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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder- Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members!
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Experience Pays Off
It’s that time of semester again - Final project time for my semester courses. Students are working on their big projects and running into difficulties. Projects...
From insideHPC
Faster SAS Analytics Using DDN Storage Solutions
Parallel file systems have become the norm for HPC environments. While typically used in high end simulations, these parallel file systems can greatly affect the...
From insideHPC
FlyElephant Announces New Tools for Scientific Computing Data Management
Today FlyElephant announced new tools, a series of webinars, and the formation of a community around the platform. FlyElephant is a platform that provides scientists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Darker Side of Chatbots
Good to see this evolving direction, and the comment below is interesting. Having looked at and compared NL interfaces from a number of chatbot perspectives,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engineers to get the Data Ready
Astronomer.io Brought to my attention" ... With the explosion of big data, the data scientist has become a game-changer in big companies. And a new, crucial supporting...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
PhD: On Hold
I've sent in the forms. I've updated my committee. The deed is done.My PhD is on hold.Pause / Rafa PuertaMore officially, I am deregistering from the programmy...
From Schneier on Security
Mac OS X, iOS, and Flash Had the Most Discovered Vulnerabilities in 2015
Interesting analysis: Which software had the most publicly disclosed vulnerabilities this year? The winner is none other than Apple's Mac OS X, with 384 vulnerabilities...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Board of Directors Election (part 1)
These are exciting times for CSTA, as we prepare to launch a new website as well as initiatives centered on professional development, advocacy and equity. WhyContinue...
From insideHPC
TACC Joins iRODS Consortium
Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced it has joined the iRODS Partner Program known as the iRODS Consortium. The post TACC Joins iRODS Consortium...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Brain Science and Computer Science- Where Discovery Meets Invention
Contributions to this post were made by Gregory Hager, Chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Revisiting “Holy Fire” (Bruce Sterling, 1996)
Bruce Sterling in a famous scifi novelist. One of his most celebrated novels was written 20 years ago: Holy Fire. It is a near-future novel, set in the late XXIst...
From XRDS
How will 2016 look like? By XRDS blog staff!
Here are XRDS we keep on meditating over 2015 by looking forward at what 2016 will bring, here’s some of our bloggers opinions of what the next 3.154e+7 seconds...
From Computational Complexity
A question in Formal Lang Theory about Size of Desc of Languages.
(This post is inspired by me thinking more about this blog entry and this paper.) Upper bounds on n are really O(n). Lower bounds of f(n) are really Omega(f(n))...
From insideHPC
Video: A Brief Introduction to OpenFabrics
Sean Hefty from Intel presented this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15. "OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) is a framework focused on exporting fabric...![[New publication] The Hackable City: A Research Manifesto and Design Toolkit](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[New publication] The Hackable City: A Research Manifesto and Design Toolkit
The Hackable City: A Research Manifesto and Design Toolkit Authors – Cristina Ampatzidou (University of Amsterdam / University of Groningen) – Matthijs Bouw (One...
From insideHPC
DDN Storage Enables NCAR to Advance Weather and Climate Science
Today DDN announced that the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has selected DDN’s new SFA14K high-performance hyper-converged storage platform toDDN...
From insideHPC
HiPEAC16 Conference Returns to Prague January 18-20
The HiPEAC16 High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation conference returns to Prague next week. With three keynote talks, 33 workshops, nine tutorials...
From Putting People First
Introducing Humans, a truly human-centered social networking app
Fabien Girardin of the Near Future Laboratory today launched Humans, an app “that offers a way to rationally manage too many social media contacts and slows down...
From The Eponymous Pickle