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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
The National Academy of Science Forum on Cyber Resilience
The National Academies (NAS) Forum on Cyber Resilience held its inaugural meeting this week in Washington, DC. The Forum is focused on advancing the national...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maximizing Big Data Value
In Baseline Mag: A slideshow on how companies are maximizing big data value. A useful quick scan.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo as Smart Home Hub
Have been following the Amazon Echo work for some time. In particular its implication for other connections in the Smart Home. Our own brain stormed discussions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Started with Spark in Python
Another useful piece about the technical aspects of working with Big Data analytics. " ... Although far from a complete introduction to Spark, we hope that you...
From insideHPC
Keeping Up with the Growth of Scientific Data
"Metadata, or data about data, lets scientists find the valuable data they are looking for. Metadata especially helps find value in data that’s been created byKeeping...
From Schneier on Security
Attacking Researchers Who Expose Voting Vulnerabilities
Researchers found voting-system flaws in New South Wales, and were attacked by voting officials and the company that made the machines....
From Computational Complexity
FCRC 2015
Every four years the Association for Computing Machinery organizes a Federated Computing Research Conference consisting of several co-located conferences and some...
From insideHPC
Video: Fabrics – Why We Love Them and Why We Hate Them
In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer's Workshop, Dave Dunning from Intel presents: Fabrics - Why We Love Them and Why We Hate Them.The post Video: FabricsinsideHPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surprise and Simplicity in User Experience
Discussion in Retailwire: Good thoughts on the retail user experience. It should be about delighting the consumer I was always told, but the balance with simplicity...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Quantum Two-Finger Exercise
More mileage than expected from a little example Cropped from World Science Festival source Sean Carroll is a cosmologist in the Department of Physics at Caltech...
From Writing
What does it mean for a software company/startup to be able to iterate quickly?
My answer on Quora to What does it mean for a software company/startup to be able to iterate quickly?:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Goal: Cognitive Assistants for all Jobs
Via Jim Spohrer, how can you join into the task? I have joined in.Cognitive Systems Institute Group (CSIG)'s mission is cognitive assistants for all occupations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Selling More Beauty Brands
Quite a big sell off. In BizJournals: " ... Cincinnati-based P&G (NYSE: PG) sent sale documents to potential bidders for its Wella haircare unit along with cosmetics...
From insideHPC
SGI Solutions for Next Generation Sequencing
The SGI UV system allows computational biologists to take a different, far more effective approach to dealing with the huge data sets generated by contemporarySGI...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NineSigma and Open Source Innovation
Listened in on a talk from NineSigma. Slides. Had been a while since I have connected with them. I like their direction:" ... Dr. Mehran Mehregany founded NineSigma...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking and Implementing Small
This reminds me of the work of E. F. Schumacher, read it in University, rarely mentioned these days it seems. I like the reminder in this presentation. " ... Kevlin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Data Sciences and Decisions
I have mentioned many times, that analytics needs to be closely connected to the decision making being addressed. This is best done by having a business decision...
From insideHPC
Optimizing Chilled Water Systems at ORNL
Staff members at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are evaluating how supercomputers can be cooled more efficiently.The post Optimizing Chilled Water Systems at ORNL...
From Schneier on Security
Lone-Wolf Terrorism
The Southern Poverty Law Center warns of the rise of lone-wolf terrorism. From a security perspective, lone wolves are much harder to prevent because there is no...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog