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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 insideHPC
StartupHPC-15 Conference Posts Agenda for Austin Event
The good folks from the StartupHPC-15 Conference have posted the Agenda for their meeting at SC15. The day-long conference takes place Monday, Nov 16 in AustinStartupHPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Companies Pursue Innovation
Favorite topic, but not my favorite format. A slide show about approaches to innovation with some interesting thoughts. I was struck by: " ... Partnering Effort...
From Apophenia
Join me at the Parker Lecture on Oct. 20 in Washington DC
Every year, the media reform community convenes to celebrate one of the founders of the movement, to reflect on the ethical questions of our day, and to honor outstanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Bluemix Local
Just announced, I have been a subscriber to Watson on Bluemix for some time, for access to their growing list of Watson services. Also check out the blog linkIntroducing...
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre 2.9 and Beyond
"Andreas presents an overview on the features currently under development for the upcoming Lustre 2.8 and 2.9 releases. This includes Layout Enhancement, Progressive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning from Military Teams
We used methods like After Action Reviews (AAR), but there is much more to utilize. An interview with Gen. Stanley McChrystal: " .... Many companies lack an overarching...
From insideHPC
Video: HP R&D and HPC
"The HP Apollo 8000 supercomputing platform approaches HPC from an entirely new perspective as the system is cooled directly with warm water. This is done through...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
BBC Micro:Bit News–Lots Happening
News about the BBC Micro:Bit is probably more useful to my United Kingdom readers than those of us in the rest of the world but I think it is interesting to many...
From Geeking with Greg
Not working at Google
It was a surprise, to me at least, that I wasn't able to find a good fit at Google Seattle. Google nowadays is different than I expected, and, after four months...
From insideHPC
Is MDX the Future of Engineering Simulation?
"By adopting an MDX philosophy, engineers are able to test designs automatically from the early concept stages and against all of the physical factors that might...
From insideHPC
Video: NOAA Software Engineering for Novel Architectures (SENA) Project
“NOAA will acquire software engineering support and associated tools to re-architect NOAA’s applications to run efficiently on next generation fine-grain HPC architectures...
From Schneier on Security
Stealing Fingerprints
The news from the Office of Personnel Management hack keeps getting worse. In addition to the personal records of over 20 million US government employees, we've...
From Putting People First
Draft proceedings of EPIC 2015 conference online
The 2015 edition of EPIC, the premier international gathering on the current and future practice of ethnography in the business world, will take place in Sao Paulo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skype Real Time Translation
Rumored for some time. And like all translation, variant in context, and never quite perfect. " .... Microsoft’s impressive Skype real-time translator has finally...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
AccessCS10k: An Introduction to the Quorum Programming Language and Evidence-Oriented Programming
By: Andreas Stefik, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science University of Nevada, Las Vegas Computer programming in K-12 education has becomeContinue...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Rise of Concerns About AI: Reflection and Directions
Tom Dietterich and Eric Horvitz, the current and former president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), respectively, have co...
From insideHPC
BSC Opens Productivity Center of Excellence for HPC Apps
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) announced the opening of their Performance Optimization and Productivity (POP) Center of Excellence. With the POP...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Much Data is There?
A very telling piece in Tech Crunch .... reminded me of many cases I had seen long before the BD term was in use. Much more often they relatively little clean,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Columbia University MS in Applied Analytics
Kaiser Fung reports on the Columbia University Master of Science Program in Applied Analytics being established. Their new site.
From Schneier on Security