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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
insideHPC to Livestream Keynotes from GPU Technology Conference Next Week
We are pleased to announce that insideHPC will be streaming live keynotes next week from the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Using Restless Dissatisfaction
I like the statement, you should always be dissatisfied. And looking for solutions, or parts of solutions, that can be fitted together to lead to better results...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High vs Low Level Analytics
Some comments of interest by Vincent Granville: " ... Here I describe a case study: a solution based on high-level data science. By high level, I mean data science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau 9 Beta Rolling Out, with Analytics
Have been a long time user of Tableau visualization, brought it into the enterprise. I see they are about to roll out their latest Beta 9.0. To address some frequent...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Applications Specialist at SMU in Dallas
Southern Methodist University in Dallas is seeking an HPC Applications Specialist in our Job of the Week.
From insideHPC
IBM Platform Computing – Ready to Run Clusters in the Cloud
Demands by users that are running applications in the scientific, technical, financial or research areas can easily outstrip the capabilities of in-house clusters...
From insideHPC
Test Bed Systems Pave the Way for 150 Petaflop Summit Supercomputer
Oak Ridges is preparing for their upcoming Summit supercomputer with two modest test bed systems using Power8 processors. "Summit will deliver more than five times...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Control of the Digital Shelf
Straightforward steps to audit the presence of brands online. By Schawk. " ... To get your share of a rapidly expanding e-commerce market, you need to provideThis...
From Schneier on Security
Hardware Bit-Flipping Attack
The Project Zero team at Google has posted details of a new attack that targets a computer's' DRAM. It's called Rowhammer. Here's a good description: Here's how...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How to teach Computer Science to 5-14yr Olds – #CSK8 Twitter Chat
Join CSTA K-8 task force for #CSK8 chat on Mar 11 8pm EST. Pedagogy- ‘How to teach’ Computer Science to 5-14yr olds. Not the What or Why. Discuss pair programming...
From Putting People First
From design thinking to ethnographic thinking
In the broader business world, writes social anthropologist Jay Hasbrouck, design thinking “is already a stale buzzword — a concept that spread widely as a panacea...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Technological Evolution
By Marcus Olsson (Nokia/Microsoft, Helsinki Finland) Recording.Last week I gave a speech at Hannes Sjöblad’s “Singularity Evenings” at SUP46 (Startup People Stockholm)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New SAP Analytic Tools
Had not looked at SAP BI and analytics for some time, we were a well worn SAP shop, they now have new offerings worth a look.SAP brings new analytics tools to companies...
From insideHPC
Penguin Tundra Platform brings Open Compute Project to HPC
Today Penguin Computing gave customers a peek at the future of increased customization and choice in high performance computing at the Open Compute Project Summit...
From Schneier on Security
Can the NSA Break Microsoft's BitLocker?
The Intercept has a new story on the CIA's -- yes, the CIA, not the NSA -- efforts to break encryption. These are from the Snowden documents, and talk about a conference...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH-led Effort Launches Big Data Portal for Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery
The National Institute of Health (NIH) is determined to reduce the cost and time it takes to discover viable therapeutic targets, which drive the changes in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complete Guide to Twitter Analytics
Instructive piece. Was just asked to look at the analytics of twitter as an engagement, and thus an advertising medium. Is it too ephemeral to be useful? 52...
From Computational Complexity
Guest Post by Thomas Zeume on App of Ramsey Thy to Dyn Desc Comp.
Guest Post by Thomas Zeume on Lower Bounds for Dynamic Descriptive Complexity (A result that uses Ramsey Theory!) In a previous blog post Bill mentioned his...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curating Personalization through E-commerce
An interesting approach I had not considered. In Progressive Grocer.How grocers can customize and curate through e-commerce E-commerce is a good place for grocers...
From The Eponymous Pickle