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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 insideHPC
Poznan Launches Eagle Supercomputer with Liquid Cooling from CoolIT Systems
Today CoolIT Systems announced that it has successfully completed the second deployment of its Rack DCLC liquid cooling solution at the Poznan Supercomputing and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An Online Community for CS Teachers Using Microsoft Tools
One thing I am constantly looking to do is to learn from other computer science teachers. There are some good online communities for this purpose. I’m a memberhttp...
From Schneier on Security
Security vs. Surveillance
Both the "going dark" metaphor of FBI Director James Comey and the contrasting "golden age of surveillance" metaphor of privacy law professor Peter Swire focus...
From insideHPC
LLNL Teams with Industry to Advance Energy Technologies using HPC
Today Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced the selection of six industry projects for the advancement of energy technologies using high performance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Benefits of the Data Lake
In DSC: Overview of major benefits of Data Lakes. " ... And in nutshell Data Lake is a data store and processing data system, where an organization can place...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The 2016 Knuth Prize
A non-annoucement annoucement Crop from Farkas Prize src Michel Goemans is the chair of this year’s ACM/IEEE Knuth Prize committee. He teaches at MIT and among...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gimball Drones in Ice Caves
This piece in IEEE Spectrum shows the use of a Flyability Gimball drone being flown in an ice cave. Impressive video, that shows how the drone can survive collisions...
From Schneier on Security
Paper on the Going Dark Debate
I am pleased to have been a part of this report, part of the Berkman Center's Berklett Cybersecurity project: Don't Panic: Making Progress on the "Going Dark" Debate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
We Don't Understand the Language of the Brain
Despite all the success in artificial neural networks for pattern recognition, we still don't understand how the brain works. A number of efforts are underway...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Freezers Reading your Emotions?
A retail freezer reading your emotions? " ... Then there's a grocery store freezer case that can help you decide what you want to buy by reading your facial expression...
From insideHPC
High Performance Computing for Energy Project Kicks off at BSC
High Performance Computing for Energy (HPC4E) project officially launched this week with a kick-off meeting for partners at the Barcelona Supercomputing CenterHigh...
From insideHPC
John Zannos to Chair OpenPOWER Foundation
Today the OpenPOWER Foundation announced the election of John Zannos from Canonical as Chair and Calista Redmond from IBM as President of the OpenPOWER Foundation...
From Putting People First
The secret UX issues that will make (or break) self-driving cars
In an unassuming research lab, Volkswagen is solving problems that Tesla and Google haven’t come close to cracking. Cliff Kuang reports for Fast Company. In his...
From insideHPC
Video: Storage Architecture for Innovation & Research at the University of Florida
In this video from the DDN booth at SC15, Dr. Erik Deumens of the University of Florida describes why unpredictable and less standard architectures and system configurations...
From Putting People First
Do patients really want to be empowered?
Katherine Benjamin, digital services manager at NHS England, asks some clever questions in this Medium piece: “Digital health services and wearable technologies...
From insideHPC
Seismic Processing Places High Demand on Storage
Oil and gas exploration is always a challenging endeavor, and with today's large risks and rewards, optimizing the process is of critical importance. A whole range...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Querying Historical Maps as a Unified, Structured, and Linked Spatiotemporal Source
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Yao-Yi Chiang from the University of Southern California. His Querying Historical Maps as a Unified, Structured, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nokia and IOT Security
In CWorld: " ... The NetGuard platform is designed to monitor and control all the security components on a network .... The company's NetGuard Security Management...
From insideHPC
DDN WOS Object Storage Wins 2016 Storage Visions Award
Today DDN announced that its WOS 360 v2.0 object storage software was named a Visionary Product in the Professional Class Storage category at the fifteenth Annual...
From The Eponymous Pickle