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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
How Everything Will Recognize You
In TechDirt: Consider this an extension of the IOT: smaller and smaller visual sensors connected to systems that can quickly analyze what they are looking at....
From Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2015)
Earlier this week, I was at the eighth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. This is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects of the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New ‘toolkit’ clarifies NSF OLPA resources; helps agency tell NSF-funded stories better
The following blog post is from the National Science Foundation Office of Legislative and Public Affairs on improving science communication. A new interactive...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes for June 11, 2015
While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. Global HPC news items from this week include updates from Cray, Dell,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
June Issue of Shopper Marketing
Steve Frenda writes:The June 2015 issue of Shopper Marketing is available. Digital version: http://goo.gl/qEcbkQ. if you prefer a .pdf: https://goo.gl/YT23Fn
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Parsing for Human Reason and Understanding
Today's CSIG talk:Lenhart Schubert from the University of Rochester, presented "From Semantic Parsing to Reasoning." ... Slides here. This presentation is quite...
From insideHPC
Ciena Builds Advanced Network for NOAA Environmental Research
Today Ciena announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is building a private optical network powered by the company's converged packet...
From insideHPC
Video: Towards Exascale Simulation of Turbulent Combustion
"Exascale computing will enable combustion simulations in parameter regimes relevant to next-generation combustors burning alternative fuels. The first principles...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Will the Internet Crash Democracy?
Many people in the Western world believe Internet freedom equals freedom of social and political life. The more access we get, the more freedom and democracy we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco on the Gateway to the Future
Have recently been watching Cisco scroll by on my 'set top box', and musing how this is all efficiently brings together internet and other media and the futureBy...
From Computational Complexity
A Metric Group Product
A guest post by Dylan McKay, recently graduated from Georgia Tech and soon to be PhD student at Stanford. Here a cute puzzle motivated by a pair of undergrads...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Oil Embraces Big Data
Last year discussed analytics with an energy services company.Big Data and Big Oil: GE’s Systems and Sensors Drive Efficiencies for BPWith energy demands rising...
From Schneier on Security
Reassessing Airport Security
News that the Transportation Security Administration missed a whopping 95% of guns and bombs in recent airport security "red team" tests was justifiably shocking...
From insideHPC
SuperVessel Cloud to Boost OpenPOWER Ecosystem
Today IBM announced SuperVessel, a first-of-its-kind initiative that enables business partners, application developers and university students to conduct innovation...
From Schneier on Security
Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud? (Part 3)
Cloud computing is the future of computing. Specialization and outsourcing make society more efficient and scalable, and computing isn't any different. But why...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Retail Robotics: Now in the Warehouse
What looks to be a more generalized robotic solution for warehouse tasks.A supermarket thinks it can create the most advanced robot known to manOnline-only supermarket...
From insideHPC
Video: Computational Challenges in Macroeconomics
"Modern macroeconomic theory has provided many qualitative insights into the functioning of financial and labor markets in our complex modern economies. But determining...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Maybe Robots Are Our Friends?
A few month ago we blogged about the on-going robotic debate, Are robots our friends? This seems to be the question of the year, if not the decade, as digital...
From Schneier on Security
Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud? (Part 2)
Let me start by describing two approaches to the cloud. Most of the students I meet at Harvard University live their lives in the cloud. Their e-mail, documents...
From insideHPC