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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
PICA8 Drives High-Speed SDN AT SC15
Today Pica8 announced that the California Institute of Technology, Northwestern University and SURFnet will be demonstrating Pica8-powered Inventec 100G Ethernet...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Looks to Cavium ThunderX for ARM HPC Servers
Today Penguin Computing announced first customer shipments of its Tundra Extreme Scale (ES) server based on Cavium’s 48 core ARMv8 based ThunderX workload optimized...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Creative Coding Through Games and Apps
I've been looking into this lately. It looks like an interesting first course for a lot of schools. Creative Coding Through Games and Apps is a first-semester...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Contests for Computer Science Students and Grants for Teachers
Earth | Microsoft Imagine Cup https://www.imaginecup.com/Earth via @MSFTimagine An Imagine Cup coding competition for students between 6 and 18 years old from Microsoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Parent Purchases from Behavior
In Retailwire: EBay predicts parents' purchases EBay Advertising U.K. has launched a predictive targeting tool for identifying and segmenting "parent" shoppers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Language in a Neural Net
Steps forward in the linking of neural networks and something brain like? Some detail here,A network of artificial neurons learns to use human languageA computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and Cybersecurity
In Datanami: Visual look at how machine learning is applied. " ... While there has been extensive academic research into the use of machine learning technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Google Outsourced TensorFlow
Interesting take. To promote AI innovation. Anticipate taking a look." ... Google last week open sourced TensorFlow, a new machine learning library used in deep...
From Schneier on Security
On CISA
I have avoided writing about the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), largely because the details kept changing. (For those not following closely, similar...
From insideHPC
Video: IBM Showcases Data-centric Computing at SC15
In this video from SC15, Matt Drahzal from IBM describes the company's comprehensive approach to data-centric computing. "IBM is speeding up innovation throughVideo...
From XRDS
Shafi Goldwasser’s Role in Securing the Internet of Things (IoT)
We keep hearing in today’s technology-driven world that advancements such as 3D printing, next-gen robots, and virtual reality are made everyday, but we often learn...
From insideHPC
Rise of Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling Highlighted at SC15
Of the varied approaches to liquid cooling, most remain technical curiosities and fail to show real-world adoption in any significant degree. In contrast, both...
From insideHPC
Video: Seagate Rolls out All New ClusterStor Lineup for HPC Storage
In this video, Torben Kling-Petersen from Seagate describes new storage innovations for high performance computing. At SC15, Seagate announced a major expansion...
From insideHPC
Docker Containers Come to Cray XC Software
Today Cray announced plans to deliver an HPC-optimized Docker solution for the Cray XC line of supercomputers. Available in 2016, the HPC virtualization capabilities...
From Schneier on Security
Refuse to Be Terrorized
Paul Krugman has written a really good update of my 2006 esssay. Krugman: So what can we say about how to respond to terrorism? Before the atrocities in Paris,...
From insideHPC
AppliedMicro and E4 Collaborate on X-Gene Platforms
Today Applied Micro Circuits Corporation announced a collaboration with E4 Computer Engineering, a leading supplier of customized solutions for high performance...
From insideHPC
Deep Learning Systems Analyze Periscope Streams on a Supercomputer
Today Dextro, developer of advanced computer vision, machine learning, and data analytics technologies, announced that Orange Silicon Valley, an innovation subsidiary...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 November 2015
Yesterday’s interesting links was all about links to educators and their blogs and resources. Today is about links from non profits and companies. Good stuff all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bioogically Inspired Question Answering
Via Jim Spohrer. See the previous CSIG talk on this work.In Kurzweil AI: IBM’s Watson shown to enhance human-computer co-creativity, support biologically inspired...
From The Eponymous Pickle