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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
A Research Agenda for Intelligent Systems Will Result in Fundamental New Capabilities for Understanding the Earth System
The following blog post is contributed by Dr. Yolanda Gil from the Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California and Dr. Suzanne A Pierce from...
From insideHPC
Benefits of RackCDU D2C for High Performance Computing
From bio-engineering and climate studies to big data and high frequency trading, HPC is playing an even greater role in today’s society. Without the power of HPC...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Sudden Firestorms
Over at NICS, Scott Gibson writes that researchers are using supercomputers to model the spread of wildfires. The post Supercomputing Sudden Firestorms appeared...
From Schneier on Security
Hacker Detained by FBI after Tweeting about Airplane Software Vulnerabilities
This is troubling: Chris Roberts was detained by FBI agents on Wednesday as he was deplaning his United flight, which had just flown from Denver to Syracuse, New...
From insideHPC
Bright Partners with CVIS for Benelux HPC
Today Bright Computing announced a partnership with CVIS, a Dutch-based company that delivers innovative HPC solutions to organizations in the Benelux region. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Company Culture
A misleading term, the HBR article says. Ill defined, I agree, but it does define how companies are different, and similar. " ... The problem with the term...
From insideHPC
The High Performance Data Analytics Market
As data analytics becomes more mission critical, hardware and software need to evolve to handle both historical data (batch) and real time streaming data. ThisThe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Trust and Computing
I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of trust in computing lately. It’s actually something I started thinking about almost 40 years ago when I had my first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CGT on Amazon Dash
In CGT: Makes the argument that Amazon Dash creates an edge for major CPG brands. Still awaiting the invitation to see one:" ... According to AdAge, Amazon hasn't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Reliability with System Modeler
I see that Wofram is starting to put out their system modeling software. Here nicely described for reliability problems. A number of times we used this basic...
From My Biased Coin
My (Positive) Apple Retail Repair Experience
I switched to Apple machines several years ago, and have been very happy with them generally.One convenience is there is an Apple store in the mall about 10 minutes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Predicting Neurons
In Nature: Future predicting neurons. An odd idea, but poses an interesting thought. If we could tap the output of such a neuron, is it the prediction of what...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata Rolls out Warehouse Appliance
New warehouse appliance that Teradata means to help with big data applications using virtualization. More data.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Update on Neuromarketing and Advertising
Have tracked the progress and evolution of neuromarketing for years. Saw some decrease in the hype last year. But this article takes another look. It is still...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mathematical Heart of Deep Learning
Technical piece in Pete Warden's blog. Nicely visualized. I was unaware of the term GEMM, but taking a look at the post, he explains it well. Mathematically it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Education Opportunities
Have never seen a technical topic with so many online learning opportunities. DSC does a good job of summarizing some of the usefuk links in a short piece. Do...
From Schneier on Security
Counting the US Intelligence Community Leakers
It's getting hard to keep track of the US intelligence community leakers without a scorecard. So here's my attempt: Leaker #1: Chelsea Manning. Leaker #2: Edward...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Smart and Connected Health Aspiring Investigators Workshop, 2015
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is holding a Smart and Connected Health (SCG) Aspiring Investigators Workshop in Arlington, VA on June 29. This workshop will...
From XRDS
ACM CHI has started! XRDS is following!
For over 30 years, the CHI conference has been the top-tier venue for the developments in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). CHI has been truly a place...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog