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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
Intelligent Light: Breaking the Disk IO Bottleneck in CFD by Eliminating It
"FieldView products and services from Intelligent Light have been specifically developed to help CFD users get more reliable results in less time from their CFD...
From insideHPC
Boosting Wind Power with Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is another tool that is helping the wind power sector up its game. "We are seeing movement from most engineering companies to cloud computing as...
From insideHPC
HPC4Health Selects Mellanox InfiniBand for Cancer and Genomics Research
Today Mellanox announced that the HPC4Health Consortium, led by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the University Health Network's Princess MargaretHPC4Health...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Learn more about the CS Postdoc Best Practices programs during National Postdoc Appreciation Week
This week (September 21-25) is the sixth annual National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW), sponsored by the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA). NPAW, the nation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco's New Headquarters
In our innovation collaboration with Cisco we visited their HQ many times. It has now been rebuilt. Much more about their facility. " ... I want Cisco to be...
From Computational Complexity
When did Mathematicians realize that Fermat did not have a proof of FLT?
I recently came across the following passage which is about Fermat's Last Theorem (FLT). Pierre de Fermat had found a proof, but he did not bother to write it...
From insideHPC
Video: Processing 1 Exabyte per Day for the SKA Radio Telescope
In this video from the Disruptive Technologies Panel at the HPC User Forum, Peter Braam from Cambridge University presents: Processing 1 EB per Day for the SKAVideo...
From Schneier on Security
History of Hacktivism
Nice article by Dorothy Denning. Hacktivism emerged in the late 1980s at a time when hacking for fun and profit were becoming noticeable threats. Initially it took...
From insideHPC
User Agency Panel Discussion on the NSCI Initiative
In this video from the 2015 HPC User Forum in Broomfield, Bob Sorenson from IDC moderates a User Agency panel discussion on the NSCI initiative. "You all haveUser...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 September 2015
Lots of CS education news last week. New York City starts a ten year effort to get computer science education in everyone of the city’s 1700 schools. Mayor Bill...
From Writing
Introducing Atomic Squirrel and The Startup Checklist
For the last several months, I’ve been working on a new project: my own company. It’s called Atomic Squirrel and our goal is to help you launch your startup.
From Writing
Introducing Atomic Squirrel and The Startup Checklist
For the last several months, I’ve been working on a new project: my own company. It’s called Atomic Squirrel and our goal is to help you launch your startup.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing for All Senses
In FastcoDesign:" .. Our perceptions of the world are built on multiple senses. They interact to help us make sense of our surroundings, so a car will seem to be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Study of Product Similarity on Brand Location and Recognition.
Of retail interest from a recent conference: " ... Para-Sight: A visual search study into the effects of product similarity on brand location and recognition. ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft To Invest $75 Million in Computer Science Education
Last week Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a $75 million commitment to increase their YouthSpark program to increase access to computer science for all youth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Physics and Decision Making
A very broad metaphor based on famous quantum thought experiments. But still an intriguing idea. Pointers to some related work by Kahneman and others. "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablets and Kids
Quite a long piece in Ars Technica on research regarding the value of early childhood experience with tablets. I am still old school. Books, laptops, visual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MedRespond Simulating Dialog
Simulation of dialog is interesting .... " .... We combine artificial intelligence, search and streaming media to create communication programs that simulate personal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Mess of Unstructured Analytics
Dealing with the mess. Agree that this should not be. But we have more different kinds of unstructured data today than we ever had. In face we dealt with it"...
From The Eponymous Pickle