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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 …
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Rich Graham Presents: The Exascale Architecture
Rich Graham presented this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Exascale levels of computing pose many system- and application- level computational challenges....
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Lenovo and Juniper Networks Partner for Next-gen Datacenter Infrastructure
"Lenovo is on a mission to become the market leader in datacenter solutions," said Gerry Smith, Lenovo executive vice president and chief operating officer, PCLenovo...
From My Biased Coin
David Johnson
I was sad to learn that David Johnson passed away. David was a leader in the theoretical computer science community for decades, both in his research and in his...
From Computational Complexity
David Johnson (1945-2016)
David Johnson, a leader and advocate for algorithms and all of theoretical computer science, passed away last night at the age of 70. A truly sad day for us all...
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Empowering Cloud Utilization with Cloud Bursting
Cloud computing has become a strong alternative to in house data centers for a large percentage of all enterprise needs. Most enterprises are adopting some form...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Ukraine's Power Grid
This is an excellent article on the December hack of Ukraine's power grid....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Try Not To Be Boring
Every morning while I eat breakfast I view a few things on the Internet. Dilbert is one of them. Sometimes I find things that apply to teachers as well as managers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictions for the IOT
From IOTCentral: Predictions from a number of players for 2016. Some insightful thoughts. By David Oro.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My Nonlinear Career Path
I've had a really nonlinear career path. One step forward, two step sideways, new goal, start it all again...My interest in computers started at a young age. IRoss...
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Women's Voices: A Reading List
While I have mixed feelings about celebrating the fact that women are often so underappreciated we need to set aside a day for honoring women, I'll use International...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Sloan on Work Behind Analytics Success
Beyond the Hype The Hard Work Behind Analytics SuccessWhy competitive advantage from analytics is declining and what to do about it(Full paper Requires registration...
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IBM Opens First Cloud Datacenter in South Africa
Today IBM that it is opening a new Cloud Data Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. The new cloud center is the result of a close collaboration with Gijima andIBM...
From Schneier on Security
Pirates Hack into Shipping Company's Database
A group of pirates -- the real kind -- determined which cargo to steal by hacking into a shipping company's database. Here's the report....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking advertising
In MediaDailyNews: ... Amazon is about to change how companies and agencies allocate global media budgets. That is a side effect of its move to build a different...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 7
Senate Committees hold hearings on the proposed budget request for fiscal year 2017. This week is a designated district work period for the House. Tuesday, March...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on DMCA Section 1201
USACM submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office for its study on the effectiveness of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the permanent and temporary...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series – Moshe Vardi
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a distinguished lecture on...
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Video: Ubercloud Workloads & Marketplace
"UberCloud specializes in running HPC workloads on a broad spectrum of infrastructures, anywhere from national centers to public Cloud services. This session will...
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Seagate Demonstrates 10 GB/sec SSD Flash Drive for OCP
Today Seagate unveiled a production-ready unit of the fastest single solid-state drive (SSD) demonstrated to date, with throughput performance of 10 gigabytes per...
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