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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 Eponymous Pickle
Thumbnail Trackpad
Have not seen a new idea on the pointer space for some time. in CWorld:" ... Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a tiny wireless...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning From Tic Tac Toe
The other day I created some teams (3 to 4 students per team) and asked them to create a program to play tic tac toe – a human player against the computer. I have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Streetlights Watch Residents
Not a new thing, ten years ago was approached by a company that was planning similar, multi functional devices. We are in a surveillance society.
From Writing
The Competent Programmer
In literature, The Competent (Wo)man is a character who exhibits a very wide range of abilities and knowledge. The idea is similar to a Polymath or a Renaissance...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Hoodie
This is neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft PowerBI
Walter Riker points me to the Microsoft PowerBI site. Free trial. Which adds data visualization and dash boards to many MS and other data sources. "Power...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation and Strategic Focus
In Forbes Future of CIO:Will Innovation Enhance or Distract you from Strategic Focus?Someone obviously needs to innovate otherwise the world will come to a standstill...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google, Apple Fight for Car Dashboard
In the NYT, Registration may be required. Another screen is in play for communications and consumer engagement.
From The Eponymous Pickle
HBS launches HBX, Learns Online Collaboration
What Harvard Business School Has Learned About Online Collaboration From HBXIn June 2014, Harvard Business School launched HBX, its new online education initiative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk About Fast Data
Upcoming ONline Talk via ACM: April 30, 2015 11:30 AM ET Register. ... The Fast Data Challenge and Picking the Right Database: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit AllInteracting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cyber-Physical Systems Week 2015
The following guest blog post is from Tho Nguyen, AAAS Fellow in Computer Systems Research in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)...
From insideHPC
Key Benefits of SGI UV 2000 Architecture for Life Sciences
The SGI UV system is uniquely suited for bioinformatics and genomics by providing the computational capabilities and global shared memory architecture needed for...
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: James Reinders to Keynote OpenMPCon 2015
The OpenMP Architecture Review Board today announced the Call for Submissions for OpenMPCon 2015, its annual gathering focused on the practical application of the...
From insideHPC
Video: Shared File Performance in Lustre – Challenges and Solutions
"Large scale HPC IO is usually done either with a file per process or to a single shared file. Single shared file IO does not scale well in Lustre compared to file...
From insideHPC
HPC People on the Move – April Edition
Dr. Lewey Anton brings us the scoop on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing.The post HPC People on the Move – April Edition appeared...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Self Taught Coders and Ugly Code
I love this cartoon from xkcd. Of course some self taught programmers write really nice looking code. And some formally taught programmers write ugly code. The...
From Schneier on Security
The No-Fly List and Due Process
The Congressional Research Service has released a report on the no-fly list and current litigation that it violates due process....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moore's Law is 50
In Recode. Been reading about Moore's law for many years. Now over 50 years old, it maps how " ... the number-crunching capacity of our computers and theGood...
From insideHPC
Video: Application-optimized Lustre Solutions for Big-Data Workflows
In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Robert Triendl from DDN presents: Application-optimized Lustre Solutions for Big-Data Workflows.The post Video: Application...
From The Eponymous Pickle