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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
Students: Get your Team Together for the SC16 Student Cluster Competition
Students interested in demonstrating their high-performance computing skills on a global stage are invited to team up and sign up to compete in the tenth annual...
From Putting People First
Why We Post: social media through the eyes of the world
Nine UCL anthropologists spent fifteen months living in nine communities around the world, researching the role, uses and consequences of social media in people’s...
From insideHPC
Red Bull Racing Speeds Simulation with ANSYS
Today the Red Bull Racing Formula One team announced an extended agreement with ANSYS. The team uses ANSYS' simulation software to optimize its vehicle design enhancements...
From insideHPC
A Look at HPC and Hyperscale Trends for 2016
"In this talk, Intersect360 Research returns with an annual deep dive into the trends, technologies and usage models that will be propelling the HPC community through...
From insideHPC
Brocade Launches Industry-First Gen 6 Fibre Channel Switch
Today Brocade announced the industry’s first Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch for storage networking. The Brocade G620 is a high-density SAN switch that delivers breakthrough...
From insideHPC
Interview with Bill Wagner, CEO of Bright Computing
In this video, Bill Wagner of Bright Computing, describes what attracted him to join the company as CEO and what's ahead for system management software. "Bright...
From insideHPC
CFMS Joins Hyperflux++ Project to Advance CFD
Today the Centre for Modeling & Simulation (CFMS) in the UK announced it will be taking part in a follow-on to the Hyperflux project. "Hyperflux ++ builds on the...
From Putting People First
How semiotic ethnography solved the riddle: What do chronic pain patients want?
In this article Laura S. Oswald discusses the advantages of semiotic research methods for decoding consumer experiences and translating them into marketing strategy...
From Schneier on Security
Lots More Writing about the FBI vs. Apple
I have written two posts on the case, and at the bottom of those essays are lots of links to other essays written by other people. Here are more links. If you read...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Geoffrey Hinton on Deep Learning
Thoughtfully done short, non technical interview on the topic. with Google's AI and Deep Learning 'Godfather' Geoffrey Hinton. We worked with neural nets in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Days, Weeks, Months, and Leap Years
Yesterday was Leap Day – 29 February – a day which only comes along once every four years. Or so. It’s actually more complicated than that which we’ll get to in...
From Putting People First
[Research paper] Do Europeans Like Nudges?
Do Europeans Like Nudges? By Lucia A. Reisch (Copenhagen Business School) and Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School) 29 February 2016, 37 pages Available at SSRN...
From Putting People First
Singapore’s main newspaper on Experientia’s design with the elderly
Arti Mulchand reports in the Straits Times, Singapore’s main newspaper, on Experientia’s “Design for Ageing Gracefully” project: Putting faces to end-users early...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How the Brain Computes the Mind
In the Edge. Does the brain compute the mind? by Ed Boydon. " ... How can we truly understand how the brain is computing the mind? Over the last 100 years, neuroscience...
From insideHPC
Cray Appoints Fred Kohout as Chief Marketing Officer
"Fred brings to Cray a proven track record of building strategic partnerships and increasing sales through a customer-centric view of the market,” said Peter Ungaro...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turn Your Coke Packaging into a VR Viewer
More engagement with Virtual Reality . Will this drive the acceptance of VR as interface? In Fortune: You can’t buy the world a Coke, but maybe you could see the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 29
The House Appropriations Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee will hold budget hearings this week. Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Hearing: The Encryption Tightrope...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My next bet: VR is going to take off in the next 3 years…
You have probably heard of virtual-reality (VR) headsets. Three of them are coming out this year: Facebook’s Occulus Rift, HTV Vive and the PlayStation VR. Moreover...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Seeks Public Comments on the Use of Randomness to Protect Data
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking public comment on draft design principles and requirements for randomness in cryptography and...
From My Biased Coin