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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 Schneier on Security
Nice Essay on Security Snake Oil
This is good: Just as "data" is being sold as "intelligence", a lot of security technologies are being sold as "security solutions" rather than what they for the...
From insideHPC
SKA & AWS Seeking Proposals for AstroCompute in the Cloud
Today the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organization announced that it is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use cloud computing to explore ever-increasing...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Tidal Models with the STORM Project at LSU
The Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology recently received a large grant from the National Science Foundation to begin updating theSupercomputing...
From CERIAS Blog
Time CriticalPurdue Day of Giving
Dear Friends of CERIAS This Wednesday, April 29, will be the second annual Purdue Day of Giving. During this 24-hour online event, CERIAS will be raising awareness...
From CERIAS Blog
Time Critical—Purdue Day of Giving
Dear Friends of CERIAS This Wednesday, April 29, will be the second annual Purdue Day of Giving. During this 24-hour online event, CERIAS will be raising awareness...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Basic email skills
If there is one skill that is needed in a modern office is email. By email, I do not refer to the specific Internet protocol. I refer to the general process of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification and Enterprise Engagement
Nicely done CW Piece: " ... Can gamification solve enterprises' engagement problem? Big data and other new technologies are fueling the use of gaming principles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Cleese has a Message for Geeks
Hardly a supporter of social media, but humorist John Cleese makes the case that the social is much harder than the technological. Video.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Mobile Search Update
From a number of sources. That Google is measuring mobile friendliness for sites and is using and acting on that as one measure for measuring search relevance....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leading Indicators of Innovation
Good general thoughts, but no precise metrics. Bottom line, results in your domain. " ... Metrics, indicators, best practices, success stories – everyone is looking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey Quarterly on Golden Age of Marketing and Analytics
McKinsey Quarterly 2015 Number 1: Overview and full issueThis issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, describes the dawn of marketing’s next golden...
From Computational Complexity
Advice on running a theory day
Last semester I ran a THEORY DAY AT UMCP. Below I have ADVICE for people running theory days. Some I did, some I didn't do but wish I did, and some are just questions...
From insideHPC
Video: Understanding Hadoop Performance on Lustre
"In this talk, Seagate presents details on its efforts and achievements around improving Hadoop performance on Lustre including a summary on why and how HDFS and...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Extends Open Networking with Artica Switches
Today Penguin Computing announced the Arctica 4804ip switch and a collaboration with Cumulus Networks. The post Penguin Computing Extends Open Networking with Artica...
From insideHPC
PBS Pro Becomes Cray’s Preferred Workload Manager
Today Altair announced an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Cray Inc. PBS Professional is now Cray’s preferred workload manager and job scheduler...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Ads to Watch You
In Wired:GOOGLE IS ABOUT to make ads on television work just like ads on the web. Through Google, advertisers will know how many times their ads were viewed. They...
From insideHPC
INCITE Seeking Proposals for U.S. Leadership Computing
The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research...
From Schneier on Security
The Further Democratization of Stingray
Stingray is the code name for an IMSI-catcher, which is basically a fake cell phone tower sold by Harris Corporation to various law enforcement agencies. (It's...
From insideHPC