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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 Computational Complexity
Cancer Sucks
Karsten Schwan said the title quote when we were gathered as a faculty two years ago mourning the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science faculty member Mary...
From insideHPC
Climaveneta to Provide Liquid Cooling for 100 Petaflop Supercomputer Coming to China
Climaveneta of Italy announced that the company has won a contract to provide liquid-cooling equipment for a 100 Petaflop supercomputer coming to the Jiangnan Institute...
From insideHPC
Video: The Road to Exascale
“Exascale levels of computing pose many system- and application-level computational challenges. Mellanox as a provider of end-to-end communication services is progressing...
From insideHPC
Sparse Matrix Multiplication
"A parallel implementation of SpMV can be implemented, using OpenMP directives. However, by allocating memory for each core, data races can be eliminated and data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook and AI, Learning in Assistants
In the BBC:" ... Prof Yann LeCun is a hugely influential force in the field of Deep Learning and is now director of AI research at Facebook ..." .... What we are...
From insideHPC
SDSC Steps up with Upgraded Cloud and Storage Services
Today the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) announced that it has made significant upgrades to its cloud-based storage system to include a new range of computing...
From insideHPC
Lustre Development Update from LAD’15
Chris Morrone from OpenSFS/LLNL gave this talk at LAD'15. "The first thing I want to talk about is that Lustre.org is now managed collectively by OpenSFS and EOFS...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Tenure-track Faculty Position in HPC at Cal Poly
The Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Computer Science Department is hiring a tenure-track faculty position in our HPC Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: Tenure-track...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Software Performance–It’s Complicated
One of the things I don’t have near enough time to talk about in a one semester first programming course is performance. Arguably that is much more real computer...
From Schneier on Security
Identifying CIA Officers in the Field
During the Cold War, the KGB was very adept at identifying undercover CIA officers in foreign countries through what was basically big data analysis. (Yes, this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power BI Adds Features
Continued improvements in MS Power BI. Good value so far.44 New Features in the Power BI Desktop September Update Check this massive update to our product, with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why we Work
In Knowledge@Wharton:The Real Reasons We WorkIn the new book Why We Work, Swarthmore professor Barry Schwartz challenges the assumption that people primarily work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE and the Internet
GE as a 'heavy industry' and how it uses analytics and the Internet. How it utilizes the value of the industrial internet. Some good examples of how it leverages...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sifting Your Big Ideas
Colleague Bob Herbold from his blog: " ..... Is Your Big Idea Really Big? Really? .... Beware, when searching for the big idea and finding that to be difficult...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Docs Dictate and Translate
In Time: Google Docs is said to now have both voice to text dictation, and translation to over 40 languages. Together these are quite an interesting combination...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unintended Consequence Algorithms
This is not uncommon. And things are getting more and more complex. Many more variables. Black boxes are out there. But be ready to explain how your box works...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generation Z is Coming
I am not a fan of generational labels. I have seen too much variance within them to trust them much. But still, you have to know the definitions to follow what...
From Schneier on Security
Spoofing Fitness Trackers
The website Unfitbits.com has a series of instructional videos on how to spoof fitness trackers, using such things as a metronome, pendulum, or power drill. With...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Personality Insights for Shoppers
A demonstration of Watson's personality services capability for shopping. " ... The Watson Personality Insights service uses linguistic analytics to extract aYou...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog