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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 …
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Iceotope Showcases ExaNeSt Cooling Technology for Exascale
In this video from SC15, Peter Hopton from Iceotope describes the company's innovative liquid cooling technology for the European ExaNeSt project. “ExaNeSt will...
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Interview: How de-HPC.org is bringing the Student Cluster Competition to India
"HPC in India is getting noticed on a different scale today. Starting with lot of initiatives across, the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) gives clear HPCInterview...
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How HPC is Helping Solve Climate and Weather Forecasting Challenges
Data accumulation is just one of the challenges facing today weather and climatology researchers and scientists. To understand and predict Earth’s weather and climate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Malice vs Competence in Real Worlds
In Engadget: Stephen Hawking: 'The real risk with AI isn't malice but competence'. For now, but malice can quickly follow. As a physical scientist, what he...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Experience and Knowledge Management
Saw this recently interacting with cable company. The answer I needed was embarrassingly simple and easy. In fact they had all the data to predict I would have...
From Putting People First
The power of the nudge to change our energy future
Sebastian Berger, Assistant Professor of Organization at the University of Bern, writes in the Scientific American how the default option, a simple change based...
From Schneier on Security
How the US Is Playing Both Ends on Data Privacy
There's an excellent article in Foreign Affairs on how the European insistence on data privacy -- most recently illustrated by their invalidation of the "safe harbor"...
From Putting People First
[Book] Service Design for Business
Service Design for Business: A Practical Guide to Optimizing the Customer Experience Ben Reason, Lavrans Løvlie, Melvin Brand Flu Wiley Publishers December 2015...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Pac-Man running at 1 million frames per second
In What does technology want?, Kevin Kelly argued that technology is on an evolutionary path. In some real sense, technology is alive and growing. It seeks outContinue...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Robots For Teaching Programming
One of my most popular posts has been a collection of links to block programming (drag and drop programming) tools and languages. The other day it occurred to me...
From Schneier on Security
1981 CIA Report on Deception
Recently declassified: Deception Maxims: Fact and Folklore, Office of Research and Development, Central Intelligence Agency, June 1981. Research on deception and...
From insideHPC
SC16 Workshop Proposals Due Feb. 7
SC16 is now accepting full- and half-day Workshop Proposals for SC16. "SC16 will include full- and half-day workshops that complement the overall Technical Program...
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Gordon Supercomputer Aids Search for New Antibiotics
Researchers using the Gordon Supercomputer at SDSC have identified a class of possible antibiotics with the potential to disable previously drug-resistant bacteria...
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Nimbix HPC Cloud Moves to 100 MW Dallas Datacenter
Today Nimbix announced plans to use Infomart Dallas to support the infrastructure needs of its upgraded HPC cloud platform, JARVICE 2.0. Infomart Dallas provides...
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ProphetStor Leverages Mellanox Tech for Next-Gen Cloud Computing
Today ProphetStor Data Services rolled out a reference cloud computing platform with Mellanox based on the open-source projects OpenStack and Ceph. The solution...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
WeDo 2.0–LEGO Robot for Teaching Science and Coding
This week at the big Consumer Electronics Show LEGO Education announced a new product - WeDo 2.0. In the press release they called it a “New wireless, tablet-ready...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Transatlantic Data Science Workshop
Stanford University, in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Research Councils of the United Kingdom (RCUK) with support from the National...
From insideHPC
PASC16 Seeks Your Paper Submissions by Jan. 15
There are just two weeks left to submit papers to PASC16. The event takes place June 8-10, 2016 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The post PASC16 Seeks Your Paper Submissions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford Thinking of Linking to Wink and Echo
Link your automobile to the Smart Home? A kind of increased reach that may include hub technology and voice control. An interesting play here. " .... Ford is exploring...
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