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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 Schneier on Security
The Mathematics of Conspiracy
This interesting study tries to build a mathematical model for the continued secrecy of conspiracies, and tries to predict how long before they will be revealed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering an Internet of Trees
Worked in the pulp and paper industry for a few years, so this is of interest. At the time we used satellite images, and I can see how this could be linked to...
From insideHPC
Video: Introduction to RISC-V
Mellanox announced today that it has joined the RISC-V foundation as a Founding Platinum Sponsor. The RISC-V foundation promotes the open RISC-V instruction set...
From Putting People First
User research to improve public-government interactions in the U.S.
The U.S. federal government needs to improve how it interacts with the public. Enter the Federal Front Door, an initiative to improve public-government interactions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On AI and the Future of Civilization
Stephen Wolfram on AI and the future of civilization in the Edge. Conversation and lengthy transcript. More philosophical that I expected, but worth a hear.wolfram...
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Partners with France-based Alineos
"Alineos clients are keen to simplify the installation of HPC, big data and OpenStack, and then blend these environments into a single view," said Clemens Engler...
From insideHPC
Interview: ISC Cloud Absorbs into ISC High Performance
Registration opened today for the ISC 2016 conference, which takes place June 19-23 in Frankfurt. This year, the ISC 2016 conference program features an increased...
From insideHPC
DDN Leads 2015 TOP500 List of Global Supercomputing Centers
“DDN’s selection for seven consecutive years as strategic partner and storage vendor of choice by the overwhelming majority of supercomputer centers on the Top500...
From insideHPC
SGI Update: Zero Copy Architecture (ZCA)
"In high performance computing, data sets are increasing in size and workflows are growing in complexity. Additionally, it is becoming too costly to have copies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytellers Secrets
From PreziPresentation expert Carmine Gallo has created an amazing prezi about how some of the best storytellers do what they do. From Richard Branson to Malala...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Aviation Week Opens its Vault
My recent increased interest in technical aviation history sees this:" ... To celebrate its 100th year in publication, Aviation Week magazine opened up its vault...
From Computational Complexity
Changing This Ancient Art Into a Science
The ACM announced yesterday that they will award the 2015 Turing Award to Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman for contributions to modern cryptography. The Turing...
From Schneier on Security
Company Tracks Iowa Caucusgoers by their Cell Phones
It's not just governments. Companies like Dstillery are doing this too: "We watched each of the caucus locations for each party and we collected mobile device ID's...
From insideHPC
Monash University Joins NVIDIA Technology Centre Asia Pacific
Today Monash University announced that it has become the first spoke of the NVIDIA Technology Centre Asia Pacific. With its hub is in Singapore, the NVIDIA Southeast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Playful City Designs
Not only practical design, but how about playful design? Here a UK effort on the idea. Not gamification dynamics in the sense of competition, but promoting curiosity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Video AI
More plans to roll AI into commonly used software:I’m going to make Facebook’s AI predict what happens in videos.... Facebook unveiled several artificial intelligence...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NSF Partnership with the Semiconductor Research Corporation on Energy-Efficient Computing
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Sankar Basu, National Science Foundation (NSF) Program Director for Computing and Communication Foundations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A comment on Faulty Measurement : Ads that no one Sees
I recall being told about this odd fact. That measurement of online viewing of Adverts has by its nature been very wrong, and this creates some unexpected results...
From Schneier on Security
WikiLeaks Publishes NSA Target List
As part of an ongoing series of classified NSA target list and raw intercepts, WikiLeaks published details of the NSA's spying on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon...
From The Eponymous Pickle