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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
Technical Marketing is more than Speeds and Feeds
"Outside of a company’s product or service, the number one most important primary call-to-action elements for success are establishing marketing goals and messaging...
From insideHPC
DDN Rolls Out GRIDScalar GS14K High-Performance NAS
Today DDN introduced the "industry’s fastest and most flexible" scale-out network attached storage (NAS) solution. As the newest product in the DDN GRIDScaler product...
From insideHPC
Video: Superscalar Programming Models – Making Applications Platform Agnostic
"StarSs (Star superscalar) is a task-based family of programming models that is based on the idea of writing sequential code which is executed in parallel at run...
From insideHPC
Computer Aided Engineering Leaps Forward with HPC for Manufacturing
Manufacturing is enjoying an economic and technological resurgence with the help of high performance computing. In this insideHPC webinar, you’ll learn how theComputer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Digital Transformation Playbook
Brought to my attention by a correspondent at ColumbiaThe Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age (Columbia Business School Publishing)...
From Schneier on Security
Another FBI Filing on the San Bernardino iPhone Case
The FBI's reply to Apple is more of a character assassination attempt than a legal argument. It's as if it only cares about public opinion at this point. Although...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovating out of Commodity Traps
In Innovation Excellence:The commodity trap is a significant threat for manufacturers in premium market segments. It describes the tendency of competing products...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
A History of the New Math (and lessons for CS Ed)
Many of us remember the New Math from personal experience. I do from elementary school in the 1970s in West Hurley, NY. I loved it. I learned that the decimal system...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU's Robotic Nose
A long time challenge, a system that can detect and recognize aroma. We experimented in the area of coffee beans and blend classification, linked to optimizing...
From insideHPC
FlyElephant Platform Adds Private Repositories
flyelephantToday the FlyElephant announced a number of upgrades that allow users to work with private repositories with an improved system security and good task...
From Schneier on Security
Financial Cryptography 2016
Ross Anderson liveblogged this year's Financial Cryptography conference....
From insideHPC
A3Cube Announces Exa-Converged Parallel Systems
Today Italy's A3Cube announced the F-730 Family of EXA-Converged parallel systems built on Dell servers and achieving sub-microsecond latency through bare metal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Steps to Gamification
While there have been some useful gamified processes, it is often hard to understand how to proceed beyond just testing a number of options. Consider the steps...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH Talk- Privacy: Plural, Contextual, Contestable but not Unworkable
The next WATCH talk, called Privacy: Plural, Contextual, Contestable but not Unworkable is Thursday, March 17, 2016 from Noon-1pm EDT. The presenter is Deirdre...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chat as Interface
In Medium: Amusing thoughts. Chat and vocal interface can be very useful, but it is much harder to define, debug and direct than a classic user interface. ...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 14
House and Senate committees continue to hold FY17 hearings. Members face deadlines for programmatic and language submissions for consideration in FY17 appropriations...
From insideHPC
Mellanox & Cadence Demonstrate PCI Express 4.0 Multi-Lane PHY IP Interoperability
Today Cadence announced a collaboration with Mellanox Technologies to demonstrate multi-lane interoperability between Mellanox's physical interface (PHY) IP for...
From insideHPC
Elastic Computing Comes to Swiss University from ProfitBricks and Bright
Today Bright Computing announced that it has teamed up with the Germany-based ProfitBricks to provide a cutting edge elastic HPC solution to a Swiss University....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Nominations for 5th Annual FCC Chairman’s Awards for Advancement in Accessibility
Two weeks left for nominations for the 5th Annual FCC Chairman’s Awards for Advancement in Accessibility. The Chairman’s Awards aim to highlight and encourage innovation...
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