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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Students What They Want To Learn
I’m grading end of semester projects this week. Generally speaking, they are full of the concepts and tools that we have worked with in the course of the semester...
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference 2016
The HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference 2016 has posted its speaker agenda. The event will take place Feb 24-25, 2016 on the Stanford University campus atAgenda...
From Schneier on Security
Reverse-Engineering a Zero-Day Exploit from the Hacking Team Data Dump
Last July, a still-anonymous hacker broke into the network belonging to the cyberweapons arms manufacturer Hacking Team, and dumped an enormous amount of its proprietary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenges for Home Robotics
In IEEE Spectrum: A good look at the challenges still unmet for home robotics. A topic I have looked at for a number of years. And while the press has claimed...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH Talk-The Citizen Lab’s Mixed Methods Approach to Research on Information Controls
The next WATCH talk, called The Citizen Lab’s Mixed Methods Approach to Research on Information Controls is Thursday, January 21, 2016 from Noon-1pm ET. The presenter...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Ceph and the Future of Software Defined Storage
In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Dan Ferber, Open Source Server Based Storage Technologist at Intel and Ross Turk, Director of Product Marketing for Red Hat describe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft, P&G Supported Skip App in Test
Mentioned here previously, the Skip in aisle checkoutApp is now in test. Note the connection to the Azure analytics platform which leverages data gathering from...
From insideHPC
Zack Smocha Joins Rescale as VP of Product Marketing
Today HPC cloud provider Rescale announced that Zack Smocha has joined the company as vice president of product marketing, bringing two decades of experience in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Miss Piggy and Imperson Chatbots
Marketers see Chatbots as a means to engage with Virtual Assistants. Facebook's Messenger is an example mentioned here before. How does personality create engagement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reputation in the Age of the Internet
In the Edge: The internet has changed the means and the metrics. You could always sculpt your reputation, but not as easily as you can today. Positive and negative...![[Book] Validating Product Ideas Through Lean User Research](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Validating Product Ideas Through Lean User Research
Validating Product Ideas Through Lean User Research by Tomer Sharon Rosenfeld Media, January 2016 344 pages Want to know what your users are thinking? If you’re...
From insideHPC
Samsung Mass Producing HBM2 – World’s Fastest DRAM
Today Samsung Electronics announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 4-gigabyte DRAM package based on the second-generation High BandwidthSamsung...
From insideHPC
Allinea Scalable Profiler Speeds Application Readiness for Summit Supercomputer at Oak Ridge
Today Allinea announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed its code performance profiler Allinea MAP in strength on the Titan supercomputer. Allinea...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media for Working for Customer Service
Seen evidence of this recently, but it is typically at the touch of our fingertips these days. Social Media not Working for Customers Service?Despite promises to...
From insideHPC
Enhanced Air Cooling with Internal Loop
Although liquid cooling is considered by many to be the future for data centers, the fact remains that there are some who do not yet need to make a full transformation...
From Computational Complexity
Is it okay to praise an article or book in an article or book?
I recently had a paper accepted (YEAH!). The referees had some good corrections and one that puzzled me. you wrote ``our proof is similar to the one in the wonderful...
From insideHPC
Open Fabrics Workshop Extends Call for Session Deadline to Feb 1
The 2016 OpenFabrics Workshop has extended the dealing for its Call for Sessions to Feb. 1, 2016. The event takes place April 4-8, 2016 in Monterey, California....
From Schneier on Security
Counterfeit Theater Tickets in New York
Counterfeiters are makingtickets for the Broadway show "Hamilton." Counterfeiting is much easier when the person you're passing the fakes off to doesn't know what...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Study: Brick and Mortar Appeals to Customers
Study: Brick-and-mortar still appeals to customersAccording to the annual Global Shopper Study from mobile solutions provider Zebra Technologies Corp., more than...
From Schneier on Security