can be found here. In this article,...
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Intel MPI Messaging Paper Wins ISC 2016 Hans Meuer Award
Today ISC 2016 announced that a research paper in the area of Message Passing Interface (MPI) performance, has been selected to receive the 2016 Hans Meuer Award...
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Tutorial on Deep Learning
Zaikun Xu from the Università della Svizzera Italiana presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "In the past decade, deep learning as a life-changing...
From Schneier on Security
Observations on the Surveillance that Resulted in the Capture of Salah Abdeslam
Interesting analysis from The Grugq: Bottom Line Up Front Intelligence agencies must cooperate more rapidly and proactively to counter ISIS' rapid and haphazard...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Post Number 1000
About two weeks ago I realized that I was approaching 1,000 posts on this blog. Most of these have come in the last three and a half years since I left Microsoft...
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Seagate and LANL to Heat Up Data Archiving For Supercomputers
Seagate Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory are researching a new storage tier to enable massive data archiving for supercomputing. The joint effort is...
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Liquid Cooling Doubles Compute Capacity at Cascade Technologies
Today CoolIT Systems announced it has enabled Cascade Technologies to increase their compute density by 2.5 times within their existing floor space, rack space,...
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High-Performance and Scalable Designs of Programming Models for Exascale Systems
DK Panda from Ohio State University presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "This talk will focus on challenges in designing runtime environments...
From insideHPC
Cooling Today’s Hot New Processors
Expected later in 2016, Intel will be releasing production versions of its Knights Landing (KNL) 72-core coprocessor. These next generation coprocessors are impacting...
From Schneier on Security
iMessage Encryption Flaw Found and Fixed
Matthew Green and team found and reported a significant iMessage encryption flaw last year. Green suspected there might be a flaw in iMessage last year after he...
From The Eponymous Pickle