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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
Petascale Research in Earthquake Science on Blue Waters
"SCEC’s multi-disciplinary research team is using NCSA Blue Waters to develop physics-based computational models of earthquake processes. During the past year,Petascale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on the Apple Metaio Acquisition
In ReadWrite: Comparison to other efforts about augmented reality at Microsoft and Google. Metaio brings in a clear maturity in the space, with applications"...
From insideHPC
DDN User Group Comes to ISC 2015 July 14
The DDN User Group meeting will take place July 14 at ISC 2014 in Frankfurt. The post DDN User Group Comes to ISC 2015 July 14 appeared first on insideHPC.
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Bare Metal to Application Ready in Less Than a Day
There is big push for decreasing the complexity in setting up and managing HPC clusters in the data center. This IBM Webinar, “Bare Metal To Application Ready is...
From Schneier on Security
The Effects of Near Misses on Risk Decision-Making
This is interesting research: "How Near-Miss Events Amplify or Attenuate Risky Decision Making," Catherine H. Tinsley, Robin L. Dillon, and Matthew A. Cronin. In...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Strengthening E-Commerce
In The NY Times: Registration. Interesting comparisions and numbers between Amazon and Wal-Mart. " ... Walmart, Lagging in Online Sales, Is Strengthening E-Commerce...
From Putting People First
Alice Rawsthorn on the pros and cons of new digital interface design
Alice Rawsthorn asks why the aesthetics of something so pervasive [as digital user interfaces], the design of which is deeply sophisticated in other respects, are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Transparency Ad Targeting
See EvryThng: The Internet of Things Smart Products PlatformEVRYTHNG is the award-winning IoT cloud platform that connects any consumer product to the Web and manages...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation in the Digital Age Webinar
Colleague Suna Polat points me to a free seminar she will be part of. Link to register.CIMdata to Host Free Webinar on Innovation in the Digital AgeFree educational...
From Computational Complexity
The city where the book publishers resides is Funkytown!
A while back when I got back the galleys for a paper the publisher wanted to know the complete postal address of one of the co-authors and also the city where...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Minor Insights Are Useful
Some examples of small insights that help Cropped from src1, src2 Julia Chuzhoy and Chandra Chekuri are experts on approximation algorithms: both upper and lower...
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance Law and Surveillance Studies
Interesting paper by Julie Cohen: Abstract: The dialogue between law and Surveillance Studies has been complicated by a mutual misrecognition that is both theoretical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen Doubles Down on Neuro
Roger Dooley in Forbes. Precisely the phrase I thought of when I read of Nielsen's acquisition of Innerscope Research. At first surprised, since more recent...
From insideHPC
Video: First Galaxies and Quasars in the BlueTides Simulation
"BlueTides has successfully used essentially the entire set of XE6 nodes on the Blue Waters. It follows the evolution of 0.7 trillion particles in a large volume...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
“Hello, World!”
A simple phrase known to perhaps every computer science teacher and student today. Two words that can say so much. Translated across many languages (human and...
From insideHPC
Interview: Workshop on Euro/Latin American HPC Collaboration Coming to ISC 2015
The ISC 2015 conference will feature a day-long workshop on European/Latin American HPC Collaboration. To learn more, we caught up with workshop organizer Dr. Carlos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BlueSpring Visual SharePoint Search
Have previously known BlueSpring as a BPM vendor. Have been informed of their capabilities of visual search of SharePoint data. I remember that search process...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speak Without Speaking: SmartStones Delivers Prose
Startup Smartstones has come up with a means to associate a gesture with snippets of prose. More here. " .... We just released our gesture-to-speech appSmartstones...
From insideHPC
Why Hardware is Leaving Software Behind
In the first report from last week’s PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World considers why so much Exascale software will be...
From The Eponymous Pickle