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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Humans Build Spaces
Is this what has caused us to construct spaces for social interactions with machines? Too simple, but will this cause us to find other ways to communicate and...
From insideHPC
Lustre* at the Core of HPC and Big Data Convergence
Companies already using High-performance Computing (HPC) with a Lustre file system for simulations, such as those in the financial, oil and gas, and manufacturing...
From Schneier on Security
Incenting Drug Dealers to Snitch on Each Other
Local police are trying to convince drug dealers to turn each other in by pointing out that it reduces competition. It's a comical tactic with serious results:...
From insideHPC
Training the Next Generation of Code Developers for HPC
This is the first article in a two-part series by Rob Farber about the challenges facing the HPC community in training people to write code and develop algorithms...
From Putting People First
Thingclash: putting human values in the IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is forecast to be one of the most far reaching and fundamental shifts in how people interact with technology and their environmentThingclash...
From Putting People First
[Book] Aging and the Digital Life Course
Aging and the Digital Life Course Edited by David Prendergast and Chiara Garattini Series: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations Publisher: Berghahn...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Changing Definitions
How important is “backward compatibility” in math and CS? David Darling source Henri Lebesgue came the closest of anyone we know to changing the value of a mathematical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google is not a Conventional Company
By Larry Page, in the official Google Blog. G is for Google. Intriguing read. So what is next?They announce a new company called Alphabet. A collection of companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and Big Data
Is Microsoft Putting Big Data At The Heart Of Their Business? – Data Science Central, by Bernard Marr. " ... It is now angling to become a key player in big data...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Betrayal in Diplomacy Games
Interesting research detecting betrayal in the game of Diplomacy by analyzing interplayer messages. One harbinger was a shift in politeness. Players who were excessively...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Google Announces Science Fair’s 20 Young Finalists
Google announced the finalists for its annual international science fair. There are projects from all over the world covering a wide variety of fields, including...
From insideHPC
Intel Profiles Supercomputer Architect Alan Gara
The Intel Blog is featuring profile of Alan Gara, who has designed and built dozens of world-beating supercomputers. The post Intel Profiles Supercomputer Architect...
From insideHPC
Interview: Asetek Rides Rapid Adoption of Liquid Cooling for HPC
The HPC industry's expanded use of liquid cooling was evident at the recent ISC 2015 conference in Frankfurt. To learn more, we caught up with Steve Branton from...
From Computational Complexity
Ways to deal with the growing number of CS majors.
(Univ of MD at College Park is looking to hire a Comp Sci Lecturer. Here is the link: HERE) Univ of MD at College Park will have 2100 students in the CS program...
From insideHPC
Deadline Extended for SC15 Doctoral Showcase
The deadline for the SC15 Doctoral Showcase submissions has been extended to Aug. 21. The post Deadline Extended for SC15 Doctoral Showcase appeared first on insideHPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Touching the Virtual
In CACM: Advances in haptics. We experimented with in retail spaces. Touch sensory interaction. " ... What is new is the concept of touchable holograms: not...
From insideHPC
“HPC in a Box” from the Docker Workshop at ISC 2015
In this video from the Docker Workshop at ISC 2015, Christian Kniep from QNIB Solutions shows how he uses Docker in his efforts to provide a HPC software stack“HPC...
From insideHPC
Chips Evolve for Data Intensive Niches
"Data centric workloads are growing in importance in high-performance computing and, in an industry that has been dominated by a handful of technologies for several...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The exponential cost of progress
When looking at the resolution of computer chips over time, we see that it takes roughly 5 years to cut the transistor size in half. However, this is costly. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle