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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 Putting People First
Making the business case for user experience
In the ‘age of the customer’, IT leaders should be paying particular attention to the growing business case for UX testing and research, writes Chloe Green in Information...
From insideHPC
AweSim Project at OSC to Advance Welding Simulation with HPC4Mfg
Today the AweSim program at the Ohio Supercomputer Center announced it has been selected to develop one of 10 national industry projects under the DOE High Performance...
From Putting People First
UX methodologies for pharmaceutical companies
PMLiVE, the news site for the pharmaceutical industry, is quite outspoken on the need for UX and customer experience methodologies in the pharmaceutical industry...
From insideHPC
Podcast: John Gustafson on What’s Next for Parallel Computing
In this podcast from Radio New Zealand, John Gustafson from the A*STAR Agency for Science, Technology and Research discusses parallelism and high performance computing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Shwetak Patel Named Extraordinary Early-Career Scientist by President Obama
President Obama has named 105 researchers recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. This is the highest honor bestowed by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Cloud Vision for Image Tagging
Spent quite a bit of time looking at at the problem of recognizing and tagging images for marketing applications. It turned out to be a key requirement for systems...
From Wild WebMink
Joining The Document Foundation Board
At the end of 2015 I was honoured to be elected to serve as a director of The Document Foundation — the charity that develops LibreOffice — for two years. The new...
From Schneier on Security
Security Implications of Cash
I saw two related stories today. The first is about high-denomination currency. The EU is considering dropping its 500-euro note, on the grounds that only criminals...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
LitDev (little developer) extension for Small Basic
People using Small Basic may be interested in the LitDev (little developer) extension for Small Basic. They add a lot of functionality to the language and open...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE's Big Bet on Data and Analytics
MIT Sloan: GE’s Big Bet on Data and AnalyticsSeeking opportunities in the Internet of Things, GE expands into industrial analytics.February 18, 2016 by Laura Winig...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats a Security Graph?
So whats a security graph? " ... Data visualization is a booming segment of the big data job market, and it’s found an obvious foothold in security. The requirement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mind Palaces
The topic of Mind Palaces have come up often as plot points on memory problem oriented TV programs. Could you have ever guessed there were many of these? How...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Things you have probably not seen coming…
The world changes but we often do not pay attention. Did you see these changes coming? Paper dictionaries being good as door stoppers and not much else. Major conservative...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam March 22-23!
The Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam date has been set! It will take place at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Gaithersburg...
From insideHPC
GE & DOE Partner on HPC4Mfg Projects
Today GE Global Research announced that it has been awarded two projects under the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) High Performance Computing for Manufacturing...
From insideHPC
SC16 Student Volunteers Program now Accepting Applications
Applications are now being accepted for the Student Volunteers Program at the SC16 conference. As the premier international conference for high performance computing...
From insideHPC
Advanced Hands-On OpenCL Tutorial To Kick-Off IWOCL 2016
Registration is now open for the Advanced Hands-On OpenCL Tutorial at the IWOCL 2016 conferernce. The tutorial focuses on advanced OpenCL concepts and is an extension...
From insideHPC
HPC Podcast Looks at Intel’s Pending Distribution of Python
In this HPC Podcast, Don Kinhorn and Chris Stevens from Puget Systems discuss the boom in FPGAs at SC15 as well as Intel’s announcement that the company is going...
From Putting People First
By studying underserved communities, Microsoft wants to improve UX for everyone
August de los Reyes came to a new understanding of design after thinking about (and experiencing) disability. Disability, writes Cliff Kuang (who interviewed him)...
From insideHPC