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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
Simple Graph Plotting
Brought to my attention, a simple way to deliver plots. Not perfect or anywhere near complete, but I like to collect simple means. I have Tableau, Excel and half...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Realtime Strategic execution
Trends in 2015, the need for real time" ... Project teams will deliberate less and plan in real-time more. Companies will recognize a cultural difference as a point...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President and FAA Act On Drone Activity
On February 15th the President issued an Executive Memorandum on the domestic use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS/drones). That same day the Federal Aviation Administration...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Recode Their Genetic Makeup
This is freaky: A new study showcases the first example of an animal editing its own genetic makeup on-the-fly to modify most of its proteins, enabling adjustments...
From Schneier on Security
Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on Lenovo Computers
It's not just national intelligence agencies that break your https security through man-in-the-middle attacks. Corporations do it, too. For the past few months,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping Through the Lens of IT
In the ACM " ... Pennsylvania State University (PSU) researchers are studying how smart cameras could eventually guide visually impaired shoppers to find the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Preps the Data
A prediction that Watson Analytics will also prepare the data. Often a tedious and error prone activity. There are many aspects of preparing and scrubbing data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating Architectures in a Game World
From today's CSIG talk. Slides at the link. The use of simulation and game technologies to understand the operation of alternative architectures. Here specifically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does the Term Cognitive Assistant Mean?
A Linkedin discussion on the topic, which includes some comments of my own on several systems we built that have been mentioned here. Assistance can mean to augment...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Today’s BASIC Is Not Your Father’s BASIC
A post at Doug Peterson’s blog (A Different Time) sent me to a site that has a collection of old BASIC programs. And by old I mean the 1970s. I remember many of...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Principal HPC Architect at Aberdeen Proving Ground
The Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland is seeking a Principal HPC Architect in our Job of the Week. The candidate will performs studies and develops new HPC technology...
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Transforms Students with Mentorships at SC15
In this video, Ken Kraft from Intel describes his experiences as a participant in SC Conference Mentor-Protege program. "The SC15 conference is broadening its mission...
From insideHPC
OpenPOWER Summit Announces Speaker Lineupfor March Conference
This week the OpenPOWER Foundation announced their lineup of speakers for the inaugural OpenPOWER Summit at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, March 17-19...
From Putting People First
Understanding people’s financial behaviors
Erin Taylor and Gawain Lynch of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (UCI) lead a research project aimed at understanding people’s financial...
From Apophenia
Why I Joined Dove & Twitter to #SpeakBeautiful
I’ve been online long enough to see a lot of negativity. I wear a bracelet that reads “Don’t. Read. The. Comments.” (a gift from Molly Steenson) to remind myself...
From Schneier on Security
NSA/GCHQ Hacks SIM Card Database and Steals Billions of Keys
The Intercept has an extraordinary story: the NSA and/or GCHQ hacked into the Dutch SIM card manufacturer Gemalto, stealing the encryption keys for billions of...
From insideHPC
Nearly 200 Years after Ada, Women Becoming More Visible in Scientific Computing
In this special guest perspective from Scientific Computing World, Tom Wilkie considers some initiatives to counter the widespread impression that scientific computing...
From Putting People First
[White paper] Digital assurance: Reaching a seamless customer experience
Digital Assurance: Reaching a Seamless Customer Experience by Shawndra Hill (Wharton professor of operations and information management) and Kumudha Sridharan (vice...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Congratulates New EAC Commissioners
USACM has sent letters to each of the three newly sworn-in Commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC): Thomas Hicks, Matthew Masterson and Christy...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog