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Inside Stephen Hawking's Head
From The Eponymous Pickle

Inside Stephen Hawking's Head

Climb Inside Stephen Hawking's Head in BBC's Stunning FilmInside His Head, which is on the BBC website, imagines a journey inside Hawking's mind and combines clips...

Friday Squid Blogging: Polynesian Squid Hook
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Polynesian Squid Hook

From 1909, for squid fishing. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....

Encryption Backdoor Comic
From Schneier on Security

Encryption Backdoor Comic

"Support our Snoops."...

Disruption from 3D Printing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Disruption from 3D Printing

In McKinsey:  " ... 3-D printing takes shape ... Additive manufacturing is evolving quickly. Senior executives should begin preparing for five disruptions that...

Only Humans Need Apply. Davenport and Kirby on Smart Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Only Humans Need Apply. Davenport and Kirby on Smart Machines

Attended an MIT Webinar covering the topic of the forthcoming book:Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines   – Available May 24,...

Getting IOT Speaking the Same Language
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting IOT Speaking the Same Language

In O'Reilly: How do we ultimately get all IOT systems to speak the same language?   A good, generally non technical exploration.

Making Digital for the Analog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Digital for the Analog

In K@W: Interesting view of the topic.  How can we be digital when we are ultiamtely analog?" ... Deftly managing the duality of analog and digital operations is...

Server Radiators to Power Cloud from DATA4 Group & Qarnot Computing
From insideHPC

Server Radiators to Power Cloud from DATA4 Group & Qarnot Computing

Today European datacenter specialist DATA4 Group and Qarnot Computing announced a new type of distributed computing system that offers "greener and more efficient...

Bright Computing Receives Horizon 2020 Grant for Advancing System Management Technology
From insideHPC

Bright Computing Receives Horizon 2020 Grant for Advancing System Management Technology

Today Bright Computing announced it has been awarded a grant of more than 1.5 million Euros by the European Commission under its Horizon 2020 program. The grant...

Apply Now for Supercomputing Summer School
From insideHPC

Apply Now for Supercomputing Summer School

The summer of 2016 will see a raft of summer schools and other initiatives to train more people in high-performance computing, including efforts to increase the...

Video: Jetstream to Make HPC a Breeze for Researchers
From insideHPC

Video: Jetstream to Make HPC a Breeze for Researchers

In this video, researchers describe how the Jetstream project at Indiana University. Jetstream is a user-friendly cloud environment designed to give researchers...

Integrity and Availability Threats
From Schneier on Security

Integrity and Availability Threats

Cyberthreats are changing. We're worried about hackers crashing airplanes by hacking into computer networks. We're worried about hackers remotely disabling cars...

[Report] Consumers more frustrated by smart home apps than devices
From Putting People First

[Report] Consumers more frustrated by smart home apps than devices

New report by Argus Insights suggests disappointing apps break user experience, may cause decline in consumer delight over time. The Smart Home ecosystem comprises...

Replacing Personas with Characters
From Putting People First

Replacing Personas with Characters

Because personas focus on creating a story made up of a customer’s attributes, instead of a story that explains a purchase, personas leave the brain in a unsatisfied...

Solving health care problems through design methodology
From Putting People First

Solving health care problems through design methodology

Stephen Klasko (an MD with an MBA, CEO of Jefferson Health System and Thomas Jefferson University) and Bon Ku (MD, a professor of emergency medicine at Thomas Jefferson...

Kate, a Platform for Machine Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kate, a Platform for Machine Intelligence

 ... Wayne Imaino from IBM Almaden Research Center, presented: “Kate, a Platform for Machine Intelligence."   Slides here.  .... Please find the schedule of presenters...

Automating Multiple Streams of Biometric Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automating Multiple Streams of Biometric Analysis

I see that iMotions is out with a method that can analytically combine eye tracking, facial expression, ECG and more.   Have not used their devices and methods,...

Attend the International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Attend the International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the seventh International...

Customer Centricity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Customer Centricity

Our long time Wharton Correspondent Peter Fader in Forbes.  Podcast: " .... Customer centricity is something we all intend to do–it sounds like it means being “into...

Radio Free HPC Looks at the Top HPC Tech Stories from 2015
From insideHPC

Radio Free HPC Looks at the Top HPC Tech Stories from 2015

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Top Technology Stories for High Performance Computing in 2015. "From 3D XPoint memory to Co-Design Architecture...
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