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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 XRDS
A Historical Account of Four Women who Made the Internet of Things Possible
A Historical Account of Four Women who Made the Internet of Things Possible The Internet of Things as a field has been continuously growing since 1982, when itContinue...
From insideHPC
The GPUltima: Up to a Petaflop of Networked GPUs in a Single Rack
As developers have begun requiring more GPUs to process complex applications, manufacturers have looked for new ways to add GPUs to systems. Most solutions involve...
From Putting People First
Designing for Crisis, Design for Real Life
It’s easy to design for the idealized user, someone who’s smart, calm, and informed. It’s less easy, and thus more important, to design for a more realistic user...
From Putting People First
[Book] Every Thing We Touch: A 24-Hour Inventory of Our Lives
Every Thing We Touch: A 24-Hour Inventory of Our Lives [Tumblr page] by Paula Zuccotti Viking Books, November 2015 256 pages What’s the first thing we touch when...
From Blog@Ubiquity
The Backdoor is a Victory for Terrorists
When authorities realized the Paris terrorists used strong encryption to send messages to one another they went off the encryption deep end. Now, many nations are...
From insideHPC
Time-lapse Video: Edison Supercomputer Moves to Berkeley
In this video, engineers move the NERSC Edison Supercomputer from Oakland to Berkeley. The one week long move is condensed into :41 seconds in this time lapse video...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Comes to the Factory Floor
IBM Works with IOT Startup. Expected this direction much earlier, we worked on similar maintenance related approaches. See Wi-Next. See competitive (?)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Feb. 3 deadline for Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships
The Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Program lets graduate students from across the country immerse themselves in a year of focused high-performance computing (HPC)...
From insideHPC
Alison Kennedy Named Hartree Centre Director
Today the STFC Hartree Centre in the U.K. announced that Alison Kennedy will be joining the centre as its new Director at the end of March 2016. As Director, Alison...
From insideHPC
C-DAC Deploys 25 Param Shavak Desktop Supercomputers Across India
India's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has developed an affordable supercomputer for universities conducting high-end research. Already deployed...
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: EuroMPI in Edinburgh
EuroMPI has issued its Call for Submissions. The aim of this conference is to bring together all of the stakeholders involved in developments and applications related...
From insideHPC
ECMWF to Upgrade Cray XC Supercomputers for Weather Forecasting
Today Cray announced a $36 million contract to upgrade and expand the Cray XC supercomputers and Cray Sonexion storage system at the European Centre for Medium-Range...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jerry Kaplan on the State of AI: Humans Can Still Apply
Jerry Kaplan talk at Google. Kaplan was one of the founders of Teknowledge, who we partnered with in the 1980s. The partnership led , among other efforts, to...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
More of Vinge’s “predictions” for 2025…
In my previous post, I reviewed some of the predictions made in the famous science-fiction book Rainbows end. The book was written in 2006 by Vernor Vinge and set...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft R Server
In CWorld: Continued movement by big IT players into advanced analytics services." ... Microsoft this week took the next step following its acquisition of Revolution...
From Schneier on Security
Shodan Lets Your Browse Insecure Webcams
There's a lot out there: The feed includes images of marijuana plantations, back rooms of banks, children, kitchens, living rooms, garages, front gardens, back...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 January 2016
THe school year is pretty much half over for me. Last week we wrapped up the first semester exams. I give semester projects, which inspired some posts in the last...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking forward at BI
Forward view of Business Intelligence. PDF eBook by IBM:" ... Making smarter business decisions quickly and confidently drives business value across an entire organization...
From Computational Complexity