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Watson Provides Health on Apple Watch
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Provides Health on Apple Watch

In Fortune:  IBM's Watson makes its health care debut on the Apple Watch  by  Laura Lorenzetti" ... The app, developed by Welltok of Denver, takes advantage of...

Chatham House Rules
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chatham House Rules

This was brought to mind during planning for a meeting, I researched the background of the 'Chatham house rules', which we used at times when working with external...

Halloween Podcast: Radio Free Shares their Biggest Fears for HPC
From insideHPC

Halloween Podcast: Radio Free Shares their Biggest Fears for HPC

In this special Halloween podcast, the Radio Free HPC team shares their biggest fears for HPC. From cybersecurity to a lack of funding for important research, what's...

Job of the Week: Lead Specialist for HPC at Celgene
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: Lead Specialist for HPC at Celgene

Celgene in San Diego is seeking a Lead Specialist for HPC in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: Lead Specialist for HPC at Celgene appeared first on...

Instrumenting the Human
From The Eponymous Pickle

Instrumenting the Human

A rapid convergence of human and machine work processes.  Happening now." ... When it comes to the digital workplace, the popular opinion, and fear, is that machines...

Think Tanks on Demand
From The Eponymous Pickle

Think Tanks on Demand

Was just exposed to   Convetit:   " ... ThinkTanks On Demand  .... Custom research in days instead of months ... ... How we work ... From a single scoping discussion...

First Things First
From XRDS

First Things First

       It’s been an autumn of firsts.        I went to my first User Experience symposium a few weeks ago.  It was a good conference, two full days, and I learned...

Friday Squid Blogging: Baby Giant Squid Found
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Baby Giant Squid Found

First ever examples of a baby giant squid have been found. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...

CSTA2016 Submissions and Reviews
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CSTA2016 Submissions and Reviews

The review period for next summer’s annual conference just ended, and we will have an amazing program for you! For this conference we will have workshops, one hour...

[Book] Digital Ethnography
From Putting People First

[Book] Digital Ethnography

Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice By Sarah Pink, Heather Horst, John Postill, Larissa Hjorth, Tania Lewis and Jo Tacchi (RMIT University) SAGE Publications...

[Book] Digital Ethnography
From Putting People First

[Book] Digital Ethnography

Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice By Sarah Pink, Heather Horst, John Postill, Larissa Hjorth, Tania Lewis and Jo Tacchi (RMIT University) SAGE Publications...

The Onion on the State of IT Security
From Schneier on Security

The Onion on the State of IT Security

"China Unable To Recruit Hackers Fast Enough To Keep Up With Vulnerabilities In U.S. Security Systems." It's only funny because it's true....

House Science Committee Reviews Federal IT Research
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

House Science Committee Reviews Federal IT Research

The following is a Computing Research Policy Blog post by Peter Harsha, CRA Director of Government Affairs.  Experts from academia and government, including Computing...

Imitators and Innovators Adopt RISC
From Blog@Ubiquity

Imitators and Innovators Adopt RISC

While it may come as a surprise, today RISC architecture computer systems dominate the mobile computing landscape. It has been 40 years in the making. The post ...

HPC People on the Move: Halloween Edition
From insideHPC

HPC People on the Move: Halloween Edition

Lewey Anton reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. Familiar names this month include Ron Blessing, Rick Friedman, Karl Freund...

Agave Platform Provides Science as a Service
From insideHPC

Agave Platform Provides Science as a Service

Work began recently on the Agave Platform, an open ‘Science-as-a-Service’ (ScaaS) cloud platform for reproducible science. Funded by a $4 Million NSF grant, the...

PASC16 Conference in Switzerland Issues Call for Papers
From insideHPC

PASC16 Conference in Switzerland Issues Call for Papers

The PASC16 Conference in Switzerland has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place June 8-10 in Laussane. The post PASC16 Conference in Switzerland Issues...

Kyoto University Orders SGI UV Supercomputer for Life Sciences
From insideHPC

Kyoto University Orders SGI UV Supercomputer for Life Sciences

Today SGI Japan announced that the Institute for Chemical Research (ICR) at Kyoto University has ordered an SGI UV 2000 supercomputer. "The large-scale hybrid supercomputer...

Interview: Baidu Speeds Deep Learning with GPU Clusters
From insideHPC

Interview: Baidu Speeds Deep Learning with GPU Clusters

"Deep neural networks are increasingly important for powering AI-based applications like speech recognition. Baidu's research shows that adding GPUs to the data...

Even Wal-Mart is Thinking about Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Even Wal-Mart is Thinking about Drones

Google, Amazon and Wal-Mart join FAA drone task forceGoogle, Amazon and Wal-Mart have joined the government's task force charged with figuring out a registration...
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