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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 …
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OpenStack Talk coming to Toronto TechKnowFile Event May 6
Ian Lumb from Bright Computing will be presenting at the University of Toronto’s annual TechKnowFile event on May 6, 2015. The post OpenStack Talk coming to Toronto...
From Putting People First
Intel anthropologist creates data processing tool for Quantified Self community
When data can be both individual, and potentially aggregated across many people, who does and does not have a say in what “the data” ultimately means? A thought...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Office Mixes for Learning TouchDevelop
While looking for other things (you know how that goes) I found a series of Office Mixes that teach how to program using TouchDevelop. They are mixed in as part...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Easier to use Drones
Continued advances in interfaces may yet crowd the skies with unintended consequences. " ... The Roomba's Inventor Launches What Might Be The Easiest-To-Use Drone...
From Computational Complexity
Sizes of DFAs, NFAs, DPDAs, UCFG, CFGs, CSLs.
If A is a decider (e.g, DFA) or generator (e.g., CFG) then L(A) is the language that it decides or generates. The following are well known: L(DFA) = L(NDFA)...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 4
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Hearing: Continuing America’s Leadership: Realizing the Promise of Precision Medicine for Patients Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Professional Proofreading
Copyblogger Blog podcast on professional proofreading. May require Itunes to listen to. Introduction to a tacit skill.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on NIST Roadmap for Usability and Accessibility of Next Generation Elections
USACM submitted comments on the NIST roadmap for usability and accessibility of future voting technologies and systems. The roadmap represents a positive and achievable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interim Big Data Wiring of Smart Cities with Sensors
Big Data and the IOT make smart Cities. by Bernard Marr. I add: Not everything is plugged into an IOT today, and the complete wiring of cities may take some...
From insideHPC
Cyfronet Launches World’s Largest HP Apollo 8000 Supercomputer
Cyfronet recently celebrated the launch of Poland's fastest supercomputer. As the world's largest deployment of the HP Apollo 8000 platform, the 1.68 Petaflop Prometheus...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Brendan Gregg on System Performance Methodologies
In this Software Engineering Radio podcast, Netflix senior performance architect Brendan Gregg discusses systems performance and how the hardware and OS layersPodcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows as a Service Strategy
In CW. This will create a considerable change." ... Microsoft executives last week further fleshed out the firm's "Windows as a service" strategy, an effort to...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Extending a conference invitation to your administrator
By: Pat Phillips As you are well aware, the Annual CSTA Conference is only a couple months away. Registration and housing are open, the agenda nearly set, and anticipation...
From insideHPC
SDSC Trestles Supercomputer to move to University of Arkansas
SDSC's recently decommissioned Trestles supercomputer is moving to the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center. The post SDSC Trestles Supercomputer to moveinsideHPC...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Every College Student Should Take a Computer Science Course
The following is a blog post by Ran Libeskind-Hadas, R. Michael Shanahan Professor and Computer Science Department Chair at Harvey Mudd College, that was recently...
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Video: Scalability Testing of DNE2 in Lustre 2.7
In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Steve Simms from Indiana University presents: Scalability Testing of DNE2 in Lustre 2.7. The post Video: Scalability Testing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ideo Redesigns Monday
I never thought Monday was awful, but the design ideas are good in general. Culturally we believe the thought and why not create a marketing idea that builds on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does Retail Need POS?
In Retailwire: Why do retail stores still have cash registers? Provocative view. " .... Retail store survival will depend upon providing an experience that...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting QUANTUMINSERT
Fox-IT has a blog post (and has published Snort rules) on how to detect man-on-the-side Internet attacks like the NSA's QUANTUMINSERT. From a Wired article: But...
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