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Why Physical Cyber Security is Broken
From Blog@Ubiquity

Why Physical Cyber Security is Broken

The physical Internet is evolving away from resiliency toward fragility and vulnerability. A broken Internet means flawed cybersecurity. The post Why Physical Cyber...

Experts Focus on Code Efficiency at ISC 2015
From insideHPC

Experts Focus on Code Efficiency at ISC 2015

In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World explores the efforts made by top HPC centers to scale software codes to the extreme levels...

Dell Opens Line of Business for Hyperscale Datacenters
From insideHPC

Dell Opens Line of Business for Hyperscale Datacenters

Today Dell announced a new business unit aligned around hyperscale datacenters. "The Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) group is designed to meet the specificDell...

The Advertising Value of Intrusive Tracking
From Schneier on Security

The Advertising Value of Intrusive Tracking

Here's an interesting research paper that tries to calculate the differential value of privacy-invasive advertising practices. The researchers used data from a...

Interesting Links 24 August 2015
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 24 August 2015

I meet my freshmen today! Yeah! I am excited. I’m pretty sure I’m ready. I’ve even got a new LCD projector. Although as someone pointed out it is a little sad that...

Introduction to Bayesian Inference
From The Eponymous Pickle

Introduction to Bayesian Inference

Good technical introduction to Bayesian modeling.   Integrated with three generations of AI ... 2 lectures from a summer schoolhttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us...

From Computational Complexity

Interesting properties of the number 24 on someone's 24th wedding anniversary

The story you are about to read is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. The Alice and Bob below are not the crypto Alice and Bob. -...

Analytics Tools in Bluemix
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics Tools in Bluemix

IBM adds analytics (Watson Analytics,etc), data warehousing tools to Bluemix"With built-in Netezza analytics libraries, and integration with Watson Analytics, R...

Things we Document in Process: Pictures of Food
From The Eponymous Pickle

Things we Document in Process: Pictures of Food

A very odd thing at first, when I saw it happening it on FourSquare,   Before the phone camera, never saw it happen,  but it quickly became common.  Now Google...

Governance, Risk and Compliance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Governance, Risk and Compliance

Gartner discusses,especially about the key foundations.  Details require Gartner Sign in. This is a very big topic,  clearly related but also thought of separately...

Video: A Systems View of Machine Learning
From insideHPC

Video: A Systems View of Machine Learning

"Despite the growing abundance of powerful tools, building and deploying machine-learning frameworks into production continues to be major challenge, in both science...

SC15 Announces Finalists for Gordon Bell Prize
From insideHPC

SC15 Announces Finalists for Gordon Bell Prize

SC15 just announced the finalists for the the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in High Performance Computing. The $10,000 prize will be presented to the winner at the conference...

HLF2015 / The Calm Before the Forum
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

HLF2015 / The Calm Before the Forum

This blog post originates from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Blog. The 3rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum is dedicated to mathematics and computer sciences, and takes...

Reinventing the Mouse Cursor for the VR Age
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reinventing the Mouse Cursor for the VR Age

In FastCodesign: " .. The mouse cursor—that oft-pixelated, 2-D arrow that's constantly hovering over your computer screen—hasn't really changed much since it emerged...

Managing Freelance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Freelance

Collaborator Steve King, of Small Business Labs,  pulls together some excellent material on managing freelancers.  Referring to research work that his group has...

Titan Supercomputer Powers the Future of Forecasting
From insideHPC

Titan Supercomputer Powers the Future of Forecasting

Knowing how the weather will behave in the near future is indispensable for countless human endeavors. Now, researchers at ECMWF are leveraging the computational...

Watson Analytics Linkedin Group
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Analytics Linkedin Group

Newly established and joined:The Official IBM Watson Analytics group is for individuals who want to learn more about using Watson Analytics to get answers and insights...

Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer for Oil & Gas at DDN
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer for Oil & Gas at DDN

DDN is seeking an HPC Systems Engineer for Oil & Gas in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer for Oil & Gas at DDN appeared firstinsideHPC...

Psych of Human Robotic and AI Interactions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Psych of Human Robotic and AI Interactions

AI and expanding robotics will require us to better understand these interactions.RoboPsych: Exploring the Psychology of Human-Robot InteractionSteve Omohundro...

Samsung Smart Hub and Echo
From The Eponymous Pickle

Samsung Smart Hub and Echo

Samsung's new SmartThings home automation Hub ships next month.    Word is out that this will also work via the Amazon Echo." ... Samsung quickly announced a second...
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