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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 Eponymous Pickle
How to be a Good Boss
In FastCompany: Googler impression of what it takes to be a good boss. " .... Kim Scott has built her career around a simple goal: Creating bullshit-free zones...
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What to Wear for Academic Interviews, or How to Dress Like a Man Without Looking Like a Man
Wearing the Computer Science "uniform."I first became aware of the problem when I took a female faculty interview candidate out to lunch a few years ago."Deciding...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Christmas
Squid sighting in this Christmas cartoon. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. And...
From insideHPC
Obsidian Introduces Global InfiniBand Fabrics
In this video, Dr. David Southwell from Obsidian Strategics discusses conventional InfiniBand technology and goes on to describe how the company's Longbow, Crossbow...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Algorithm and Software Engineer for Energy Systems at NREL
NREL in Golden, Colorado is seeking an HPC Algorithm and Software Engineer for Energy Systems in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Algorithm and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Merry Christsmas 2016
It’s Christmas at my home. If you are also celebrating I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Planning Chatbots in Messengers Leveraging Cognitive AI
I recently mentioned the linking of chatbots and messenger systems. Recall we addressed this in early assistance systems. See the Mr Clean tag belowIn Forbes...
From Schneier on Security
Burglary Footage Turned into Commercial
Earlier this month, a Las Vegas taco shop was robbed in the middle of the night. The restaurant took the surveillance-video footage and turned it into a combination...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Your software should follow your hardware: the CLHash example
The new Intel Skylake processors released this year (2015) have been met with disappointment. It is widely reported that they improved over the two years old Haswell...
From insideHPC
Save up to 20 Percent on Travel to ISC 2016 Through the Star Alliance
Are you planning to ISC 2016 in June? Special flight discounts are now available through Star Alliance member airlines. The post Save up to 20 Percent on Travel...
From insideHPC
Video: Enabling Application Portability across HPC Platforms
"In this presentation, we will discuss several important goals and requirements of portable standards in the context of OpenMP. We will also encourage audienceVideo...
From insideHPC
Tracing Radio Frequencies with Intel Xeon Phi
Taking direction and experience from a computer graphics in which rays are traced to determine the color of a pixel, the same techniques can be applied to tracing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sharing Your Data on Your Terms
In FastCompany: MIT's Enigma Project would allow you to sell the rights to use your data in aggregate without having to grant access to your raw information. A...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What if Ford and Google Partner?
Most car makers are examining the space. Implications are still unclear. Would direct partnership with a car maker radically change the industry?Who Wins If ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What if Everything had a Chip?
In the early days of working with the MIT lab on the 'Penny Tag' project, a thought experiment often posed was: What if everything manufactured were tagged, or...
From Schneier on Security
Police Dog Sniffs for Hard Drives
This weird story describes a "porn dog" that is trained to find hidden hard drives. It's used in child porn investigations. I suppose it's reasonable that computer...
From insideHPC
NetApp to Acquire SolidFire for All-Flash SSDs
Today NetApp announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SolidFire for $870 million in cash. Founded in 2010, SolidFire is a market leader in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changes in Managing Risk
Noting the need to connect risk directly to relevant decision process.How Managing Risk Has Changed (Podcast and Transcript)The problem with many catastrophic...
From insideHPC
Piz Kesch: The Making of a GPU-based Weather Forecasting System
Thomas Schulthess from CSCS presented this talk at the Nvidia booth at SC15. "On October 1, 2015 "Piz Kesch", a Cray CS-Storm system with NVIDIA K80 GPUs became...
From insideHPC