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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
3D Touch as a Scale
Always looking for new ways to convert mobile devices into sensors. Here is a new one, perhaps obvious. Using the 3D touch capabilities as a scale on the 6s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA's Future Living Innovation Lab
In their blog: Future food and more. Covered in the Verge." ... Space10 is a future-living lab and exhibition space in the heart of Copenhagen. Our mission is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Software
The Open Source EraAn Oxford Economics Study Commissioned by WiproOpen source is mainstream today. Why are businesses shifting to open source software? What are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Reality Editor
MIT's Amazing New App Lets You Program Any Object. The Minority Report Style App that makes programming your Smart home as easy as connecting the dots. ... The...
From insideHPC
Video: Lenovo and Intel Partner on HPC Innovation at SC15
In this video from SC15, Brian Connors of Lenovo and Charlie Wuischpard of Intel Lenovo discuss how their company's are partnering to drive innovation in high performance...
From insideHPC
GPUs Power Facebook’s New Deep Learning Machine
Today Nvidia announced that Facebook will power its next-generation computing system with Tesla GPUs, enabling a broad range of new machine learning applications...
From insideHPC
Video: Designing Parallel Financial Analytics Libraries Using a Pattern Oriented Approach
"How can quants or financial engineers write financial analytics libraries that can be systematically efficiently deployed on an Intel Xeon Phi co-processor orVideo...
From insideHPC
Help Improve the SC16 Student Cluster Competition
One of the highlight of the annual SC conference is the Student Cluster Competition, where student teams race to build the fastest HPC cluster. For SC16, the conference...
From insideHPC
Cray CS-Storm Takes GPUs to New Levels of Scalability at SC15
"In this video from SC15, Amar Shan describes how the the Cray CS-Storm takes GPUs to new levels of scalability. Systems like the CS-Storm have propelled Cray to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Applications Open for Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships
The Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Program lets graduate students from across the country immerse themselves in a year of focused high-performance computing (HPC)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Launches Walmart Pay
Payment systems can link together payment, behavioral segmentation, loyalty and mobile engagement channels. Opportunity to link in new kinds of analytics isIn...
From insideHPC
Cosmic Microwave Background Analysis with Intel Xeon Phi
"Modal is a cosmological statistical analysis package that can be optimized to take advantage of a high number of cores. The inner product computations with Modal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Caricatures
Nautil on Caricatures. I remember seeing the MIT Caricature Generator at work during a visit. I did not think it was very good, compared to human work. But...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Predictive Analytics Work
Predictive analytics requires a customer-obsessed innovation culturePosted by Fred Giron in Forrester. Some very good points. It starts and ends with business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Embedding Machine Learning in Data Visualization
Via Spotfire: From a survey of work to integrate data visualization packages with machine learning. With the intent to provide easily understood, extensible and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Leaders
Tom Kelley, co-author of Creative Confidence (Crown Business, 2013) and a partner at IDEO, a global design and innovation firm, on what creative leaders do. ...
From Computational Complexity
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
Back in my teens I had ordered my first computer, a TRS-80 from Radio Shack, and I grew anxious in the weeks before it arrived. I learned the basics of BASIC...
From Schneier on Security
How People Learn about Computer Security
Interesting research: "Identifying patterns in informal sources of security information," by Emilee Rader and Rick Wash, Journal of Cybersecurity, 1 Dec 2015. Abstract...
From Putting People First
Sharing City Seoul through the eyes of an urban sociologist
For several years, Shareable has followed, and reported on, Sharing City Seoul, a pioneering project, created by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. With its government...
From Putting People First