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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 …![[Book] The first-ever ethnographic study of the global reinsurance industry](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
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[Book] The first-ever ethnographic study of the global reinsurance industry
Making a Market for Acts of God: The Practice of Risk Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry By Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek, and Paul Spee Oxford Scholarship...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC R&D Engineer at ARM in Austin
ARM in Austin is seeking an HPC R&D Engineer in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC R&D Engineer at ARM in Austin appeared first on insideHPC....
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Video: Leveraging Containers in Elastic Environments
In this video from the Disruptive Technologies session at the 2015 HPC User Forum, Nick Ihli from Adaptive Computing presents: Leveraging Containers in ElasticVideo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critique of Big Data use in Retail
In Retailwire: Interesting view of difficulties in how Big Data can be used in retail. I like when it mentions that the data needs to be integrated well with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Research Kit
I watched the announcement of the Apple Researchkit with interest. now:52 Things About ResearchKit That Every Medical Researcher Should Know, by Shyam DevalThe...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Disney's Minigame Squid Wars
It looks like a Nintendo game. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security
Anti-Alien Security
You can wrap your house in tinfoil, but when you start shining bright lights to defend yourself against alien attack, you've gone too far. In general, society puts...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Less than a week to go before I can start looking at the submissions for CSTA 2016
Less than a week to go before I can start looking at the submissions for CSTA 2016. The submission deadline is October 1! If you are reading this you probablyContinue...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Submits Comments to NIST on U.S. Participation in International Cybersecurity Standardization
The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council, in collaboration with four other ACM entities, submitted comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dyson 2.0 Grows New Technology
In Fastcodesign: Quite a detailed look at what James Dyson is and is trying to become. Have followed him, but knew little about where he was going. (I see"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shareology: Why we Share and How We Can do it Better
Reading Bryan Kramer's new book Shareology: How Sharing is Powering the Human Economy. See http://Shareologybook.com. Addresses sharing among humans in general...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Technology Efficiency
Efficiency should give you more time to do the things that you want. But in practice humans and their managers and organizations often see this as a means toTechnology...
From insideHPC
SC16 Chair Calls for HPC Organizations to Create Diversity Pages
High Performance Computing has long been dominated by men, but there seems to be little hard data as to how our HPC community really looks in terms of diversity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Launching Products
Useful rules for launching products. Brenden Mulligan provides insight. ".... In this exclusive interview, Mulligan shares five rules for startups releasing new...
From insideHPC
Exascale Panel Discussion from HPCAC Spain Conference
In this video from the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, Gilad Shainer moderates a panel discussion on Exascale computing. The post Exascale Panel Discussion...
From Schneier on Security
People Who Need to Pee Are Better at Lying
No, really. Abstract: The Inhibitory-Spillover-Effect (ISE) on a deception task was investigated. The ISE occurs when performance in one self-control task facilitates...
From insideHPC
IBM Cloud Services vs Amazon EC2
High Performance Computing (HPC) in the cloud has become a hot topic with new offerings targeted at this market. The demands of technical computing professional...
From insideHPC
Video: Dell’s New HPC Vision, Strategy, and Plans
Jim Ganthier from Dell presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Dell HPC solutions are deployed across the globe as the computational foundation for industrial...
From insideHPC
ExaNeSt Technology: Targeting Exascale in 2018
Peter Hopton from Iceotope presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "ExaNeSt will develop, evaluate, and prototype the physical platform and architectural solution...
From The Eponymous Pickle