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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 Putting People First
Stanford: taking back control of an autonomous car takes five to eight seconds
Autonomous cars are based on the premise – similar to airplanes – that the human driver can take back control of the vehicle in case of emergency. But that takes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Crowdfunds Products
New approach by Sony. " .... It could be the start of a new Sony -- a company that's trying to recalibrate its new product compass by throwing nascent ideas and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS50 AP–An Advanced Placement Computer Science Course from Harvard
The last few days were spent at Harvard University attending CS50 Boot camp in Cambridge (Videos of most of the talks should be at that link soon.) It was an interesting...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Divers Find Squid Eggs
Divers discover a large mass of Ommastrephes bartramii eggs: Earlier this month, a team of divers swimming off the coast of Turkey discovered something unexpected...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Carrefour and Romanian Beacons
An interesting place to try this test. In RFID Journal. We worked with Carrefour on technology tests. Several previous posts mention Carrefour beacon activity...
From Schneier on Security
Meerkats that Look like Bruce Schneier
Yet another example of my surreal life. (No, I have no idea who did this.)...
From insideHPC
A Tribute to the Very First SC Attendees
We should all be thankful for the Perennials that keep coming back, year after year. That's the sentiment over at the SC15 Blog, which pays tribute to 18 hearty...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching Problem Solving on the Sales Floor
Retailwire: Good piece. I will add: Yes, certainly preparation is a big part, though many problems will arise that are not enough like previous ones encountered...
From insideHPC
Video: HP Moves Forward with New Business Unit for HPC & Big Data
"As a result of a new alliance with Intel, HP is offering its HPC Solutions Framework based on HP Apollo servers, which are specialized for HPC and now optimized...
From insideHPC
How to Measure a Supercomputer’s Speed?
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Adrian Giordani asks what benchmarks should be applied as the nature of supercomputing changes on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japanese Eldercare
Frank Stein, Director of Analytics Solution Center at IBM on use of Cognitive systems for Eldercare, and in particular data about Japan. Discussion and examples...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Programmatic Advertising Displays in Europe
Interesting note because it looks at the attitude to digital displays. Predicts that they will be increasing in Europe. My own observation is that I have not...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does Going Digital Mean?
To me it is measuring business with sensors, analyzing the data you get, and feeding the results back to control the system. All driven by technology and monitored...
From Schneier on Security
The Outing of ECHELON
Before Edward Snowden told us so much about NSA surveillance, before Mark Klein told us a little, even before 9/11, Duncan Campbell broke the story of ECHELON....
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for HPCAC Brazil Conference, Aug. 26
The HPC Advisory Council has posted their agenda for the 2nd Annual HPCAC Brazil Conference 2015. The event will take place Aug. 26 at Laboratório Nacional de Computa...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting the Most from your Online Ad Money
In K@W: Reconsidering the 'last touch'." ... Advertisers often use multiple publishers for their online campaigns, but may not use the best metrics to decide which...
From insideHPC
Argonne Selects Theta Supercomputer Early Science Projects
Today the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) announced the selection of six projects for its Theta Early Science Program (ESP), a collaborative effort...
From Schneier on Security
Security for the Rest of Us
Good fictional account of an average computer user and how people understand and view security. Related: "Real World Use Cases for High-Risk Users."...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Resilience Power for the Enterprise
Via MIT Sloan. Very good talk today by MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, on using resilience in the supply...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog