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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
Shared Memory and MPI 3.0
As multi-socket, then multi-core systems have become the standard, the Message Passing Interface (MPI) has become one of the most popular programming models for...
From insideHPC
Compute Canada Collaborates on National Research Data Platform
Today Compute Canada and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) announced a collaboration to build a scalable national platform for research data...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You Teaching Cloud Computing to HS Students?
Looking to learn from CS teacI hate reinventing the wheel. One of the things I would like to learn more about is teaching the use of cloud services like Amazon...
From Computational Complexity
We Still Can't Beat Relativization
As we celebrate our successes in computational complexity here's a sobering fact: We have had no new non-relativizing techniques in the last 25 years. A little...
From Schneier on Security
Psychological Model of Selfishness
This is interesting: Game theory decision-making is based entirely on reason, but humans don't always behave rationally. David Rand, assistant professor of psychology...
From Putting People First
The Power of Privacy – documentary film
In this half-hour film (commissioned by The Guardian and Silent Circle), Aleks Krotoski travels the world to undergo challenges that explore our digital life in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Art and Science of Customer Data at Kroger
More peeks into the value of analytics in retail. All analytics is art and science. Design and algorithms." ... Supermarket retailers walk a fine line as they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personalizing Product Offerings
Design to allow such personalization is key. In Inc: Why Business Personalization is the Key to Long-Term Success ... We're leaving the old business model of offering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More from Cognitive Assistance Symposium
More from: AAAI FSS-15 Cognitive Assistance Symposium - Part 2by Frank Stein, Director of Analytics Solution Center at IBM. At the link, more from other parts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deepmind can Beat a Top Go Player
First it was checkers, then chess, and now finally the Japanese game Go. AI continues to evolve. From Google. AlphaGo by Deepmind." .... This paper published,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Try It You’ll Like It
There are lots of cool gadgets out there these days. A lot of them are being promoted as ways to get students excited about developing software. For young students...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Minsky The Theorist
Marvin Minsky’s contributions to complexity theory Cropped from BBC feature on AI Marvin Minsky, sad to relate, passed away last Sunday. He was one of the great...
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: GPU Hackathon at the University of Delaware
The Call for Submissions is open for the upcoming GPU Programming Hackathon at University of Delaware (UDEL). The event takes place from May 2-6, 2016 at UDEL in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complex Storytelling in a Digital, Analytical Age
Storytelling is a requirement in any business. It describes the business process. And if you are changing a business process, you need to accurately describeStorytelling...
From insideHPC
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Wins 80 Million Processor Hours on Titan Supercomputer
The U.S Department of Energy has awarded a total of 80 million processor hours on Titan supercomputer to an astrophysical project based at the DOE's Princeton Plasma...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Data Science Seminar- Computational Thinking, Inferential Thinking and Data Science
The AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows at the National Science Foundation (NSF) have organized another talk in their Data Science Seminar Series from Michael...
From insideHPC
ANSYS Release 17.0 Provides 10X Performance Improvement
Today ANSYS announced that engineers across disciplines – from structures to fluids to electromagnetics to systems – will realize step-change improvements in the...
From insideHPC
Long Live the King – The Complicated Business of Upgrading Legacy HPC Systems
"Upgrading legacy HPC systems relies as much on the requirements of the user base as it does on the budget of the institution buying the system. There is a gamut...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assisting Online Buyers
The idea of assisting buyers online with cognitive AI is a very old idea. Very natural too, because it is a resource and data intensive interaction. Insert the...
From The Eponymous Pickle