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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
Six Strategies for Maximizing GPU Clusters
In a perfect world, there would be one version of all compilers, libraries, and profilers. To make things even easier, hardware would never change. However, technology...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NTIA Drone Privacy Multistakeholder Forum to Convene on September 24
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will convene the second meeting of the multistakeholder process on drone privacy, transparency...
From Schneier on Security
Obama and the Security of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel
President Obama won't stay at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York because of security concerns. The hotel "was bought last year by Chinese investors with deep...
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Collaborates on OpenHPEC Accelerator Suite
Today Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced that its Defense Solutions division is collaborating with leading High Performance Computing software vendor Bright Computing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2015 Faces of Computing Competition
As a member of the CSTA Equity Committee I am please to pass along the announcement of our annual Faces of Computing Competition. In honor of CSEdWeek, CSTA will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Legal Definition of AI
A Legal definition of AI in Use? Never used a formal definition, Probably an evolving concept. Related concepts that did often come up were risk, liability...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 14
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 Hearing: Achieving the Promise of Health Information Technology: Improving Care Through Patient Access to Their Records Senate Health...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Invites Comments on U.S. Participation in International Cybersecurity Standards
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is accepting public comments on a new interagency report advocating U.S. participation in international...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
In Memoriam: Joseph Traub
Computing pioneer Jospeh Traub passed away on August 24. ACM recognized him as an ACM Fellow in 1994 for his research on information-based complexity and parallel...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Obama Establishes National Strategic Computing Initiative
President Obama signed an Executive Order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative to ensure the U.S. remains on the leading-edge of research, development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Light Transmitting Data
In CWorld. Aka Wi-Fi. We looked at this for some specialized retail applications, it has been around for sometime. It still does not transmit through walls "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Surge of Digital Assistants
A discussion in the Cognitive Systems Institute group in Linkedin on the topic. Most recently about Facebook's M. Join us. Assistants are a useful way to focus...
From insideHPC
Bob Sorensen from IDC Presents: Best Practices in Private Sector Cyber Security
IDC developed a set of cybersecurity case studies of US commercial organizations in order to learn: What security problems they have experienced, changes that they...
From insideHPC
Australian Bureau of Meteorology to Manage Cray Workloads with Altair PBS Pro
Today Altair announced that its PBS Professional has been chosen to manage workloads for the new Cray supercomputer to be installed at the Bureau of Meteorology...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration ABIE Award Winners
The Anita Borg Institute (ABI), a non-profit organization focused on the advancement of women in computing, has announced the winners of the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computing: The Human Experience
Brought to my attention by Myra Snyder, nice idea. Will connect further. Agree with the point below that this has not been attempted before. It is much more...
From insideHPC
Czech Republic Steps Up with 2 Petaflop SGI ICE X Supercomputer
Today SGI and IT4Innovations national supercomputing center in the Czech Republic announced the deployment of the Salomon supercomputer. With a peak performance...
From insideHPC
Altair, Intel and Amazon Offer HPC Challenge
For companies looking to test the viability of engineering in the cloud, Altair has teamed with Intel and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer an “HPC Challenge”Altair...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Team, Computer Vulnerabilities, and the NSA
When the National Security Administration (NSA) -- or any government agency -- discovers a vulnerability in a popular computer system, should it disclose it or...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson