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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
Chatbots are Back for Services
Google working on a chatbot filled messaging service. We experimented with chatbots. And I see thet the 'Slack' messaging service claims one as well. It is'UI...
From insideHPC
Building A Real-Time, Closed Loop fMRI Data Analysis System for Neuroscience Experiments
Prof. Kai Li from Princeton presented this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15. "Full correlation matrix analysis (FCMA) is an unbiased approachBuilding...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
New Education Law Recognizes Importance of Computer Science
ACM praised the enactment of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) into law as an important and historic step forward for K-12 education in the United States. The...
From Schneier on Security
Using Law Against Technology
On Thursday, a Brazilian judge ordered the text messaging service WhatsApp shut down for 48 hours. It was a monumental action. WhatsApp is the most popular app...
From The Eponymous Pickle
InHalio: Towards an Internet of Scent
From a long time co-participant in retail. Our innovation center tested a number of sensory interaction devices in retail environments using smell, touch, vision...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modern Innovation Leadership.
Modern Innovation LeadershipSeptember 2, 2015 in Innovation PhilosophyLord Kelvin’s Ampere BalanceThere are two main typical approaches to leadership. Some people...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Top 10 Ways Intel Will Drive HPC Democratization in 2016
The use of High Performance Computing continues to grow in the enterprise and beyond. In this podcast, James Reinders from Intel describes how Intel will continue...
From insideHPC
Video: TACC Powers Stampede Supercomputer with Dell Servers and Intel Omni Path
In this video, Tommy Minyard from TACC describes how Dell helped develop the 9.6 Petaflop Stampede supercomputer for scientific computing. "The Texas Advanced Computing...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Language Lessons from a Steam-powered Light Bulb
People who make a career in science, computers or otherwise, generally do so because they are naturally drawn to it. They find science fascinating and entertaining...
From insideHPC
Is HPC Heading Towards Openness, Chaos, or a Split?
"To be successful in high-performance computing (HPC) today, it is no longer enough to sell good hardware: vendors need to develop an ‘ecosystem’ in which other...
From insideHPC
JYU Sets World Record for Pore-scale Flow Simulations
An interdisciplinary research team from JYU in Finland has set a new world record in the field of fluid flow simulations through porous materials. The team, coordinated...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The courage to face what we do not understand
Sadly, it is easy to forget that what we know is all but a tiny fraction of all there is to know. Human beings naturally focus on what they understand. The more...
From insideHPC
ESI Opens New European HPC Center
Today the French ESI Groupu announced the opening of its new European HPC Center. The datacenter is now based on the Teratec Campus, an ideal location to launch...
From Computational Complexity
Guns and Crypto
“We believe it would be wrong to weaken security for hundreds of millions of law-abiding customers so that it will also be weaker for the very few who pose a threat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Acquires Metanautix for Data Supply Chains
In CIO Today: Addressing the data supply chain. Not necessarily about company product supply chains, but about getting and delivering the right data to operations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interview with a GE Predictive Analytics Practitioner
A new esteemed colleague of mine, Matthew Pietrzykowski, who does predictive analytics at GE was recently interviewed by Predictive Analytics World. This does...
From insideHPC
Lustre and Persistent Storage
Lustre was originally developed as the fastest scratch file system for HPC workloads that supercomputer centers could get, but has over the years matured to beLustre...
From Schneier on Security
More Writings on the Second Crypto Wars
Two things to read: "Wanting It Bad Enough Won't Make It Work: Why Adding Backdoors and Weakening Encryption Threatens the Internet," by Meredith Whittaker and...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FTC to Hold PrivacyCon on January 14
The FTC will hold PrivacyCon, a consumer privacy and security conference, on January 14 in Washington, D.C. The conference is intended for security researchers,...
From The Eponymous Pickle