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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Chemistry of Squid Camouflage
Interesting research. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security
Wanted: Cryptography Products for Worldwide Survey
In 1999, Lance Hoffman, David Balenson, and others published a survey of non-US cryptographic products. The point of the survey was to illustrate that there was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiniest Legos are Ready to Work for us
In CACM: The robot moves slowly along its track, pausing regularly to reach out an arm that carefully scoops up a component. ... The tiniest Lego: a tale of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Control Tower for Holistic Optimization
In Forbes, by Steve Banker: Further examination of the evolution of the Business Sphere. The control tower metaphor is new to me, with an implication of more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Economic Change with Smart Phone Activity
Clever approach and data source. We looked at other measures like creativity with related methods.Can mobile phone data predict economic change?" ... This paper...
From insideHPC
Video: HPC for the Louisiana Coastal Master Plan
Zachary Cobell from ARCADIS-US presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "As a global leader for designing sustainable coastlines and waterways, ARCADIS believes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Productivity
In K@W: Key issue, that I have yet to see done very well. Or in a standard way that can bear continuous monitoring. Likely due to the context rapidly changing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Hackers vs. Academics: who is responsible for progress?
Many years ago, I interviewed for a job at a nearby college. One of the professors started talking about how they were working to take the “hacker spirit” out of...
From insideHPC
Satoshi Matsuoka to Keynote Workshop on Directives and Tools for Accelerators
The Center for Advanced Computing systems has announced their agenda for the Directives and Tools for Accelerators Workshop. Also known as the Seismic Programming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Work
In the CACM: On the Future of Work Project at Stanford and its implications. The Future of Work: But What Will Humans Do? By Moshe Y. Vardi" .... Thus, evenI...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
HLF2015 / Fred Brooks on Software Engineers and Teams
This blog post originates from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Blog. The 3rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum is dedicated to mathematics and computer sciences, and takes...
From insideHPC
Ace Computers Steps Up HPC for Oil & Gas
Ace Computers in Illinois reports that the company is expanding its high performance computer footprint in the Oil & Gas Industry. Not a stranger to this space,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA’s ‘Wait, What? A Future Technology Forum’ Event
Currently, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting a three-day Wait, What? A Future Technology Forum focusing on new technologies and how they...
From insideHPC
Allinea Forge Sparks Convergent Science Combustion Simulation
Convergent Science reports that the company has adopted the Allinea Forge development tool suite. As the leader in internal combustion engine (ICE) simulation,Allinea...
From Schneier on Security
Drone Self-Defense and the Law
Last month, a Kentucky man shot down a drone that was hovering near his backyard. WDRB News reported that the camera drone's owners soon showed up at the home of...
From insideHPC
Bo Ewald Presents: D-Wave Quantum Computing
"Despite the incredible power of today’s supercomputers, there are many complex computing problems that can’t be addressed by conventional systems. Our need toBo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Virual Assistant: Duer
Baidu adds an AI personal assistant, Duer, to its mobile search app " .. Baidu showed off Duer's voice-activated capabilities with a version of the software embedded...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blocking People who Block your Ads
The Countermeasures start. Will the 'free' structure of the Internet erode? In Adage: " ... The Washington Post Tries Blocking People Who Ad-Block ... Testing...
From Schneier on Security
Cheating News from the Chess World
Chess player caught cheating at a tournament: I kept on looking at him. He was always sitting down, he never got up. It was very strange; we are taking about hours...
From The Eponymous Pickle