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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 Apophenia
The Cost of Fame
We were in Juarez Mexico. We had gone there as a group of activists to stage a protest over the government’s refusal to investigate the disappearance and brutal...
From Schneier on Security
New Pew Research Report on Americans' Attitudes on Privacy, Security, and Surveillance
This is interesting: The surveys find that Americans feel privacy is important in their daily lives in a number of essential ways. Yet, they have a pervasive sense...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NAS Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced the creation of the new Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research, convergence research is...
From insideHPC
German HPC Leads European Research
The spotlight has fallen on German supercomputing with several announcements about European-wide research which Germany's Gauss Centre for Supercomputing enables...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Rapport with an Organization
In Bob Herbold's Blog: Creating rapport with an organization, from his interesting organization management writings.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Having Smart Computers on my Team
CSIG talk today by Barbara Grosz of Harvard: “Is Your Intelligent Computer Smart Enough To Be on My Team” or more serious title: “Interactive Intelligence and Health...
From insideHPC
SC15 Announces Test of Time Award Winners
Today SC15 announced the winners of their annual Test of Time Award. The Award recognizes an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline. The...
From insideHPC
Rescale Rolls Out Cloud HPC and Simulation Platform
This week Rescale announced their new cloud HPC and simulation solution called ScaleXTM Enterprise. "ScaleX Enterprise is Rescale’s secure and flexible solution...
From insideHPC
Direct N-Body Simulation
In some domains, an N-Body simulation is key to solving for the movement and forces of a dynamic system of particles. At each time step, the force that one body...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science and ?
Several conversations lately have me thinking about combining computer science with other subjects in school. My thinking regularly comes back to that for a number...
From insideHPC
Comparing OpenACC and OpenMP Performance and Programmability
"OpenACC and OpenMP provide programmers with two good options for portable, high-level parallel programming for GPUs. This talk will discuss similarities and differences...
From Schneier on Security
The Logjam (and Another) Vulnerability against Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Logjam is a new attack against the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol used in TLS. Basically: The Logjam attack allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to downgrade...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Was reminded of this resource recently. Had used it to inspire some of our work with agent based models, good to see they are still going strong. Articles vary...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Computer Scientist who Challenged the Nash Equilibrium
In November 2014, I was privileged to meet Constantinos Daskalakis, a Greek Computer Scientist and Associate Professor at MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer...
From Schneier on Security
Research on Patch Deployment
New research indicates that it's very hard to completely patch systems against vulnerabilities: It turns out that it may not be that easy to patch vulnerabilities...
From CERIAS Blog
Two Items of interest
Here are a couple of items of possible interest to some of you. First, a group of companies, organizations, and notable individuals signed on to a letter to President...
From CERIAS Blog
Two Items of interest
Here are a couple of items of possible interest to some of you. First, a group of companies, organizations, and notable individuals signed on to a letter to President...
From CERIAS Blog
Two Items of interest
Here are a couple of items of possible interest to some of you. First, a group of companies, organizations, and notable individuals signed on to a letter to President...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target Item Level RFID Tags on Fast Track
In Retailwire: Experimented with the idea as early as 2000. Note to be used in some categories only. As we did in areas like Shaving. But those experimentsTarget...
From insideHPC