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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Early Designs for Classroom Games Teaching Computer Science Principles
We have been working on designs for three classroom games as part of our Gram's House story project. Each game teaches a different computer science principle,Algorithms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facility Management System
Just brought to my attention:CINCINNATI, May 4, 2015 — Ascendum Solutions, a global information technology (IT) provider, announced today that it completed theTo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Codes and Counterfeiting
In Retailwire: Using QR codes to eliminate counterfeit goods. We examined a number of watermarking methods.
From Schneier on Security
Fun NSA Surveillance Quizzes
Okay, maybe not so fun. Quiz 1: "Just How Kafkaesque is the Court that Oversees NSA Spying?" Quiz 2: "Can You Tell the Difference Between Bush and Obama on the...
From insideHPC
HPC People on the Move: June Edition
Dr. Lewey Anton reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. The spotlight is on HP this week, as Dr. Stephen Wheat has joinedHPC...
From insideHPC
Video: Porting Scientific Apps to GPUs with OpenACC
In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Saber Feki from KAUST and Ahmed Al-Jarro from Fujitsu Labs in Europe present: Experiences in Porting Scientific...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recognizing Gaze Direction with Machine Learning
In Technology Review:Virtual Eyes Train Deep Learning Algorithm to Recognize Gaze DirectionGaze estimation is a classic problem of machine vision, which can now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple HomeKit
Coming in June.Apple unveiled HomeKit nearly a year ago, at the Worldwide Developers Conference last June. The idea was that Apple could turn the iPhone or iPad...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smell Scape of a City
We did quite a bit of work in understanding how smell could be used in retail. One approach was to establish a formal smellscape of a space. It has been doneadvances...
From insideHPC
New Whitepaper: Multi-Threading and Parallel Reduction for Xeon Phi
Colfax Research has published a new whitepaper entitled: Multi-Threading and Parallel Reduction. As part 1 of a 3-part educational series, the paper authored by...
From insideHPC
CIARA to Cool High Frequency Servers with Asetek
Today Asetek announced that it has been selected by CIARA, a leading supplier of enterprise servers, storage and services, to liquid cool its High Frequency server...
From Schneier on Security
US Also Tried Stuxnet Against North Korea
According to a Reuters article, the US military tried to launch Stuxnet against North Korea in addition to Iran: According to one U.S. intelligence source, Stuxnet's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 June 2015
Two more weeks of school for me. Our seniors graduate this weekend and then we have final exams for everyone else. The year has flown by. Soon I’ll be into summer...
From Putting People First
Exploring the ‘next nature’ that people and technology are creating
The Next Nature website sets out to radically shift our notion of nature: Our image of nature as static, balanced and harmonic is naive and up for reconsideration...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Nutty Conspiracy Theory Involving Both the NSA and SQUID
It's almost as if they wrote it for me. These devices, which are known as super conducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDS for short), can be attached to NSA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Cardboard VR on IOS
Loaded the Google cardboard VR App just now available for IOS. A year after its original App announcement. Not enough content yet, some review negatives, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile, Beacons and Evolving Measures
In AdAge: More on beacons: In particular about strategy, measures and retail business process. " ... Fortunately, marketers don't have to wait for beacons to mature...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strange Appeal of Public Unboxing
I was alerted to the fact that there are people making real money unboxing new products of many kinds. A New Technical Theater? In this article. And it works...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers Redefining Roots of Math
Not a new thing. Proof by computer has had a number of famous examples. Use of formal logic as part of AI has a long history. Now easier to use programming...
From insideHPC