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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Drones Build Bridge
In the Verge: Video. Fascinating example. Particularly interested in the autonomy of such experiments, which relates to other swarming experiments. The future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bloomberg Marketing Analytics Tool
In Adage: Interesting play. I do wonder about the overall objectivity that is involved. But a directed marketing mix play is intriguing. Dueling tools among...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing
The new ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing challenges high school seniors in the United States to develop innovative solutions using their knowledge...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Excitement around K-12 CS Education, but there’s work to be done by the CS Community
The following is a blog post by Ran Libeskind-Hadas, R. Michael Shanahan Professor and Computer Science Department Chair at Harvey Mudd College, Co-Chair of CRA’s...
From insideHPC
IBM Storage With OpenStack
While there is much discussion and products in the market regarding cloud computing and the ability to spin up a virtual machines quickly and efficiently, the fact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Potential of Virtual Reality
Insightful piece, In ReadwriteWeb: " .... Virtual Reality Meets Actual Reality: Why VR Is Harder Than You Think .... HTC, Sony and Felix and Paul Studios discuss...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM E-Book Learning Center
I was reminded that the ACM, which I have been a member of for many years, has a learning center that contains hundreds of free to read e-books for members. Always...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FTC PrivacyCon 2016 – Call for Privacy and Security Research Presentations
The FTC invites presentation proposals on consumer privacy and security issues in the commercial sector for a privacy conference, PrivacyCon, to be held on January...
From insideHPC
Video: Communication Frameworks for HPC and Big Data
“This talk will focus on programming models and their designs for upcoming exascale systems with millions of processors and accelerators. Current status and future...
From insideHPC
BSC and Integrating Persistent Data and Parallel Programming Models
Toni Cortés from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center presented this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference. "BSC is the National Supercomputing Facility...
From insideHPC
HPC in Siesmic Processing and Interpreation and Reservoir Modeling
Oil and gas are becoming increasingly harder to find. This article looks at how oil and gas companies are using cutting edge technology, like high performance computing...
From insideHPC
The Increase in Processing Demands of Seismic Computing
Substantial challenges loom for the Oil and Gas sector, as problem sizes, resolution requirements and business pressures to reduce computing costs all continueThe...
From insideHPC
Video: Imperial College: 30 Million HPC Jobs a Year and Counting
"A university environment can be a challenge in many ways, with a wide variety of differing demands from more than a hundred different research groups, so how can...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Virtual BBC Micro:Bit Now in Beta
Curious about the BBC MicroBit? There is a new web site about it that includes a virtual Micro:bit computer. There are tutorials and videos and various other bits...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walgreens to Promote Behavior with Wearables
In Evan Schuman's column in Computer World. Contains an interesting detailed analysis of behavior." ... Walgreens wants to use wearables to give instant discounts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Junk Charts: Data Visualizations Reviewed
Recently connected with Kaiser Fung, Who writes the famous Junk Charts Blog that I have often mentioned here. I had read about bad visualizing years ago in books...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE’s Important Role in Smart Cities Initiative
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eyeliner Connecting to the Internet
In SiliconAngle: " ... When eyeliner connects to the Internet: L’Oreal hints at IoT plans ... " An unusual connection to the Internet of Things. How broadly...
From Schneier on Security
SYNful Knock Attack Against Cisco Routers
FireEye is reporting the discovery of persistent malware that compromises Cisco routers: While this attack could be possible on any router technology, in this case...
From The Eponymous Pickle