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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
Radio Free HPC Looks at Highlights from Fall 2015 HPC Conferences
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team goes over a Trip Report from Rich Brueckner from insideHPC, who's been on the road at a series of HPC conferences. We captured...
From Schneier on Security
Volkswagen and Cheating Software
For the past six years, Volkswagen has been cheating on the emissions testing for its diesel cars. The cars' computers were able to detect when they were being...
From insideHPC
PRACE Opens 12th Call for Proposals
Today the PRACE Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe issued their 12th Call for Proposals. By providing access to some of the fastest supercomputer in Europe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Low Cost 3D Printing Driving Massive Sales
In CWorld: Apparently many people think they need 3D printing. Have seen the store demos, saw it used in the enterprise for packaging prototype development....
From insideHPC
Video: NVLink Interconnect for GPUs
"NVLink enables fast data exchange between CPU and GPU, thereby improving data throughput through the computing system and overcoming a key bottleneck for accelerated...
From insideHPC
Mellanox to Acquire EZchip AKA Tilera
Today Mellanox announced a definitive agreement to acquire EZchip, a leader in high-performance processing solutions for carrier and data center networks. You may...
From insideHPC
Developing a Plan for Cloud Based GPU Processing
For some applications, cloud based clusters may be limited due to communication and/or storage latency and speeds. With GPUs, however, these issue are not present...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Lakes and Accuracy
Silicon Angle discusses a side effect of the concept of data lakes. Governance is easier to apply." ..... Progressing into the “total customer experience,” one...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
But I’ve Always Done It This Way
I’ve had my students working on a little exercise this week. It’s simple and I know that a lot of teachers use similar projects. The idea is to build a triangle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Automotive Systems
Very good overview piece in the CACM, as I see more automotive examples, this is the crux of it, at least before we go self-driving. " .... "There is a huge challenge...
From insideHPC
Kyoto University to Install Cray XC40 Supercomputer
Today Cray announced the Company has been awarded a contract to provide a Cray XC40 supercomputer to the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP) at Kyoto...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Online Communities are Why I'm Excited for GHC15
I've attended almost every Grace Hopper since 2008. The one exception was 2011, when I was too pregnant to fly. I found an old blog post about enjoying the conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson and Creativity
Upcoming talk of particular interest: Thu Oct 1, 2015, 10:30am – 11am (EDT) " .... Our scheduled speaker is Bryan Wiltgen from Georgia Tech, who will be presenting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Industry Collaborative Robotics: Rethink's Sawyer
In IEEE Spectrum: How collaborative? How autonomous? Rethink Robotics' Sawyer Goes on Sale, Rodney Brooks Says 'There May Be More Robots' By Erico Guizzo "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trillion Devices at Hand
What so we expect to do with so many devices, and many more connections? Over many more slices of time and location? In CWorld: " ... Forget thinking aboutThat's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Silo Organizations
Book review in the NYT. ‘The Silo Effect,’ by Gillian Tett . On my reading list. Silos of value and attention are very common and often destructive in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rebel Statistics
Good view of the topic by Granville at DSC. A challenge to relevance?" .... any of those who call themselves statisticians just won't admit that data science...
From insideHPC
Communication Frameworks for HPC and Big Data
In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, DK Panda from Ohio State University presents: Communication Frameworks for HPC and Big Data. The post...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How the Internet works Video Series from code.org
Code.org announced a set of videos about “How the Internet works.” today. This set of short (6-7 minutes long) videos explain many of the key concepts that make...![[Experientia book] Ethnography on elderly health and wellness](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
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