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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Predicting the near future is a crazy, impossible game
Back in 1903, the Wright brothers flew for the first time, 20 feet above ground, for 12 seconds. Hardly anyone showed up. The event went vastly unnoticed. It was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enhancing the Purchase journey
Selling, interaction and engagement as a journey. Have always liked the model.How to analyze big data to enhance the purchase journey by Nellie Chan Big data...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese Squid Recipe
Delicious recipe of squid with cabbage, bean sprouts, and noodles. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cincinnati Startup Community Competes
Participated in a day for the Cincinnati startup community yesterday, put on by Centrifuse and The Brandery. Represented GMDC in 'speed dating' sessions for aMore...
From Schneier on Security
I'm a Guest on "Adam Ruins Everything"
The show is about security theater. I am a disembodied head on a scooter. Here's a teaser. Here's the full episode (for pay, but cheap). The scooter idea was a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Campbell's Recipes Via Amazon Echo
Campbell Soup to partner with Amazon Echo to provide recipes. The Echo kitchen support functions are still very primitive, will be interesting to see recipesSign...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Contact Lens
More sensor directions. " ... Google's Life Sciences unit, whose projects include a smart contact lens for measuring blood glucose levels, will become an independent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Bluemix Watson Cognitive Services
Want to see how to utilize the 28 APIs now available that derive from Watson, for your own applications? Or even determine if it is possible today. Here...
From Schneier on Security
SHA-1 Freestart Collision
There's a new cryptanalysis result against the hash function SHA-1: Abstract: We present in this article a freestart collision example for SHA-1, i.e., a collision...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing Powers Efforts to Save Ocean Coral
What can we do to help ocean coral survive Global Warming? In this TACC podcast, Jorge Salazar looks at how researchers are using the Stampede supercomputer toPodcast...
From insideHPC
Video: HPC in the Design of Aircraft Engines
"This webinar replay discusses the use of high performance computing (HPC) in the design of aircraft jet engines and gas turbines used to generate electrical power...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Business Emergent. Decision Makers Say Show me.
In the WSJ. Article on IBM's Cognitive Business group. Surprised the term AI is being used. Have not seen that used in IBM's materials. Term has been somewhat...
From XRDS
ACM CHI PLAY 2015: XRDS insider’s view!
CHI PLAY 2015 is the second edition of the ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. It is an international and interdisciplinary conference...
From insideHPC
HP and SanDisk to Team on Memory-Driven Computing
Today HP and SanDisk announced a long-term partnership to collaborate on a new technology within the Storage Class Memory (SCM) category. The partnership will center...
From insideHPC
IBM Launches LC OpenPower Servers
Today IBM announced launched a new LC series of servers that infuse technologies from members of the OpenPOWER Foundation and are part of IBM's Power Systems portfolio...
From insideHPC
Lustre Video: Robinhood v3 Policy Engine and Beyond
"The Robinhood Policy Engine is a versatile tool to manage contents of large file systems. It maintains a replicate of filesystem medatada in a database that can...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Scientist Among the Winners of the 2015 MacArthur Fellowship
The MacArthur Foundation has named its 2015 class of MacArthur Fellows, recognizing 24 exceptionally creative individuals with a track record of achievement and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How NOT To Tell If Someone Is Cut Out For Computer Science
Recently “Code School, a Pluralsight company and online learn-to-code destination” released the results of a study of sorts they did to try and determine who were...
From insideHPC
Morton Ordering on the Intel Xeon Phi
The Morton order is a mapping of multidimensional data to one dimension that preserves locality of the data. This is also known as Z-order. "By using Morton ordering...
From Putting People First