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From The Eponymous Pickle

Long Range Iris Scanning

We examined iris scanning for security applications. You had to place your face on the reader, and it thus created a sanitary issue. Also, some people could not... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 13, 2015 at 01:16 PM

From Computer Science Teachers Association

CSTA Certification Committee

Have you taken at any time a computer science teaching methods course? If so, at what university or college? I hope you answered these questions on the recent survey... Tammy Pirmann
From Computer Science Teachers Association | May 13, 2015 at 01:16 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Global City Teams Challenge Expo

Join the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and US Ignite on June 1 in Washington, DC for the Global City Teams Challenge Expo (GCTC) at the... Helen Wright
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | May 13, 2015 at 01:01 PM

From insideHPC

Video: Teaching Machines to Diagnose Cancer

In this PBS video, Hari Sreenivasan reports on how tech firms are investing in the next generation of intelligent computer programs and in what ways the technology... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | May 13, 2015 at 12:08 PM

From Schneier on Security

German Cryptanalysis of the M-209

This 1947 document describes a German machine to cryptanalyze the American M-209 mechanical encryption machine. I can't figure out anything about how it works..... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | May 13, 2015 at 12:05 PM

From insideHPC

Call for Papers: COMSOL Conference 2015

The 11th annual COMSOL Conference has issued its Call for Papers. As the world’s largest conference on multiphysics simulation, the event takes place Oct. 7-9 in... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | May 13, 2015 at 11:36 AM

From insideHPC

Scaling STAR-CCM+ to 55,000 Cores on Hornet

Today CD-adapco announced a significant scalability milestone for its STAR-CCM+ CFD software. Optimized over the course of a year in collaboration with HLRS and... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | May 13, 2015 at 11:17 AM

From insideHPC

Video: Attacking HIV with Titan and Blue Waters

"The highly parallel molecular dynamics code NAMD was was one of the first codes to run on a GPU cluster when G80 and CUDA were introduced in 2007, and is now used... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | May 13, 2015 at 10:48 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Echo Moves towards a Smarter Home

From Amazon Echo mailing: (Via Walter Riker)" ... WeMo and Philips Hue products now work with Amazon Echo.You can now use Echo to switch on the lamp before getting... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 13, 2015 at 10:14 AM

From Putting People First

Social Media + Society, an open-access journal

Social Media + Society is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal deeply committed to advancing the understanding of social media and its impact... Experientia
From Putting People First | May 13, 2015 at 09:30 AM

From Putting People First

The thirteen Ps of big data

Big data are often described as being characterised by the ‘3 Vs’: volume, variety, and velocity, sometimes augmented with value, veracity/validity, virality, and... Experientia
From Putting People First | May 13, 2015 at 09:15 AM

From Putting People First

We’re more than mere consumers, and business should remember that

Companies collect an ever-growing amount of information on customers, but forgetting the individuals behind big data is detrimental, not least to business, writes... Experientia
From Putting People First | May 13, 2015 at 09:06 AM

From Putting People First

Myth of globalization in consumer tech

In nearly every category Ben Bajarin (Principal Analyst, Creative Strategies) studies, he sees the regionalization of consumer tech, not its globalization. This... Experientia
From Putting People First | May 13, 2015 at 08:56 AM

From insideHPC

Interview: Intel Taking Lustre into New Markets

"It's been nearly three years since Intel acquired Whamcloud and its Lustre engineering team. With Intel's recent announcement that Lustre will power the 2018 Aurora... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | May 13, 2015 at 07:00 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeking Cheaper VR

Colleague Walter Riker demonstrated the use of 'cheap' VR using 3D visualization from a smart phone, which you attach to your head with goggle like glasses. The... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 13, 2015 at 12:43 AM

From Computer Science Teachers Association

An extra reason for you to head south this July!

July is probably the most important month in the CSTA agenda: it is the time of year when computer science teachers from all over the world join to exchange ideas... Mina Theofilatou
From Computer Science Teachers Association | May 12, 2015 at 02:03 PM

From insideHPC

UK Met Office Selects PBS Pro for Workload Management

Today Altair announced that PBS Professional has been selected to manage workloads for the Cray supercomputer being installed by the Met Office, the British government... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | May 12, 2015 at 01:10 PM

From insideHPC

Slidecast: Vectorize or Die – Unlocking Performance

"The free ride of faster performance with increased clock speeds is long gone. Software must be both threaded and vectorized to fully utilize today’s and tomorrow... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | May 12, 2015 at 12:56 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Teradata Row and Column Innovation

Been working with Teradata since using RetailLink to leverage WalMart data. Now examining the value of this new innovation. Could it have been used with RetailLink... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 12, 2015 at 12:02 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Code, Compile, Test, Repeat

I came across this image on Facebook recently and it got me thinking. My first old guy “get off my lawn” thought was that when I started coding one was lucky if... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 12, 2015 at 11:53 AM