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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 My Biased Coin
Yes, We're Hiring This Year
Harvard's CS search ad is apparently up and out. We're eagerly awaiting applications....https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/6497The Harvard John A.http...
From Schneier on Security
Obama Administration Not Pursuing a Backdoor to Commercial Encryption
The Obama Administration is not pursuing a law that would force computer and communications manufacturers to add backdoors to their products for law enforcement...
From insideHPC
Heterogeneous On-Demand Storage for HPC Workflows in the Cloud
Leo Reiter from Nimbix presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Unlike conventional commodity cloud platforms, JARVICE and the Nimbix Cloud are purpose built...
From insideHPC
Agencies, Universities Announce Recipients of Inaugural Program to Expand Role of Women in Leading-Edge Networks
Five up-and-coming networking experts have been selected to take part in the Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program. The women, all early- to mid-career networking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Just Don’t Turn Them Off
A couple of years ago two of my students were discussing my influence on motivating students into computer science. One was giving me much too much credit. The...
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Work is (Not) a Four Letter Word
I recently finished reading Mindy Kaling’s Why Not Me? What I found most empowering was her openness about hard work.In the book, Mindy Kaling is refreshingly honest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Launches IOT Platform Beta
Am a subscriber to AWS, will examine. In Infoq:' .... At Amazon’s recent re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas, the company announced a new Internet ofDr...
From CERIAS Blog
Privacy, Surveillance, Freedom of Expression, and Purdue University
On September 24 and 25 of this year, Purdue University hosted the second Dawn or Doom symposium. The event — a follow-up to the similarly-named event held lastto...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where are all the search trees?
After arrays and linked lists, one of the first data structures computer-science students learn is the search tree. It usually starts with the binary search tree...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analytics Livestream Tomorrow
Tomorrow, major announcements on Watson Analytics, A move towards automating data science. Examples in a number of domains. I am attending as an invited analyst...
From insideHPC
Asetek Continues Momentum with Largest Server Installation Order to Date
Today Asetek announced its biggest purchase order to date for its RackCDU data center liquid cooling system. The order was placed by an undisclosed Original Equipment...
From insideHPC
Kathy Yelick to Receive Ken Kennedy Award at SC15
Today ACM and IEEE announced that Kathy Yelick from LBNL will be the recipient of the 2015 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for innovative research contributions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Scientists Telling Stories
I partially agree. But there is an implication that they are telling the story they want you to get from the data. I have seen a number of examples where theThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improved Ad Measurement
Measurement is my favorite topic. If you can't do it well, any amount of analytics or 'Bigger' data will not help. In Adage: Content Budgets Rise as Measurement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dashboards that Persuade
Whitepaper by Tableau Software. Well done. Registration information required. " .... Do your dashboards tell the story you want to get across or does your data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Appeal to HoloLens Developers
Thinking possible applications. See previous writings in the tags below.Get the Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition.Help develop the future. The first Microsoft...
From insideHPC
OpenSFS to Sponsor Two Lustre BoFs at SC15
OpenSFS is sponsoring two Lustre BoFs at SC15 in Austin. As a nonprofit organization, OpenSFS was founded in 2010 to advance Lustre development, ensuring it remains...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensor Data from Device to Cloud
In ReadwriteWeb: Deserves better understanding and careful choices. " ... The evolution of accessible radio standards over the last 25 years has led to a plethora...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog