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From Computational Complexity

Explain this Scenario in Jeapardy and some more thoughts

In the last post I had the following scenario: Larry, Moe, and Curly are on Jeopardy. Going into Final Jeopardy: Larry has $50,000, Moe has $10,000, Curly has... GASARCH
From Computational Complexity | July 28, 2015 at 11:44 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Proposes a Flight Plan

Not as much a joke as has been suggested. " ... Following the FAA's recent relaxation of commercial drone flight regulations, Amazon is forging ahead with plans... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2015 at 06:56 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

#beautyofcomputing Social Media Campaign

The National Science Foundation is in the middle of a summer-long social media campaign highlighting the #beautyofcomputing. We see beautifully computer-rendered... Helen Wright
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 28, 2015 at 01:12 PM

From Schneier on Security

New RC4 Attack

New research: "All Your Biases Belong To Us: Breaking RC4 in WPA-TKIP and TLS," by Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens: Abstract: We present new biases in RC4, break... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 28, 2015 at 01:09 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Transforming Higher Education

Correspondent David E Goldberg writes:" ... Transforming higher education is often thought of as simply the introduction and administration of new content, curriculum... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2015 at 12:46 PM

From Computer Science Teachers Association

Did You Miss It?

Miss what you ask? Why the CSTA Webinar presented by Beth Ziesenis, Nerdy Best Friend, on May 12, of course! A special invitation was emailed to you on May 1. I... Myra Deister
From Computer Science Teachers Association | July 28, 2015 at 12:34 PM

From insideHPC

Intel and Micron Announce 3D XPoint Non-Volatile Memory

Today Intel Corporation and Micron Technology unveiled 3D XPoint technology, a non-volatile memory that has the potential to revolutionize any device, application... staff
From insideHPC | July 28, 2015 at 12:21 PM

From insideHPC

Savage IO Rolls Out High Performance Open Storage

Today Savage IO announced the SavageStor open storage platform. According to the company, SavageStor is the highest-performing, most-densely populated Open Storage... staff
From insideHPC | July 28, 2015 at 12:02 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Gartner on Digitalization

In the Gartner blog, where I was attracted by the word 'digitalization', Don't like carrying the water for another term. But OK if it makes a useful distinction... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2015 at 11:43 AM

From insideHPC

Ada Lovelace Competition to Inspire Female Programmers

Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, the woman widely regarded as the first computer programmer, a competition aims to inspire female students... staff
From insideHPC | July 28, 2015 at 11:43 AM

From insideHPC

Video: TotalView Parallelizes Code at ISC 2015

"TotalView breaks down barriers to understanding what's going on with your HPC and supercomputing applications. Purpose-built for multicore and parallel computing... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 28, 2015 at 11:15 AM

From insideHPC

DDN Sets World Record STAC Performance

Today DDN announced record performance on the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) benchmark. Using the company's EXAScaler storage solution, DDN set new... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 28, 2015 at 10:54 AM

From insideHPC

HP Doubles Down on HPC & Big Data at ISC 2015

In this video from ISC 2015, Scott Misage from HP describes the company's new strategy for High Performance Computing. With a new business unit centered aroundHP... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 28, 2015 at 10:11 AM

From insideHPC

Lustre* For the Enterprise

Lustre* is not just for the national labs any longer. It was born out of serving up data extremely fast to the world’s most powerful HPC clusters using parallel... veronicahpc1
From insideHPC | July 28, 2015 at 10:00 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

UK Virtual Reality Lab for Transport

In Engadget: Don't quite understand the application, but intriguing. In general we found that VR applications were most useful when they were closely connected... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2015 at 09:05 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Historical Big Data Use Case

I like the fact that this includes considerable historical data. Consider the opportunities. From Pete Ianace:" ... This is a great use case that describes the... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2015 at 08:36 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Executive Guide to Machine Learning

In McKinsey: An executive’s guide to machine learningIt’s no longer the preserve of artificial-intelligence researchers and born-digital companies like Amazon,... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2015 at 08:25 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Cities and the Power of Integration

In Cisco: On the Smart City, how things will be connected, architect ed, and analyics leveraged to make cities work efficiently. At the end of the day it is still... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2015 at 08:07 AM

From Schneier on Security

Stagefright Vulnerability in Android Phones

The Stagefright vulnerability for Android phones is a bad one. It's exploitable via a text message (details depend on auto downloading of the particular phone),... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 28, 2015 at 07:37 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Programmers Have No Ideas?

I read blogs by smart interesting people so I can be exposed to new or different ideas. Eugene Wallingford is one of those smart interesting people. He recently... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 28, 2015 at 06:04 AM