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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 …
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Agenda Posted for LAD’15 in Paris, Sept. 22-23
EOFS and OpenSFS published their Agenda for the LAD’15 Lustre Administrator & Developer event, which takes place Sept. 22-23 in Paris, France. The post Agenda Posted...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Lessons of HitchBot
This past week, a story circulated around social media about how HitchBot, a friendly hitchhiking robot met a grisly end here in Philadelphia. When the news hit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowing what You Want before You do
In the WSJ: And the implications for virtual assistants. Is this also a way to do product development? Almost by definition.Apple and Google Know What You...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook's Moneypenny to Provide Help
I was sent a query about Moneypenny last week, suggesting it was Facebook's entry into the virtual assistant fray, but it seems it will be more of a system to direct...
From insideHPC
Video: Team Spain Brings ARM to the Student Cluster Competition
In this video from ISC 2015, Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting interviews Team Spain, the first team ever to use ARM processors in the Student Cluster Competition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising IDs and Tracking in Windows 10
Quite a remarkable review of tracking capabilities in my update to Windows 10. Did you know you now have your personal ad ID? Covering privacy issues in Windows...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trying Again in the Metaverse
If has been quite a long time since I heard the term Metaverse. Yet I attended the building of a huge IBM Second Life complex as a representative of our enterprise...
From insideHPC
Australia Connects to US Pacific Research Platform
Today the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) announced a partnership...
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Video: Brendan Gregg Tutorial on Linux Performance Tools
In this video from the Velocity 2015 conference, Brendan Gregg from Netflix presents a 90 minute tutorial on Linux performance tools. "There are many performance...
From insideHPC
Black-Scholes Pricing on Intel Xeon Phi
"An expanding area of work both on the hardware front and the software side is to modify and optimize applications to run on both the host processor and a coprocessor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Computers to See Medical Imagery
In A Smarter Planet. This raises a question we often addressed. At what level should human expertise be inserted into a system like this? Or should we push...
From Computational Complexity
How hard would this cipher be for Eve to crack?
I've been looking at old ciphers since I am teaching a HS course on Crypto. We've done shift, affine, matrix, Playfair, 1-time pad, Vigenere, and then noting that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinventing Marketing
In the Cisco Blog:Our customers’ expectations and buying behaviors are changing, and more brands compete for their attention. We either need to reinvent our approach...
From Schneier on Security
Nicholas Weaver on iPhone Security
Excellent essay: Yes, an iPhone configured with a proper password has enough protection that, turned off, I'd be willing to hand mine over to the DGSE, NSA, or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Powered Assistants
If you have followed this blog, I have been covering the various forms and approaches of the virtual assistant for some time. Click tag below for much moreA.I....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Value of User Experience
Good piece in K@W, sponsored by SAP. We have developed some very big expectations regarding user experience. The expectation includes having instantaneous and...
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Video: Docker for HPC in a Nutshell
"As the newest flavor of Linux Containers, Docker gained a lot of momentum in the last 12 months. With a very convenient and open API-driven architecture Docker...
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Slidecast: IBM Platform Data Manager for LSF
"IBM Platform Data Manager for LSF takes control of data transfers to help organizations improve data throughput and lower costs by minimizing wasted compute cycles...
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Bringing HPC to the SME
Tom Wilkie reports from ISC 2015 on moves to make it easier for SMEs to access high-performance computing, and on why it matters. The post Bringing HPC to the SME...
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