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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 …
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ISC 2015 Breaks Attendance Record
ISC 2015 concluded its 30th meeting last week in Germany, drawing a record 2,846 attendees from 56 countries. In total 153 organizations took part in the conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategies for Reaching the Chinese Consumer
In the HBR:" ... Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their...
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Fujitsu Teams with Asetek for Cool-Central Primergy Systems
Last week at ISC 2015, Fujitsu rolled out new Primergy systems using the company's Cool-Central Liquid Cooling Solution. Based on Asetek technology, Cool-Central...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting Employees and Customer Experience
In CWorld: " ... Improve outcomes by connecting the employee and customer experience ... " Absolutely, but what if your employees are several steps away from the...
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Video: Pathscale Compilers Power Cavium ThunderX Processor
The EKOPath compiler for High Performance Computing supports advanced loop optimizations, SIMD vectorization and many-core support. This release of EKOPath includes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking your Location Over Time
We could have used this for a plant maintenance application that required documenting location, issues and changes. Thinking of other related applicationsTracking...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Alberto Apostolico, 1948–2015
Our condolences on the loss of a colleague Cropped from TCS journal source Alberto Apostolico was a Professor in the Georgia Tech College of Computing. He passed...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NTIA Invites Participation in a New Multistakeholder Process on Drones
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) invites businesses, organizations, and individuals to participate in a new multistakeholder...
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Eurotech QPACE2 Supercomputer Ranks 379 on TOP500
Last week at ISC 2015, Eurotech announced that the company has completed the installation of a new supercomputer prototype at the University of Regensburg. With...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A&P is Gone
One of the oldest and once largest US grocery store chains, with origins as far back as 1859, founded in NYC, is in the final parts of bankruptcy. ApparentlyThe...
From Putting People First
How ethnographic research helped transform a US paint company
Almost all business leaders now acknowledge that they would love to engage in the deep learning that long-term customer observation can foster, but in practiceHow...
From Putting People First
The student experience and the future of the library
Libraries have moved from being the location for search, access and advice to playing a much smaller role within a much larger information landscape, writes a researcher...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata Aster Videos on Advanced Analytics
Links to all videos by John Thurma to document Teradata Aster analytics,. Useful for training in this space. He writes: " ... Please see the following list...
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Integrating Supply and Demand
In the summer issue of SloanMIT: This requires membership or sign up registration for the full article.Integrating Supply and Demand" ... At many companies, sales...
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Stolen Data Phones Home
In CSOonline: " ... Digital ‘watermarking’ won’t prevent your data from being stolen, but it can let you find out about it much more quickly than the average of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Charleston Teach Meet Day Two
Today was the second day of a creative mini conference of educators. You can read about Charleston Teach Meet Day One here. We started off today a little differently...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
U.S. Department of Commerce Seeks Public Comments on Proposed Export Definitions Relevant to Cloud and Other Digital Services
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security is accepting public comments on proposed revisions to definitions in the Export Administration...
From Computational Complexity
Hartley Rogers, Author of the first Textbook on Recursion Theory, passes away
Hartley Rogers Jr passed away on July 17, 2015 (last week Friday as I write this).He was 89 and passed peacefully.For our community Rogers is probably best known...
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