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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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Job of the Week: HPC Administrator in Hilton Head, South Carolina
The Intergen Group in Hilton Head, South Carolina is seeking an HPC Administrator in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Administrator in HiltoninsideHPC...
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National Academy of Sciences Elects New Members
The National Academy of Sciences recently announced the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished...
From Schneier on Security
Protecting Against Google Phishing in Chrome
Google has a new Chrome extension called "Password Alert": To help keep your account safe, today we're launching Password Alert, a free, open-source Chrome extension...
From XRDS
Does coding style matter?
Given that usually the compiler does not complain about the coding style of a program (i.e. missing white spaces, indentation, long lines of code, name conventions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micro Moments and Marketing
Via Google. New idea to me. The Micro Moment as describing how people use mobile. By my observation, these are not always that 'micro'. The concept is an interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Financial Literacy and Follow-up
In K@W: Points to an analytical study:“A one-time financial education program may have little effect, as expected, but the long-term effects of a persistent financial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Advances Quantum Computing
In CW: Have followed this for years with regard to the practical application to complex combinatorial problems. See previously our interaction with D-Wave. ...
From Putting People First
Human+Machine Futures forecast map
This year, the research focus of the Institute for the Future (IFTF) is on Human+Machine Futures, the blurring lines between human and machine, natural and artificial...
From Putting People First
Designer and researcher: the new creative partnership
In the 20th Century creating a close partnership between copywriter and art director led to a creative renaissance in advertising. In the 21st century the relationship...
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Deep-Learning Numerical Optimization
"With the advent of massively parallel computing coprocessors, numerical optimization for deep-learning disciplines is now possible. Complex real-time pattern recognition...
From Putting People First
UX in the era of the Internet of Things
As we develop smarter “things”, we’ll have to more smartly research and design them for their human environments, writes Ted McCarthy, XD researcher at ThoughtWorks...
From insideHPC
Interview: MEGWARE Gears up for ISC High Performance
MEGWARE in Germany celebrated its 25th anniversary in February. With the company in the midst of a big cluster deployment at CERN, we caught up Jörg Heydemüller...
From Computational Complexity
Is Logarithmic Space Closed Under Kleene Star?
A Georgia Tech student asked the title question in an introductory theory course. The instructor asked his TA, the TA asked me and I asked the oracle of all things...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signals Group Update
Signals Group sends along a new video on what they are up to. Have had a number of interesting interactions with them over the last year. Worth a look" ... Signals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Precognition Links Data and AI
In Datanami, the broad thought is interesting, and recalls ideas of our own to link together data analytics and cognitive computing, aka AI. Directly linking...
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Supercomputing New Materials for Improved Fuel Production
Researchers are using the Mira supercomputer at Argonne to accelerate the discovery of new materials for improved biofuel and petroleum production. The post Supercomputing...
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SOSCIP in Canada Announces $20M Research Investment
Today the Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP) announced a $20 Million investment to add new areas of focus—such as advanced manufacturing...
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Hornet and SuperMUC to Provide 247 Million Core Hours for Scientific Research
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) reports that the 10th PRACE Regular Call for Proposals resulted in GCS supporting 14 outstanding scientific research projects...
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Video: Intelligent Cache Hinting in Lustre
"Data caching can provide increased performance when using a mix of high and low performance storage, but traditional replacement algorithms like LRU may evictVideo...
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