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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
Brick and Mortar Analytics
On the use of analytics for physical stores. In Forbes. I was reminded of this as I looked back on some methods we worked in the 90s. More data, but not very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will Training for New Skills Have No Value?
Posed in CWorld: An interesting premise. As we learn to augment people with new skills using virtual assistants, will these first replace the most valuable and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kinds of Thinkers in Collaboration
In the HBR: How should organizations link to collaboration tools? Just dealing with that myself in a new organization. Who adapts and how? Good piece" ....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Save the Date for CS Ed Week 2015!
Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) is an annual program designed to engage students of all ages in computer science. It is observed each year, in recognition...
From Schneier on Security
Voter Surveillance
There hasn't been that much written about surveillance and big data being used to manipulate voters. In Data and Goliath, I wrote: Unique harms can arise from the...
From insideHPC
China’s Team Diablo Wins SC15 Student Cluster Competition
SC15 has announced the winners of the Student Cluster Competition, which took place last week in Austin. Team Diablo, a team of undergraduate students from Tsinghua...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Tries an OpenFog Consortium
Fog computing they are calling it? Won't set up a tag for that quite yet.Microsoft helps accelerate IoT with new OpenFog ConsortiumRich Internet of Things (IoT)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovations in Engines for Aviation
As I learn more about GE Aviation, More innovation in Big Scale Manufacturing. In their innovation blog:GE Reports: Just Like The Wright Flyer, GE’s Turboprop...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why I Joined CSTA
I’m one of the co-chairs of the Membership Committee. While all the committees are responsive to members, it’s our job to think about who our members are, whatContinue...
From insideHPC
Who Will Write Next-generation Software?
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe writes that software scalability and portability may be more important even than energy...
From insideHPC
Slidecast: Seagate Beefs Up ClusterStor at SC15
In this video from SC15, Larry Jones from Seagate provides an overview of the company's revamped HPC storage product line, including a new 10,000 RPM ClusterStor...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is peer review slowing down science and technology?
Ten years ago, a team lead by Irina Conboy at the University of California at Berkeley showed something remarkable in a Nature paper: if you take old cells andContinue...
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2016
The HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2016 has announced their Call for Participation. Hosted by the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, the event will...
From Computational Complexity
Star Trek Computing
In the wake of Leonard Nimoy's death last February, I decided to rewatch the entire original Star Trek series, all 79 episodes. I had watched them each many times...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hololens to Provide Demo in Volvo Showroom
In Engadget: An example of VR being used to provide engagement for marketing. Does this provide actual value or just novelty? First Hololens example with a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speed of Marketing Automation
Consider in addition attentive or analytical methods to detect needed intervention.Traveling at the speed of culture: can marketing automation keep up?For successful...
From insideHPC
Video: SGI Looks to Zero Copy Architecture for HPC and Big Data
In this video from SC15, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from SGI describes how the company is embracing new HPC technology trends such as new memory hierarchies. With the convergence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Origins of Graphic Communications
And link to TED talk on alphabets and graphics.' ... "Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?"Genevieve Von Petzinger, a paleoanthropologist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and Facial Recognition
Did Walmart cross a line with its facial recognition test?By Matthew SternWhether or not the public at large will accept the use of facial recognition in their...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson