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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
ISC Cloud & Big Data Conference to Focus on Business, Technology and Research
Early Bird registration rates are now available for ISC Cloud & Big Data Conference, which takes place Sept. 28-30 in Frankfurt, Germany. This year the event will...
From Schneier on Security
Iranian Phishing
CitizenLab is reporting on Iranian hacking attempts against activists, which include a real-time man-in-the-middle attack against Google's two-factor authentication...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Kinds of Questions Can We Answer?
What kinds of questions can data science answer? Fascinating piece by Microsoft Data Scientist. Very fundamental idea. Good way to present the idea to management...
From insideHPC
Accelerating Science with SciDB from NERSC
Over at NERSC, Linda Vu writes that the SciDB open source database system is a powerful tool for helping scientists wrangle Big Data. "SciDB is an open source database...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Growing ECEP Alliance
By: Mark Guzdial The NSF Alliance Expanding Computing Education Pathways has expanded dramatically over the last few months. There are now 11 states in our cohort...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Seeking Knowledge of Causes
Excellent CSIG talk today on causal Bayesian modeling in healthcare reasoning and elsewhere. Linkedin Group discussion at link here. Slides and talk willat the...
From insideHPC
Video: NASA Charts Sea Level Rise
"Sea level rise is one of the most visible signatures of our changing climate, and rising seas have profound impacts on our nation, our economy and all of humanity...
From insideHPC
Rescale Launches Cloud HPC Platform in Europe
Today Rescale announced availability of its Europe region simulation and HPC platforms. As an HPC cloud provider, Rescale offers a software platform and hardware...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer-Aided Personalized Education Workshop
The CCC Computer-Aided Personalized Education (CAPE) Workshop will be held in Washington, DC on November 12-13th. The demand for education in STEM fields is exploding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A CKO Pushing Change
Always an interest, how do we promote valuable change and expertise, adapted to local context?How NASA’s Chief Knowledge Officer Drives ChangeBy Carla O'Dell on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Making Social Skills more Important
In the HBR: Research: Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important by Nicole Torres ... Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Normal OS Privacy Policies
In ArsTechnica: Criticisms about the normal state of how operating systems are communicating back to their builders. Under the guise of helping them improving"...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
HLF2015 / Foghor Tanshi – This Year’s Women In Technology Pass-It-On Award Winner and HLF Attendee
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 Computational Complexity
PACM
I serve on the conference committee of the ACM publications board and we've had extensive discussions on the question of the role of journals in publication venues...
From Schneier on Security
Defending All the Targets Is Impossible
In the wake of the recent averted mass shooting on the French railroads, officials are realizing that there are just too many potential targets to defend. The sheer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mysteries, Experiences and Value of Unsupervised Learning
I am reminded of a conversation with a manager early in my data analytics career when I mentioned using "unsupervised learning" ... . He asked in essence: How...
From insideHPC
Intel Invests in BlueData for Spinning Up Spark Clusters on the Fly
Today Intel Corporation and BlueData announced a broad strategic technology and business collaboration, as well as an additional equity investment in BlueData from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wi-Fi Aware as Beacon
Don't know where it is currently being used, but Wi-Fi Aware can be used like a beacon in retail like those using Bluetooth Smart, the technology behind AppleA...
From insideHPC
From Grand Challenges to Critical Workflows
Geert Wenes writes in the Cray Blog that the next generation of Grand Challenges will focus on critical workflows for Exascale. "For every historical HPC grandFrom...
From The Eponymous Pickle