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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Biology and computing are more alike than you think…
Biological systems are seemingly of infinite complexity. We still don’t know what a heart attack is, not really. Despite billions spent, we still don’t know what...
From ACM on Huffington Post
Computer Science Education in the Age of CS for All
For many individuals and organizations, having CS education raised to the level of being a national priority is a dream come true.
From Schneier on Security
Possible Government Demand for WhatsApp Backdoor
The New York Times is reporting that WhatsApp, and its parent company Facebook, may be headed to court over encrypted chat data that the FBI can't decrypt. This...
From insideHPC
Students: Apply for ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational & Data Science Fellowships
Submissions opened today for ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational & Data Science Fellowships. Designed to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Maple Syrup and Coding For Fun
It’s maple syrup time in New Hampshire where I live. My wife and I with some help from the neighbor kid decided it was time we got in on the fun. So we bought some...![[Book] The Smarter Screen](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] The Smarter Screen
The Smarter Screen: Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behavior by Shlomo Benartzi Penguin Random House October 2015, 256 pages A leading behavioral...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
One Flip Sends Many Bits
Another coins on a chessboard puzzle Cropped from Ashley’s TwiCopy source Hou Yifan and Maurice Ashley are champions of chess in several senses. Hou just regained...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finally Leveraging 30 Years of Knowledge in AI?
In the Enterprise we talked to Cyc for potential application in the enterprise, but at the time there were no clear applications. Cyc is an attempt to recordIn...
From insideHPC
Inaugural Dell HPC Community Meeting Coming to Austin April 18-21
"This meeting is open to all Dell HPC customers and partners. During the event, we will establish the Dell HPC Community as an independent, worldwide technicalInaugural...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Computer Science for All
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose and NSF Assistant Director...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McD's First Loyalty Program
A first .. McDonalds to join the App based loyalty programs. " ... Nation's Restaurant News noted that McDonald's has been building up its digital team to better...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Learning Methods for Neural Networks
We used mostly error back propagation. How will this influence new methods being used for classification? Technical, worth a deeper look in the linked paper.In...
From Schneier on Security
Punishment and Trust
Interesting research: "Third-party punishment as a costly signal of trustworthiness, by Jillian J. Jordan, Moshe Hoffman, Paul Bloom,and David G. Rand, Nature:...
From insideHPC
Video: The National Strategic Computing Initiative
"U.S. President Obama signed an Executive Order creating the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) on July 31, 2015. In the order, he directed agencies...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Better Know a Committee – 2016 edition
The CSTA Board of Directors is a working board. Board members work closely with the Executive Director to articulate the vision for the organization, plan initiatives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Caution with the Statistical P Value
Statistical measures like P-Values and R Squares are dragged out to prove a number of things. But caution should be considered. This Nature article does a good...
From insideHPC
Cyber Dyne’s KIMEME Software Comes to Penguin On Demand
Today Penguin Computing announced the availability Cyber Dyne’s KIMEME software on the POD public HPC cloud service. "It’s now possible to submit and manage large...
From insideHPC
Brookhaven Lab is the latest Nvidia GPU Research Center
Today Nvidia announced that Brookhaven National Laboratory has been named a 2016 GPU Research Center. "The center will enable Brookhaven Lab to collaborate with...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Artificial intelligence is mostly a matter of computational power?
Unless you live under a rock, you should know by now that AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence, has beaten a world champion at the game of Go. After Tic Tac Toe,...
From insideHPC