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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
Managing Very Big Data: Detailed Map of the Milky Way
The results of an experiment to display and navigate a combined observational image of the entire Milky Way Galaxy. 64 billion bits. Description and links to...
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CPG Supply Chains
An element of cost and capability that cannot be ignored. Do you know the processes in play? Architecture should be frequently re-examined. Rising costs, complexities...
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Digital Transformation
Reasonable thoughts for any analytics as well. Pick a place where you know the process and can support the underlying context.Digital Transformation - Where doby...
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Predicting Consumer Behavior
In the WSJ: Outline of a forthcoming paper. To which I respond, anyone can predict, but how well and in what context? " .... “Once we understand the factorsKnowing...
From insideHPC
Video: Python for High Performance Computing
In this video from the recent Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, William Scullin from Argonne National Labs presents: Python for High Performance...
From insideHPC
Hartree Centre to Assist Industry with OpenPOWER Acceleration
Today the Hartree Centre announced plans for the UK's first POWER Acceleration and Design Center (PADC) designed to help UK businesses exploit high performanceHartree...
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Autonomy of Driverless Cars
In CWorld: At what point should cars be completely driverless? The direction, certainly for delivery, seems to be fast approaching. Some thoughts" .... IfDavid...
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Skip: More In Aisle Checkout
One of the holy grails of retail is to much decrease or even eliminate the checkout experience . It would cut labor needs, and also eliminate one of the most common...
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Leo Reiter from Nimbix on the Keys to HPC Startup Innovation
Nimbix CTO Leo Reiter will present a featured Founder Story at the StartupHPC Summit, Monday Nov 16 at the Capital Factory in Austin. We sat down with him to get...
From Putting People First
IKEA Play Report 2015
IKEA has undertaken a major research-driven project in 2014 across 12 countries (report here) to explore the subjects of children’s development and play, and young...
From insideHPC
Cloud Computing Models for HPC
This article describes the challenges that users face and the solutions available to make running cloud based HPC applications a reality. You'll learn about different...
From Schneier on Security
Forensic Analysis of Smart Card Fraud
This paper describes what is almost certainly the most sophisticated chip-and-pin credit card fraud to date. News article. BoingBoing post....
From Putting People First
White paper: Design for aging
Designing the Second Half of Life: Innovation for Aging A visual white paper by Karten Design September 2015 The next 30 years will be a defining era for the American...
From Putting People First
Imagining a future IKEA catalogue [design fiction]
On August 31st Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova from the Near Future Laboratory organised a full day design fiction workshop in Sweden focused on the consumer-oriented...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Would You Like a Hint?
Students ask me why their program doesn’t work all the time. Sometimes they ask me as soon as a problem pops up. Usually they work on it themselves for a while....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Faster hashing without effort
Modern software spends much time hashing objects. There are many fancy hash functions that are super fast. However, without getting fancy, we can easily doubleContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Shopping Trends Across the US
In Shopping with Google: (Beta shopping trend visualization)Shopping Insights: Explore How People Shop for Products Across the U.S.In today's connected world, 87...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Intel HPC Developer Conference Coming to Austin for SC15
In this podcast, Intel Software Evangelist James Reinders describes the upcoming Intel HPC Developer Conference. Featuring a keynote by Jack Dongarra from the University...
From insideHPC