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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
Wal-Mart Health Kiosks
Did much study of the kiosk idea, but now we have our own personal smart-phone kiosks. The standalone kiosk can add additional marketing experience in physical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Industrial Data Lakes
Doing some explorations of work in Industry for dealing with large quantities of data, supporting key operational decisions. Work by GE, much more at thisA...
From insideHPC
Meet Apollo – Revolutionizing HPC and the Supercomputer
It’s a different kind of computing world out there. The demand for more compute performance for applications used by engineering, risk modeling, or life sciences...
From XRDS
Exploring Virtual Reality – Are We There Yet?
Virtual reality is the next hot technology. The Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that allows you to see 3D worlds, is almost ready for consumers and developers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Bets on Big Data
From IBM Insight meetings underway today. More engagement between our rapidly increasing data resources and Cognitive/Watson. Video of talk and more" ... IBM...
From Schneier on Security
Ravens Can Identify Cheaters
Ravens have been shown to identify and remember cheaters among their unkindness....
From insideHPC
RCE Podcast on the Conduit Model for Hierarchical Scientific Data
In this RCE podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres discuss Conduit with Cyrus Harriston from LLNL. Conduit is an open source project from Lawrence Livermore that...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Crazily fast hashing with carry-less multiplications
We all know the regular multiplication that we learn in school. To multiply a number by 3, you can multiply a number by two and add it with itself. Programmers...
From insideHPC
Interview: Penguin Computing Lands Biggest Open Compute Contract Ever for HPC
The Open Compute Project got a major endorsement in the HPC space news of NNSA's pending deployment of Tundra clusters from Penguin Computing. To learn more,Interview...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NIH Grant Opportunity related to CCC Aging in Place Workshop
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released a new grant called Collaborative Aging (in Place) Research Using Technology (CART) (U2C), which is a result...
From Computational Complexity
A human-readable proof that every planar graph is 4.5-colorable
About 20 years ago I went to a talk by Jim Propp on the fractional chromatic number of a graph. (Here is a link to a free legal copy of the book on fractional graph...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skill Testing for Intelligent Assistants
Fascinating view of how skills are constructed from microelements and tested. Just updated. Informative for those thinking about constructing intelligent assistants...
From insideHPC
World’s Largest Two-Phase Immersion Cooling Project to Use 3M Novec Fluid
Today 3M announced that the world’s most powerful two-phase immersion cooling project will be deployed in a 40+ MW data center in the Republic of Georgia. Designed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco fails to sell DunnHumby
Considerable local presence, with their US HQ, they hire many entry level data analysts. We used many of DunnHumby's services for targeted coupons.Tesco’s Prophecy...
From insideHPC
Panel Discussion: Extreme-Scale Numerical Algorithms and Software
"The FASTMathSciDAC Institute develops and deploys scalable mathematical algorithms and software tools for reliable simulation of complex physical phenomena and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Reference Architecture
Nicely done look at a Cloud Analytics Playbook & Reference Architecture by @BoozAllen at Booz Allen Consulting via Kirk Borne. I like the inclusion of metadata...
From insideHPC
SGI UV 300RL Enables Real-time Analytics with Oracle Database In-Memory
Today SGI introduced the SGI UV 300RL for big data in-memory analytics. As a new model in the SGI UV server line certified and supported with Oracle Linux, theSGI...
From Schneier on Security
Microsoft's Brad Smith on the Collapse of Safe Harbor
Microsoft's President Brad Smith has a blog post discussing what to do now that the US-EU safe-harbor agreement has collapsed. He outlines four steps: First, we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Companies Reaching out to Millennials
In the HBR: How established companies, as in hospitality and insurance, are reaching out to Millennials. Need for a new kind of talking. We met with their"...
From The Eponymous Pickle