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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
Smart Glasses Translate Video into Sound to Help Blind See
In New Scientist. Am seeing a number of these approaches lately. Repurposing the activity of the brain as a more general purpose sensory understanding engine....
From insideHPC
GPUs in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solutions
VDI or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure helps companies save money, time and resources. Instead of large bulky machines on every desk in the office, companies can...
From insideHPC
Ancillary Event Lineup for SC15 in Austin
SC15 in Austin is world’s largest gathering of HPC professionals, and the smart money is on the organizations that leverage the show for their own gatherings, meetups...
From Schneier on Security
Australia Is Testing Virtual Passports
Australia is going to be the first country to have virtual passports. Presumably, the passport data will be in the cloud somewhere, and you'll access it with an...
From insideHPC
HiPINEB 2016 in Barcelona Issues Call for Papers
The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era has issued its Call for Papers. The HiPINEB event...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts On Old Software–Why We Need Documentation
A former student sent me a links today - NASA seeks programmer fluent in 60-year-old languages to work on Voyager My first thought was that I know FORTRAN and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining
CRISP-DM ( Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining) which we plugged into as far back as 07, seems to have disappeared, along with its web site. Data mining...
From Computational Complexity
Conference on Computation and Journalism (Part I)
(In honor of Boole's Birthday yesterday see this.) I recently (Oct 2 and 3 2015) went to a conference on Computation and Journalism (see here for their schedule)...
From XRDS
Why “Celebrate Women in Computing”?
The ACM-W society is one of the biggest advocates of women in computing. They dedicate several events and awards to celebrate prominent women in computer science...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 2
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 Hearing: TSA Security Gaps House Oversight and Government Reform Committee 10 am | 2154 Rayburn House Office Building Hearing: Examining...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House Holds National Strategic Computing Initiative Workshop
The White House held a two-day National Strategic Computing Initiative Workshop to bring together stakeholders from industry, academia, and federal agencies, laboratories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Science Search Engine Searches on Meaning
We always wanted better semantic search. Based on semantic meaning, underlying scientific ontology, common sense, business driven analogy, even goal based'Google...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Based Spicy Trends
A trend area we examined, based on data, now blooming in full gear:" .... Restaurants and food retailers are feeding a growing demand for heat, with jalapenos,Not...
From insideHPC
NSF Funds Regional Data Hubs
Today the NSF announced major awards totaling more than $5 million to support four regional Data Hubs organized by some of the top universities and Big Data researchers...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
STEM Education Act Becomes Law
Computer science education got a boost when President Obama signed the STEM Education Act into law. It includes computer science in the definition of STEM, strengthens...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Materials that Couple Sensing, Actuation, Computation, and Communication
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Nikolaus Correll, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Brain and Decision Making
It is a good idea to better understand how our brain makes decisions. To answer the question: How can we best assist it? What are the implications when we do...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is artificial intelligence going to wipe us out in 30 years?
Many famous people have recently grown concerned that artificial intelligence is going to become a threat to humanity in the near future. The wealthy entrepreneur...
From insideHPC
Video: NCSA’s Ed Seidel Testifies on the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program
In the video, Ed Seidel from NSCA testifies at a House hearing on the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. NITRD provides...
From The Eponymous Pickle