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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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Data Analytics Requires New Libraries
A convergence in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data has led to new opportunities for software developers to create and deliver products...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Robots at PARC
Shiwali Mohan from Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), presented "Designing Instructable Cognitive Robots" Slides here.Please find the schedule of presenters here...
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Intel to Invest $50 Million in Quantum Computing
Today Intel announced a 10-year collaborative relationship with the Delft University of Technology and TNO, the Dutch Organization for Applied Research, to accelerate...
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An Open Invitation to Work on the Tianhe 2 Supercomputer
European researchers are welcome to use the world’s fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-2, to pursue their research in collaboration with Chinese scientists and HPC...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Can Robots Be Trusted?
Can robots be trusted to make better decisions than humans? Sometimes automation can be a matter or life or death. The post Can Robots Be Trusted? appeared first...
From Schneier on Security
"The Declining Half-Life of Secrets"
Several times I've mentioned Peter Swire's concept of "the declining half-life of secrets." He's finally written it up: The nature of secrets is changing. Secrets...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You are the Network
In CWorld: In the future, with increasing use of wearables, you will become the network in a Personal Area Network (PAN).
From The Eponymous Pickle
Macy's Omni Channel Reorganizes
In Think with Google Talk." ... Macy's found that customers who shop across channels are 8X more valuable than those who shop in a single channel. With today's...
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Autotune Code from ORNL Tunes Your Building Energy Efficiency
A team at Oak Ridge has developed a set of automated calibration techniques for tuning residential and commercial building energy efficiency software models toAutotune...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for Patterns in Sequences or Collections?
Need to find patterns in sequences or collections? Used this long ago, and was reminded about it in a recent piece in Quanta Magazine. Remarkably simple and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Now Accepting Applications for Cutler-Bell Prize
This is not your ordinary high school CS student prize. “Four winners will be selected annually and each will be awarded a $10,000 prize and cost of travel to the...
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XSEDE & UC Berkeley Offer Online Parallel Computing Course
The XSEDE project and the University of California, Berkeley are offering an online course on parallel computing for graduate students and advanced undergraduates...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Certification Committee Update
The Certification Committee of CSTA is responsible for coordinating efforts around computer science teacher certification in the United States. The CSTA Wisconsin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Dash Progress
Amazon Dash buttons have become effectively free, and expanded available brands. We have had them in place for a time now. Very easy to install. Have used...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi and Design Thinking: Pepsi Spire
From CGT: PepsiCo CEO Turns Design Thinking into StrategyIndra Nooyi, PepsiCo's CEO, is ranked No. 15 on Forbes list of The 100 Most Powerful Women. In an interview...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Trevor Darrell, and Pieter Abbeel in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Indicators in Patterns
Patterns of essences are everywhere:Jim Spohrer: Just reading this short piece about cognitive systems helping detect pre-psychotic behaviors - amazing! http://asmarterplanet...
From insideHPC
Five Reasons To Deploy Cicso UCS Infrastructure
Cisco UCS solutions allow for a faster and more optimized deployment of a computing infrastructure. This solution brief details how the Cisco UCS infrastructure...
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Microsoft Boosts Azure with GS-Series VMs for Compute-intensive Workloads
Today Microsoft announced their GS-Series serious of premium VMs for Compute-intensive workloads. "Powered by the Intel Xeon E5 v3 family processors, the GS-series...
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