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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
Nielsen Buys Innerscope
In Adage:Nielsen Buys Neuromarketing Research Company Innerscope ... Ratings Giant Wants to Get Inside Your Head ... Recall that they previously bought NeuroFocus...
From insideHPC
Tsinghua University Wins ASC15 Student Cluster Challenge
Today the 2015 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC15) announced the winners of what they're calling "the largest supercomputer contest in the world." In total...
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New 3D Seismic Viewer from Fraunhofer
Today Fraunhofer announced XtreemView, a new scalable 3D viewer for seismic data. The post New 3D Seismic Viewer from Fraunhofer appeared first on insideHPC....
From Blog@Ubiquity
The Self-Similarity of Tech
The tech world is caught in a repeating, self-similar fractal, where the gadgets may be new, but the business models are as old as the Industrial Revolution itself...
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Video: Porting Physics Apps to Titan with OpenACC
In this video, Aaron Vose from Cray presents: Porting Computational Physics Applications to the Titan Supercomputer with OpenACC and OpenMP. The post Video: Porting...
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Retailer Carrefour Leverages Store Beacons
Have worked some with global retailer Carrefour, and never thought of them as a technical innovation retailer, so interesting to see this development. Articlein...
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Mobile Sensors and Crowd Estimates
I like the idea of using data from sensors in new ways. In the BBC: An example: " ... It may be possible to estimate the size of a large crowd based on geographical...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Futurists Make Predictions about the Next Decade
Can you imagine a robot delivering your baby or downloading a file from your favorite designer to print clothes at home on your 3D printer? You might not have to...
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Curriculum Redesign, and Math Thinking for Decision Makers
Today's ISSIP ( International Society For Service Innovation Professionals) talk, by Charles Fadel on Curriculum design. Discussion has been started there. ...
From insideHPC
Pawsey Supercomputer Center Receives $21.6M Funding
Today the Pawsey Supercomputing Center announced $21.6 million of funding from the Australian government. The operational funding, which runs until 2020-21, allows...
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Video: L-CSC Cluster Tops Green500 with AMD Firepro
In this video, researchers describes the Lattice-CSC cluster in Darmstadt, Germany. Currently the most energy-efficient supercomputer on the Green500 list, theVideo...
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Top Machine Learning Algorithms
Very nicely done overview of common machine learning algorithms from KDNuggets, what they are for and how they work. Fairly non technical, so could be used with...
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Watson Analytics and Citizen Insights
Good Interview in Silicon Angle:More businesses want to glean information from their data, but there is a shortage of resources geared toward non-data-scientists...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Review / JavaScript & jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development
Have you ever had a book that was so beautiful, it was hard to put down? Did it happen to be a programming book? Breaking out of what is normally expected of aJavaScript...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empowering Employees
In the HBR: Always wondered about what empowerment meant, especially in big enterprises with established cultures. Useful thoughts.
From Schneier on Security
Terrorist Risks by City, According to Actual Data
I don't know enough about the methodology to judge it, but it's interesting: In total, 64 cities are categorised as 'extreme risk' in Verisk Maplecroft's new Global...
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IllumiRoom Peripheral Augmented Reality
In the CACM: "IllumiRoom: Immersive Experiences Beyond the TV Screen," by Brett R. Jones, Hrvoje Benko, Eyal Ofek, and Andrew D. Wilson, uses virtual and augmented...
From insideHPC
New Report Surveys CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing Techniques
A new paper from ORNL's Sparsh Mittal and Jeffrey Vetter seeks to change the mindset of researchers using GPUs. Entitled, "A Survey of CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing...
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Radio Free HPC Previews the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks ahead to the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition. This year, 11 teams from around the globe will face off to build...
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