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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
Review: Tableau Launches Vizable for Tablet
Tableau has launched a free data visualization capability for the iPad called Vizable. I loaded it up today and ran through a number of examples. Includes basic...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Disrupting the Gender Gap in Computer Science
On Friday, I’m giving a TED-style talk for our regional school association on what I call the “girl problem” in Computer Science, and how we might fix it. I’veContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UC Center for Business Analytics
A very late invite, I just received, but here it is:You are invited to a free special event at University of Cincinnati, Lindner College of Business tonight at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strap Startup for Marketing Analytics
Brought to my attention via the Brandery. Strap. Also, their Brandery information." .... Strap enables actionable human data to inform and improve marketing...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing to Build 7-9 Petaflops of Open Compute Clusters for NNSA
Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced a contract with Penguin Computing for a set of large-scale Open Compute HPC clusters. With 7...
From insideHPC
Stanford Accelerates Solar Car with Sabalcore HPC Cloud
The Stanford Solar Car Project is using the Sabalcore HPC Cloud to significantly improve aerodynamics for their entry in the 2015 World Solar Challenge. "The car...
From Apophenia
What World Are We Building?
This morning, I had the honor and pleasure of giving the Everett C. Parker Lecture in celebration of the amazing work he did to fight for media justice. The talk...
From insideHPC
NSF Funds Supercomputing for Neuroscientists at SDSC
Neuroscientists will find an easier path to supercomputiong thanks to new SDSC funding from the NSF. The project will contribute to the national BRAIN initiative...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
50 Emerging Global Entrepreneurs to Watch
The Kairos Society, a San Francisco-based international organization that supports the development of entrepreneurs has published its fourth annual list of Kairos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Medical Early Detection Systems
In CWorld: ' ... Penn Medicine’s big data system triggers early detection of life-threatening infections ... Insights drawn from a massively parallel computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programmers vs. Idiots
I found this image recently and shared it on Facebook. Reactions from my friends was interesting. Most agreed with my saying that I didn’t think programmers were...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hololens Future
An update on expectations for Microsoft's Hololens. No consumer version until 2017? I got a developer invite recently which led me to think possibilities. It...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Think Further DNA
I was pointed to the Think Future web site. A post there on disruptive financial tools. " .... Life Code is the extraordinary technology built from DNA. From...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shared Experience and Empathy
In the HBR: Indications that the very old adage of having to 'walk in their shoes' may not work the way we always expected.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting to China's Wired Consumers
In McKinsey: Five keys to connecting with China’s wired consumersChina is the world’s largest and most dynamic e-commerce market. But being successful requires...
From insideHPC
Lustre* Accelerates the Convergence of Big Data and HPC in Financial Services
Across industries, companies are beginning to watch the convergence of High-performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data. Many organizations in the Financial Services...
From insideHPC
Bill Gropp Presents: MPI and Hybrid Programming Models
Bill Gropp presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Where it is used as an alternative to MPI, OpenMP often has difficulty...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Congressional Innovation Fellowship Applications Due November 1
TechCongress, in partnership with the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation, is accepting applications for its inaugural class of Congressional...
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The Spam Filter Apocalypse
Spam filters almost prevented these gorgeous photo ops.A few weeks ago, a friend and I were planning to go apple-picking when I noticed she was curiously silent...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM