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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
More on Feature Selection
A favorite topic of mine, and I believe the most important introductory aspect of analytic modeling.Here in DSC. It is very important to get feature selection...
From Schneier on Security
Practical TEMPEST Attack
Four researchers have demonstrated a TEMPEST attack against a laptop, recovering its keys by listening to its electrical emanations. The cost for the attack hardware...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC White Paper- Accelerating Science: A Computing Research Agenda
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Convergence of Data and Computing Task Force, led by CCC Council Members Vasant G. Honavar from Pennsylvania State University...
From insideHPC
Obama Proposes to Increase NIST Budget
The US Department of Commerce has released details of the President’s budget request for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2017 – proposing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Don’t beat them, make them irrelevant
Back in the early 2000s, I was a given an expert report that outlined the future of computing. Regarding software, the report foresaw the absolute and uncontested...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why you Need Predictive Analytics Today
Nicely done piece about the need for predictive analytics. IBM sponsored. By PredictionImpact. You may need to register. Good statistics and thoughts. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Doug Engelbart on Human Augmentation
Was pointed via this piece in CSI. Fascinating piece I was reminded of. Doug Engelbart on a framework for human augmentation. We looked at this, but could...
From insideHPC
Video: Introduction to the Euroserver for Green Computing
"EUROSERVER is an ambitious and holistic project aimed to arm Europe with leading technology for conquering the new markets of cloud computing. Data-centers form...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Role of the Futurist in Retail
On the role of the futurist in retail and grocery. A role I played in the innovation center when we looked for new ideas to test.
From insideHPC
Florida Atlantic University Selects Bright Cluster Manager for HPC
Today Florida Atlantic University (FAU) announced that it is using Bright Cluster Manager software for its HPC cluster. The 56-node cluster is used for teaching...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at the Case of the Encrypted iPhone
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Apple's fight against a court order to decrypt an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. "The Radio...
From Putting People First
Behavioural Insights applied to policy – European Report 2016
Behavioural Insights Applied to Policy: Overview across 32 European Countries Publications Office of the European Union February 2016 56 pages The Report covers...
From insideHPC
FORTISSIMO 2 Call for Proposals: HPC-Cloud-based Application Experiments
Today, the Fortissimo 2 consortium of 38 partners has announced the launch of its first Open Call for Proposals. The project is funding a set of experiments (sub...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scatter Plots for Big Data and Scagnostics
The simplest form of data visualization. Scatter plots. Sounds obvious, but understanding how people react to many, many variable problems can be important...
From The Eponymous Pickle
City Design in the Self Drive era
Always interested in the difference between very specific infrastructure design and how it evolves based on use and need. Here an example where cities may need...
From Computational Complexity
What is a `previous publication'?
Here are the guidelines about submission to STOC 2015 with regard to submitting a prior published paper. I assume that most of the Theory Conferences have a similar...
From Schneier on Security
Decrypting an iPhone for the FBI
Earlier this week, a federal magistrate ordered Apple to assist the FBI in hacking into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Apple will fight...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 February 2016
It’s likely to be quite on this blog this week. My school in on February vacation. I was pretty busy getting a lot of things done last week so I could enjoy this...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP