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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
Internet 2 Rethought
Happened to be at a presentation announcing the launch of Internet 2, and admit I have not thought about it for years. Not really an advanced internet, but an...
From Schneier on Security
Resilient Systems News: IBM to Buy Resilient Systems
Today, IBM announced its intention to purchase my company, Resilient Systems. (Yes, the rumors were basically true.) I think this is a great development for Resilient...
From insideHPC
Video: Node Health Check (NHC) Project Update
In this video from the 2016 Stanford HPC Conference, Michael Jennings from LBNL presents: Node Health Check (NHC) Project Update. "In this follow-up to his 2014...
From insideHPC
Code Modernization for Smarter Geophysics
Today Allinea announced plans to champion what it sees as a key survival message for the Energy industry when it exhibits at the Rice Oil and Gas HPC Conference...
From insideHPC
Adaptive Computing steps up with High Productivity Remote Visualization
Today Adaptive Computing announced it has integrated Remote Visualization with Moab’s workload submission portal, Viewpoint, in order to improve ease-of-use and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Networks of Parked Cars Could Save Your Life
Suggesting that parked cars, acting as a network of computing systems and sensors, could play an infrastructure role as part of the Internet of Things. Why parked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Consumer Value Equation
We were proponents of using a 'consumer value equation'. Still relevant, but it has been suggested that there are value drivers that are evolving more rapidlyIn...
From insideHPC
Video: Using HPC to Advance Water Desalination By Electrodialysis
"Electrodialysis is a technology used for water purification in applications such as desalination for drinking water, waste water reuse, and demineralization. An...
From insideHPC
Industry Experts Discuss Accelerating Science with Storage Systems Research
In this special guest feature, Ken Strandberg describes the highlights of panel discussion on high performance storage at SC15. "There was significant discussion...
From Computational Complexity
It works in practice, but does it work in theory (Pollard's Factorization algorithm)
Throughout this post I ignore polylog factors. It is trivial to factor N in time N1/2. Pollard's rho-algorithm (see my write up here or Wikipedia Entry) for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HoloLens Developer Hardware Specs
In theVerge: Good to see more specifications for developers, also for innovators considering applications but still no much new with regard to realistic commercial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Feature Engineering
Correspondent Jason Maughan of PurePredictive sends along a Beta of some work he is doing on feature engineering. Based on Kaggle experience. As I have always...
From Schneier on Security
More on the "Data as Exhaust" Metaphor
Research paper: Gavin J.D. Smith, "Surveillance, Data and Embodiment: On the Work of Being Watched," Body and Society, January 2016. Abstract: Today's bodies are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 February 2016
February break is over. I’m not actually in school today as I am working with one of the writing teams working on a framework for K-12 Computer Science Education...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Writing the K12 CS Framework
Like most classroom teachers I really hate missing class time with my students. So I’m pretty deliberate about the time that I do miss. I’m missing the next two...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Neural Network Determines Image Location
A superhuman capability? Certainly in volume of recollection. Applications? Retail product location? Advertising analysis when linked to neural or behavioral...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How will Innovation Save P&G?
In the Enquirer: I worked in the innovation space there for a number of years. Good article on whats up publicly, mostly in product as opposed to operational...
From insideHPC
STEM IP – Advancing HPC, Industry & Society
"When it comes to commercialization of promising IP, HPC punches below its weight. That, we can and should change. Where does the HPC community get training onSTEM...
From insideHPC
Will the Cloud Change Scientific Computing?
"What is important to researchers is ‘time to science,’ not the length of time a job takes to compute. 'If you can wait in line at a national supercomputing center...
From The Eponymous Pickle