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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
GSMA Telecom MarketPlace
Brought to my attention by Vinimaya, a long time provider of online marketplaces for efficient procurement. Now they are announcing a new service that effectively...
From insideHPC
Why HPC is Too Important to be Left to Men
"Does it matter if women in HPC are clustered in certain areas of work? I think that it does. It is vital in an industry where multi-skilled, interdisciplinary...
From insideHPC
Video: A Taste of OFI OpenFabrics Interfaces
In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer’s Workshop, Sean Hefty from Intel presents: A Taste of OFI OpenFabrics Interfaces.
From insideHPC
Genomics and Big Data
Advances in computational biology as applied to NGS workflows have led to an explosion of sequencing data. All that data has to be sequenced, transformed, analyzed...
From insideHPC
Livestream: GTC Keynote on Deep Learning at Google at 11:00am PT
This week insideHPC will be streaming live keynotes from the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. Today's keynote will feature Google Senior Fellow Jeff Dean....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Behavioral Analysis and Motivation
I was reminded of the work of Professor BJ Fogg at Stanford, which we used in a number of projects His site describing his work on human behavioral Analysis and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Classification Example Using Deep learning
Want to understand the use of artificial neural networks for analytics?" ... The National Data Science Bowl, a data science competition where the goal was to classify...
From insideHPC
Dr. Jürgen Kohler from Daimler AG to Keynote ISC High Performance in July
In his Monday address at ISC High Performance on July 13, Dr. Kohler, who is also the Chair of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee, will introduce the integration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for Hard to Find Data
Classic problem. You have internal data to support an analytic decision. But you don't have the data required to support the results of the analysis to maximize...
From Schneier on Security
How We Become Habituated to Security Warnings on Computers
New research: "How Polymorphic Warnings Reduce Habituation in the Brain - Insights from an fMRI Study." Abstract: Research on security warnings consistently points...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Stir-Fry
Spicy squid masala stir-fry. Easy and delicious. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...
From Schneier on Security
How the CIA Might Target Apple's XCode
The Intercept recently posted a story on the CIA's attempts to hack the iOS operating system. Most interesting was the speculation that it hacked XCode, which would...
From insideHPC
Allinea Extends Performance Tools to CUDA
Today Allinea announced CUDA 7 support for its DDT debugger. The news will be welcomed by HPC developers using the company's Allinea Forge unified programming environment...
From Putting People First
The smartphone society
Just as the automobile defined the twentieth century, the smartphone is reshaping how we live and work today. Boston University sociology lecturer Nicole Aschoff...
From Schneier on Security
Threats to Information Integrity
Every year, the Director of National Intelligence publishes an unclassified "Worldwide Threat Assessment." This year's report was published two weeks ago. "Cyber"...
From Schneier on Security
Details on Hacking Team Software Used by Ethiopian Government
The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto published a new report on the use of spyware from the Italian cyberweapons arms manufacturer Hacking Team by the Ethiopian...
From Schneier on Security
Fall Seminar on Catastrophic Risk
I am planning a study group at Harvard University (in Boston) for the Fall semester, on catastrophic risk. Berkman Study Group -- Catastrophic Risk: Technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Builds New Beauty Innovation Center
A continuation of the construction of specialized and global innovation centers that started in 2000. See this innovation center link for many more examples. "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization Playbook
Revisiting the basics. Nicely done. I add, always consider visualization as a form of analytics, and the one that should always be used first. Your eye is...
From The Eponymous Pickle