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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 CERIAS Blog
Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Attack on Encryption
Preface by Spaf Chair, ACM US Public Policy Council (USACM)† About 20 years ago, there was a heated debate in the US about giving the government mandatory access...
From CERIAS Blog
Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Attack on Encryption
Preface by Spaf Chair, ACM US Public Policy Council (USACM)† About 20 years ago, there was a heated debate in the US about giving the government mandatory access...
From Putting People First
Europe’s White Working Class Communities: A Report on Six EU Cities
Europe’s White Working Class Communities, a research series published by the Open Society Foundations, documents the experiences of “white” communities in six cities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
It's the Numbers and the Process
In the NYT times today. It's not just how many numbers you gather, it's making sure you gather the right numbers. All models include and exclude context measures...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Machine Learning e-Books
Another set of online resources. Here free machine learning e books. The world continues to change in ready access to technical knowledge.
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Project Manager at LSU
Louisiana State University is seeking an HPC Systems Project Manager in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Project Manager at LSU appeared...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Winning at the Casinos
In Forbes: Still think there is real connection between the analytics of casinos and retail. We explored. Simulation in particular is a direct application. ...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Lore
Legends of giant squid go back centuries: In his book "The Search for the Giant Squid" marine biologist Richard Ellis notes that "There is probably no apparition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of Self Checkout
In Progressive Grocer: It is a journey that has been progressing for more than 15 years. Still controversial the article says. Some retailers have removed the...
From Schneier on Security
US Identifies and Destroys ISIS Headquarters Because of "Selfie"
The news media is buzzing about how the US military identified the location of an ISIS HQ because someone there took a photo and posted it. Quoting Air Force General...
From insideHPC
Intelligent Light Scales CFD Code to 64,000 Cores
Today Intelligent Light announced breakthrough CFD scalability running the AVF-Leslie combustion simulation code on up to 64,000 cores on NERSC supercomputers. The...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes for Friday, June 5, 2015
While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. In notable items from this week, MPI 3.1 is out, India launches a new...
From insideHPC
Simulating Geomagnetic Storm Effects on Power Grids
"Using Blue Waters, we are for the first time running highly detailed, global simulations of the Earth-ionosphere waveguide under the effect of a geomagnetic storm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Myth of Jobless AI Future
In Forbes: Good piece with a look at the history of jobs and technology. This was similarly written about in the late 80s. Jobs will continue to evolve radically...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
And A Light Bulb Lights Up
Several people today linked to Tickle. Now I have heard about Tickle before. I even have it listed in my blog post about Programming With Blocks. But today I looked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts about the Essence of Flow
In InfoQ: A concept we worked with in the world of supply chain, but now it is useful in many more domains. Well presented. It is summarized: " ... In this...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Running a Massive IDS on the Internet Backbone
The latest story from the Snowden documents, co-published by The New York Times and ProPublica, shows that the NSA is operating a signature-based intrusion detection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Computing MOOC
Via Jim Spohrer. Looks to cover considerable depth.Learn about Cognitive Computing in your spare timeIBM MOOC titled "Cognitive Computing -- Question Answering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Warehousing v. Big Data
Good points. By Martyn Jones. I heard a manager recently say they had switched from an emphasis on Data Warehousing to Big Data. But they are not the same thing...
From insideHPC