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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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Asetek’s Liquid Cooling to Enable Highest Performance on POWER Based Systems
Today Asetek announced that the company has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community based on the POWER microprocessor architecture. The post...
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GE and Cascade Optimize Gas Turbine Simulation
Today GE announced a multi-year joint development agreement with Cascade Technologies to improve combustion simulation software. With new visualaztion capabilities...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 22
House Floor H.R. 805, Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act of 2015 H.R. 1626, DHS IT Duplication Reduction Act of 2015, as amended H...
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Interview: PBS Pro is Biggest Release Ever for Altair
Today Altair released version 13 of PBS Professional workload manager. To learn more, we caught up with Bill Nitzburg, CTO for Altair PBS Pro. The post Interview...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Recipe App Goes live
Just got a copy of this AI Watson recipe App. worth a look. Here reported on by the BBC. I was a beta users of the original Chef Watson, see the tag link below...
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Altair Launches PBS Pro 13
Today Altair announced the general availability of PBS Professional 13.0, the latest version of the market-leading software product for high-performance computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Retail Supply Chain Management
In CIO. Now as back then, linking data transparency to analytics is key.Retailers and their suppliers are under more pressure than ever before to deliver more...
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New HP Apollo 4000 Systems Fulfill Booming Big Data Analytics & Object Storage Requirements
High Performance Computing and Big Data analytics touch us every day. We each rely on daily weather forecasts, banking and financial information, scientific and...
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IBTA Launches the RoCE Initiative
Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the launch of the RoCE Initiative to further the advancement of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology...
From Schneier on Security
Why We Encrypt
Encryption protects our data. It protects our data when it's sitting on our computers and in data centers, and it protects it when it's being transmitted around...
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Dell Ups its HPC Game with New PowerEdge C-Series
Today Dell announced the PowerEdge C6320 server for HPC and Big Data. With twice the performance of its predecessor on the LINPACK benchmark, the PowerEdge C6320...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Keynote / Attracting Women to Computing and Why it Matters
I was invited to give the keynote for Women and Technology 2015, held at Carleton on June 19. I spoke about women and computing. Attracting Women to Computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insights for Twitter Service on Bluemix
Providing Service Last October, IBM and Twitter announced that they were combining forces to integrate Twitter data with IBM analytics services on the cloud that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Standardized Software Containers.
In Wired:Software Containers Are Bringing the Tech Giants Together ...Software containers are poised to do the same thing for the web that shipping containers...
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Video: Mellanox Launches Spectrum 25/100 Gigabit Open Ethernet Switch
In this video, Mellanox launches their new 100G end-to-end Ethernet solutions in New York City. The post Video: Mellanox Launches Spectrum 25/100 Gigabit Open Ethernet...
From Schneier on Security
History of the First Crypto War
As we're all gearing up to fight the Second Crypto War over governments' demands to be able to back-door any cryptographic system, it pays for us to remember the...
From Computational Complexity
Learning from teaching a HS student Schur's theorem on change
(All the math this post refers to is in my manuscript which is here.) Recall Schur's theorem on making change as stated in wikipedia and other source: Let a1...![[Book] Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler W. W. Norton & Company May 2015, 432 pages Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying[Book]...
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Interview: How Univa Short Jobs Brings Low Latency to Financial Services
With the launch of Univa Small Jobs add-on for Univa Grid Engine, the company, the company offers "the world’s most efficient processing and lowest latency available...
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