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Fujitsu Laser Smart Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fujitsu Laser Smart Glasses

Have always been impressed by Fujitsu's technology, since we tested their work in retail.  Now their concept smart glasses shine laser images right into the retina...

HPC Wales to Foster High Performance Computing Competency Network for SMEs
From insideHPC

HPC Wales to Foster High Performance Computing Competency Network for SMEs

Today HPC Wales and Bangor University announced joint funding to lead Europe’s Network of HPC Competency Centers for SME’s. The post HPC Wales to Foster High Performance...

Mini-Course 2015: Survey Results
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Mini-Course 2015: Survey Results

Another May, another "Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls!" mini-course on the books.  I'm very pleased with how this year went. The course material and,...

NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series – Kathy Yelick
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series – Kathy Yelick

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a distinguished lecture on...

Measuring the Ability to Learn
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measuring the Ability to Learn

In Future of CIO:" ... Metacognition assessment is all about measuring learning effect (acquisition, skills, behavior, understanding). We can measure the results...

Winning People Over
From The Eponymous Pickle

Winning People Over

In many ways, an ultimate goal: In the HBR:  Emotional Intellligence  ... To Win People Over, Speak to Their Wants and Needsby Nancy Duarte

How HPC is increasing speed and accuracy
From insideHPC

How HPC is increasing speed and accuracy

The overwhelming task of high performance computing today is the processing of huge amounts of data quickly and accurately. Just adding greater numbers of moreHow...

Women in HPC Workshop at ISC High Performance 2015
From insideHPC

Women in HPC Workshop at ISC High Performance 2015

"Our workshop at ISC will bring together female early career researchers with a focus on European participation, providing them with the opportunity to showcase...

E4-ARKA: ARM64+GPU+IB is Now Here
From insideHPC

E4-ARKA: ARM64+GPU+IB is Now Here

"E4 Computer Engineering has introduced ARKA, the first server solution based on ARM 64 bit SoC dedicated to HPC. The compute node is boosted by discrete GPU NVIDIA...

Amateurs Produce Amateur Cryptography
From Schneier on Security

Amateurs Produce Amateur Cryptography

Anyone can design a cipher that he himself cannot break. This is why you should uniformly distrust amateur cryptography, and why you should only use published algorithms...

Washington News – Alerts and Updates
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Washington News – Alerts and Updates

General Announcements * USACM submitted comments on the NIST roadmap for usability and accessibility of future elections. USACM’s comments highlight the importance...

Welcome to our treehouse
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Welcome to our treehouse

This is a guest blog post by Kim Douglas, a student at UMass Lowell. Kim has a BA degree from Emerson College in Animation & Motion Media. When people ask me what...

Models of Narrative
From The Eponymous Pickle

Models of Narrative

Upcoming on May 28, 2015 at Atlanta,  GaTech Cogsys,Org conferenceSession on narrative:" ... Narrative provides a framing structure for understanding, communicating...

NIST Seeks Comments on Electronic Authentication Guideline
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

NIST Seeks Comments on Electronic Authentication Guideline

NIST seeks public input on which sections of its Electronic Authentication Guideline need updating. Given the evolving landscape of cybersecurity technological...

Video: HPC Solution Stack on OpenPOWER
From insideHPC

Video: HPC Solution Stack on OpenPOWER

"This demo will show the capability of IBM OpenPOWER that can be the foundation of the complicated High Performance Computing complete solution. From the HPC cluster...

U.S. Copyright Office to Hold Public Hearings on DMCA Exemptions
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

U.S. Copyright Office to Hold Public Hearings on DMCA Exemptions

The U.S. Copyright Office will hold public hearings in May on the proposed exemptions to the prohibitions against circumvention of copyrighted works given in the...

FCC Seeks Comments on Cybersecurity Risk Management and Best Practices Report
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

FCC Seeks Comments on Cybersecurity Risk Management and Best Practices Report

The FCC seeks public comments on the report on “Cybersecurity Risk Management and Best Practices” submitted by the FCC Communications Security, Reliability and...

Faster, More Accurate Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Faster, More Accurate Drones

Have done a little playing around with simple drones.   My impression was that they were hard to control and slow.  Not any more.  Take a look at the videos in....

Bezos Business Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bezos Business Models

Amazon's efforts and financial directions are always interesting.   Have followed several of their most recent technical efforts.  Here from Oracle's Anywhere blog...

CCC Community Report for a National Privacy Research Strategy
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Community Report for a National Privacy Research Strategy

In April, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) commissioned members of the privacy research community to generate a short report to help guide strategic thinking...
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