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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
What Can you Learn from Metadata?
An Australian reporter for the ABC, Will Ockenden published a bunch of his metadata, and asked people to derive various elements of his life. They did pretty well...
From insideHPC
HPC People on the Move: Back to School Edition
It's me again--Dr. Lewey Anton. I’ve been commissioned by insideHPC to get the scoop on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. Familiar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Freight Forwarding
Freight forwarding in the supply chain. Opportunities exist, but standards are one issue. Planning is another. WSJ: " ... Companies that coordinate shippingForwarders...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Startup Bubbles
In K@W:" ... But is there a tech start-up bubble? “Although it’s hard to call a bubble, there are many who are concerned about the level of pricing across asset...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA Knowledge Discovery with Graph Analytics
We looked at problems similar to this a number of times. How do you construct a semantic net based on internal knowledge, then use it to find new, innovative connections...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk in Modeling Check List
Good short piece on bias and Simpson's Paradox in DSC, by William Vorhies In particular dealing with real time data. Relatively non technical, beginners should...
From Schneier on Security
Using Samsung's Internet-Enabled Refrigerator for Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
This is interesting research:: Whilst the fridge implements SSL, it FAILS to validate SSL certificates, thereby enabling man-in-the-middle attacks against most...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pixar and Inspirational Mathematics
Hard to convince kids that mathematics is relevant? Or anyone of any age? Here Kahn Academy shows how math is used at at Pixar to create effective and beautiful...
From insideHPC
Cray XC Series Networking
Creating a large server farm with fast CPUs doesn’t map well to applications that require storage connectivity, as most do, or socket to socket communication within...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Pedestrian Detection/Analysis
Detecting and counting pedestrians is not new, has been done since the 90s, but advanced analysis of real time video is rapidly changing. Called VCS, or Video...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
How Joe Traub Beat the Street
An insight into the computation of financial information Columbia memorial source Joseph Traub passed away just a week ago, on August 24th. He is best known for...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
How Joe Traub Beat the Street
An insight into the computation of financial information Columbia memorial source Joseph Traub passed away just a week ago, on August 24th. He is best known for...
From insideHPC
DECI in Europe Issues Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources
The Distributed European Computing Initiative (DECI) in Europe has issued its 13th Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources. "Administered by PRACE, DECI enables...
From insideHPC
Time-lapse Video: Installation of Cray Supercomputer at UK Met Office
In this video, technicians install the first phase of a new Cray XC supercomputer at the U.K. Met Office. "Consisting of three phases spanning multiple years, the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analytics Use Case: Marketing Campaign Effectiveness
A well done video example of Watson Analytics use. Since this is a place where this kind of analytics is already commonly done, good place to compare with current...
From insideHPC
Video: Why is HPC so Important to AI?
In this video from the SF Big Analytics Meetup, Bryan Catanzaro from Baidu presents: Why is HPC so important to AI? "We built Deep Speech because we saw the opportunity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Persuasive Robots
In the ACM, in abstract form. With emphasis on persuasive. How persuasive? The interactions between us and our machines has progressed for some time now. But...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST Global City Teams Challenge Save the Date
Save the date for the next of round of the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) on November 12-13, 2015. Municipal leaders and innovators will gather at the National...
From insideHPC
Call for Student Cluster Teams at ISC 2016
Today the HPC Advisory Council announced the return of the widely successful HPCAC-ISC Student Cluster Competition in next year’s ISC program of events. In a real...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog