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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts on #ISTE2015 Monday
ISTE is huge. I mean really huge. There are something like 20,000 people here in Philadelphia. There are a lot people here I want to see and talk to. I was able...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Addiction and Confused Consumers
In RetailWire, by Tom Ryan:A.G. Lafley, Procter & Gamble's CEO, believes that the continual push by retailers for more product innovation is leading to an overload...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots, Sensors and Math at Penn
Good, non technical article, have posted about the GRASP Laboratory here before." ... Last March seven researchers from the University of Pennsylvania landed in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contract Guardian: Advances in Compliance Management
Just heard from my friend John Reuter. He and his group have developed the Contract Guardian system for contract management. Suitable for companies large and...
From Schneier on Security
TEMPEST Attack
There's a new paper on a low-cost TEMPEST attack against PC cryptography: We demonstrate the extraction of secret decryption keys from laptop computers, by nonintrusively...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
WATCH Talk- The CHERI Processor: Revisiting the Hardware-Software Interface for Security
The next WATCH talk, called The CHERI Processor: Revisiting the Hardware-Software Interface for Security is Monday July 6, 2015 from Noon-1pm EST. The presenter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Earth Features Added
It has been some time since I have used Google Earth for business purposes. But we did make it useful for some interesting applications. Now (Surprise) it isIn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
My Costco Self Checkout Observations
I see that our local Costco has recently removed their self checkout systems. That they were doing this has been reported for some time. We experimented with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Event Readiness Service for Demand
Interesting analytics effort. We are all, in effect, thinking about how to react to events in our enterprise context. Demand is a big example, but not the only...
From insideHPC
Addressing Climate Change Uncertainties with Petascale Computing
"This collaborative research between the University of Illinois, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the University of Maryland is aimed at usingAddressing...
From insideHPC
Trends in HPC Leading to Exascale
Over at the Altair Blog, Bill Nitzburg has started a series of posts looking at the road to Exascale. He starts by looking back at the trends that have lead usTrends...
From insideHPC
Peter V. Coveney to Keynote ISC Cloud & Big Data
Today the ISC Cloud & Big Data conference announced that Professor Peter V. Coveney from University College London will be their keynote speaker. Coveney will discuss...
From Schneier on Security
Migrating from SHA-1 to SHA-2
Here's a comprehensive document on migrating from SHA-1 to SHA-2 in Active Directory certificates....
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Previews ISC 2015
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the ISC 2015 conference, which takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany. In addition to a great technicalRadio...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 June 2015
I’m at ISTE in I’ve already connected with a few old friends and hope to connect with many more. If you are also at ISTE I hope you’ll track me down. I’m attending...
From Computational Complexity
When do we care about small improvements?
A while back complexity blog, Shtetl-optimized , and GLL all blogged about the improved matrix mult algorithms (Complexityblog: here, Shtetl-optimized: here,here...
From insideHPC
Sandia’s Z machine Helps Pinpoint Age of Saturn
How old is Saturn? Researchers are using Sandia's Z machine to find out. The post Sandia’s Z machine Helps Pinpoint Age of Saturn appeared first on insideHPC....
From insideHPC
Video: 1.68 Petaflop Prometheus Supercomputer Comes to Cyfronet
In this video, officials from Cyfronet describe Prometheus, a new HP Apollo 8000 supercomputer with 1.68 Petaflops of peak performance. The post Video: 1.68 Petaflop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft's Hololens to Orbit
In CWorld: Good to see the space station to be used as a sandbox for this kind of application. Complexity, mobile, wearable, hands free and knowledge intensive...
From The Eponymous Pickle