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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NITRD RFI- Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan
In response to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, federal agencies are developing a Federal cybersecurity research and development strategic plan. On behalf...
From Schneier on Security
Remote Proctoring and Surveillance
Interesting article. There are a lot of surveillance and privacy issues at play here....
From insideHPC
NASA Triples Discover Supercomputer Capacity for Earth Science
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) is boosting supercomputer capacity to over 3 Petaflops to meet the exploding demands of NASA’s Earth science modeling...
From insideHPC
Memorial Service for William C. Blake Set for May 30
A memorial service for William C. Blake will be held on May 30, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 645 Main St. in Melrose, Massachusetts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sainsbury Provides Streaming Services with Chromecast
A look at Sainsbury's providing entertainment services with Chromecast. " ... A quick look at the Sainsbury's Entertainment apps shows that the supermarket added...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clorox CIO Discusses Challenge of Big Data
Former colleague discusses Big Data value in the enterprise. And like any analytics application, Big data or not, it is about getting to a real business process...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ham Radio Returns in Disaster
In Ars Technica: Adaptation to Nepal earthquake disaster leads people back to older technologies. " .... An old tech shows its resilience, while new tech reveals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CrowdChat for Market Research
CrowdChat was brought to my attention. Could this be used in a focus group style interaction? Perhaps with exposure to images? Longitudinal? Other measures...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Reader Determines Speed, Direction
An RFID reader that can, for example, show the direction of a tagged item when it moves." ... Tyco Retail Solutions' Steerable Beam Antenna Brings Movement Data...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Did you hear?
At this time of year, you may be hearing this phrase just before some news about a colleague retiring, taking a new position, or deciding to stay home with theContinue...
From Schneier on Security
Shaking Someone Down for His Password
A drug dealer claims that the police leaned him over an 18th floor balcony and threatened to kill him if he didn't give up his password. One of the policemen involved...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Goes Bright Box with Pica8’s Network OS
Today Penguin Computing announced that the company will offer the PicOS operating system as an option on the company's Arctica “bright box” top-of-rack switches...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driverless Platforms
I was pointed to this as a advertisement in IEEE Spectrum, and found it interesting. Especially dealing with the current and potential autonomy of such systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Buys most of Dunnhumby USA
In Cincinnati.com: It will be interesting to see how this changes how Kroger utilizes analytical methodologies. " .... The Kroger Co. said Monday it will buy...
From insideHPC
Interview with Dr. David Rohr
Dr. David Rohr is a postdoctoral scholar at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS). He’s currently working on several projects related to high energy...
From insideHPC
Intel Launches First IPCC Parallel Computing Center in China
At the recent Intel Developers Forum, the company announced that the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Supercomputing Department will be the first Intel Parallel Computing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Data Science Seminar with White House Data Scientist DJ Patil
The AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows at the National Science Foundation (NSF) have organized another talk in their new seminar series on Data Science,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How P&G and Google Approach New Markets
In the HBR: Excellent piece. " ... Leading companies such as Procter & Gamble and Google have realized that the more clearly you understand your customer ...
From insideHPC
WestGrid Boosts Canadian Research Data
Network upgrades are enabling more data-intensive science in Canada, reports WestGrid, one of four regional organizations working in partnership with Compute Canada...
From The Eponymous Pickle