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DOS Attack Against Los Angeles Schools
From Schneier on Security

DOS Attack Against Los Angeles Schools

Yesterday, the city of Los Angeles closed all of its schools -- over 1,000 schools -- because of a bomb threat. It was a hoax. LA officials defended the move, with...

Designing for behavioural change in the healthcare industry
From Putting People First

Designing for behavioural change in the healthcare industry

By taking into account psychological drivers, the health-care industry can create products and services that will help individuals improve the way they manage their...

Designing for behavioural change in the healthcare industry
From Putting People First

Designing for behavioural change in the healthcare industry

By taking into account psychological drivers, the health-care industry can create products and services that will help individuals improve the way they manage their...

Lessons Learned from the CHPC Student Cluster Competition
From insideHPC

Lessons Learned from the CHPC Student Cluster Competition

In this video from the CHPC National Meeting in South Africa, participants in the Student Cluster Competition discuss what they learned in their race to build the...

Watson IOT Research Center formed by IBM
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson IOT Research Center formed by IBM

A good direction to go with applications of Watson.   Considerable opportunity here.IBM Bets on Watson With Global Research Center in GermanyThe Internet of Things...

Buyer Decisions Not Journeys
From The Eponymous Pickle

Buyer Decisions Not Journeys

I liked Journeys better, but ...In CustomerThink:" ... When marketing and sales leaders often think about how buyers make decisions, they are viewed through a prism...

Wolfram Programming Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wolfram Programming Lab

I see that Wolfram has started this Beta.   Famously they created AI advisory system Wolfram Alpha, now part of Siri.  Start for free ....  Nicely done" ... .Knowledge...

Call for Participation: 2016 Open Fabrics Workshop
From insideHPC

Call for Participation: 2016 Open Fabrics Workshop

The 2016 OpenFabrics Workshop has issued its Call for Participation. The event takes place April 4-8, 2016 in Monterey, California. The Workshop is the premierCall...

The Big, Big Computer Science Gender Gap
From Computer Science Teachers Association

The Big, Big Computer Science Gender Gap

Check out the recording from Edsurge on Air, “How the Other Half Learns to Code” https://soundcloud.com/edsurge/episode-40-why-there-are-so-few-women-in-computer...

Podcast: XSEDE Powers Search for How the Earth was Formed
From insideHPC

Podcast: XSEDE Powers Search for How the Earth was Formed

In this NICS podcast, Scott Gibson discusses how the Earth was formed with Wladimir Lyra, an assistant professor at California State University at Northridge, Department...

Cleversafe takes Software Defined Storage to Industry Standard Hardware
From insideHPC

Cleversafe takes Software Defined Storage to Industry Standard Hardware

Today IBM's Cleversafe announced its software defined/hardware aware storage approach to enable organizations with massive-scale data demands to easily take advantage...

Amazing technologies from the year 2015…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Amazing technologies from the year 2015…

I cannot predict the future, but I can look at the recent past. What happened in 2015 as far as technology is concerned? Many things happened that, had I predicted...

Evolution of Storytelling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Evolution of Storytelling

 Beyond blogging,  hypertext links, technology.  How has this changed storytelling?  From my viewpoint it has made it easier to digress, but not much different....

10 Women in Networking/Communications that you Should Know
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

10 Women in Networking/Communications that you Should Know

Networking Networking Women (N2 Women), a discipline-specific community for researchers in the communications and networking research fields, has just released...

Using OpenStack to Manage a Data Analytics HPC Cluster at PSC
From insideHPC

Using OpenStack to Manage a Data Analytics HPC Cluster at PSC

"This talk will discuss the plans to use OpenStack to manage and automate dynamically changing an environment to provide users a highly re-configurable software...

Predicting Others Preferences
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting Others Preferences

In HBS.    A classic element of market research.  Consider the analytic implications.  This is  a  Meta study:  Abstract: " ... Consumers readily indicate liking...

Storybooks and Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Storybooks and Data

Linking expert storybooks to data. Storytelling. It comes to mind that one way you could do an advisory system is to match to the 'right' storybook. Some kind of...

How Microsoft Supports a Future with Countless Devices
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Microsoft Supports a Future with Countless Devices

In the NYT.      " .... Technology now allows for lots of powerful, compelling computing devices in a wide range of sizes and shapes. Just about everyone in the...

Speed in Mobile Experience
From The Eponymous Pickle

Speed in Mobile Experience

In ThinkwithGoogle:  Google is continuing to provide some interesting snippets of data from their research about how people shop. Here another about how quickly...

Enterprise HPC Storage System
From insideHPC

Enterprise HPC Storage System

In many HPC environments, the storage system is an afterthought. While the main focus is on the CPU’s the selection and implementation of the storage hardware and...
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