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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
Machine Learning Marketing Trends
Christoper S. Penn talks machine learning and marketing. The technical future of marketing?" ... In this multi-part series, we’ll look at upcoming trends in marketing...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Seeks Public Comments on the Cybersecurity Framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites public comments on how its voluntary Cybersecurity Framework is being used, possible updates,...
From Schneier on Security
"The Medieval Origins of Mass Surveillance"
This interesting article by medieval historian Amanda Power traces our culture's relationship with the concept of mass surveillance from the medieval characterization...
From insideHPC
Video: Using OpenMP at NERSC
"This presentation will describe how OpenMP is used at NERSC. NERSC is the primary supercomputing facility for Office of Science in the US Depart of Energy (DOE)...
From insideHPC
CentOS Comes to POWER8 Platforms
Alexandre Caldeira from IBM writes that CentOS is now available for the POWER8 platform. This is a big step for the OpenPOWER community, as the business world uses...
From insideHPC
HPCG Benchmark Gains Traction for Ranking Supercomputers
The High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark continues to gain traction in the high-performance computing community. “HPCG is designed to complement...
From insideHPC
Next Generation SDN Driven Systems for Exascale Data Intensive Science
Harvey Newman from CalTech presented this talk at the Mellanox booth at SC15. "We describe activities of the Caltech High Energy Physics team and collaborators,...
From insideHPC
Lustre: This is Not Your Grandmother’s (or Grandfather’s) Parallel File System
"Over the last several years, an enormous amount of development effort has gone into Lustre to address users’ enterprise-related requests. Their work is not only...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The virtuous circle of fantasy
It has long been observed that progress depends on the outliers among us. Shaw’s quote sounds a true today as it did in the past: “The reasonable man adapts himself...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Vacuum Adds Security Functions
In Engadget: Was waiting for some of these kinds of obvious multitasking capabilities. Only way we will see their more general home use.
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Web Site is 25 Years Old
In Endgadget: I remember first seeing the concept being used by folks in research. I had used the Internet in the form of the Darpanet years before. The idea...
From Computational Complexity
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Personalizing Maps
In the CACM:For individuals, or for commercial entities. Abstract:" ... Geographic maps constitute a ubiquitous medium through which we understand, construct, and...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Sponsors Congressional Briefing on STEM Education and Public-Private Partnerships
The ACM Education Policy Committee joined the National Science Teachers Association, the American Chemical Society, the Afterschool Alliance, the American Society...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loyalty Rewards Discounts Work better Online
More studies on loyalty in retail. Also good comments. Read the article details." ... With consumers typically not needing the incentive of a coupon to return...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Internet of Things and AI
In the CACM: A look at how AI should connect with the Internet of things. " .... Oblong Industries CEO John Underkoffler does not believe a connection between...
From Schneier on Security
Back Door in Juniper Firewalls
Juniper has warned about a malicious back door in their firewalls that automatically decrypts VPN traffic. It's been there for years. Hopefully details are forthcoming...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 December 2015
Yea! I’m on Christmas Break. Most of the public schools in my area start their winter break after Wednesday. I’ll be spending some of my free time getting ready...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Trip Type Classification
From DSG: Nice example of how data science can be used for a real world classification problem, with real data. Including 1.2 million observations with 6 features...
From The Eponymous Pickle