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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 …
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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
New Free APCS curriculum using Processing and GitHub
I found this on a mailing list last week. I haven’t looked to closely at it since we haven’t decided to go with AP CSP at my school yet but it sounds interesting...
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Swiss CSCS to Power Weather Forecasts with GPUs on Cray CS-Storm
Today Cray announced that the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has installed a Cray CS-Storm cluster supercomputer to power the operational numerical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Update on Fusion Research
Has long been an interest of mine. Almost took a turn to physics for that reason, but it has been a full thirty years of government funded research with little...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discover, Access, Distill
Good piece, reasonable and useful way to look at it. As long as you include ... 'deliver' in the distill part. I have too often seen big projects emerge and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Spotlight on the 2015 Faces of Computing Video Contest: How Does Computing Better our World?
Once again I find myself writing a blog post in a hospital setting and I can’t help but marvel at the wonders of computing technology; over the past week my dad...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Funding the Automated Statistician
Fundamentally a very old idea. But much maligned by statisticians. Our own experiments in this area might be called semi-automated. Were step by step, withCambridge...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Smart Cities Initiative
The White House has kicked off the first ever Smart Cities Week (September 15-17, 2015) in Washington, DC, announcing new steps in support of a new National Smart...
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Next-generation Subsurface Flow Simulations on Titan
Researchers are using the Titan supercomputer to power next-generation subsurface flow simulations. Improved models could benefit carbon sequestration, contaminant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamifying An Internet of Toothbrushes
I heard the general idea mentioned years ago. Toothbrushes detecting how kids brush and gamifying the interaction to promote brushing. Now Sonicare is takingIn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metro Group and Alibaba
Visited and analyzed methods of the German Metro Group retail chain. In particular their innovation center in Germany. They are the seventh largest retailer on...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The hacker culture is winning
Driven by companies like Google, the hacker spirit is winning. Though we fail to see it, our culture is being hacked. One annoying element of this culture has become...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing Spoken Word Content
How Veritone's Cognitive Platform Analyzes Spoken-Word ContentThe next frontier: How do you understand and act upon information that is not written? Veritone has...
From insideHPC
E4 Benchmarks EnginSoft CFD on ARM64
Today E4 Computer Engineering announced the results of tests carried out independently on a GPU cluster provided to EnginSoft Italy, a premier global consulting...
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Video: Panel on US Plans for Advancing HPC with NSCI
In this video plus transcripts from the 2015 HPC User Forum in Broomfield, Bob Sorensen from IDC moderates a panel discussion on the the National Strategic Computing...
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Transcript: Will Koella from DoD Discusses the NSCI Initiative
In this video from the 2015 HPC User Forum, Will Koella from the Department of Defense discusses National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). Established byTranscript...
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Transcript: Doug Kothe from Oak Ridge Discusses the NSCI Initiative
In this video from the 2015 HPC User Forum, Doug Kothe from Oak Ridge discusses National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). Established by an Executive Order...
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