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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 Schneier on Security
Back Doors Won't Solve Comey's Going Dark Problem
At the Aspen Security Forum two weeks ago, James Comey (and others) explicitly talked about the "going dark" problem, describing the specific scenario they are...
From insideHPC
Coral and Intel’s Scalable System Framework – The Path to Exascale
"HPC has reached an inflection point with the convergence of traditional high performance computing and the emerging world of Big Data analytics. Intel's HPC Scalable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Programming Robot Swarms to take Inventory
This one of the more unusual innovation efforts we examined. Could we program swarms of simple devices to perform complex, time consuming tasks? Taking video...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Innovation Centers
A Study: We built one of the earliest Inno Centers, so I am interested in the dynamics. Though do these have to be in Silicon Valley? We agreed it was good to...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Creating a Sense of Coherence in Open-World Adventure and Role-Playing Game Stories
The following is my most recent explanation of my thesis project.We are interested in the application of interactive storytelling to videogames. We want to improve...
From Schneier on Security
Comparing the Security Practices of Experts and Non-Experts
New paper: "'...no one can hack my mind': Comparing Expert and Non-Expert Security Practices," by Iulia Ion, Rob Reeder, and Sunny Consolvo. Abstract: The state...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Supply Chain Redesign
I posted a link to this once before. I had to review this for some work, worth another examination. Overstatement of the implications?Does P&G Need RetailersThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shift from TV to Digital Video
From Google: An interview with creatives, How fast is this moving today?" .. Great YouTube ads are born from great creative ideas. But how does the shift to ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Process Improvement and Building IKEA Furniture
In the APQC blog: What building IKEA furniture can teach you about process improvement. by Jess Scheer. Good points. Respect and evolve the process!
From insideHPC
Compute Canada to Renew National Research Computing Infrastructure
Today Compute Canada announced funding to renew and consolidate the Canadian national platform for advanced research computing. Compute Canada and its regionalCompute...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What do students think about coding?
What does assessment look like in a K-8 Computer Science program? Computer science teachers like myself use various methods to determine learning amongst theirContinue...
From insideHPC
BSC and CEA to Collaborate on HPC Innovation
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) announced plans to collaborate on HPC research...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Executive Order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI)
President Obama has issued an Executive Order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), which is an effort to create a cohesive, multi-agency...
From insideHPC
Nested Parallelism
The benefits of nested parallelism on highly threaded applications can be determined and quantified. With the number of cores in both the host CPU (Intel Xeon)Nested...
From insideHPC
Video: Argonne Presents HPC Plans at ISC 2015
"In April 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $200 million supercomputing investment coming to Argonne National Laboratory. As the third of three Coral...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Robot Picks Groceries
In CityWire: Wal-Mart offers a peek at robot grocery pickers and other innovations ... "
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changes in Consumer Goods Players
In Bain: The rapidly changing order of consumer goods leadersWhile it may seem as though the same familiar players always dominate the consumer goods industry,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Service Innovation for the Interconnected World
Presenter for the ISSIP Service Innovation Weekly Speaker Series is Timothy Chou, Author and Lecturer in Cloud Computing at Stanford University. Title of his presentation...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA, Metadata, and the Failure of Stopping 9/11
It's common wisdom that the NSA was unable to intercept phone calls from Khalid al-Mihdhar in San Diego to Bin Ladin in Yemen because of legal restrictions. This...
From insideHPC