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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 insideHPC
Cavium Adds GPU Support to 64-bit ARMv8-A ThunderX Processor Family
Today Cavium announced support for Nvidia Teslas GPUs in its ThunderX ARM processor family.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
It Just Got Harder to Hide
Back in 2001, two computer scientists named Paul Viola and Michael Jones came up with a face detection algorithm called Detector Cascade. The algorithm was so simple...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 16
March 17 Hearing: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on “FCC: Process and Transparency.” 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn Building The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson, the VA and PTSD
An interesting example for Watson, in Mashable: " ... IBM and the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced they'll be using IBM's Watson to develop a clinical...
From insideHPC
E4 Rolls Out ARM-based ARKA Servers for HPC and Big Data
Today E4 Computer Engineering from Italy announced a new series of ThunderX ARMv8-A enabled ARKA dense computing sever product line.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and AI
It makes sense to connect the two more strongly.The tech industry is placing new bets on artificial intelligence, using massive data sets and powerful computers...
From insideHPC
World’s Most Energy Efficient Supercomputer Powered by AMD FirePro™
AMD powers the L-CSC cluster at the GSI research facility which achieved the number one position for most energy efficient supercomputers on the latest Green500...
From insideHPC
Livestream: GTC Keynote by Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at 9:00am PT
This week insideHPC will be streaming live keynotes from the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. Today's opening keynote will feature Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2015 CSTA Administrator Impact Award Nominations Open
Dear CSTA Community, Nominations are currently open for the 2015 CSTA Administrator Impact Award! This prestigious award is given by CSTA to recognize an administrator...
From Putting People First
Research on being “good with money” in Silicon Valley
FAIR Money, a small research collective consisting of anthropologists and design researchers based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has just published its first report...
From My Biased Coin
Power of Randomness at Georgia Tech
I'm spending (part of) the week at "The Power of Randomness in Computation Workshop", an IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications) workshop at Georgia...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture –The Future of Computing-Mediated Research and Innovation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a Distinguished Lecture on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Analytics to Understand Bigger Data
A way to visually and systematically examine how your Big Data is interconnected. Here recently in Infoworld, We used this for a number of projects in the"...
From insideHPC
LANL Reduces Water Consumption for Supercomputer Cooling
Today Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that it decreased its water usage by 26 percent in 2014, with about one-third of the reduction attributable to using...
From insideHPC
Interview: Why Software Defined Infrastructure Makes Sense for HPC
In a software-defined datacenter, application workloads such as big data, analytics, simulation and design are serviced automatically by the most appropriate resource...
From Putting People First
Workshop_40/Wild energies: wind, fire and people in movement
For those in Torino: Workshop_40/Wild energies: wind, fire and people in movement Conducted by Marguerite Kahrl e Marjetica Potrč Friday, March 20 3.30 – 5.30,Workshop_40...
From Putting People First
EPIC conference calls for papers and tutorials
EPIC, the premier international gathering on the current and future practice of ethnography and design in the business world, will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo and the IOT
This also made me think of the Amazon Echo effort. With possible applications in store and in enterprise. Possibly doing a better job of integrating the two as...
From insideHPC
Florida Polytechnic University to Host #TECHTalks on Exascale and IoT
This week Florida Polytechnic University will host online #TECHTalks, their second virtual event in a three-part series.
From Putting People First