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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
Incentivizing Knowledge Sharing
A long time challenge. Blogs like this were an early example of feeding wikimedia sharing devices in the enterprise. Gamification methods were also examined. ...
From insideHPC
ISC 2015 Interview: Programming Models on the Road to Exascale
ISC 2015 will host a number of sessions on Exascale computing next month in Frankfurt. In what looks to be one of the highlights of the conference, Bill Gropp,ISC...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Which Programming Language Should I Learn First?
I hate posts that pretend to answer the question Which Programming Language Should I Learn First? So regardless of the title of this post I’m not going to answer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Opens Paris AI Center
In TechCrunch: Facebook: More than just identifying faces, using information in social to create a number of alternative models and link them to engagement and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maps Warn When a Store Will Close
When navigating to a place we would like to have enough information to use that place before we spend the effort to get there. What is more important than knowing...
From My Biased Coin
SoCG Proceedings
The 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry has its proceedings available online here.I point this out because the SoCG proceedings were managedLIPIcs...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 15
House Floor Possible consideration of trade legislation. See below for Tuesday’s scheduled floor action. Monday, June 15, 2015 Hearing: Commercial Cyber Espionage...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Net Neutrality Rules Take Effect
The FCC’s Open Internet Order became effective on June 12. The Order imposes new bright-line net neutrality rules that prohibit broadband providers from blocking...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Renews Consumer Advisory Committee
The renewed FCC Consumer Advisory Committee held its first public meeting on June 12. The Committee is comprised of 37 appointed representatives from industry,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House- The Week of Making
*The White House has kicked off the National Week of Making, which lasts from June 12 to June 18. The event includes announcements and progress updates on the President’s...
From insideHPC
GPU Accelerated Quantum Chemistry: A New Method
"The ability to accurately and efficiently study the absorption spectra of large chemical systems necessitates the development of new algorithms and the use ofGPU...
From insideHPC
Chelsio Adds Support for GPUDirect RDMA
Today Chelsio Communications announced that its T5 iWARP RDMA over Ethernet adapters now fully support NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA technology. The post Chelsio Adds Support...
From insideHPC
ISC 2015 Recognizes Research in Energy-Efficient Supercomputing
Today the ISC 2015 conference announced the winners of its annual awards, recognizing excellence in the development of energy-efficient supercomputers. The post...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Amazon Make Machine Learning More Accessible?
In DataNami:First we had IBM Watson Analytics, then Microsoft launched Azure Machine Learning. With last week’s launch of Amazon Machine Learning, the e-commerce...
From Schneier on Security
Encrypting Windows Hard Drives
Encrypting your Windows hard drives is trivially easy; choosing which program to use is annoyingly difficult. I still use Windows -- yes, I know, don't even start...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Federal Employee Hack
In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the recent hack of U.S. government employee data. Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 June 2015
First Monday of summer break for me and I sure do have a lot to do. Just none of it school related. I’ve got some good links to share. Some CSTA news for starters...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers and Omni-Channel
In Retailwire: More on retailers and omni channel via the cloud.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikipedia more Secure?
In Engadget: It has been suggested that you could understand what a company was doing by tracking what they searched for in a public place like the Wikipedia. Now...
From insideHPC