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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 Putting People First
Public Service Design guide
Public Service Design: A guide for the application of service design in public organisations Authors: Annelies Thoelen (Co-Editor), Steven Cleeren (Co-Editor),Public...
From Putting People First
Public Service Design guide
Public Service Design: A guide for the application of service design in public organisations Authors: Annelies Thoelen (Co-Editor), Steven Cleeren (Co-Editor),Public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger and Predictive Analytics
Kroger and predictive merchandising. Kroger's Improved Analytic Capabilities Powers Merchandising Decisions ...." ... One key area where the in-house analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Technology for Services
Some innovative wearable technology examples for customer service. " .... The capabilities of wearables are just beginning to emerge for retail, enterprise,...
From Schneier on Security
Terrifying Technologies
I've written about the difference between risk perception and risk reality. I thought about that when reading this list of Americans' top technology fears: Cyberterrorism...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google says D-Wave Works
Recall the controversial claims of D-Wave in doing quantum computing for NASA and Google. Also, that we had a minor interaction with them regarding test problems...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dealing with Unstructured Data
A look at the value of unstructured data. Worth a read. Text is structured because cognitive beings created it. But has structure that is driven by a numberIn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Destiny is Mobile
In K@W:" ... The rise of mobile is accelerating faster than ever imagined. In many places in the world it is the only option to access the web. One big result is...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CS Education Week 2015 is in Full Swing!
Happy Birthday, Grace Hopper! Computer Science Education Week (CS Ed Week), the annual program designed to engage students of all ages in computer science is here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Assistants Helping with Business Strategy
Via Jim Spohrer:How might cognitive assistants help with business strategy?" .... Dario Gil is a leading technologist and executive at IBM Research. As Director...
From insideHPC
Video: Diving into Intel’s HPC Scalable System Framework Plans
"In July, Intel announced plans for the HPC Scalable System Framework - a design foundation enabling wide range of highly workload-optimized solutions. This talk...
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Named Alberta’s Exporter of the Year
Today CoolIT Systems announced that the company has been named 2015 Exporter of the Year by the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) and JuneWarren-Nickle’s...
From insideHPC
Dell Panel on the Convergence of HPC, Big Data, and Cloud
"Modeling and simulation have been the primary usage of high performance computing (HPC). But the world is changing. We now see the need for rapid, accurate insights...
From insideHPC
PSC’s Bridges Supercomputer Brings HPC to a New Class of Users
The democratization of HPC got a major boost last year with the announcement of an NSF award to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The $9.65 million grant for...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Showcases Switch-IB 2 on the Road to Exascale at SC15
In this video from SC15, Scot Schultz from Mellanox describes the company's new Switch-IB 2, the new generation of its InfiniBand switch optimized for High-Performance...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Technology Changed How I Read
This week I have been reading an old-fashioned paper book. (The Martian – outstanding read) For the last two years most of my reading has been on my Kindle. I love...
From XRDS
Comments about The 16th International Conference Interacción 2015
On sept 22, 2015, the Interaccion 2015 International Conference of HCI came to the Universitat Politecnica of Catalonia on Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona, Spain)...
From insideHPC
Bright Cluster Manage Integrates with Dell PowerEdge Servers for HPC Environments
Today Bright Computing announced that the latest version of its Bright Cluster Manager software, version 7.1, is now integrated with Dell’s 13th generation PowerEdge...
From The Eponymous Pickle