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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Call for proposals now open for the 2016 CSTA Annual Conference
It seems like I just got back from the 2015 CSTA Annual Conference but time marches on and the call for proposals for next summer’s conference was just released...
From insideHPC
HPC User Forum Meetings Coming to Paris and Munich in October
The HPC User Forum has posted their Agendas for upcoming meetings in Europe next month. The post HPC User Forum Meetings Coming to Paris and Munich in OctoberinsideHPC...
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Mellanox Shipping Spectrum Open Ethernet 25/50/100 Gigabit Switch
Today Mellanox announced that its Spectrum 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet switches are now shipping. According to the company, Mellanox is the first vendor...
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Strategies for Managing High Performance GPU Clusters
When discussing GPU accelerators, the focus is often on the price-to-performance benefits to the end user. The true cost of managing and using GPUs goes far beyond...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Charging for Loyalty
Seems counter intuitive, but successes like Amazon Prime seem to point otherwise. What is the value tradoff? In CustomerThink. " ... Let’s make one point clear...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foxtrot Code for Focused Analytics
Brought late to my attention .... Seeking to build micro analytics for many problems. A platform of and for analytics makers. Some good thoughts.' ..... “What...
From Schneier on Security
History of the L0pht
This Washington Post article uses the history of the L0pht to talk about the broader issues of Internet security....
From Putting People First
What do people really do at airports?
A few days ago researcher Ben Kraal gave a talk at UX Australia 2015 describing four years of research done by him and his colleagues on what people do in airports...
From Putting People First
[Book] The Silo Effect
The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers by Gillian Tett Simon & Schuster – September 1, 2015 304 pages > Extract Abstract...
From Putting People First
Anthropologists addressing burning issues on a hot planet
Our planet is becoming increasingly hot. We are facing climate change, social turmoil on local and global scales, and changing political and economic systems. The...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
HLF2015 / Sir Antony Hoare — Theory and Practice
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 The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms for Solving Specific Problems
Fascinating piece, a high level cheat sheet, that lists a large number of common process and business questions, and which machine learning algorithm families"...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing 2016
It’s that time again! Visit the website at https://www.aspirations.org/ for more information but I have included some details to get you thinking. From the web2016...
From insideHPC
ISC 2016 Issues Call for Papers
The ISC High Performance conference has issued its Call for Papers. As Europe’s most renowned forum for high performance computing, ISC 2016 will take place June...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Magazine
Been a while since I have looked at this, but now that AI is reemerging with a vengeance, it is back on my list. Worth following to connect the research andAI...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH OpenSim: Solving Movement Disorders through Simulation
The National Institute of Health (NIH) supported center for physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures (Simbios) at Stanford University has developed OpenSim...
From insideHPC
Peter ffoulkes Joins OrionX Consulting
Pioneering a new consulting services model for strategy, marketing, and PR, OrionX today announced the appointment of Peter ffoulkes as Partner based in San Francisco...
From insideHPC
Video: Doing Computational Chemistry with Square Pegs and Round Holes
"Existing computational chemistry packages are tightly integrated, with few interchangeable components, data structures and algorithms. Interoperation between packages...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bigger, Faster Models and Analytics
From the CACM: Exascale Computing and Big Data" ... Nearly two centuries ago, the English chemist Humphrey Davy wrote "Nothing tends so much to the advancementWikipedia...
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