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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
Wal-Mart Prime Undercuts Amazon
In Retailwire: Wal-Mart's delivery plan, at $50 yearly, to undercut Amazon Prime. Good discussion. Is this catch up? Does this match the style of the Wal-Mart...
From Schneier on Security
In Which I Collide with Admiral Rogers
Universe does not explode. Photo here....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever to Track Online, Offline Retail Gap
Unilever is investing $50,000 in startup Glimr as part of an effort to connect consumers' online and in-store shopping experiences. "We are hoping to bring an actual...
From Schneier on Security
Admiral Rogers Speaking at the Joint Service Academy Cyber Security Summit
Admiral Mike Rogers gave the keynote address at the Joint Service Academy Cyber Security Summit today at West Point. He started by explaining the four tenets of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM BuildSys 2015 Call for Papers
The 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2015) invites original contributions in the area of intelligent...
From insideHPC
Video: Have Hard Disks Joined the Grateful Dead?
Have spinning disk drives joined the Grateful Dead? That is the contention here in this video, where industry analyst Mark Peters from ESG dons his tie-dyed shirt...
From insideHPC
Gather Scatter Operations
Gather and scatter operations are used in many domains. However, to use these types of functions on an SIMD architecture creates some programming challenges. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SocioPragmatic Models of Text Analysis
Mona Diab of GWU gave the CSI talk today:Towards Building Effective Computational Sociopragmatics Models of Human CognitionSlides. (Talk recording to follow)Though...
From insideHPC
ANSYS Powers Quantum Computing Engineering at D-Wave
D-Wave Systems reports that the company is designing and building the world's most advanced quantum computers with help from engineering simulation solutions from...
From insideHPC
Simulating Global Atmosphere with NICAM on TSUBAME2.5 Using OpenACC
"OpenACC was applied to the a global high-resolution atmosphere model named NICAM. We executed the dynamical core test without re-writing any specific kernel subroutines...
From Computational Complexity
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of the seminal paper on Computational Complexity
Juris Hartmanis and Richard Stearns in a photo dated May 1963. The main theorem from their paper is on the board later improved by Hennie and Stearns. Photo courtesy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Site
Via Marin Hitch of the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative:New Website: Get to #KnowWCAI We launched a new site to showcase all the excitement around customer...
From Schneier on Security
License Plate Scanners Hidden in Fake Cactus
The city of Paradise Valley, AZ, is hiding license plate scanners in fake cactus plants....
From insideHPC
Podcast: Arden L. Bement on Blue Waters and the Future of HPC
In this podcast from the 2015 NCSA Blue Waters Symposium, Arden L. Bement discusses the Blue Waters supercomputer and the future of HPC. Formerly Director of the...
From Wild WebMink
Handing On The Baton
I joined in with the Open Source Initiative in 2008, was elected to its Board in 2010 and became its President in 2012. Along with the Board, I've pursued a vision...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Marketing Machinery at Kimberly Clark
In Consumer Goods Technology:' ... To become effective marketers in a digital world, organizations must chart a new course using new marketing machinery. Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Power BI Demo
Yesterday attended the Microsoft Power BI introductory demo. The presentation given was a bit shaky, but I did like what I saw in the simplicity of the approach...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE as Industrial Powerhouse
In K@W: Good examination of GE after Capital ... " ... Back to the Future: GE’s Retooling into an Industrial Powerhouse ... " " ... With the shedding of GE Capital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Systems by Senex
Today's ISSIP SIG Education & Research speaker was Dan Greening, Managing Director, Senex Rex LLC. He discussed his perspectives on service innovation and delivered...
From The Eponymous Pickle