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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Federal Agencies Seek Comments on Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan
Federal agencies involved in the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 11
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 Hearing: Fiscal Year 2016 Funding Request and Budget Justification for the Federal Communications Commission Senate Appropriations Subcommittee...
From insideHPC
SERC Installs India’s First Petaflop Supercomputer
Today Cray announced that the SERC Research Center in Bangalore has installed India's first Petaflop supercomputer. Called "SahasraT," the 1.4 Petaflop Cray XC40...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Rolls Out X10 3U MicroCloud
Today Super Micro Computer announced a new 3U 8-node MicroCloud solution supporting Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 optimized for data intensive analytics applications in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frontier's of Computer Vision
Pushing the Frontiers of Computer Vision. A Q&A with Google's Christian Szegedy Deep Learning pushes the possibilities further. 'Solved' is a big claim." ......
From insideHPC
JSC and IBM Win the Inaugural Hans Meuer Award
Today ISC announced that a research paper in the area of in-memory architecture, jointly submitted by a team of seven researchers representing the Jülich Supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and SAP Team for Talent Management
Seeking smarter HR: " ... So today’s successful HR organizations are looking more and more to advanced HR-specific technologies, and the reason is simple: HR professionals...
From Computational Complexity
The law of the excluded middle of the road republicans
In the book Hail to the Chiefs about the presidents, when pointing to a race between two people who had no business being president (I think it was Franklin Pierce...
From Schneier on Security
More on the NSA's Capabilities
Ross Anderson summarizes a meeting in Princeton where Edward Snowden was "present." Third, the leaks give us a clear view of an intelligence analyst's workflow....
From insideHPC
RCE Podcast Looks at Apache Spark
In this RCE podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Matei Zaharia about Apache Spark, a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. The post...
From Putting People First
Is technology making people less sociable?
A major social debate is going on on the effects of mobile technology and social media, online and off. The Wall Street Journal distills in a juxtaposition of the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 May 2015
Last week was special. Teacher Appreciation week at many schools. International Star Wars Day (May the Fourth). And of course the Advanced Placement Computer Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Badge Driven People Analytics
Intriguing approach. Looked at some related methods, but not with badges.‘People Analytics’ Through Super-Charged ID BadgesHumanyze helps companies make surprising...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winning Popular Games
In the WaPo: Mathematics of a number of popular games, and thus how to win them. Or at least increase your chances of winning. Quite a variety of board games...
From Michael Nielsen
Where will the key ideas shaping the future of scientific publishing come from?
Stefan Janusz from the Royal Society asked me to comment briefly on where I’d look for new ideas about the future of scientific publishing. Here’s my response,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle's Digital Acceleration Center
Via former Procter colleague Pete Blackshaw: Video about the Second Nestle Digital Acceleration Team (DAT). Very impressive work. Note emphasis on emerging markets...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Quantum Mechanics
Supercomputers in the USA, Europe, and Japan have proved indispensable for research into the effects of quantum mechanics at hugely different length scales. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Data Clutter
Some good thoughts on clutter here. This is being pushed by Big Data promises. Gets back to my long and hard look at both agile integration of metadata and the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Idea to Prototype in One Day
Fast Prototying: We spent some time constructing means to do fast prototyping, integrating methods like CAD Cam and virtualization methods to make that happen.shelf...
From The Eponymous Pickle