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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Another Example of IFTTT Automation
In Engadget: An example of how the IFTTT automation method is used and shared. " ... IFTTT's automation app can watch your Android phone's battery ... ". . Based...
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New Apple IOS Threatens Advertising
Will we see more of this kind of advertising blocking, coming from a change in our definition of privacy? And will that privacy then be enforced by the operating...
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Self Service Time Series Analysis
Building self-service tools to monitor high-volume time-series dataThe O'Reilly Data Show Podcast: Phil Liu on the evolution of metric monitoring tools and cloud...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF’s New Public Access Plan
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has a new public access plan called Today’s Data, Tomorrow’s Discoveries that was released in March to increase access to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Label Growth Slowing
In Mediapost: Not that private labels are decreasing in share, but their growth compared to national brands is slowing. Interesting numbers provided. Was involved...
From insideHPC
Caterpillar & NCSA Expand Collaboration for Realistic Simulations
Today Caterpillar Inc. announced it will expand its collaboration with NCSA to develop more realistic simulations that can lead to improved product designs. The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do Grades Kill The Magic of Learning?
I was reading Mark Guzdial’s blog this morning (A goal for higher ed: “There is magic in our program. Our program changes lives.”) and as often happen it got me...
From insideHPC
Video: Petascale Supercomputing for Space-Based Earth Science
"We have made substantial progress towards three transformative contributions: (1) we are the first team to formally link high-resolution astrodynamics design and...
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Google Medical Sensor
In CWorld: New sensors and new opportunities for analytics." ... Google has created a health-tracking wristband that could give health care professionals real...
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IT Trends and Service Management: Global Institute for IT Management
Brought to my attention The GIIM.Slides from a GIIM talk by Jerry Luftman on IT Trends and Service Management, can be found here. Institute Objective:The objective...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Flow of Carbon Emissions in Deep Oceans
A new computer model developed by scientists at LANL increases global climate simulation accuracy through a better representation of the vast eddies that swirlSupercomputing...
From insideHPC
Video: Satoshi Matsuoka on HPC Trends from PASC15
In this video from PASC15, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich discusses HPC trends with Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Along the way, Matsuoka...
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CrowdTruth Collects Gold Standard Data
Nice idea, examining further. Experiences? We experimented with similar ideas using Mechanical Turk. More will follow here.CrowdTruth via #CrowdTruth by ...
From Schneier on Security
What is the DoD's Position on Backdoors in Security Systems?
In May, Admiral James A. Winnefeld, Jr., vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave an address at the Joint Service Academies Cyber Security Summit at West...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo Available
I see that Amazon Echo will start to be generally available, starting on July 14. More here. I have reviewed my early experience during its beta in this blog,...
From insideHPC
Ancillary Events Line up for ISC 2015 in Frankfurt
With ISC 2015 coming up in July, a number of ancillary events have been scheduled in Frankfurt to take advantage of this annual gathering of over 2500 supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Beacon Radio
Hi Franz, Thank you for being a valued connection here on LinkedIn, and I've got news of a new radio program that may be of special interest to you. It's called...
From Schneier on Security
Hayden Mocks NSA Reforms
Former NSA Director Michael recently mocked the NSA reforms in the recently passed USA Freedom Act: If somebody would come up to me and say, "Look, Hayden, here's...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House OSTP Fall Internship Opportunity
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Internship Program provides a unique opportunity to work closely with senior White House officials...
From Blog@Ubiquity