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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Human Computation Roadmap Summit Report
The organizing committee for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Human Computation Roadmap Summit have released their workshop report. The visioning workshop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AC Usage in Middle Class
In IEEE Spectrum: World's Middle Class embraces air conditioning. Implications for energy usage.
From insideHPC
Colfax Receives Intel HPC Partner Of The Year Award
Today Colfax International announced that the company is the recipient of the HPC Technical Computing Platform Partner Of The Year Award. The award ceremony took...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Agile for Service Innovation
Continued conversations with Dan Greening of SenexRex. In particular about the use of Agile for services innovation. See in particular recent postsin their blog...
From insideHPC
Announcing AWS Educate: a Free Resource for Cloud Learning
With more and more enterprises moving to the cloud, there is a growing demand for developers, information technology professionals, and forward-thinking business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use Cases for an Internet of Many Things
Initial post in the Cisco Blog that looks at use cases for IOT. An excellent start to address things like applications, security and standards. What Cisco calls...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Eye Tracking to VR Headsets
In CWorld: Makes sense to link the two. It means that we can accurately understand how people's eyes move in given contexts. Now virtually constructed. It...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Black Swans and Big Data
In TeraData Mag: Good piece that looks at the inevitability of these events, and how Data can still help. Leads to the suggestion that predictive analytics will...
From Schneier on Security
Spy Dust
Used by the Soviet Union during the Cold War: A defecting agent revealed that powder containing both luminol and a substance called nitrophenyl pentadien (NPPD)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brainlike AI Circuits
In CWorld: My contention is still that we do not know enough about the operation of the brain for this to be AI. Neural nets, which only roughly mimic the brain...
From insideHPC
UPC and OpenSHMEM PGAS Models on GPU Clusters
"Learn about extensions that enable efficient use of Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Models like OpenSHMEM and UPC on supercomputing clusters with NVIDIA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Hilltop Coke Ad
I am a bit of an advertising and marketing history buff. Met a few Mad Men era people while working at the world's largest marketer. One told me that the series...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Skin Biophysics Surgical Simulator: A Computing Research in Action Showcase
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is releasing its fifth segment in the Computing Research in Action Series. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Update its Cardboard VR
This experiment showed how very simple Virtual Reality (VR) could be be delivered very cheaply and simply, even with a cardboard device. The approach works, demonstrates...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
What Eighth Graders Think About Women and Computer Science
On the last day of the 2015 edition of my week-long mini-course (Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls!), I held a discussion about women in computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitally Connected Grocer
In Progressive Grocer: Fairly obvious points, now how do we respond? " ... Defining the 'Connected' Consumer .... Grocery industry being pushed into the future...
From insideHPC
Advanced Clustering Builds 32 Teraflop “Buddy” Supercomputer
Today Advanced Clustering Technologies announced that the University of Central Oklahoma’s Center for Research and Education in Interdisciplinary Computation (CREIC)...
From insideHPC
Two More Steps Towards Quantum Computing
Quantum computing has taken a step closer with two recent announcements demonstrating methods for error correction in addition to a new scalable design for quantum...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Putting the evil academic publishers in perspective
Academic publishing is a bit of a perverted business. Let us recap what should be well known: professors write papers for free while publishers take the papers...
From The Eponymous Pickle