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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Playing Chess With the Devil
A new kind of ‘liar’ puzzle using Freestyle chess Cropped from source Raymond Smullyan is probably the world’s greatest expert on the logic of lying and the logic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and the Internet of Things
How will the IOT effect the operating system of the past? Simplifyingbecause parts of the OS can be in the cloud? Or make them much more complex? .How will search...
From Computational Complexity
Explain this Scenario on Jeapardy
Ponder the following: Larry, Moe, and Curly are on Jeapardy. Going into Final Jeapardy: Larry has $50,000, Moe has $10,000, Curly has $10,000 Larry bets $29...
From insideHPC
Last Call for SC15 Tech Program Submissions
The submissions deadline for portions of the SC15 Technical Program has been extended to Friday, Aug. 7. The SC15 conference will take place Nov. 15-20 in Austin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Prevedere Software uses Leading Indicators
Brought to my attention: " ... Prevedére, Inc. is a Big Data Predictive Analytics solution that helps companies increase profits and outperform competition. Our...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
PCAST Meeting Videos and Presentations
The last President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) meeting was held on Tuesday, July 14th at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Checkout Psychology
Evan Schuman on Self-checkout psychology: Don't scare away shoppers Good, new information. We worked on an analysis of this and related technologies for some"...
From insideHPC
Slidecast: IBM High Performance Services for Technical Computing in the Cloud
In this slidecast, Chris Porter and Jeff Kamiol from IBM describe how IBM High Performance Services deliver versatile, application-ready clusters in the cloud for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Investing in Deep Learning
In Virgin Entrepreneur. Short description of the concept. Not sure I agree that most companies should invest in this narrow kind of technology, important...
From insideHPC
ISC Cloud & Big Data Conference Announces Workshops
Today the ISC Cloud & Big Data conference announced that their pre-conference program will center around eight engaging workshops. The event takes place Sept. 28...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 27
House Floor H.R. 2206, State Wide Interoperable Communications Enhancement Act H.R. 1634, Border Security Technology Accountability Act Tuesday July 28, 2015 Hearing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What ten years teaching a technical topic in college taught me…
Over ten years ago, XML was all the rage in information technology. XML was what the cool kids used to store, exchange and process data. By 2005, all the major...
From insideHPC
Smaller Companies Shun HPC in Europe
In the ISC opening keynote, the conference was told that Europe is failing to persuade enough small and medium companies to take advantage of high performance computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Driving Trucks this Year
From the BBC: On German roads this year? Supply chain efficiency changes are considerable. " .. Autonomous trucks: Daimler seeks licence for road tests ... "
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consistent Experiences across Devices
Important goal. Not too often the case. " ... Walgreens' responsive website is part of the retailer's digital strategy that allows it to offer shoppers a consistent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evernote on Euro Data Laws
Evernote CEO comments on euro data laws. Complexity of regional regulations continues to add complexity to a data rich world.
From insideHPC
Video: Data Storage Infrastructure at Cyfronet
"Cyfronet recently celebrated the launch of Poland’s fastest supercomputer. As the world’s largest deployment of the HP Apollo 8000 platform, the 1.68 PetaflopVideo...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Team's Purchasing of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
This is an interesting article that looks at Hacking Team's purchasing of zero-day (0day) vulnerabilities from a variety of sources: Hacking Team's relationships...
From insideHPC