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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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Petascale Comet Supercomputer Enters Early Operations
"Comet is really all about providing high-performance computing to a much larger research community - what we call 'HPC for the 99 percent' - and serving as a gateway...
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Numerical Optimization for Deep Learning
"With the advent of massively parallel computing coprocessors, numerical optimization for deep-learning disciplines is now possible. Complex real-time pattern recognition...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Office Mixes for Learning C#
Over the last few months I have recorded a few Office Mixes for use in my C# class. I’ve also built up a nice collection of PowerPoint presentations which I have...
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Thomas Lippert Elected Chairman of Gauss Supercomputing Centre
Today GCS announced that Professor Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert has been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing. ProfessorThomas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla Home Battery Systems
Tesla Battery Systems. Announced yesterday. We looked at the basic idea here for enterprise commercial manufacturing applications. Buy cheaper power and store...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HTML5 Browser Adoption
For a while we were looking at the HTML5 standard for use as a means to deliver interactive visualizations online. A number of new embedded environments made this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and Big Data via Azure
More on how MS is addressing Big Data via Azure. Interesting hints on direction. " .... At Build 2015 yesterday, Microsoft unveiled three new ways it's making...
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Video: HPC Transforms Parkinson’s Disease
"By using high performance visualization systems, researchers at the Scientific Computing and Research Institute are using deep brain stimulation to treat several...
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Video: Growth of Lustre Adoption and Intel’s Continued Commitment
"We are now working with over 100 channel partners globally. You can get access to Intel Lustre from almost everyone who sells storage or compute worldwide. We're...
From Putting People First
The most important part of self-driving cars will be human control
Until now, the public dialogue about self-driving cars has centered mostly on technology, writes Michael Nees, Assistant professor, Lafayette College. The public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Shortage?
In Retailwire. I don't think so. Saw this claim in the AI days as well. An outgrowth of the over expectations of hype. Properly trained to deal with methods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Tech Offices
In the BBC: How offices are being redefined with futuristic architecture. Mostly as seen by the tech industry giants. Good examples." ... Another challenge...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
HOW OLD DO I LOOK?
Microsoft announced a new web site yesterday that tries to guess the age of people in images. Well guess is probably not the right word. I’m sure the researchers...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Transcomputational Problems
Problems beyond brute force search Cropped from Wikipedia source Hans-Joachim Bremermann was a mathematician and biophysicist. He is famous for a limit on computation...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Two Semesters Teaching CS2 With C++ and Java
As you may recall, I have been experimenting with a CS2 design that teaches both C++ and Java in a single semester. I previously reported on the success of the...
From Schneier on Security
Measuring the Expertise of Burglars
New research paper: "New methods for examining expertise in burglars in natural and simulated environments: preliminary findings": Expertise literature in mainstream...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games and Cognitive Computing
In Today's CSIG, series: Simon Ellis, Phd student from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) "Playing Games with Cognitive Computing" Slides. You can also...
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RCE Podcast: Jonathan Dursi on “HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it”
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Jonathan Dursi about his recent editorial entitled HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it. The article...
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Multi-GPU Cluster to Power Deep Learning Research at NYU
Over at the Nvidia Blog, Kimberly Powell writes that New York University has just installed a new computing system for next generation deep learning research. Called...
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