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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
Database of Ten Million Passwords
Earlier this month, Mark Burnett released a database of ten million usernames and passwords. He collected this data from already-public dumps from hackers who had...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Archiving the Internet and Searching it with the Wayback Machine
Many people think that everything that is on the net stays there. That is not entirely true, though it is a good idea to operate as though that is the case. A...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re-Threading Topics Here
At some users requests have completed re-threading a few topics here. This usually has to be done because some of the links provided when the posts were done are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Goes Mainstream
In Forbes: Machine learning being used in our information technology environments, here a good example. Also pointer to an academic paper on the depth of 'understanding'...
From insideHPC
Video: Introduction to Bridges Supercomputer at PSC
Bridges is a uniquely capable supercomputer designed to help researchers facing challenges in Big Data to work more intuitively. Called Bridges, the new system...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things from a Consumer Perspective
In Retailwire, from the Oracle Blog: " ... To take advantage of new data sources from sensors and machines emerging from the Internet of Things, it helps to consider...
From The Eponymous Pickle
February Analytics Mag Emphasis on Data Visualization
February 2015 Informs monthly on analytics, the leading professional organization for analytics practice. The most practical and largely non technical periodical...
From insideHPC
Optalysys to Power Genomics with Optical Computing
Today the TGAC Genome Analysis Centre and Optalysys announced a collaboration to develop and implement an energy-efficient optical processing device for large-scale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford DeepDive
Brought to my attention. Another example of the automation of analytics." .... DeepDive is a new type of system that enables developers to analyze data on a deeper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jobs Susceptible to Computerization
Working on a related problem. What jobs or part of jobs are likely to be replaced vs augmented? What is the influence of Cognitive methods?The Future of Employment...
From insideHPC
ARCHER Scales 118K Cores with Allinea MAP
Today the ARCHER national supercomputing service in the U.K. announced that it has deployed the Allinea MAP profiling tool to enable computational scientists and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2015 CSTA annual conference – Registration is Open
Registration is now open for the CSTA annual conference. CSTA 2015 is a professional development opportunity for computer science and information technology teachers...
From insideHPC
Inside Lustre Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
There is always different levels of importance assigned to various data files in a computer system, specifically a very large system that is storing petabytes of...
From Schneier on Security
The Obsolescence of Submarines
Interesting article on the submarine arms race between remaining hidden and detection. It seems that it is much more expensive for a submarine to hide than it is...
From Computational Complexity
And the Winners Are...
I always like that the announcement of accepted papers for the Computational Complexity Conference happens around the time of the Academy Awards. These acceptances...
From insideHPC
Video: SGI UV Finds the Needle in the Big Data Haystack
According to IDC, SGI has shipped approximately 8 percent of of all the Hadoop servers in production today. In fact, did you know that SGI introduced the word "Big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Challenges Deodorant
CPG, beware of Google competition. Wearable removes odors? Patents the idea anyway. At first this sounded like it was a very clever sensor idea, with electronic...
From insideHPC
Kati Antypas to Keynote OFA Developer’s Workshop
The OpenFabrics Alliance has announced the keynote talk for the Developers’ Workshop Sunday March 15th at 7.30 PM at the Marriott in Monterey CA. Katie Antypas,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trusting Machines vs People
A long time interest. To what degree do people trust machines? Our early look at automated marketing engines gave a different view. Here in Knowledee@Wharton...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog