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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 insideHPC
Lenovo Integrates Diablo’s Memory Channel Storage
Today Diablo Technologies announced that its Memory Channel Storage (MCS) architecture has been integrated into the latest edition of Lenovo’s X6 server solutions...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
End of year thoughts
Its that time of year for end-of-year projects, crazy state testing schedules (in Ohio at least) and other random activities. As an end-of-year project, many of...
From insideHPC
Video: The Future of Interconnect with OpenPOWER
"ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gb/s with CAPI support tightly integrates with the POWER CPU at the local bus level and provides faster access between the POWER CPU and theVideo...
From insideHPC
Gartner Recognizes CoolIT Systems in New Datacenter Report
Today CoolIT Systems announced that it has been named as one of four "Cool Vendors in Data Center Management, Power and Cooling" in a new analyst report by Gartner...
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New ANSYS Enterprise Cloud Scales Simulation
Today ANSYS announced that the company is making its flagship engineering simulation software available on the cloud via Amazon Web Services. The new ANSYS Enterprise...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CAREER Program in Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI)
The following is a letter to the community from Sushil K. Prasad in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Division of Advanced...
From insideHPC
SC15 Seeking Nominations for Cray, Fernbach and Kennedy Awards
The SC15 conference is now seeking nominations for the Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy awards. The submission deadline is Wednesday, July 1, 2015. The post SC15 Seeking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking further back at Origins of AI
In the CACM: Looking yet further back at the history of AI. My father worked on the Norden at Sperry in WWII. I particularly note some of the connections between...
From Schneier on Security
Stealing a Billion
It helps if you own the banks: The report said Shor and his associates worked together in 2012 to buy a controlling stake in three Moldovan banks and then gradually...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Old people are not very sharp, are they?
Depression, obesity, stress, sleep deprivation and age affect negatively your brain. However, as I have previously argued, the commonly reported decline in intellectual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measurement and Models
Just now In the Edge: Popper Versus BaconA Conversation With Peter Coveney intro by John BrockmanPeople have to go around measuring things. There's no escape...
From Apophenia
Are We Training Our Students to be Robots?
Excited about the possibility that he would project his creativity onto paper, I handed my 1-year-old son a crayon. He tried to eat it. I held his hand to show...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Holograms
In CWorld: The advance mentioned below is important: ... Holograms have been part of the business and science community's toolset for some time but Microsoft...
From Schneier on Security
Online Dating Scams
Interesting research: We identified three types of scams happening on Jiayuan. The first one involves advertising of escort services or illicit goods, and is very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Relatedness of Knowledge Graphs
Interesting and technical talk on how research labs are using Map-Reduce to examine the closeness of terms in text. Looks at the efficiency of doing this for"...
From insideHPC
NAG Library adds New Algorithms for Application Developers
Today the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) released their latest NAG Library including over 80 new mathematical and statistical algorithms. The post NAG Library...
From insideHPC
Video: OpenACC for Fortran Programmers
"Learn how to program NVIDIA GPUs using Fortran with OpenACC directives. The first half of this presentation will introduce OpenACC to new GPU and OpenACC programmers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
General Morphological Analysis for the Wicked
Just received, points to excellent resources and examples of morphological, or 'structural' analysis. This should see much more application, consider applying ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things to Surge Productivity
Had not thought of the connection directly, but a reasonable idea, and information technology has done that. Efficiency, and disrupting innovation? An economist's...
From insideHPC