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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 Schneier on Security
UN Report on the Value of Encryption to Freedom World-Wide
United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner released a report on the value of encryption and anonymity to the world: Summary: In the present report, submitted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistics as Big Data's Biggest Hurdle
Good piece. There is danger on both sides here. Data scientists ignoring statistics, and Statisticians ignoring how results can integrate with practical decisions...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
You Get What You Pay For
I haven’t been blogging much this week. In part that is being busy with the year ending at school. In part it is because the connection between Windows Live Writer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Developer Conference
In Wired: Good overview of activities at the Google developer conference. A good mix of interesting innovation. In particular new work on Google Now, whichGoogle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing War Deaths
Emphasizing WWII, but also visualizing estimates of deaths in wars throughout human history. By Neil Halloran, Includes interactive capabilities. Well done, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Store as an Internet of Display Panels
Attended an Ascendum meeting this evening and got a demo from their Zingo subsidiary. They have a projectable sign system that is suitable for retail augmentation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alan Lightman at the Santa Fe Institute
The Accidental Universe, the World You Thought You Knew. Talk by physicist and novelist, Alan Lightman. He ponders, but hardly proves, a number of scientific...
From Schneier on Security
Ransomware as a Service
Tox is an outsourced ransomware platform that everyone can use....
From Computational Complexity
Who wins this bet?
Alice and Bob are at an auction and Alice wants to buy an encyclopedia set from 1980. Bob says don't buy that, you'll never use it. In this age of Wikipedia and...
From insideHPC
Video: BitFusion Aims at Supercomputing for the Masses
In this video from TechCrunch Disrupt 2015, Subbu Rama from Bitfusion describes how the company delivers powerful hardware acceleration technologies to boost application...
From insideHPC
Kraken Supercomputer Gets a Kicker
Today the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) announced a $3 million award from the NSF to continue to provide advanced computing resources for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Affective Computing Talk
Michal Shmueli-Scheuer (IBM Haifa research lab)gave an excellent talk today. How can Feeling be integrated with other kinds of interaction with systems?Slides here...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL: Announcement of Changes to Submission Windows for CISE Core Programs as well as the SaTC Program
The following is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) by the Assistant Director for the Directorate for Computer & Information Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ChoreMonster's Gamification Works for Pixar
Have mentioned ChoreMonster here a number of times. A very creative startup by a former colleague.ChoreMonster lands Disney deal to promote 'Inside Out (MayCincinnati...
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for ISC Cloud & Big Data
Today ISC Events announced that registration is now open for the inaugural ISC Cloud & Big Data conference. The event will take place Sept. 28-30 in Frankfurt,Registration...
From insideHPC
Slidecast: SRC Saturn 1 Server Taps FPGAs on HP Moonshot Platform
In this slidecast, David Eaton and Mark Tellez from SRC Computer describe the company's new Saturn 1 server, a dynamically reconfigurable modular system for hyperscale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Image Imagination
In Tech Review: We worked in the area of recognizing and the describing what was seen in detailed images. Now suppose you had a written description, how do we...
From Schneier on Security
MOOC on Cybersecurity
The University of Adelaide is offering a new MOOC on "Cyberwar, Surveillance and Security." Here's a teaser video. I was interviewed for the class, and make a brief...
From insideHPC
N-Body Methods Optimization
"N-Body problems compare the interaction of N-bodies against N-bodies, which results in calculations of the order of N2. As this can be computationally very expensive...
From Putting People First