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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
You Think We Have Problems
Some hard problems in philosophy Wikimedia Commons source Loki is a Jötunn or ss in Norse mythology, who, legend has it, once made a bet with some dwarves. He bet...
From insideHPC
Video: Machine Learning Possibilities with HPC
In this video, Baidu Chief Scientist Andrew Ng discusses what machine learning is, how it relies on high performance computing, and touches on the many ways that...
From My Biased Coin
Graduating Bits Announcement
Boaz asked me to remind people about ITCS, and in particular the Graduating Bits Event. Just in time for those of us reading application folders....ITCS 2016 will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Related Research in FlipBoard
Colleague Walter Riker has set up a flipboard site called 'Data Related Research'. In part to test the reach of Flipboard. My blog is also being mirrored on Flipboard...
From insideHPC
OCF Deploys Fujitsu HPC Cluster at University of East Anglia
OCF in the U.K. recently deployed a new Fujitsu HPC cluster at the University of East Anglia. As the University’s second new HPC system in 4-years, the clusterOCF...
From insideHPC
Astronomers Using iRODS to Wrangle Massive Survey Data
Astronomers are using iRODs data technology to study the evolution of galaxies and the nature of dark matter. "By partnering with data specialists at UNC-Chapel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing for Big Business
Interesting play for the enterprise. Especially for consumer facing goods. " ... Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo has officially launched its Enterprise division...
From insideHPC
Five Supercomputing Predictions from Cray’s Barry Bolding
"There are a number of exciting technologies we should see in 2016, and a leader will be Intel’s next-generation Xeon Phi coprocessor – a hybrid between an accelerator...
From insideHPC
Reserved Cores in the Intel Xeon Phi
"In the case of the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, although 60 cores are commonly used for computation, there is another core that is available, but not traditionally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Mapping of Machine Intelligence
Thoughtful, visual, piece in O'Reilly:The current state of machine intelligence 2.0Autonomous systems and focused startups among major changes seen in past year...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Induction and Data Science
All business uses this method, if they know it or not. But rarely systematically. Good presentation:" .... Data science is about finding signals buried in the...
From Schneier on Security
Straight Talk about Terrorism
Nice essay that lists ten "truths" about terrorism: We can't keep the bad guys out. Besides, the threat is already inside. More surveillance won't get rid of terrorism...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Wisdom
From CACM and Berkely Research: Seeking data wisdom. Somewhat of a squishy term. But it implies data in context, here neuroscience,. " .... “In computational...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Announcing a New Framework to Define K-12 Computer Science Education
Computing Leaders ACM, Code.org, and CSTA Launch Effort to Guide Educators and State and District Policy Makers About K-12 Computer Science For most states andContinue...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Breakthrough Technologies of 2015
In February, the MIT Technology Review published their list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2015. Recently they released their follow up list, detailing how...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Looping as a Concept
I’m introducing loops to my Freshmen this week. I’m trying a couple of new things. I thought I might put them out there in hopes of getting feedback but also possibly...
From insideHPC
New Version of RDMA-Spark Runs Native InfiniBand and RoCE
Fans of High Performance Data Analytics got a boost today with news that the High-Performance Big Data (HiBD) team at Ohio State University has released RDMA-Apache...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Quadrant Reports for Business Intelligence
Just reread the 2015 Gartner reports on Business Intelligence for BI planning purposes, provided by a vendor, " ... Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and...
From insideHPC
DDN Announces Winners of the 2015 Pioneer Awards
Today DDN announced the winners of the 2015 Pioneer User Awards. The awards recognize and celebrate visionary individuals, organizations and/or multiple peopleDDN...
From Computational Complexity