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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 Schneier on Security
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On Monday, I asked Adm. Rogers a question. EDITED TO ADD: The question....
From Putting People First
5 imperatives of user experience design in mobile health technology
David Lee Scher, MD – Owner & Director, DLS Healthcare Consulting discusses what he thinks are five important issues in achieving the ideal mobile technology user...
From Putting People First
“I’m divorcing my Nest thermostat”
Kara Pernice, the Managing Director at the Nielsen Norman Group, was a proud early adopter of the unique, cool, and pretty Nest device: “It helped me save energy...
From Putting People First
How do people save/share/revisit on mobile devices?
In early January, Mozilla UX conducted user research to refresh their understanding of how people save, share, and revisit mobile content with the goal of building...
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Cites Growing Demand for Liquid Cooling
Today CoolIT Systems announced 2014 financials and growing demand for the company's Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technologies.
From insideHPC
Cray XC30 Powers LS-DYNA at Stalprodukt
Today Cray announced that Stalprodukt S.A., a leading global steel processor, purchased a Cray XC30 supercomputer for structural analysis modeling used in the testing...
From insideHPC
Seagate ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance
The Seagate ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance (SDA) is the HPC industry’s first scale-out secure storage system officially ICD-503 certified to consolidate multiple...
From insideHPC
Open Fabrics Workshop to Focus on Application Performance, NVM, and SoCs
Today the Open Fabrics Alliance announced that their upcoming International OFS Developers’ Workshop will center around three major themes: Applications Performance...
From insideHPC
Video: Inside the Raijin Supercomputer Down Under
In this video, Questacon visits NCI to take a look at Raijin, the southern hemisphere's first petaflop super computer. "Raijin, named after the Shinto God of thunder...
From Schneier on Security
AT&T Charging Customers to Not Spy on Them
AT&T is charging a premium for gigabit Internet service without surveillance: The tracking and ad targeting associated with the gigabit service cannot be avoided...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Simulations Are More Fun
One of my favorite computer science teachers, Judy Hromcik from Texas, posted a link to a video called “The last banana: A thought experiment in probability.” The...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 23
February 25 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing titled “Preserving the Multistakeholder Model of Internet Governance...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Data Science wants to hear from YOU!
The new NIH Data Science blog needs your help to start a conversation about Computational and Quantitative Collaborative Projects. Excerpt from their blog: Many...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
One Instructor's Flipped Classroom Philosophy
Earlier this month, our Education Development Centre hosted a teaching round table on the flipped classroom. At the session, engineering instructor Shermeen Nizami...
From insideHPC
Video: OpenACC Interoperability with CUDA C and Fortran
"Developed by PGI, Cray, and NVIDIA, the OpenACC directives are a shared vision of how directives can simplify the programming model for accelerators, where each...
From insideHPC
UMBC Powers Climate Research with Dell | Terascala HPC Storage
Today Terascala announced that the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) HPC Facility is using the company's software to manage Lustre-based parallel...
From Computational Complexity
Eliminate the Postal Service
It's gotten very difficult to mail a letter these days. There are no mailboxes along my ten mile commute. Georgia Tech has contracted with an outside company to...
From Schneier on Security
Cell Phones Leak Location Information through Power Usage
New research on tracking the location of smart phone users by monitoring power consumption: PowerSpy takes advantage of the fact that a phone's cellular transmissions...
From insideHPC
Pearl Hacks Event to Promotes Women Programmers
RENCI is sponsoring this year's Pearl Hacks, a two-day event designed to encourage college and high-school age women to develop their interest in technology....
From The Eponymous Pickle