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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
Eavesdropping by the Foscam Security Camera
Brian Krebs has a really weird story about the build-in eavesdropping by the Chinese-made Foscam security camera: Imagine buying an internet-enabled surveillance...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter- Fostering the Development of the National Brain Observatory
On April 2, 2013, President Obama launched the Brain Research though Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative as a bold new research effort to...
From insideHPC
ANSYS Simulation Technology Speeds ORECA Race Car Design
"Reliability and accuracy are crucial when it comes to developing successful cars," said David Floury, Technical Director of ORECA. "ANSYS is a key player in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sleep Apps by J&J
An area we examined as well, long before the era of mobile Apps. In Adage: " ... How J&J Research Led From Bath-Time to a Mobile Sleep App -- and More Products...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 22
The House Appropriations Committee is holding 26 budget and oversight hearings this week. All open hearings will be webcast. Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Hearing:...
From Schneier on Security
Research on Balancing Privacy with Surveillance
Interesting research: Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth, Zhiewi Steven Wu, and Grigory Yaroslavtsev, "Private algorithms for the protected in social network search," PNAS...
From insideHPC
Exascale Architectures: Evolution or Revolution?
In this special guest feature, Earl Joseph from IDC describes his SC15 panel where four HPC luminaries discussed, disputed, and divined the path to exascale computing...
From Writing
Splitting Up a Codebase into Microservices and Artifacts
I did a Q&A on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog on techniques for splitting up a codebase: Splitting Up a Codebase into Microservices and Artifacts
From insideHPC
AI Expert Gill Pratt from Toyota to Keynote GPU Technology Conference
Today Nvidia announced Gill Pratt, one of the world’s leading figures in artificial intelligence will deliver a keynote at the GPU Technology Conference in Silicon...
From Schneier on Security
The Ads vs. Ad Blockers Arms Race
For the past month or so, Forbes has been blocking browsers with ad blockers. Today, I tried to access a Wired article and the site blocked me for the same reason...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clareo
Chatted with some of these folks recently, interesting group ..." ... At Clareo our mission is to help businesses adapt and grow.We help leaders adapt their businesses...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting More Girls in Computer Science is Easy
It seems like one “silver bullet” after another keeps popping up to solve the computer science diversity problem. Today’s solution was drones. Yes, drones. Gary...
From insideHPC
IBM Cleversafe Brings Object-Based Storage Services to the Cloud
“One of the biggest challenges enterprises face today is the massive growth of data, fueled by cloud, mobile, IoT, analytics, social media, cognitive and otherIBM...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Completes Acquisition of EZchip
"As our largest ever acquisition, we are confident the integrated teams of EZchip and Mellanox can deliver future value to our shareholders,” said Eyal Waldman,...
From insideHPC
DDN Announces New Patents in Object Storage
Today DDN announced it has been awarded additional patents for its groundbreaking WOS Object Storage software. DDN’s WOS enables organizations to deploy highlyDDN...
From insideHPC
Interview: Victor Eijkhout on an Integrative Model for Parallelism
The Integrative Model for Parallelism at TACC is a new development in parallel programming. It allows for high level expression of parallel algorithms, giving efficient...
From insideHPC
BeeGFS Parallel File System Goes Open Source
Today ThinkParQ announced that the complete BeeGFS parallel file system is now available as open source. Developed specifically for performance-critical environments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Swift for the Enterprise
In CWorld: What appears to be be a plus for Apple in the enterprise. " ... IBM calls the move a “key next step in IBM and Apple’s shared journey to help enterprises...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disruption in the Auto Industry
Good overview in McKinsey." ... Technology-driven trends will revolutionize how industry players respond to changing consumer behavior, develop partnerships, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle