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From insideHPC

Nvidia Pascal GPU is Just One Year Away

According to comments made at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) last week, the Pascal, next generation GPU is now just a year away. staff
From insideHPC | March 23, 2015 at 08:23 AM

From insideHPC

Podcast: Fighting Alzheimer’s with HPC

In this podcast, Dr. Rudy Tanzi from Harvard Medical School describes his pioneering research in Alzheimer’s disease and how HPC is critical to the path forward... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | March 23, 2015 at 08:11 AM

From Schneier on Security

BIOS Hacking

We've learned a lot about the NSA's abilities to hack a computer's BIOS so that the hack survives reinstalling the OS. Now we have a research presentation about... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | March 23, 2015 at 08:07 AM

From Putting People First

Design fiction personas illustrate possible impact of educational tech

People talk about the future of technology in education as though it’s right around the corner, but most of us get to that corner and see it disappearing around... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 23, 2015 at 07:36 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Oceans of Data Institute

Brought to my attention, the Oceans of Data Institute. " ... The Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) is dedicated to raising a generation equipped to unlock the potential... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 23, 2015 at 07:34 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 23 March 2015

Some great links this week. Images to use in class, a video for a TV show (yes about girls computing), and lots more. One of my best collections in recent weeks... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 23, 2015 at 06:10 AM

From insideHPC

Video: OFA Update by ORNL

"ORNL’s supercomputing program has grown from humble beginnings to deliver some of the most powerful systems in the world. On the way, it has helped researchers... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | March 23, 2015 at 05:57 AM

From Putting People First

Design fiction, not science, hints at the future we actually want

The stories we tell ourselves about technology – typically, optimistic ones from would-be innovators, pessimistic ones from their critics – are usually too simple... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 23, 2015 at 03:36 AM

From Computational Complexity

Which mathematician had the biggest gap between fame and contribution?

(I was going to call this entry Who was the worst mathematician of all time? but Clyde Kruskal reminded me that its not (say) Goldbach's fault that his conjecture... GASARCH
From Computational Complexity | March 22, 2015 at 10:35 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Large Scale Graphics Visualization

Just noticed this new system. I have been working with GePhi: An interview with Leo Meyerovich:Who is behind Graphistry?Graphistry spun out of UC Berkeley’s Parallel... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 22, 2015 at 03:04 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Vinimaya Visual Marketplace Discovery

Mentioned last week in conjunction with delivering visual Marketplaces. Can you understand your market visually through search? Impressive approach. Vinimaya... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 22, 2015 at 02:12 PM

From Putting People First

Why face-to-face contact matters in our digital age

Psychologist Susan Pinker on the importance of face-to-face contact in our era of disbanded families and virtual connections. “Research shows that people who feel... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 22, 2015 at 10:31 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Providing App Development Services for the Enterprise

In CWorld: Which then makes me ask the question, what is the portfolio of services that are most important? Again, I suggest that a form of business process modeling... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 22, 2015 at 10:09 AM

From insideHPC

Podcast: Supercomputing BioFuels at TACC

In this TACC podcast, Klaus Schulten of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign describes the analysis and modeling of the cellulosome bond. The research... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | March 22, 2015 at 06:57 AM

From insideHPC

Video: Prototyping Byte-Addressable NVM Access

In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer's Workshop, Bernard Metzler presents: Prototyping Byte-Addressable NVM Access. Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | March 22, 2015 at 05:37 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Tibco Spotfire Review

We were early users of Spotfire, and ultimately it became the standard for BI and analytics on our delivered Business Sphere systems. Was always impressed with... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 21, 2015 at 05:58 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Introduction: Neural Networks in Machine Learning

We used neural networks for some classical needs in understanding customer data. Now they have expanded in use, via advanced hardware, to provide much 'deeper'... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 21, 2015 at 01:43 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Memory Implants for the Brain via Advisory Systems

I think we are some ways from being able to do this, at least in the sense it can be connected directly to the brain. Perhaps sooner as an external interface that... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 21, 2015 at 12:44 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Building User Models with Twitter

Have recently had to look at how user models can be built from a Twitter stream. In particular for retail interactions. Took a look at some of IBM's Watson influenced... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 21, 2015 at 11:12 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Paying Off

In Innovation Excellence: The payoff from big data. More clearly, it is the payoff from understanding your data and they using analytics to improve your process... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 21, 2015 at 10:59 AM