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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
Shopping Cart Invented Today
Have done lots of experimental work with the humble cart/buggy/trolley. Was also invented at the Piggly-Wiggly chain that claims to be the first modern process...
From insideHPC
UK Hartree Center Partners with IBM on Big Data
Today the UK government announced a £313 million partnership with information technology leader IBM to boost Big Data research in the UK. The post UK Hartree Center...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers and Gamification
A number of interesting Gamification examples in RetailWire. " ... As any adult who has downloaded Candy Crush or Angry Birds can attest, gaming isn't just for...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House OSTP- The Value of Basic Research
The following is from the Office of Science and Technology Blog by Jo Handelsman, the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AllJoyn to be in New Windows 10
In Time Mag: " ... Microsoft announced last November Windows 10 would pack a technology called AllJoyn. An open source framework that encourages devices to beAllSeen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slide Makeovers for your Presentations
Good short example of how to easily make over your presentations. Also consider Prezi as a more dramatic change.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frontiers in Service Science Conference
Service science is an area where advisory cognitive systems are of particular and immediate value. Several of my newer colleagues will be presenting at this upcoming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improved Cardboard VR
In Engadget: Better cardboard. Works for larger phones. Also includes the system working on IOS systems. Easy to try." .... Google brought virtual reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Cognitive Text Challenges in Health Care and Patent Law
In today's CSIG Call:RP Raghupathi from Fordham presented Big Data Analytics challenges today on our Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series. RP presented "Big...
From insideHPC
Video: Three Ways to Debug Parallel CUDA Applications
"This talk will introduce these three debugging techniques and provide some suggestions on selecting the optimal approach for a variety of debugging scenarios such...
From Schneier on Security
Yet Another New Biometric: Brainprints
New research: In "Brainprint," a newly published study in academic journal Neurocomputing, researchers from Binghamton University observed the brain signals of...
From Computational Complexity
Langs with provably bigger CFG's then CSG's
In a prior blog entry HERE I discussed very large differences in the size of machines. I didn't discuss CFG vs CSG so I'll do that now. We assume that the CFGs...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Are We Wrong About Innovation?
The notion that creating ideas and imagining new worlds fashioned around these ideas are the keys to innovation is all wrong. Ideation is not innovation The post...
From insideHPC
STAR-CCM+ Scales to 102,000 Cores on Blue Waters
NCSA recently announced a new world record by scaling CD-adapco’s flagship simulation tool STAR-CCM+ to 102,000 cores on the Blue Waters supercomputer. The post...
From insideHPC
Fortissimo Forum 2015 Comes to Amsterdam July 8
The Fortissimo Consortium will host their Fortissimo Forum on HPC Cloud Computing on July 8 in Amsterdam. The post Fortissimo Forum 2015 Comes to Amsterdam July...
From insideHPC
Load Balancing Using OpenMP 4.0
OpenMP 4.0 standard now allows for the offloading of portions of the application, in order to take more advantage of many-core accelerators such as the Intel Xeon...
From insideHPC
HPCAC Brazil Conference Comes Rio Aug. 26
Today the HPC Advisory Council announced that the 2nd Annual HPCAC Brazil Conference 2015 will take place Aug. 26 at Laboratório Nacional de Computação in Rio de...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Taking Things To Another Level
Many of my Explorations in Computer Science students are creating a version of the Lights Out game as their final project. (Instructions at the bottom if you’re...
From Schneier on Security
2015 EPIC Champions of Freedom Dinner
Monday night, EPIC -- that's the Electronic Privacy Information Center -- had its annual Champions of Freedom Dinner. I tell you this for two reasons. One, I received...
From My Biased Coin