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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 insideHPC
Interview: New DiscoverHPC Directory Puts All-Things-HPC in One Place
As the reach of high performance computing continues to expand, so does the worldwide HPC community. In such a fast-growing ecosystem, how do you find the right...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Celebrate Computer Science Education Week, December 7-13
Join ACM in celebrating Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) during December 7-13. ACM, as a partner of Code.org, invites you to host an Hour of Code in your...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netflix, Analytics and What You Watch
In FutureStartup: Correspondent Bill Franks chief scientist at Teradata, talks about his analytics experiences with Netflix. Further thoughts: " ... Teradata...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Showcases OCP Platforms for HPC at SC15
“CTS-1 shows how the Open Compute and Open Rack design elements can be applied to high-performance computing and deliver similar benefits as its original development...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Data Science Seminar- Making Sense of Found Data
The AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows at the National Science Foundation (NSF) have organized another talk in their Data Science Seminar Series from danah...
From insideHPC
HPC Helps Drive Climate Change Modeling
Because of the complexity involved, the length of the simulation period, and the amounts of data generated, weather prediction and climate modeling on a globalHPC...
From insideHPC
University of Toronto Wins Research Grant to Compute the Cure
The University of Toronto is the official winner of Nvidia’s Compute the Cure initiative for 2015. Compute the Cure is a strategic philanthropic initiative of the...
From Computational Complexity
crank math and crank people
In the same week I got email claming: 1) Babai had shown that GI is in quasipoly time. 2) Opeyemi Enoch, a Nigerian Mathematician, solved the Riemann hypothesis...
From insideHPC
IBM Ramps Up Apache Spark at SC15
"What we're previewing here today is a capability to have an overarching software, resource scheduler and workflow manager that takes all of these disparate sources...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Morphological Modeling
Tom Ritchey sends along an article about structural systems modeling. Technical. See previous writing about this in the tags below. As an alternative to quantitative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Classifying Images with TemsorFlow
From the Google research blog. A non technical post on how to use their now open source Tensorflow capability for image classification. Instructive as to capabilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Silicon Angle Examines the Analytics Market
Including mention of the Cortana BI and lead management release:In Silicon Angle: With chief marketing officers expected to outstrip the technology spending of...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Nominate a White House Computer Science Education Champion of Change
The White House is accepting nominations of teachers, students, parents, and business leaders for recognition as White House Champions of Change in Computer Science...
From Schneier on Security
Forced Authorization Attacks Against Chip-and-Pin Credit Card Terminals
Clever: The way forced authorisation fraud works is that the retailer sets up the terminal for a transaction by inserting the customer's card and entering the amount...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 December 2015
The calendar years is coming to a close. I have 10 days of school (including today) until my school’s Christmas break. I’m looking forward to it. I hope to find...
From Putting People First
Conference: Why the world needs anthropologists
On Friday, 27 November 2015, Ljubljana (Slovenia) hosted the third international symposium ‘Why the world needs anthropologists‘. The theme of this year’s event...
From Putting People First
Conference: Why the world needs anthropologists
On Friday, 27 November 2015, Ljubljana (Slovenia) hosted the third international symposium ‘Why the world needs anthropologists‘. The theme of this year’s event...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Capabilities for Online Merchants
Interesting to see Watson derived capabilities being used for merchandising and marketing data insights. " ... IBM ... today announced new commerce capabilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling with Data
An increasingly discussed topic. Here a site devoted to the topic. Is it marketing or is it the presentation of data that allows it to be best used to present...
From The Eponymous Pickle