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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
Live in Robotics
We would all like to live in a robot enabled world, with robots helping us substantially at home, still think it will be a while. In CACM, a view of the possibilities...
From insideHPC
Clusters For Dummies
Clusters FOR DUMMIES is an excellent read for both experienced and novice administrators, users, purchasing departments, and developers who are considering purchasing...
From insideHPC
HPC People on the Move: March Edition
Adaptive Computing has a new CEO. Get the scoop on who else is jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing.
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Polarizes Over Net Neutrality
In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team splits on the topic of Net Neutrality. The FCC will soon publish its new rules for ensuring an even playing field for Internet...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It’s the Software Stupid
Computers are magic. Well to a few people they are. To others they are annoying and useless pieces of hardware. At least until you add software. I was reading Audrey...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Center for Neural Decision Making
Was referred to this recently. I like the broader review of looking at decision making in general, not just that which can be detected by brain science."... ...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 2
March 3 Markup: The House Judiciary Committee will markup legislation, and H.R. 1147, The Legal Workforce Act, is scheduled for review. This bill covers the expansion...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Administration Releases Discussion Draft for Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights
On February 27 the Obama Administration released its discussion draft for a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. The Administration released a framework for a Consumer...
From Geeking with Greg
More quick links
Some of the best of what I've been thinking about lately: Great TED talk titled "The mathematics of love", but probably should be titled "A data analysis of love"...
From Computational Complexity
Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)
Bill and I rarely write joint blog posts but with the loss of a great cultural icon we both had to have our say. Bill: Leonard Nimoy (Spock) died last weekLance...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam Resources
The Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam was a success! The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and US Ignite initiative designed to advance the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the State of Neuromarketing as Science
Via Forbes, by Roger Dooley. He examines the status of a long running ARF study, which he says includes both positive and negative results for neuromarketing....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping in Virtual Reality
Spent some time looking at how people might shop using virtual reality. In particular was part of a retail innovation group that looked at Second Life for this...
From insideHPC
Predictions for HPC in 2015 from Intersect360 Research
Intersect360 Research has published their Top Six Predictions for HPC in 2015.
From insideHPC
ARM Joins OpenMP ARB
ARM has joined the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB), a group of leading hardware and software vendors and research organizations creating the standard for...
From insideHPC
Slidecast: John Gustafson Explains Energy Efficient Unum Computing
"Written by one of the foremost experts in high-performance computing and the inventor of Gustafson’s Law, The End of Error: Unum Computing explains a new approach...
From Putting People First
Human-centered design should be a CMO’s best friend
The average tenure of a CMO is just 45 months, according to a recent study released by executive recruiting firm Spencer Stuart. Fortunately, for CMOs in need of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linear vs Jackknife Regression
A technical and practical piece on the topic. I recall a project in the enterprise that could have used this explanation. The idea is not used often enough,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Expanding Gannt Modeling
More dimensions applied to the Gannt chart. Knowledge Cubes they are calling it. From Metier. Inspired by Tufte. Its certainly an expansion of data in the process...
From The Eponymous Pickle