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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 Schneier on Security
Amazon Chooses Data and Goliath as a Best Book of 2015
Amazon chose Data and Goliath as one of its Best Books of 2015, in both the nonfiction and business categories....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Humans in the Computing Loop
An idea we played with for years. Why not integrate humans deeply into processes that need judgement and intelligence? Even if only temporarily until we figure...
From insideHPC
Berkeley Lab to Optimize Spark for HPC
Today LBNL announced that a team of scientists from Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division has been awarded a grant by Intel to support their goal of enabling...
From insideHPC
Podcast: SC15 Keynote Speaker Alan Alda on How HPC Transforms
"To model climate change is one of the great benefits we're going to get from supercomputing. The trouble is, to really help the public understand all the benefits...
From insideHPC
Seagate Launches Government Solutions Group
Today Seagate announced the formation of Seagate Government Solutions, a new U.S.-based business entity dedicated to helping address the growing data-management...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Machines Evolving with us
Interesting thoughtful piece suggesting that our intelligence is co-evolving with AI. As a practical student of the emergence of AI, I agree that it is harder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How IOT is already being Used
Fairly obvious, but it is worth reviewing, with statistics. In the HBR: " .... We did an open-source analysis of IoT user behavior, looking at 1,000 IoT technology...
From insideHPC
CEA in France Upgrades Storage to DDN SFA14KE
Today DDN announced that the French CEA has selected DDN’s SFA14KE as the core storage for this year’s comprehensive refresh of the agency's data management infrastructure...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How do you terrify computer science students?
How do you terrify computer science students? Ask them to design their own project to be graded. I asked my programming students today to come up with a project...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Death of Gene Amdahl, IBM Architect and then Competitor
Our enterprise was one of the first users of his competitive mainframe environment, when there was little large scale competition. Was interesting to see the background...
From insideHPC
TACC to Provide Onramp for Project Catapult Reconfigurable Fabric Platform
Today TACC announced it will enable users to take advantage of the capabilities of Microsoft's Project Catapult reconfigurable fabric platform. Project Catapult...
From insideHPC
Industries that Use Cloud Computing for HPC Applications
Various industries have adopted or are in the planning and evaluation phase for using the cloud for HPC applications. Within the realm of technical computing, certain...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Adding Interest Via Data
One of the lessons that stuck with my from some workshops I took some years ago was that more interesting projects involved doing things that involve a lot of data...
From Schneier on Security
Personal Data Sharing by Mobile Apps
Interesting research: "Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps," by Jinyan Zang, Krysta Dummit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tailored Analytics: Wolfram Financial Platform
More movement towards tailored analytics. Here the Wolfram Financial Platform. Obvious inclusion of methods like time series analysis. Consider tailored tools...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarms of Drones
Swarms have been covered here a number of times. Some additional applications immediately come to mind beyond warehouse inventory. Being tested now.
From Schneier on Security
Testing the Usability of PGP Encryption Tools
"Why Johnny Still, Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client," by Scott Ruoti, Jeff Andersen, Daniel Zappala, and Kent Seamons. Abstract...
From insideHPC
New Math Libraries Speed 64-bit ARM-based HPC Systems
Today ARM announced new math libraries that are precision-tuned for 64-bit ARMv8-A processors. Designed for ARM-based HPC servers, ARM Performance Libraries are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games and Cognition
Simon Ellis, a PhD student from RPI, presented "Aleph, A Cognitive Game-playing System for Tabletop Games." Slides. With comparison to Watson.Please findhttp...
From insideHPC