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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
Twitter in India: Real time, Mobile First
In K@W: Podcast and transcript." ... Twitter has changed the advertising world, a development that company vice president Shailesh Rao describes as a positive...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The CSTA Nominations and Elections Committee
By: Deborah Seehorn and Dave Reed The primary purpose of the CSTA Nominations and Elections Committee is to oversee and maintain the nominations and elections process...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surge of Local Search
In Search Engine Watch: Searching 'near me' has surged considerably since 2011. Searching is increasingly an automatic reaction to information needs anywhere...
From insideHPC
OLCF Moves Forward on Application Readiness for Summit Supercomputer
Today the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) announced a significant step forward in the delivery of Summit, the next-generation supercomputer IBM will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Schank's XTOL Experiential Learning
A mention of Roger Schank, AI pioneer, founder of the 'AI Boom' company Cognitive Systems, who I recall was critical of our AI work in the 80s. His work in AIXTOL...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hiding Corporate Data
The broad idea is being seen in a number of places. This addresses the 'lost laptop' problem, where corporate data could be compromised. A Way to Hide Corporate...
From insideHPC
Success Stories in Personalized Medicine
Universities and hospitals like TGen and NMTRC are seeing an entirely new reality in patient care leveraging HPC clusters. Here are some success stories on on advances...
From Schneier on Security
Metal Detectors at Sports Stadiums
Fans attending Major League Baseball games are being greeted in a new way this year: with metal detectors at the ballparks. Touted as a counterterrorism measure...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing Synthetic Transporter Proteins
articleIn this podcast, Michael Grabe from the University of California - San Francisco describes how scientists designed completely from scratch a protein molecule...
From insideHPC
Video: There and Back Again – The Battle of Lustre at LANL
"A little over a year ago LANL’s HPC Division purchased and fielded our first general purpose InfiniBand-based Lustre parallel file system. This new Lustre deployment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science of Segmentation
The Science of Segmentation: What Questions Should You Be Asking Your Data? Attended this webinar. Sponsored by Pivotal. As the webinar suggests, segmentation...![The woes of a corporate anthropologist [Novel]](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
The woes of a corporate anthropologist [Novel]
Satin Island: A novel by Tom McCarthy Knopf, 2015 From the author of Remainder and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and a winner of the Windham-Campbell...
From insideHPC
Video: Cray’s Storage History and Outlook – Lustre+
In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Jason Goodman from Cray presents: Cray’s Storage History and Outlook – Lustre+. "As a leader in open systems and parallel...
From Schneier on Security
John Oliver Interviews Edward Snowden
Wow, what an amazing segment and interview....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Would You Do That?
Students ask interesting questions. One of the more frequent questions they ask is “why would you do that?” Often it comes, not because you didn’t already explain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger and Omnichannel Balance
Feedback in general is always a key interest, it can exist at many levels and sources. It still remains difficult thing to combine different levels of feedback...
From Computational Complexity
Baseball is More Than Data
As baseball starts its second week, lets reflect a bit on how data analytics has changed the game. Not just the Moneyball phenomenon of ranking players but also...
From insideHPC
Learn HPC Cluster Administration at LCI workshop
Early bird registration rates end soon for the LCI workshop in Oklahoma. If you are a Linux system administrator new to HPC, this is the workshop for you!The post...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science in Other Disciplines
Many people argue against the teaching of Computer Science by saying that we shouldn’t create a bunch of programmers/computer scientists. I find this argument frustrating...
From insideHPC