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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
Smart Contracts Defined
Brought to my attention in talk by Steve Mohundro: Smart Contracts. On line WP definition: " ... are computer protocols that facilitate, verify, or enforce the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Help expand K-5 computer science education
Saw this item via the CSTA announcements mailing list. Code.org is hoping to expand K-5 computer science education by recruiting qualified computer science teachers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Streamlining Meetings, Sharing Ideas
Have recently been looking at how software can improve organization and discovered the below. Not endorsing it, but seeking to understand the options being developed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Simplification
In Knowledge@Wharton: " ... Business simplification is a strategic imperative for today’s companies if they wish to unlock innovation and position themselves for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ways of Using VR In the Enterprise
A CW piece on using VR in the enterprise. Have mentioned our own experiments in the past. Whatever it is it has to be easy to use, provide significant value,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Organization
Is self organization hard? Complexity studies would seem to indicate that it is easy, with just a few rules. Perhaps it is because we can't state the objective...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Copying Algorithms from the Brain
Followed the Numenta work from the beginning. Interesting, but never saw it close to being ready for real application. Now a deeper plunge. Not just using the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
How to prepare educators to teach coding/CS
As part of my role as the CSTA Board member for K-8, I have been working with an amazing team of computer science (CS) educators – the CSTA K-8 Task force to host...
From Schneier on Security
Alternatives to the FBI's Manufacturing of Terrorists
John Mueller suggests an alternative to the FBI's practice of encouraging terrorists and then arresting them for something they would have never have planned on...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality–the Future of Education?
Recently a friend of mine sent me a link to a YouTube video about an Augmented Reality Sandbox. It was pretty cool. Cool enough that it looks like a lot of people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Positioning the Five V's of Big Data
Bernard Marr on the 5 V's of big data. A info visual that explains. Two many V's I believe, but the points made are interesting. All very useful considerations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Archives On Line
A long time history buff, and student of how knowledge is stored and curated online. We tried to apply some of these ideas, like Wikis, in the enterprise. New,...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Michael Papka and Susan Coghlan on the 180 Petaflop Aurora Supercomputer
In this Tech Shift podcast, Michael Papka and Susan Coghlan from Argonne National Laboratory discuss the 180 Petaflop Aurora supercomputer scheduled for deployment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brains and Computers, Singularities
Technical Philosophy In the Edge:Death Is OptionalYuval Noah Harari and Daniel Kahneman: A Video Conversation"Once you really solve a problem like direct brain-computer...
From insideHPC
Parallel Implementation of PK-PD Parameter Estimation on Intel Xeon Phi
"Pharmacokinetic (PK) and Pharmacodynamic(PD) parameters determine the develop-ability of a drug candidate and estimation of them are time consuming and there is...
From insideHPC
HPC Helps Solve Challenges of Personalized Medicine
A number of challenges exist for both the wider adoption of technologies that can impede personalized medicine workflows and the implementation of such systems....
From insideHPC
New OSC Supercomputer Named After Civil Rights Activist Ruby Dee
Today the Ohio Supercomputer Center unveiled their new 144 Teraflop Ruby supercomputer. Powered by Intel Xeon Phi, the 144 Teraflop HP system is named after Cleveland...
From Putting People First
We are citizens, not mere physical masses of data for harvesting
The deal we have struck with the information society over the extent to which our lives are shaped and our privacy invaded requires urgent renegotiation, argues...
From CERIAS Blog