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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
Internet of Things Shaking up Jobs
Some interesting examples of business IOT. My electric meter was recently turned into an IOT device." ... After the town of Cary, N.C., installed a water meter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
XTRAN for Development
Always interested in the implementation of expertise. Developed a number of them myself. This has been around for some time. Just brought to my attention: ...
From insideHPC
Supermicro World Record STAC-2 Performance with Intel Xeon Phi
Today Supermicro announced World Record STAC-A2 performance. Announced at the STAC Summit, Supemicro beat the record with their SYS-1028GR-TR server supportingSupermicro...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Decision Journey
In McKinsey. Thoughtful piece that looks at revised a map of the journey.The new consumer decision journeyFor years, empowered consumers have held the upper hand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization Mistakes
From Tableau: A video: 100 Years of Data Visualization – It’s Time to Stop Making the Same Mistakes ... " . Best practices for data viz and more. Interesting...
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Cloth Simulation
From Disney Research. For consumer generated graphics in movies. Often it is the details that make things look realistic, and the movement of cloth on figures...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
U.S. Web Design Standards Released
The U.S. Digital Service and GSA 18F released new U.S. Web Design Standards to create harmonized user experiences across federal government websites. The effort...
From Schneier on Security
$1M Bounty for iPhone Hack
I don't know whether to believe this story. Supposedly the startup Zerodium paid someone $1M for an iOS 9.1 and 9.2b hack. Bekrar and Zerodium, as well as its predecessor...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces Four Awards to Establish Regional Hubs for Data Science
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced four awards totaling more than $5 million to establish regional hubs for data science innovation. These...
From insideHPC
UberCloud Delivers CAE as a Service with Univa Grid Engine Container Edition
Today the UberCloud announced a complete management and execution environment for UberCloud Application Containers powered by Univa Grid Engine Container Edition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson to Upgrade with Deep Learning
This is a fundamental change. The original Jeopardy form of Watson did not use deep learning via neural networks. It was too easy to ascribe too much to it.In...
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Matters at PayPal
In this video from the SC15 HPC Matters series, Ryan Quick, Principal Architect for Advance Technologies at Paypal, talks about how HPC transforms online payment...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Do We Still Need Computer Science Teachers?
These days it seems like “how to learn coding yourself” opportunities are everywhere. There are MOOCs from major universities, code.org (http://code.org) has great...
From Putting People First
Another book entitled “The Quantified Self”
The Quantified Self By Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus MIT Press, 264 pp. April 2016 Oops, that is confusing: two books by sociologists on the quantified self movement...
From Putting People First
Another book entitled “The Quantified Self”
The Quantified Self By Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus MIT Press, 264 pp. April 2016 Oops, that is confusing: two books by sociologists on the quantified self movement...
From insideHPC
Bright Computing to Update Cluster Management Software at SC15
Today Bright Computing announced plans to release several updates and enhancements to its most popular management software solutions at SC15, which takes placeBright...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Another Perspective on the White House NSCI Workshop
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Doug Burger, Director of Hardware, Devices, and Experiences at Microsoft Research. I served as a panelist...
From insideHPC
LiquidCool Solutions Launches Newest Technology at SC15
Today LiquidCool Solutions (LCS) announced plans to launch its newest technology - the Clamshell - at SC15 in Austin. As a rack-based server, the Clamshell is low...
From insideHPC
European Commission Funds Human Brain Project Through 2020
Today the European Commission announced a partnership agreement with the Human Brain Project (HBP), a key EU research project aiming to better understand how the...
From The Eponymous Pickle