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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
Interview: Hot Interconnects Conference Returns to Santa Clara Aug 26-28
"This year we have a specific focus on the latest advances in different areas of networks, showcasing some of the latest and greatest next generation networking...
From insideHPC
KTH Presents: Building Virtual Product Modeling for Scania
Daniel Ahlin from KTH (Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology) presented this talk at the DDN User Group at ISC 2015. "The PDC Center for High Performance Computing...
From insideHPC
Panasas Moves Forward with ActiveStor 18 Hybrid Scale-out NAS Appliance
"By adopting 8 terabyte drive technology, ActiveStor 18 increases scalability to more than 20 petabytes and 200 gigabytes per second. According to Panasas, ActiveStor...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Celebrates 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
On July 26, 2015, we will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council joins the...
From insideHPC
Users Accelerate their Own Code at EuroHack
"Despite what the name “EuroHack” may lead people to believe, no external systems were hacked during the EuroHack workshop in Lugano. In actual fact, the aim of...
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Innovates with Liquid Cooling at ISC 2015
"Power savings, increased rack density and high performance are the three key advantages of using liquid cooling. CoolIT Systems offers options for data centers...
From insideHPC
Quantum Chemistry at Scale
"Applications can be tuned to use both the Intel Xeon and the Intel Xeon Phi simultaneously, without modifying the code to just run on the coprocessor. Using aQuantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vehicle Hacking and Security
This came to my mind as I had a new OS update put into my one year old car. What are the dangers here? I have no control of anti hacking or anti malware capabilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Partners with Alibaba
The breadth of the interaction as stated is interesting. China is the big future CPG market. I attended a meeting yesterday that made much of the China mobile...
From Computational Complexity
New Proof of the Isolation Lemma
The isolation lemma of Mulmuley, Vazirani and Vazirani says that if we take random weights for elements in a set system, with high probability there will be a unique...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamifying Videos
Interesting simple approach, have not tried: parWinr" ... Gamify your video – in minutes! ... parWinr’s innovative software lets you quickly turn any video asset...
From Schneier on Security
Remotely Hacking a Car While It's Driving
This is a big deal. Hackers can remotely hack the Uconnect system in cars just by knowing the car's IP address. They can disable the brakes, turn on the AC, blast...
From insideHPC
REX Computing Raises $1.25M to Develop Neo Chip
Today REX Computing announced that it has raised $1.25 million in seed funding led by FF Science, a vehicle of Founders Fund that invests in companies pushing the...
From Schneier on Security
Organizational Doxing of Ashley Madison
The -- depending on who is doing the reporting -- cheating, affair, adultery, or infidelity site Ashley Madison has been hacked. The hackers are threatening to...
From Schneier on Security
Malcolm Gladwell on Competing Security Models
In this essay/review of a book on UK intelligence officer and Soviet spy Kim Philby, Malcolm Gladwell makes this interesting observation: Here we have two very...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Keynotes and Inspirations at Foundations of Digital Games 2015
I had a great time at this year's Foundations of Digital Games, but it was the talks and the hallway track with narrative folks that really left me inspired. In...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NTIA Invites Participation in a New Cybersecurity Multistakeholder Process on Vulnerability Research Disclosure
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) invites businesses, organizations, and individuals to participate in a new cybersecurity multistakeholder...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Why We Don’t Know Know-How
In pursuit of scientific understanding, too often we forget our level of know-how is far more important than our know-what. The post Why We Don’t Know Know-HowBLOG...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mastering Brand Building in the Third Decade of Digital
Today at: Mastering Brand Building in the Third Decade of DigitalSee the ongoing Signal PG (Procter & Gamble) conference tweeted at #SignalPGMore to follow.
From The Eponymous Pickle