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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 insideHPC
Industrial Computational Breakthroughs on Blue Waters
"Blue Waters can tackle a very wide range of challenging tasks, not only from science, but also from engineering demonstrating the feasibility of efficiently solving...
From insideHPC
Tiny Titan Supercomputer Debuts at Oak Ridge Museum
The "Tiny Titan" parallel computer has become interactive display at the American Museum of Science and Energy at Oak Ridge. Constructed last year at ORNL, Tiny...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chomsky and non speaking AI
Of interest, my comments will follow later today.http://www.computerworld.com/article/2929085/emerging-technology/blame-chomsky-for-non-speaking-ai.html
From insideHPC
Contrasting how Japan and Europe Promote the Use of HPC
Europe and Japan have come to the same conclusion; HPC resources must be shared and not monopolized by the individual owners of the computer systems themselves....
From insideHPC
Satoshi Matsuoka to Chair ISC 2016 Conference Program
Today ISC Events announced that Prof. Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka of Tokyo Institute of Technology will be the program chairman for ISC 2016. "As the program chair, Dr...
From Schneier on Security
Research on The Trade-off Between Free Services and Personal Data
New report: "The Tradeoff Fallacy: How marketers are misrepresenting American consumers and opening them up to exploitation." New Annenberg survey results indicate...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Security Via Surrender
A new approach to protecting data and identity Cropped from src1, src2 David Sanger and Julie Davis are reporters for the paper of record—the New York Times. Their...
From Computational Complexity
STOC Business Meeting
This week I'm at the Federated Computing Research Conference in Portland, a collection of many mostly ACM conferences. Last night was the STOC business meeting....
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Blogging and Meeting CS Greats at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum "offers a select group of young researchers in mathematics and computer science the extraordinary chance to meet the preeminent scientists...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Testimony on “The IRS Data Breach: Steps to Protect Americans’ Personal Information” to Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
On June 2, our new CCC Council member starting July 1st, Kevin Fu (Associate Professor, Sloan Research Fellow Computer Science and Engineering Electrical Engineering...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Interior Dynamics of Stars and Giant Exoplanets
Over at the NASA Ames Research Center, Michelle Moyer writes that the agency is using supercomputer simulations to explore the interior dynamics of stars and giant...
From insideHPC
Video: Mont-Blanc Prototype One Step Closer to Exascale
"Early in February, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) successfully deployed the Mont-Blanc prototype. After three years of intensive research effort, the team...
From insideHPC
SGI Broadens HPC Solutions with Red Hat OEM Agreement
Today SGI announced the signing of an OEM agreement with Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions. This agreement enables SGI’s world...
From insideHPC
HPC in medical applications
Medical applications like CT (computed tomography) scanning and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) require quick, accurate results from processing complex algorithms...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Vint Cerf Interviews U.S. CTO Megan Smith
ACM Past President Vint Cerf interviewed U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith for this month’s Communications of the ACM magazine. She spoke on key policy...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Signs Letter to President Obama Urging Wide Adoption of Encryption Technology
USACM signed a letter to President Obama from a variety of civil society organizations urging him to pursue public policies that encourage the wide adoption of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focusing in the World of Digital Assistants
Until now you have been able to pick and choose in the world of Apps, hardware and services to help do your job. The typical challenge has been between Googlethis...
From Schneier on Security
Peter Swire on the USA FREEDOM Act
Peter Swire, law professor and one of the members of the President's review group on the NSA, writes about intelligence reform and the USA FREEDOM Act....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Key to the Connected Home
How very true, Even in small tests we did the complexity rose quickly. I am now testing several home systems. Design exists at the high level aesthetic level...
From The Eponymous Pickle