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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
Can Collaborative Innovation and Technology Accelerate and Lower the Cost of “Innovation?
In CIMdata's Linkedin Group: My former colleague writes.CIMdata's Dr. Suna Polat asks the question, Can Collaborative Innovation and Technology Accelerate andI...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dancing Zombie Squid
How dead squid is made to dance when soy sauce is poured on it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...
From Schneier on Security
Uh Oh -- Robots Are Getting Good with Samurai Swords
It's Iaido, not sword fighting, but still. Of course, the two didn't battle each other, but competed in Iaido tests like cutting mats and flowers in various cross...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Information Useful
Podcast and text, interesting thoughts.Thomson Reuters on making information usefulThe CEO of the news, information, and professional-software company, Jim Smith...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Effective Scenario Planning
In McKinsey: Has been a while since I have worked with this technique, some good ideas and hints to make it useful. Not the same thing as Business Process Modeling...
From insideHPC
Students Win ASC15 Competition with K80 GPUs
Over at the Nvidia Blog, George Middleton writes that Tesla K80 GPUs powered the winning team from Tsinghua University at the recent ASC15 International Student...
From Schneier on Security
The History of Internet Insecurity
The Washington Post has a good two part story on the history of insecurity of the Internet....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketers and Predictive Analytics
This makes much sense. Marketing as a whole is a kind of prediction with considerable risk. Anything that can be done to improve your accuracy is of value. Taking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and the Angry Customer
Addressing the angry customer with AI? Have investigated this in the past with advisory systems. People do react to systems differently than people. Possible...
From insideHPC
Concurrent Kernel Offloading
"The combination of using a host cpu such as an Intel Xeon combined with a dedicated coprocessor such as the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor has been shown in many cases...
From insideHPC
Will Europe be First to Exascale?
"The strengths and the limitations of Europe’s supercomputing strategy were laid out at the PRACEDdays15 conference in Dublin at the end of May, with the mindsWill...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Last Day of School
Today is the final day for teachers at my school. Students finished yesterday. Through some luck of timing and hard work all my grades are already in the system...
From insideHPC
InsideHPC Special Reports
Over the past year the insideHPC editorial team have put together a series of special reports on a variety of HPC topics. These reports can be read online in an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Product CPG Innovation Shifting
Interesting view of consumer product mix:" ... Despite the fact that 85 percent of American household needs are consistently filled with the same 150 items1, new...
From Schneier on Security
Duqu 2.0
Kaspersky Labs has discovered and publicized details of a new nation-state surveillance malware system, called Duqu 2.0. It's being attributed to Israel. There's...
From insideHPC
Video: From Megaflop to Petaflop and Beyond
Arden Bement from Purdue University presented this keynote at the NCSA Blue Waters Symposium. "Over the three decades supercomputer throughput rates have increased...
From CERIAS Blog
Proposed Changes in Export Control
The U.S. limits the export of certain high-tech items that might be used inappropriately (from the government’s point of view). This is intended to prevent (orPurdue...
From CERIAS Blog
Proposed Changes in Export Control
The U.S. limits the export of certain high-tech items that might be used inappropriately (from the government’s point of view). This is intended to prevent (orPurdue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Myths and Cautions
From DSC, by Martyn Jones. I add: Not a bad selection of warnings and cautions of the use and use of Big Data. Similar things could have been said about many...
From The Eponymous Pickle