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D-Wave Breaks 1000 Qubit Quantum Computing Barrier

Today D-Wave Systems announced that it has broken the 1000 qubit barrier, developing a processor about double the size of D-Wave’s previous generation. The post... staff
From insideHPC | June 22, 2015 at 10:57 AM

From Apophenia

Which Students Get to Have Privacy?

There’s a fresh push to protect student data. But the people who need the most protection are the ones being left behind. It seems that student privacy is trendy... zephoria
From Apophenia | June 22, 2015 at 09:51 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Image Recognition, and Constuction

In CNet:The surreal dreams of Google's image recognition software ... Google's artificial neural network can recognise images, but it can also create them -- and... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 22, 2015 at 09:43 AM

From Schneier on Security

The Secrecy of the Snowden Documents

Last weekend, the Sunday Times published a front-page story (full text here), citing anonymous British sources claiming that both China and Russia have copies of... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | June 22, 2015 at 07:13 AM

From insideHPC

Interview: Trends in HPC & Cloud in Financial Services

While not every industry is making the move to the Cloud at quite the same rate, the high performance side of the Financial Services industry seems to be aheadInterview... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | June 22, 2015 at 07:00 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 22 June 2015

I took it easy last week. Let’s call it retirement practice. Hope you’re enjoying your self and if you are also on summer break I hope you are resting physically... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 22, 2015 at 06:02 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Useful Data Myths

Martyn Jones posts some thought provoking Big Data facts and myths in DSC. Worth considering, especially how it relates to more traditional methods. Considerable... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 22, 2015 at 04:54 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Killing Jobs?

From CACM and The Wall Street Journal Interesting numbers on job replacement.Robots are goosing the productivity of the world's factories, but does that mean... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 22, 2015 at 04:47 AM

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Fathering Randomized Fault Tolerance

Plus visiting Michael Rabin and talking about Gödel’s Theorems Michael Ben-Or and Michael Rabin have won the 2015 Dijkstra Prize for Distributed Computing. The... Pip
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | June 21, 2015 at 11:58 PM

From insideHPC

LAD’15 Issues Call for Participation

EOFS and OpenSFS have issued their Call for Participation for the LAD’15 event, which takes place Sept. 22-23 in Paris, France. The post LAD’15 Issues Call forinsideHPC... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | June 21, 2015 at 12:55 PM

From insideHPC

RCE Podcast Looks at the Fasterdata Knowledge Database

"Fasterdata provides proven, operationally sound methods for troubleshooting and solving performance issues. Our engineers have identified a common set of issues... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | June 21, 2015 at 11:56 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

An Example of Network Graph Analysis

From DSC, Visualize your Social Media Analytics by Manoj Sharma" ... Network Graph Analysis can be used to identify the most important participants based on their... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 21, 2015 at 09:55 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

More Ad Blocking Emerges

Upsetting the financial support for the modern internet? In Mashable: Apple's new Safari will let you block ads, which makes some people happy and some people... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 21, 2015 at 08:35 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Invests in Open Source, Free Data Tech

" .... The move, announced by the company Monday, follows the hiring of about 20 people for a new technology center in San Francisco to improve and extend a University... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 21, 2015 at 08:22 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Personalizing Consumer Brand Relationship

Study: Consumers believe brands don’t understand them" ... IBM recently announced the results of a study that found a massive perception gap between how well businesses... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 21, 2015 at 07:20 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Warnings of Data Paralysis and Context.

Data paralysis is a key issue. Data correctness and being up to date and remaining in context is also important. I always make a detailed statement of these issues... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 21, 2015 at 07:17 AM

From insideHPC

Ed Seidel Presents: Supercomputing in an Era of Big Data and Big Collaboration

"Supercomputing has reached a level of maturity and capability where many areas of science and engineering are not only advancing rapidly due to computing power... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | June 20, 2015 at 12:21 PM

From insideHPC

Job of the Week: Senior HPC Grid Engineer at Citigroup

Citigroup in Irving, Texas is seeking a Senior HPC Grid Engineer in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: Senior HPC Grid Engineer at Citigroup appeared... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | June 20, 2015 at 12:04 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Echo Installed and Experienced

Now 6 months after request I have an installed Amazon echo called Alexa in the kitchen. A smart Pringles can. Requires Wifi and AC. Fairly easy to install,Walter... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 20, 2015 at 11:37 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Personalizing Pricing in Store

Much talked for loyalty, or online. Beyond that in Brick and Mortar? We built some test models for experimentation for engagement interaction. How does this change... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 20, 2015 at 10:47 AM