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Self-driving cars don't need to be perfect
From Writing

Self-driving cars don't need to be perfect

I can print mostly. My wifi works often. The Xbox usually recognises me. Siri sometimes works. But my self driving car will be *perfect*.

Computer Science Education Things to Watch in 2016
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Computer Science Education Things to Watch in 2016

“It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” I was thinking about writing a post with predictions but realized that I’m not smart enoughHow...

SmartThinQ Sensor from LG
From The Eponymous Pickle

SmartThinQ Sensor from LG

How do you connect older home appliance devices to new networks?  I was pointed to LG's SmartThinQ sensor.  This was mentioned this past September in CNet:  " ....

Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Live Giant Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Live Giant Squid

Giant squid filmed swimming through a harbor in Japan: Reports in Japanese say that the creature was filmed on December 24, seen by an underwater camera swimming...

The Hacking of the Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Hacking of the Internet of Things

In Wired:   An overview of how the Internet of Things is being hacked.   Bottom line, it is being hacked in many places." ... And this year has made clearer than...

A Look at last Years HPC Conference
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Look at last Years HPC Conference

In the CACM:   I used to cover High Performance Computing (HPC), topics for the enterprise.   Now the topic has seemed to be overtaken by volume rather than performance...

Job of the Week: Senior HPC Engineer at Quantlab Financial
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: Senior HPC Engineer at Quantlab Financial

Quantlab Financial in Houston is seeking a Senior HPC Engineer in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: Senior HPC Engineer at Quantlab Financial appeared...

Video: Why Wouldn’t You Use Public Cloud for HPC?
From insideHPC

Video: Why Wouldn’t You Use Public Cloud for HPC?

Rob Futrick presented this talk at SC15. "Cycle Computing’s CycleCloud software suite is the leading cloud orchestration, provisioning, and data management platform...

Cognitive Systems for Manufacturing Supply Chains
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive Systems for Manufacturing Supply Chains

 Enterra’s CEO, Stephen DeAngelis, Discusses Cognitive Computing in MD MagazineIn the Spring 2015 issue of Manufacturing and Distribution Executive (MD) magazine...

Uday Dandavate: “stupidity wrapped in ignorance” underlies Facebook’s Free Basics program
From Putting People First

Uday Dandavate: “stupidity wrapped in ignorance” underlies Facebook’s Free Basics program

Uday Dandavate, co-founder and CEO of design research company SonicRim, is appalled about Facebook pushing its Free Basics program in India, which he think is driven...

Audi Telepresence Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Audi Telepresence Robotics

Maintenance was an area we looked at for tele presence and augmented reality.  Overlay blueprints and manuals over a machine for making update and repair more efficient...

For when things get personal…
From Putting People First

For when things get personal…

The post For when things get personal… appeared first on Putting people first.

Meshed Again In 2016
From Wild WebMink

Meshed Again In 2016

As of January 1st 2016, my main work focus is once again Meshed Insights Ltd., which we’ve kept ticking over during 2015.  Working at Wipro was an interesting experiment...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Blasts From the Past

Is the “Forsch” awakening in complexity theory? Composite of src1, src2, src3 Max von Sydow starred as the chess-playing knight in Ingmar Bergman’s iconic 1957...

Cognitive Sciences Exchange
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive Sciences Exchange

An intriguing piece in Mindhacks.   Which points to cognitive science resources that might be useful for building systems that aim to use cognitive models.    Always...

Topic Modeling in R
From The Eponymous Pickle

Topic Modeling in R

Topic Modeling.  A kind of textual analysis we did long before R, using cluster based 'Content Analysis'.  An  examination and R code for how this can be done in...

HPC Cloud Data Management at AWS
From insideHPC

HPC Cloud Data Management at AWS

In this video from the Cycle Computing the HPC in the Cloud Educational Series, Jeff Layton, HPC Principal Architect at Amazon Web Services, explains concepts and...

Podcast: Strengthening High Performance Computing with OpenHPC
From insideHPC

Podcast: Strengthening High Performance Computing with OpenHPC

OpenHPC is a collaborative, community effort that initiated from a desire to aggregate a number of common ingredients required to deploy and manage High Performance...

Linkedin Open Source Success
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linkedin Open Source Success

Despite having had a number of UI issues, you have to admire a company with over 400 million users.  A  system that I use by choice most every day.    Also oneThey...

Video: Trends and Tech in the HPC Market
From insideHPC

Video: Trends and Tech in the HPC Market

In this video from SC15, Dell's Onur Celebioglu discusses why HPC is now important to a broader group of use cases. He also provides an overview of HPC for research...
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