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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
PRACEdays16 Issues Call for Participation
PRACEdays16 has issued their Call for Participation. Taking place May 10-12, 2016 in Prague, the conference will bring together experts from academia and industry...
From insideHPC
SC15 HPC Transforms – but how, what, where, when, why and for whom?
In this special guest feature from the Print'nFly Guide to SC15 in Austin, Peter ffoulkes from OrionX looks at how HPC Transforms. "If we thought the last fiveSC15...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VR as the Next Social Network
In CWorld: VR as social network. I mentioned this in a recent post that talked about using it to better understand social behavior. It has been been mentioned...
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Mellanox Open Ethernet Switches Accepted By Open Compute Project
Today Mellanox announced the acceptance of its 10GbE and 40GbE switch systems by the Open Compute Project (OCP). The post Mellanox Open Ethernet Switches Accepted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Using Retail Analytics
No details, but a good strategy piece on applications of Wal-Mart analyticsWalmart: Harvesting Value from Big Data with Hadoop & NoSQL by Ellen Friedman " .... ...
From Schneier on Security
The Rise of Political Doxing
Last week, CIA director John O. Brennan became the latest victim of what's become a popular way to embarrass and harass people on the Internet. A hacker allegedly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 November 2015
Wow! It’s November already. My school’s first quarter is done (I’ll finish updating grades today I hope), Halloween is over and so is Daylight savings time. And...
From Computational Complexity
George Boole (1815-1864)
George Boole, the father of symbolic logic, was born two hundred years ago today. His 1854 treatise, An investigation into the Laws of Thought, on Which are founded...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data in Recommendation Systems
A good overview in KDNuggets. Example with Amazon books. When you think of it, much of our purchase interaction online is influenced by such systems. It is important...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Practitioner Course for the Internet of Things
Looks to be very interesting, have not seen such a particular focus. By a well known practitioner and author.Data Science for Internet of Things – practitioner...
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Students: Apply for the ORNL Challenge Program
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has opened up submissions for their ORNL Challenge Program. Designed to propel the careers of bright young minds in computationalStudents...
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Video: How the SPARC M7 Builds Security into Silicon
"The SPARC M7 incorporates silicon-embedded advancements primarily in two areas: security and performance. First, the SPARC M7 accelerates data encryption through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digging for Dark Data
Dark Data. A favorite topic. Data assets are not only your own, but those you don't even know about. But often only useful in combination with your own data...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ghosts in Princeton
Kurt Gödel in popular culture and answers to Thursday’s problems Levi Weaver source Kurt Gödel may yet make it to Broadway. He already splashed across the silver...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Innovation Capacity
From the NSF: Considerable detail at the link," .... The Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) program supports academe-industry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeing Through Walls
Via the CACM in Ars Technica. " ... MIT uses wireless signals to identify people through wallsTech could identify intruders in your home or power motion capture...
From Putting People First
User-centred design of the bridge of sea ships
The Rolls-Royce Unified Bridge Design has won this year’s Ergonomics Design Award, presented by the UK Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors. The award...
From Putting People First
User-centred design of the bridge of sea ships
The Rolls-Royce Unified Bridge Design has won this year’s Ergonomics Design Award, presented by the UK Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors. The award...
From Putting People First
Analogue people in a digital age – short documentary
Following the lead of the United States and the United Kingdom, Ireland switched over from analogue to digital television transmission on 24 October 2012. Using...
From Putting People First