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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
How the XSEDE Scholars Program Fosters Career Opportunities
Over at XSEDE, Scott Gibson writes that Computational Scientist Paul Delgado Says the XSEDE Scholars Program helped him realize his dream of solving real-life problems...
From Schneier on Security
TSA Master Keys
Someone recently noticed a Washington Post story on the TSA that originally contained a detailed photograph of all the TSA master keys. It's now blurred out of...
From insideHPC
Preview of Fall 2015 HPC Events
After spending a lovely six straight weeks at home, I find myself marveling at how many conferences are in the queue this Fall leading up to SC15 in Austin. Starting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple to Increase Cognitive and Machine Learning Resources
Another move forward, with the potential of linking cognitive AI and Machine Learning / analytics. In SiliconAngle: Report: Apple is beefing up its AI and machine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Retail Experience Center Opens
In CGT:Retail Experience Center for Walmart Opens By CGT Staff A Retail Experience Center for Walmart has opened in Bentonville, Arkansas. Tyco Retail Solutions'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Just Sales Numbers
Brief example:In Shopperception: Shopper Analytics for the Retail Industry? .... Do Sales Numbers tell us all we need to know? .... Sales numbers tend to be considered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikipedia and Academics
In Nature: Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the web, has replaced many past sources of general accessible knowledge, but still has distrust from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine, September 2015
Analytics Magazine September/October 2015 by Informs.Advances in customer intelligence, including cognitive computing for automating customer knowledge and real...
From insideHPC
Video: Looking to the Future of NNSA Supercomputing
In this video, Douglas P. Wade from NNSA describes the computational challenges the agency faces in the stewardship of the nation's nuclear stockpile. As the Acting...
From insideHPC
Atos Deploys Petaflop Supercomputer in Brazil
Today Atos announced that the company has installed the first Petascale supercomputer in Brazil. Designed by Bull, the "Santos Dumont" system will be the largest...
From Schneier on Security
Glenn Greenwald Debates Keith Alexander
Interesting debate, surprisingly civil. Alexander seemed to have been okay with Snowden revealing surveillance based on Section 215: "If he had taken the one court...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Insights into Human Productivity
New movements in using analytics for managing human resources. More on the acquisition of VoloMetrix by Microsoft. New kinds of human insights. This leads to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 September 2015
Labor Day weekend in the US. A four day weekend and I am exhausted from it. Maybe I need to get back to school to rest up. OK not really but it has been a busyCSTA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligence of Algorithms
Emerging Technology in the EnterpriseBy Erika Morphy Maybe robots, A.I. and algorithms aren't as smart as we thinkWe are offloading more and more sophisticated...
From Computational Complexity
An Open(?) question about prime-producing-polynomials
Known Theorem: If f(x)∈ Z[x] is prime for all nat number inputs then f(x) is a constant. NOTE- Recall that if p is a prime then so is -p. Known Proof: Assume...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Streetview in Virtual Reality
Not available yet, but the idea is interesting, consider all of the potential Streetview data, A means to dive into maps virtually. And then add augmentation...
From insideHPC
AMD Demos World’s First Hardware-Based Virtualized GPU Solution
The AMD graphics cards are uniquely equipped with AMD Multiuser GPU technology embedded into the GPU delivering consistent and predictable performance," said Sean...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trade Organization IAB Reacts to Ad Blocking
Prompted by Apple indicating it would start to block ads in Safari browser. In Adage: " ... IAB Explores Its Options to Fight Ad Blockers, Including Lawsuits ....
From insideHPC
Video: Debugging HPC Applications at Massive Scales
In this video, LLNL scientists discuss the challenges of debugging programs at scale on the Sequoia supercomputer, which has 1.6 million processors. "Bugs in parallel...
From The Eponymous Pickle