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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
ISC Cloud & Big Data: From Banking to Personalized Medicine
In this special guest feature, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World looks at some issues of life and death that will be discussed at the upcoming ISC Cloud...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting links 14 September 2015
Last week was fun. I have great students. One thing I did this week was to create a scaffold program for my Honors Programming students. Just a basic user interface...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agreeing on Collaboration
Makes much sense to agree ahead of time how you will collaborate. In HBR:" .... Most of us want to do a good job and work well together. But when individuals’Rules...
From Computational Complexity
An Open(?) Question about Prime Producting Polynomials Part II in 3-D!
(Apologies- No, this post is not in 3-D) I posted last week about An Open(?) Question about Prime Producing Polynomails I got several emails about the post with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Remodeling Spurts W-Fi, 25 Years ago.
Fascinating computer history piece. A meeting that spurred the standards for Wifi. See why standards are important?In ComputerWorld: " ... If you're readingIt...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jet vs Amazon
Finally had a chance to look at the e-commerce sales venture Jet. Heavily promoted. Well constructed. Which makes a particular point of Amazon price comparisons...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security vs Quantum Computing
In CACM: How will security have to be improved at the approach of quantum computing? Technical thoughts.
From insideHPC
DDNtool Streamlines File System Monitoring at Oak Ridge
Over at Oak Ridge, Eric Gedenk writes that monitoring the status of complex supercomputer systems is an ongoing challenge. Now, Ross Miller from OLCF has developed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CartoDB Expanding Tools
Recall using some visualzations developed with CartoDB. Easy to use. Now there are many more credible competitors in the GEO visualization space. About constructing...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Specialist at Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech is seeking an HPC Systems Specialist in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Specialist at Virginia Tech appeared first on insideHPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Gaming. Linking Location and Wearable
Location expands beyond retail to gaming. Wearable makes it always available. New kinds of Augmentation. Augmented gamification?Pokémon GO app announced with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commerce on CloudB2C Brand Experience
Brought to my attention:" ... Your customers search more on smartphones but buy more on tablets. They also place orders online for pick up in store. The point is...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Polynomial Growth Puzzle
Correcting an erratum in our quantum algorithms textbook Cropped from source Paul Bachmann was the first person to use -notation. This was on page 401 of volume...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Polynomial Growth Puzzle
Correcting an erratum in our quantum algorithms textbook Cropped from source Paul Bachmann was the first person to use -notation. This was on page 401 of volume...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will AI Work in the Real World?
The last AI winter essentially started with this point. How will AI work in the messy and inconsistent real world? It works well already in focused approaches...
From insideHPC
Thomas Lippert on Why the Human Brain Project Needs HPC and Data Analytics Infrastructures
In this video from the Neuroinformatics 2015 Conference, Thomas Lippert from Jülich presents: Why Does the Human Brain Project Need HPC and Data Analytics Infrastructures...
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BAW in Germany to Install Additional Bull Supercomputer
Bull Atos will provide a second High Performance Computing cluster to the German Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW). Following the installationBAW...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Advanced Drone Systems
In Wired: How quickly this area of technology has been growing. Social adaption and regulation are still far behind. Technical details here. " ... Now,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engineering Mindsets .
A view of the book Applied Minds. by Guru Madhavan. Here I would suggest that the engineering mindset has taken over vast realms of value over the last three”...
From The Eponymous Pickle