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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
Many R Visualization Examples
In the past have always used advanced, interactive data visualization packages. But open source analytics packages like R have considerable data viz abilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Aimed at Faster, Better AI
Note the emphasis on Quantum Computing directed at AI. A new direction, it was not mentioned when we explored applications, which mostly addressed combinatoric...
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Cities Become Digital Laboratories.
In the WSJ: The City becomes a Digital Lab. (May require registration)New York: —Gregory Dobler is an astrophysicist who honed his craft by recording spectral...
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First Droneport under Construction
Regulation is still evolving for the concept, but given that the concept requires location and technology, it makes sense. In FastCompany: World's first Droneport...
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Open AI Emergent
Why not? Anything to get the ideas closer to many specific business purposes. Following. How can companies ally themselves for this kind of open innovation...
From insideHPC
Video: Working Together on Frameworks for HPC Systems 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...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Python Software Engineer at Penguin Computing in Portland
Penguin Computing in Portland is seeking a Python Software Engineer in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: Python Software Engineer at Penguin Computing...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Rare Octopus Squid Video from Hawaii
Neat: While the Dana octopus squid may lack a squid's trademark trailing tentacles, it makes up for them in spectacular lighting equipment, with two of its muscular...
From Schneier on Security
Resilient Systems News: End-of-Year Trends Webinar
I'll be participating in an end-of-year trends and predictions webinar on Thursday, December 17, at 1:00 PM EST. Join me here. In other news, Resilient has joined...
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Watson Anaytics doing Social Media Analysis
" ... I was an Alpha and Beta user of Watson Analytics. Continue to follow their application for specific industry areas. Somewhat narrow, but impressive so far...
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Samsung and Automotive Systems
In CWorld: Samsung moves their technology into the auto industry. This piece further looks at how other companies are in the automobile systems and sensors market...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Big Data on the Wrangler Supercomputer
In this TACC podcast, Niall Gaffney from the Texas Advanced Computing Center discusses the Wrangler supercomputer for data-intensive computing. "We went to propose...
From insideHPC
Video: Introduction to the HPC Advisory Council
In this video from SC15, Brian Sparks from Mellanox presents an overview of the HPC Advisory Council. "The HPC Advisory Council’s mission is to bridge the gap between...
From Blog@Ubiquity
My GPS Car Is Smarter Than Your Honor Student
Driverless cars may know how to negotiate intersections and park themselves better than humans, but so far I haven’t read about a smart car that can get me through...
From insideHPC
New Cybersecurity Center of Performance Launches from SHPCP
Today the Society of HPC Professionals announced the formation of the HPC in Cybersecurity Center of Performance located in Washington, D.C. "The HPC in Cybersecurity...
From insideHPC
Video: OpenMP and the Intel Compiler
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15, Kent Millfield from TACC presents: OpenMP and the Intel Compiler. "The OpenMP standard has recently...
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Shopper Scientist: Herb Sorensen
I want to remind people of Herb Sorensen's blog: Shopper Scientist. He visited our innovation centers a number of times. One of the most data oriented retail...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do You Have Any Duct Tape?
Students this morning were asking people for duct tape. I don’t know what problem they were trying to solve but eventually it was solved with a plastic cup. Really...
From Schneier on Security
Hit-and-Run Driver Arrested Because Car Reported Accident
A Florida woman drove away after an accident, but her car automatically reported it anyway. She was arrested....
From insideHPC