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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
Diablo Rolls Out All-Flash DDR4 Memory
Today Diablo Technologies announced the launch of Memory1, the first all-flash server system memory technology. The post Diablo Rolls Out All-Flash DDR4 MemoryinsideHPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book on Amazon Echo Programming
Announced today: Programming the Amazon Echo, by Joseph Jaquinta. Technical, yet to be completely edited, can't vouch for it, but only 99 cents on Kindle. Can...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Emerging Architectures for Global System Science
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Michela Milano at the University of Bologna-Italy and Pascal Van Hentenryck from NICTA Optimisation Research Group and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Current State and Future of Augmented Reality
Short overview in ClickZ. A list of current developments in AR. It still has mainly narrow applications rather than broad interfaces. But note also events...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Test for Creative Intelligence
How can we determine a machine or system is more than just intelligent, but also creative? A place for a Turing test.
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE's Industrial Internet
In SiliconAngle:General Electric Co. (GE) has made no secret of its desire to become the ruler of what it calls the “Industrial Internet,” a concept that’s often...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PLM and Internet of Things
Interesting area of application.Read what CIMdata's President Peter Bilello has to say about PLM, the IoT, and metalworking equipment innovation in the July/Aug...
From Schneier on Security
Face Recognition by Thermal Imaging
New research can identify a person by reading their thermal signature in complete darkness and then matching it with ordinary photographs. Research paper: Abstract...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First 3D Printed Prescriptions
An unusual example of 3D printing" ... First 3-D printed prescription drug to be made in Blue Ash, Ohio ... The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Communicating Robots
Note has some similarity to swarm robotics But here the individuals are likely to be more specialized. Collaborating, But need for central management? n...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Summer School on Theoretical Neuroscience
The following is guest post from Christos Papadimitriou, the C. Lester Hogan Professor of EECS Computer Science Division at the University of California at Berkeley...
From insideHPC
XSEDE Powers Polymer Research at MIT
Researchers at MIT are using XSEDE resources to study polymers, the chemical compounds used to make plastic, rubber, and more. The post XSEDE Powers Polymer Research...
From insideHPC
Seagate & Micron Develop Enterprise SSD
"The framework established between Seagate and Micron has led to the development and production of this next-generation, high-capacity SAS SSD platform. It is the...
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DDN Solid State Storage Cache Speeds Research at Purdue
Today DDN announced that Purdue University has deployed DDN’s SFA high-performance storage to accelerate the delivery of research results for up to 1,000 researchers...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of August 3
Senate Floor: Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, S. 754 Legislation pertaining to the sharing of cybersecurity threat and vulnerability information between...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tour Style VR at British Museum
From the BBC: " ... British Museum offers virtual reality tour of Bronze Age ... The British Museum is running a trial of virtual reality technology with a view...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My predictions for 2040
In second “Back to the future” movie (1989), the protagonists are sent 25 years in the future… October 2015. I watched this movie as a young adult and I was in...
From insideHPC
Amber – The How, What, and Why on Intel Xeon Phi
In this video from ISC 2015, Ross C. Walker from SDSC presents: Amber - The How, What, and Why on Intel Xeon Phi. AMBER is a key application in molecular dynamics...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Why Can’t Programmers Be More Like Ants? Or a Lesson in Stigmergy
If we want to advance the art and science of software development, we should direct our attention to the insect world of stigmergy. The post Why Can’t Programmers...
From Schneier on Security