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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
Video: Quantum Computers and Quantum Chemistry
In this video from the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship meeting, Jarrod McClean from Harvard University presents: Quantum Computers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forbes on Voice
In Forbes: On voice interpretation. Voice to text. And its use for devices and online. Not everywhere, since we don't always want to be heard. They say: ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netflix and Data Rich Analytics
There is always opportunity for data rich environments.How Data Analytics Is Shaping What You WatchWhen Netflix decided to go into the entertainment-producing business...
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Alan Turing Institute Hits the Ground Running for HPC & Data Science
The Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for data science. It has marked its first few days of operations with the announcement of its new director...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Commercial Drone
In Spectrum IEEE: More on the Sony Commercial Drone. " .... Last month, Sony Mobile announced a partnership with ZMP to build drones. Or rather, “to collaborate...
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Video: Argonne’s Pete Beckman Describes the Challenges of Exascale
"Argonne National Laboratory is one of the laboratories helping to lead the exascale push for the nation with the DOE. We lead in a numbers of areas with software...
From insideHPC
Engility to Support NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Today Engility announced it has been awarded a prime position on a $25 million multiple award contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
From Schneier on Security
China's "Great Cannon"
Interesting research: "An Analysis of China's 'Great Cannon.'" Abstract: On March 16th, 2015, the Chinese censorship apparatus employed a new tool, the "Great Cannon"...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Division Director Position Available at NSF CISE
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Previews Tutorials at SC15
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews three of the excellent Tutorial sessions coming up at SC15. "The SC tutorials program is one of the highlights...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MS Volometrix Acquisition: Understanding Organization
Organization analysis via graph analytics is a favorite application, not sure what this uses, but exploring. Microsoft to buy organizational analytics company VoloMetrix...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Open Problems That Might Be Easy
A speculation on the length of proofs of open problems Broad Institute source Nick Patterson is one of the smartest people I have ever known. Today I would like...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Open Problems That Might Be Easy
A speculation on the length of proofs of open problems Broad Institute source Nick Patterson is one of the smartest people I have ever known. Today I would like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Google Runs the Office
From Knowledge@Wharton: Podcast and edited text. How Google’s Rules Can Work In Your OfficeTake power away from managers. Don’t trust your gut. Be open and transparent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attempting to Define the Enterprise in 2020
Good thoughts. How exactly things like wearables will fit into the enterprise of 2020 is difficult to say. Obvious for specific focused applications, like machine...
From Computational Complexity
Whiplashed
I recently watched the movie Whiplash, about a college jazz band director, Fletcher played by J.K. Simmons, who torments his musicians to force them to be their...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robin Murphy’s TED Talk on Disaster Robotics
Texas A&M University‘s Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member, Robin Murphy recently...
From My Biased Coin
One Lecture Down....
CS125, the "new", "honors-ish" Algorithms and Complexity course, got off to a good start today. The room was full with not enough seats for people, the students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sanctity of 5 Ws Lost, but Needed
I had read somewhere that because of the internet, Ihe old 5 Ws rule (Who, What, Where, When, Why) in the top sentence or para was no longer being taught. Old...
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