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Supply Chain Planning Garbage in Equals Garbage Out
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Chain Planning Garbage in Equals Garbage Out

Very interesting piece, which addresses a problem we often encountered, and was too often not addressed well enough.  Every enterprise should have a handle on cleansing...

Podcast: Supercomputing Flood Maps Using the Titan Supercomputer
From insideHPC

Podcast: Supercomputing Flood Maps Using the Titan Supercomputer

In this NPR podcast, Dag Lohmann describes how his startup company called Katrisk is using the Titan supercomputer at ORNL to create detailed flood maps for use...

Job of the Week: HPC Solutions Architect at VMware
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: HPC Solutions Architect at VMware

VMware is seeking an HPC Solutions Architect in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Solutions Architect at VMware appeared first on insideHPC....

NSA German Intercepts
From Schneier on Security

NSA German Intercepts

On Friday, WikiLeaks published three summaries of NSA intercepts of German government communications. To me, the most interesting thing is not the intercept analyses...

Interesting Links 6 July 2015
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 6 July 2015

Last week was ISTE. I’m still sorting through all the information I received. And just one week until the CSTA Conference. Very excited for that one. Hope to see...

From Computational Complexity

Does Bob Deserve the lavish acknowledgement: A problem in Logic

Alice and Carol are real mathematicians. Bob is an English major who does not know any mathematics. (This story is based on a true incident.) Alice writesI...

AI Reasoning about Photographic Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Reasoning about Photographic Data

In Engadget.  How do I make sense of the knowledge in a vast set of images?  In real time?    Its called visual media reasoning.  DARPA and others are supporting...

Researchers Build Memcomputing Prototype
From insideHPC

Researchers Build Memcomputing Prototype

Over at Scientific Advances, a newly published paper describes a new high-efficiency computing paradigm called memcomputing. Modeled after the human brain, a memprocessor...

AI Revolution
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Revolution

An interesting view that plots aspects of intelligence and progress.  The AI Revolution: Road to Superintelligence - in Wait But Why

How Workers Learned to Love their Robot Colleagues
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Workers Learned to Love their Robot Colleagues

In the WSJ, requires registration:I was struck by how this article is addressing the same issue we have dealt with before, how do workers deal with the systems...

Video: Algorithms for Extreme-Scale Systems
From insideHPC

Video: Algorithms for Extreme-Scale Systems

Bill Gropp from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented this talk at the Blue Waters Symposium. "The large number of nodes and cores in extreme...

Harnessing the Color of Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Harnessing the Color of Data

All data visualization uses color to show pattern and emphasis in visuals.  Now Vizexplorer says they take it a step further.  I am exploring beyond that.  ...

Final Thoughts on #ISTE2015
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Final Thoughts on #ISTE2015

I thought I was done writing about ISTE but Doug Peterson’s post (Stop It Already - which you really should read including the comments from others) got me thinking...

Bringing ARM to the Student Cluster Competition
From insideHPC

Bringing ARM to the Student Cluster Competition

Over at the ISC Blog, Luna Backes writes that her Mont-Blanc Climbers Team is looking forward to building the first ARM-based cluster ever at the upcoming ISC Student...

Mellanox to Host Special Events at ISC 2015
From insideHPC

Mellanox to Host Special Events at ISC 2015

The countdown to ISC 2015 continues with news that Mellanox will host a set of special events at the conference. The post Mellanox to Host Special Events at ISC...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

The Halting Problem For Linear Machines

A small idea before the fireworks show Thoralf Skolem was a mathematician who worked in mathematical logic, set theory, and number theory. He was the only known...

Race to Build a Quantum Computer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Race to Build a Quantum Computer

A Good Non technical article in the Atlantic.  It does have some real applications in difficult enterprise problems.  See my previous writing on the topic.  Article...

Architecture Solutions, Business Process and Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Architecture Solutions, Business Process and Analytics

Brought to my attention by Michael Fulton, former chief cloud architect at P&G,  the company CC&C.  Fascinated by the potential integration of focused architecture...

Videos online of KISD service design conference
From Putting People First

Videos online of KISD service design conference

On May 18th 2015 the Köln International School of Design (KISD) in Germany hosted the conference “Service Design – Redefining the Meaning of Design“. Designers,...

Industrial Robotics in China
From The Eponymous Pickle

Industrial Robotics in China

Hard to believe that China has labor shortages.  But the article says:   " .... A brave, new world of robots is on the rise in China  ... Demand for industrial...
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