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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
Why Sustainable Software Needs a Change in the Culture of Science
"Scientific research is dependent on maintaining and advancing a wide variety of software. However, software development, production, and maintenance are people...
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Video: Microsoft Azure for Engineering Analysis and Simulation
Tejas Karmarkar from Microsoft presented this talk at SC15. "Azure provides on-demand compute resources that enable you to run large parallel and batch computeVideo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining and Reporting Blog
Brought to my attention, The Data Mining Reporting Blog, by Rosaria Silipo, Principal Data Scientist at KNIME.com AG. The blog covers data analytics in general...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Consciousness and free will are illusions: you are just a robot
As a computer scientist, it is natural for me to view the brain as a computer. And though computers have different abilities, they are also very much all equivalent...
From Putting People First
Digital media companies need to make user experience a priority — or else
Digital publishing, seeming perpetually up against terrible economics that prize quantity over quality, has reached a point where navigating it is akin to “walking...
From Putting People First
Experientia website completely reshaped
Experientia is pleased to announce that we’ve started 2016 with a brand new website. Experientia’s now officially 10 years old, and we decided that the best way...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 January 2016
Last week was a good week as computer science education was called out by the President of the United States. And a student of mine, me and some other great people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Practical Analytics Culture
In CustomerThink: Some good thoughts on the topic. It is also a culture thinking about data, both available and needed. Plus creating an interaction between production...
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Why Knowledge Representation Matters
In CACM: By Yoav Shoham via David Geddes.There is a big difference between the attention artificial intelligence (AI) is currently receiving and that of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Beacons
In Adage: More updates on beacons. They continue to expand. " .... Mobile Beacons to Explode, but They Aren't a Silver Bullet for Tracking ... Macy's, McDonalds...
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Slack as Company of the Year
Can Slack replace Email? Just recently was introduced to the growing social network, for a specific, but broadly defined topic. Will it work to drive focus? "...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What caught my attention recently: "Big ideas emerge from spills, crashes, failed experiments and blind stabs .... As people dredge the unknown, they are engaging...
From insideHPC
ESI Opens Datacenter at Teratec for Engineering in the Cloud
Although the cloud has become an accepted part of commercial and consumer computing, science and engineering have been less welcoming to the concept, but this could...
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Video: Vectorization Advisor in Action for Computer-Aided Formulation
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15, Kevin O'Leary from Intel presents: Vectorization Advisor in Action for Computer-Aided Formulation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Checkout in the Aisle
Mashable writes: An old idea, back again. Have followed it and related tests for years. How relevant will it be in an online world? Now from Diebold.
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How Well Does Personalized Marketing Work?
In K@W: How well does personalized marketing work? " ... “People Who Liked This Study Also Liked”: An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Recommender...
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Microsoft R Server
A bit surprising But a great way to make a strong connection to modern anaytics. Available free for experimentation. What are its advantages over open source...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology
The 32nd International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2016) has issued its Call for Participation & Papers. The event takes place April...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Compiler & Tools Engineer
Lawrence Livermore National Lab is seeking an HPC Compiler & Tools Engineer in our Job of the Week. "As a member of the Development Environment Group in the Livermore...
From The Eponymous Pickle