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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
GPUs & Liquid-Cooling Speed APEXX 5 Advanced Computer Workstation
Apexx5_hero_web_smallToday BOXX Technologies introduced the redesigned APEXX 5, the "world’s most advanced professional workstation." Built to accommodate demanding...
From Putting People First
Human-machine interactions and the coming age of autonomy
Melissa Cefkin is a Principal Scientist & Design Anthropologist at Nissan Research in Silicon Valley where she explores the potential of having autonomous vehicles...
From Putting People First
Remaking Ford into a user-experience driven company
Ford CEO Mark Fields recently declared that Ford would be remade as a user-experience driven company: “We have obviously a lot experience in the car business, over...
From Putting People First
The privatization of human rights: illusions of consent, automation and neutrality
The privatization of human rights: illusions of consent, automation and neutrality by Emily Taylor Published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation...
From XRDS
Is Your Research Reproducible?
When a scientific experiment achieves the expected result, researchers hurry up to draft a manuscript, submit it and cross their fingers for acceptance. When that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marvin Minsky and AI
I see that Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer, died a few days ago. " ... American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts...
From insideHPC
Apply Now for Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing
Computational scientists now have the opportunity to apply for the upcoming Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), to take place from July...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Forecasting the East Coast Storm
Well, that was a whopper! The Washington, DC area received its first blizzard in many years this past weekend. For a city that normally only receives 15.4 inches...
From insideHPC
Siemens to Acquire CD-adapco
siemensToday Siemens AG in Germany announced plans Monday to acquire HPC software maker CD-adapco in a stock purchase agreement valued at $970 million. "As part...
From Putting People First
The computational anthropologist
When people think of quantitative analytics, big data, and statistics, they rarely picture an anthropologist. The truth is that although anthropology is well known...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Invests in Bangalore Data Analytics
I spent some time in Bangalore, gave a talk to a future looking group there, and found some exciting things going on. In Computer Weekly:Retail giant Wal-Mart is...
From insideHPC
Bright Computing & BitNet Manage Simulation Infrastructure at FNSS in Turkey
Today Bright Computing announced that it has collaborated with BitNet in Turkey to provide an infrastructure management solution to FNSS. As is a leading manufacturer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony and IOT
In GigaOM: " .. The first is that Sony is forming Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) from all the units contributing to Playstation, hardware, software, and network...
From insideHPC
175 Teams to Compete in ASC16 Student Supercomputer Challenge
The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC16) Training kicked off in Beijing on January 26. First initiated and organized in China, ASC16 has gained support from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Linking Cortana AI to Mail
Been disappointed by the value of Microsoft's virtual agent Cortana. Too often just acting as a front end to their search engine Bing. Now they are said to be...
From insideHPC
E4 Computer Engineering Collaborates with Ci on HPC Technologies
Today Centerprise International (Ci) in the UK announced a collaboration with E4 Computer Engineering to develop next-generation datacenter technologies for HPC...
From insideHPC
SGI to Deliver Advanced Data Processing for Nagaoka University of Technology
Today SGI Japan announced that the Nagaoka University of Technology has selected the SGI UV 300, SGI UV 30EX and SGI Rackable servers and SGI InfiniteStorage 5600...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Opens its Deep Learning Toolkit
Been taking a deeper look at the neural net based process of deep learning. Now Microsoft has released its own Deep Learning toolkit. There are many good resources...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Plans For Missing School
The standing joke, which is not so funny really, is that creating a sub plan for missing a day of school is more work than working a day at school. It’s a tough...
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