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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Magic To Do
Can we avoid accepting what we cannot verify? Cropped from biography source Arthur Clarke was a British writer of great breadth and huge impact. He was a science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Intelligence in Business
Some statistics about the re-emergence of AI in Business. As pioneers of the use of AI in business, we have also started to see many queries asking: Is this...
From insideHPC
Ellexus Launches Mistral Software for Balancing Shared Storage across HPC Clusters
Today Ellexus in the UK announced the release of Mistral, a "ground breaking" product for balancing shared storage across a high performance computing cluster.Ellexus...
From insideHPC
Video: Meet IME – The World’s First Burst Buffer
"DDN’s IME14K revolutionizes how information is saved and accessed by compute. IME software allows data to reside next to compute in a very fast, shared pool of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Testing Data Viz at Superbowl
In InformationWeek: SAP Uses Super Bowl 50 To Test Data Visualization, UX ... SAP's Fan Energy Zone in San Francisco's Super Bowl 50 celebrations is a giant test...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Knitting Pattern
Surprisingly realistic for a knitted stuffed animal....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft to buy Swiftkey
In Fortune: When I first read this, I remembered seeing Swiftkey demonstrated. Though I never had it on one of my own devices, the aha came quickly. Quickly...
From insideHPC
Video: Altera’s Stratix 10 – 14nm FPGA Targeting 1GHz Performance
altera2In this video from the 2015 Hot Chips Conference, Mike Hutton from Altera presents: Stratix 10 Altera’s 14nm FPGA Targeting 1GHz Performance. "Stratix 10...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hidden Science Behind Superbowl Ads. Neuroscience?
In Adage: Lots about behavioral science to understand top ads, but no mention of neuroscience. Consumer behavior is different than neural behavior. Recall that...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Information Technologist at ICER at Michigan State
ICER at Michigan State is seeking an Information Technologist in our Job of the Week. "As a joint appointment between Michigan State University’s Information Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hololens Competition
Always want to see real commercial and industrial applications of augmented (now being called mixed reality) applications. Here the results of an App competition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brains Showing Way to Machine Learning
In Technology Review. Taking more hints from nature. Although I disagree that its a complete way to do computer programming. People still make sequential decision...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making and Flying Complex Devices
A new jet engine takes a certification flight. Article in GE's Bikeshop. My new experiences show how complex the development, delivery and use of a jet engines...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Research Open Source Challenge
Now this is interesting. Not often you think of Microsoft and Open Source in the same sentence. Although it does seem to be happening more and more often. Thishttp...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding API Ecosystems
In the CACM: Revealing the API Ecosystem and Enterprise Strategy via Visual Analytics. Valuable insights can be gained by applying visual analytic techniques...
From Apophenia
It’s not Cyberspace anymore
It’s been 20 years — 20 years!? — since John Perry Barlow wrote “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” — a rant in response to the government and corporate...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Reorganizing
The NSA is undergoing a major reorganization, combining its attack and defense sides into a single organization: In place of the Signals Intelligence and Information...
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for HPC User Forum in Tucson, April 11-13
IDC has published the agenda for their next HPC User Forum. The event will take place April 11-13 in Tucson, AZ. "Don't miss the chance to hear top experts on these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail with AI and Retail
Interesting idea, but still too complex. Simple still works well. With new tech, see yourself on a mountain top from a store floor, or browse store aisles from...
From XRDS