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Taskwatch takes Wearables to Focus Workflow
From The Eponymous Pickle

Taskwatch takes Wearables to Focus Workflow

Local firm Hipaax works with Samsung Wearables.  Love to see wearable ideas that link to enterprise applications.   This links people to focus on work process.We...

Other useless school trivia: the quadratic formula
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Other useless school trivia: the quadratic formula

I have two young boys and I have decided to pay attention to what they are learning in school. Beside basic writing and reading skills, mathematics feels like the...

IBM Platform Computing Delivers New HPC Cloud Offerings
From insideHPC

IBM Platform Computing Delivers New HPC Cloud Offerings

Clusters that are purchased for specific applications tend not to be flexible as workloads change. What is needed is an infrastructure that can expand or contract...

Earthquake Researchers at SDSC Win Nvidia Global Impact Award
From insideHPC

Earthquake Researchers at SDSC Win Nvidia Global Impact Award

Today Nvidia announced that researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center have won the inaugural Global Impact Award and its $150,000 prize. The researchers...

Preparing for Advanced Manycore Architectures – and Implications on the Interconnect
From insideHPC

Preparing for Advanced Manycore Architectures – and Implications on the Interconnect

In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer's Workshop, Katie Antypas from LBNL describes preparations for the Cori supercomputer. "We need to emphasize here that...

Interesting Links 16 March 2015
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 16 March 2015

Last week I was not at SXSWedu. There were not as many tweets about it in my stream as there were from SIGCSE. I still want to go some day though. With progress...

Data School for Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data School for Machine Learning

DataSchool:  Free Stanford based videos, slides, book, exercises and more about machine learning and statistical methods.   Complete practical examples in R code...

Sentient Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sentient Robotics

From USA TODAY: Sirius founder Martine Rothblatt envisions world of cyber clones, tech med  ... The founder of Sirius satellite radio is eager for a future where...

From Computational Complexity

Has anything interesting every come out of a claimed proof that P=NP or P ≠ NP?

When I was young and foolish and I heard that someone thinks they proven P=NP or P ≠  NP I would think Wow- maybe they did!. Then my adviser, who was on the FOCS...

Free Python Introduction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Free Python Introduction

Working with some students to get them up to speed in the computing language Python.  Here from Infoworld on other programming resources, a nice, free PDF on getting...

Exploring Service Economics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Exploring Service Economics

Interesting talk given in the ISSIP series on Services Economics by Doug Morse, on 12/17/14,  Slides here.

Space Time Insight
From The Eponymous Pickle

Space Time Insight

Brought to my attention .... Situational Intelligencevia Correspondent Paul Hofmann CTOBreakthrough Off-The-Shelf SolutionsSpace-Time Insight’s industry solutions...

Gathering Television User Sentiment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gathering Television User Sentiment

Gathering Television Viewer Sentiment ... Case study: Learn how Hong Kong–based TVB uses social media to analyze audience sentiment    ... " 

DDN Shows Strong Momentum for 2015
From insideHPC

DDN Shows Strong Momentum for 2015

As our 2014 results and momentum into the first quarter of 2015 demonstrate, DDN’s product strategy to offer integrated end-to-end solutions for large scale data...

Tableaus Free Visualization Tool
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tableaus Free Visualization Tool

 I have been a subscriber to Tableau for so long, I had forgotten about their free data visualization tool.  It has been enhanced." ... Tableau Desktop Public,TableauA...

Omni  Channel benefit to Ship from Store
From The Eponymous Pickle

Omni Channel benefit to Ship from Store

In Retailwire: Is ship-from-store a proven omnichannel benefit? "  ...  Many retailers are now using their stores as fulfillment centers to ship a small portion...

Choose to Code With TouchDevelop
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Choose to Code With TouchDevelop

Looks like a good chance to earn some money for school projects and introduce students to programming. Open to US public schools only unfortunately.  More information...

Digital Trends at Frito Lay
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Trends at Frito Lay

Always a leader in technology.  Frito Lay speaks out.  " ... How a Top Frito-Lay Marketer Keeps Up With Digital Trends ... CMO Ram Krishnan is a 'Marketing Technologist'...

Using Benchmarks to Your Advantage
From insideHPC

Using Benchmarks to Your Advantage

Over at Admin HPC, Jeff Layton from AWS writes that while benchmarks remains contentious in the HPC industry, they still can be very useful.

Quantifying The Dynamics of Your Superorganism Body Using Big Data Supercomputing
From insideHPC

Quantifying The Dynamics of Your Superorganism Body Using Big Data Supercomputing

The human body is host to 100 trillion microorganisms, ten times the number of cells in the human body, and these microbes contain 100 times the number of DNA genes...
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