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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
Supercomputing Black Hole Mergers with Blue Waters
"The mathematics involved in simulating these events is very sophisticated because one has to solve the equations of Einstein’s general relativity and magneto-hydrodynamics...
From Putting People First
How cities can design for aging baby boomers (and benefit younger residents too)
When cities make an effort to accommodate “aging in place,” they typically end up with designs that benefit younger residents too. A new report called “Ageing in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Discovers Knowledge in TED Talks
Interesting knowledge management technique using Watson. Any company, or for that matter knowledge developing entity, has this need. How practical this might"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signals and Noise in Observation
On signals and noise and observation, in Nicholas Carr's blog Roughtype:" ... From Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s ... book Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder...
From Putting People First
Experientia designer Dohun YuLuck Jang 유록 featured in Design 4 Disaster
Design 4 Disaster features an engaging illustrated safety manual for ship passengers, a personal project by Experientia designer Dohun YuLuck Jang 유록. After the...
From Putting People First
Why people don’t trust energy-saving gadgets
People’s reluctance to share data about their energy use is likely to stand in the way of “smart” technology designed to promote energy efficiency, experts say....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Machine Teaching
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Dr. Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Zhu’s paper Machine...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA's Voice-to-Text Capabilities
New article from the Intercept based on the Snowden documents....
From insideHPC
New Intel Xeons Target Realtime Analytics
Today Intel announced the new Xeon processor E7-8800/4800 v3 product families, delivering accelerated business insight through real-time analytics. The post New...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Business Intelligence Automation
In CWorld: Mentions the integration of business intelligence and voice interaction with an operating system. We could all use a personal assistant with business...
From insideHPC
Nimbix and Mangstor Accelerate High Performance PaaS
Today Nimbix and Mangstor announced a joint technology offering designed to accelerate high performance data analysis for seismic processing, bioinformatics, and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Public-Private Partnerships in Computer Science Education
By: Lorilyn Owens, Director, Oracle Academy North America Industry partners are content providers, augmenting and enhancing curriculum resources. Industry partners...
From insideHPC
BlueTides on Blue Waters: The First Galaxies
"The largest high-redshift cosmological simulation of galaxy formation ever has been recently completed by a group of astrophysicists (Drs. Feng, Di-Matteo, Croft...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do better written papers get more citations?
Everything else being equal, you would expect short and simple papers to get a wider readership. Long sentences, complicated terms, should all discourage readers...
From insideHPC
Video: GPUs Power Simulation of the SpaceX Mars Rocket Engine
"SpaceX is designing a new, methane-fueled engine powerful enough to lift the equipment and personnel needed to colonize Mars. A vital aspect of this effort involves...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Make Yourself Unforgettable
Thinking back on many years in a big company I can remember only a small handful of unforgettable meetings and presentations. Best for or the right reason, of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Random Freebies Creating Loyalty
In Retailwire: This is a classic psych finding, that random rewards can produce a kind of loyalty. Though mostly found in experiments with pigeons. This was an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever CMO Leads Effort on Future of Marketing Analytics
In Adage: Good direction. The future of marketing and analytics is a rich one.Unilever CMO Leads Effort to Map Future of Marketing Research and Analytics .....
From Schneier on Security
Easily Cracking a Master Combination Lock
Impressive. Kamkar told Ars his Master Lock exploit started with a well-known vulnerability that allows Master Lock combinations to be cracked in 100 or fewer tries...
From insideHPC