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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
End of Traditional Marketing
In Knowledge@Wharton:" ... There’s been talk for some time that traditional marketing is dead. But now that 70% of consumers trust brand recommendations from friends...
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Teaching Machines to Understand us
Facebook's work in AI and Deep Learning. Largely nontechnical article in Technology Review:Teaching Machines to Understand UsA reincarnation of one of the oldest...
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Video: Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Team Up with Scalable System Framework at SC15
In this video from SC15, Intel's Barry Davis and and Scott Misage from Hewlett Packard Enterprise describe how their two company's are driving HPC innovation with...
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Hands on Look at Hololens
Was impressed by an early look at Hololens and the potential integration with Windows, especialy for prototype building, but disappointed that its availability...
From insideHPC
SC Perennials Keep Coming Back
SC15 will the 28th supercomputing event in the conference series, a long tradition that brings some 10,000 HPC professionals to Austin this week. While many ofSC...
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Success of Pixar
In Innovation Excellence: Piece on the success of Pixar. Intriguing view about how a company can produce value through innovation." ... Yet in his memoir, Creativity...
From insideHPC
PGI and NNSA to Open Source Fortran Compiler
Today the NNSA and its three national labs announced they have reached an agreement with Nvidia’s PGI software to create an open-source Fortran compiler designed...
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Executive Coaching for Academics
David E Goldberg and ThreeJoyIt's called "3 Reasons for The Coming Revolution in Executive Coaching For Academics" and it discusses how changes in universities...
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Vint Cerf on the Internet of Things
In the CACM: Cites existence of chaotic protocols rather than standards." ... A number of significant challenges face the continuing development of the Internet...
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Readying for Space Storms
Early in my data career I modeled solar behavior and activity. The problem continues to be better defined. And it is being addressed.
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Fail at Scale
In CACM: Reliability and the science of graceful failure. Abstract, full article requires registration.
From insideHPC
NUMECA CFD Moves to the Cloud with UberCloud Containers
Today NUMECA announced that its complete suite of CFD software powered by UberCloud application software containers are now available as a service in any cloud....
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More Google Micro Moments
Continue to be interested in how tasks are done as part of a larger job. How about Mid task corrections? ThinkWithGoogle writes: " ... 91% of Smartphone users...
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Reputation is Our Most Important Asset
Have been involve in several investigations lately that have born this out. K@W article that discusses the elements of reputation. A personal exploration here...
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Job of the Week: HPC Applications Specialist at Brown University
Brown University in Rhode Island is seeking an HPC Applications Specialist in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Applications Specialist at Brown...
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New ORNL Paper: Survey on Asymmetric Multicore Processors
ORNL researcher Sparsh Mittal has authored a new paper entitled “A Survey Of Techniques for Architecting and Managing Asymmetric Multicore Processors.” Now accepted...
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Cross Screen Addressability
Often talked about in the industry, now here.AT&T Tests Cross-Screen Addressable AdsMarketers Can Reach Same Consumer on TV and Mobile DevicesThrough a partnership...
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Your Brain Making Decisions
In Knowledge@Wharton: Brains on decision making, how do they influence what we do and how we do it. See also the recent videos by David Eagleman in tag below....
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing Championship
It's an annual event in Hvar, Croatia....
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