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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
Open Data Center Steering Group
The Open Data Center Alliance Welcomes The Coca-Cola Company And Intel To Steering Group by Priya Rana The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), the global organization...
From insideHPC
Lenovo Opens HPC Innovation Center in Stuttgart, Readies SuperMUC Phase 2
Today Lenovo announced the opening of the company’s first global HPC innovation center, offering a permanent R&D and application benchmarking site as well as aLenovo...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
FizzBuzz Revisited
I first blogged about using FizzBuzz in the classroom four years ago when I didn’t have a classroom and students of my own to use it with. (FizzBuzz–A Programming...
From insideHPC
Going from the Lab to the Data Center
In the late 1980s, genomic sequencing began to shift from wet lab work to a computationally intensive science; by end of the 1990s this trend was in full swing....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Michael Stonebraker Receives 2014 ACM Turing Award
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) congratulates Michael Stonebraker from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on receiving the 2014 ACM Turing Award...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Accelerating intersections with SIMD instructions
Most people have a mental model of computation based on the Turing machine. The computer does one operation at a time. For example, maybe it adds two numbers and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G on Digital Marketing
P&G Chief Brand Officer Talks Digital Marketing By Nicole GiannopoulosWhile speaking at the Association of National Advertisers' Media Leadership Conference yesterday...
From Schneier on Security
Capabilities of Canada's Communications Security Establishment
There's a new story about the hacking capabilities of Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE), based on the Snowden documents....
From insideHPC
How Supercomputers Give Universities a Competitive Edge
In an NSF-funded study, a Clemson University team found that universities with locally available supercomputers were more efficient in producing research in critical...
From insideHPC
Internet of Things & What it Means to Fabrics
In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer’s Workshop, Guy Ailee from Intel presents: Internet of Things & What it Means to Fabrics.The post Internet of Things &...
From insideHPC
Video: High-Performance and Scalable Designs of Programming Models for Exascale Systems
"This talk will focus on programming models and their designs for upcoming exascale systems with millions of processors and accelerators. Current status and future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tools for the Data Scientist
A look at the Data Science ecosystem. Nice to see it all in one place. By Lukas Biewald. Would like further to see what all the competing claims are. Though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Device Fingerprint Tracking in Europe
It is well known that all devices have their own fingerprint. Europe plans increased use. " ... Europe’s next privacy war is with websites silently tracking...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Good ideas are overrated
As a college student, I was convinced that the most important part of science and engineering was to have good and original ideas. If you contemplate Einstein,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Best Practices in Evaluating Scholarship in Hiring, Tenure, and Promotion
A careful distinction between quality and quantity is key to promoting the future growth of the computing and information field. Toward that end, Batya Friedman...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to Open Computing
The Open Compute Project, initiated by Facebook as a way to increase computing power while lowering associated costs with hyper-scale computing, has gained a significant...
From insideHPC
Video: Slim Fly – A Cost Effective Low-Diameter Network Topology
"We introduce a high-performance cost-effective network topology called Slim Fly that approaches the theoretically optimal network diameter. Slim Fly is based on...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 23
March 24 Hearing: The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on “Continuing America’s Leadership: Advancing Research and Development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Juji: Behavior-based Individuality Analysis
Michelle Zhou brought to my attention their new personality analysis startup that creates people profiles from Twitter and Facebook streams. I gave it a try and...
From Schneier on Security