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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
Benefits of Design Thinking for Innovation
In Linkedin: " ... Design thinking is all about creating something from ground zero. You start with a clean slate, not with a baggage of something that already...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft's Data Science Startups
In Geekwire: Meet the 10 machine learning and data science startups in Microsoft’s Seattle Accelerator By Taylor Soper. An indication of directions to come.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Statistics is overrated: the rise of data science
With the industrial and scientific revolutions, we saw the rise of enormous bureaucracies collecting reliable numbers. For the first time in history, we could ask...
From insideHPC
Video: Reproducibility in High Performance Computing
Ensuring reliability and reproducibility in computational research raises unique challenges in the supercomputing context. Specialized architectures, extensiveVideo...
From Schneier on Security
DROWN Attack
Earlier this week, we learned of yet another attack against SSL/TLS where an attacker can force people to use insecure algorithms. It's called DROWN. Here's a good...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cryptography Pioneers Receive 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) congratulates Whitfield Diffie, former Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems and Martin E. Hellman, Professor Emeritus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Started with Google Analytics
A nice piece from CIO that forms an introduction to Google Web Analytics. Its actually a good way to start thinking about how to use analytical data if you have...
From insideHPC
OCF Deploys 181 Teraflop “Grace” HPC Cluster at University College London
Researchers from across University College London are now benefitting from "Grace," a new 181 Teraflop HPC system named in honor of pioneering computer scientist...
From insideHPC
HPC Finally Climbing to the Cloud
"Although commerce and consumers have been computing in the cloud for years, the high-performance computing sector has been more hesitant. But all that may nowHPC...
From insideHPC
EXTOLL Deploys Immersion Cooled Compute Booster at Jülich
Today Extoll, the German HPC innovation company, announced that is has it has successfully implemented its new GreenICE immersion cooling system at the JülichEXTOLL...
From insideHPC
PreFetch for Intel Xeon Phi – Part 2
"An interesting aspect to prefetching is the distance ahead of the data that is being used to prefetch more data. This is a critical parameter for success and can...
From insideHPC
Video: Multi-Host Containerized Clusters – Using Docker Networking To Spin-Up SLURM
"With Docker v1.9 a new networking system was introduced, which allows multi-host networking to work out-of-the-box in any Docker environment. This talk provides...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo as Assistant in Business
Have been testing the Echo in home for a year. It is my most used smart home device, by a long margin. Even ranks high in usage as a home entertainment device....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Billboards Tracking Cellphones
In CACM: Linking to an article in NPR. This was a method we looked at some time ago, in particular how it could be used to adapt advertising in retail. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Aesthetics and Deep Learning
Understanding aesthetics with Deep Learning. A test of using deep learning neural nets to determine the aesthetics of photographic images.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insight Mapping
By Barbara Fillip of NASA" ... Insight mapping is a variation of concept mapping that focuses on eliciting and documenting insights from any given event, activity...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities in Wireless Keyboards
Many wireless keyboards have a security vulnerability that allow someone to hack the computer using the keyboard-computer link. (Technical details here.) An attacker...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Xperia Agent
A product that will challenge the Amazon Echo? In Business Insider: " ... Sony showed off a prototype of its Experia Agent, a smart home that would compete with...
From insideHPC
OrionX Appoints Big Data & HPC Expert Dan Olds as Partner
Pioneering a new consulting services model for strategy, marketing, and PR, OrionX today announced the appointment of Dan Olds as partner. Our clients value OrionX...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog