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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
Statistical Significance at Play
In Insight@Kellogg. What would the frequentists say then, Kenneth? .... Blinded by Statistical Significance ... Putting too much stock in an arbitrary threshold...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering AI Breakthroughs
Bloomberg on a breakthrough year in AI. Good description, though considerable value was produced during the last wave. And it remains to be seen how well this...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2015 ACM Fellows Announced
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has released their annual list of ACM Fellows. The 2015 ACM Fellows list recognizes 42 ACM members for their significant...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
DHS Invites Nominations for Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is accepting nominations for the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. Appointees will serve a three-year...
From insideHPC
Video: SDVis Overview & OpenSWR – A Scalable High Performance Software Rasterizer for SCIVIS
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15, Jim Jeffers from Intel presents an SDVis Overview. After that, Bruce Cherniak from Intel presents...
From insideHPC
Virtual HPC Clusters Power Cancer Research at eMedLab
A partnership of seven leading bioinformatics research and academic institutions called eMedLab is using a new private cloud, HPC environment and big data system...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of December 7
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 House Floor: H.R. 3578, DHS Science and Technology Reform and Improvement Act of 2015 The bill would strengthen the role of the Directorate...
From insideHPC
GCS Awards 1358 Million Computing Core Hours to Research Projects
Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing in Germany announced awards from the 14th Call for Large-Scale Projects. GCS says it achieved new All-Time Highs in various...
From insideHPC
DDN Steps Up with All-New HPC Storage Systems at SC15
"At SC15, DDN announced the new DDN SFA14K and SFA14KE high performance hybrid storage platforms. As the new flagship product in DDN’s most established productDDN...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Information Cartography
In the CACM: 'Metro maps' of information and its use in narratives. Video. A means to understand use architectures? Fascinating, but I need to see it with real...
From insideHPC
Four Reasons that Software Development is in the HPC Driving Seat for 2016
Sponsored Post Hardware and the Top 500 ranking always grabs effort and headlines in HPC, but for a sometimes pyrrhic victory of raw power over utility. It hasFour...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
PBS KIDS ScratchJr.
Scratch Jr and PBS are both well known entities in education for younger children. It’s probably not surprising that the two have partnered up . Just in time for...
From Schneier on Security
How Israel Regulates Encryption
Interesting essay about how Israel regulates encryption: ...the Israeli encryption control mechanisms operate without directly legislating any form of encryption...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Why it Pays to Upgrade Your Home Network
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why it pays to upgrade your home networking gear. The post Radio Free HPC Looks at Why it Pays to Upgrade Your...
From Writing
Shit Google Voice Says
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post called Shit Recruiters Say, where I shared some of the funniest and most ridiculous recruiter messages I had seen. Today, I...
From Writing
Shit Google Voice Says
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post called Shit Recruiters Say, where I shared some of the funniest and most ridiculous recruiter messages I had seen. Today, I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining the Wikipedia for Influential World Universities
In Technology Review: Interesting way to look at existing data. An alternative approach to ranking. The subject attracts, how accurate depends on the goal of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification Gamble and Value
Good overview ... Fundamental idea is good, but how is it best inserted into cultures and values?In Knowledge@Wharton:Would you invest in a motivational program...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Permutation Problems With Strings
From “Parsons Puzzles” to Babai’s breakthrough, and more? NZ silver fern source: Robin Ducker (CC) Dale Parsons and Patricia Haden, of Otago Polytechnic in New...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog