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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
Frugal Innovation
Frugal Innovation, by Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu, The Economist, Book brought to my attention. Today we have many more resources than ever before. Via IdeaConnection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Phase Advisor for Industrial Chemical Engineering
A recent conversation with a chemical engineer at MIT led me to remember an expert system a member of our AI group, Dan T. Davis wrote in the late 1980s. It was...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Large well-funded laboratories…
Your intuition is probably that large well-funded research laboratories produce more research… One part of this intuition is flat out wrong. Small teams are consistently...
From insideHPC
The Energy Challenge for Datacenters and HPC
"As long as setting up an energy inefficient datacentre is an economically viable option for IT equipment owners, it is unlikely that substantial progress will...
From insideHPC
IBM Redefines Storage Economics with New Software
"A new approach is needed to help clients address the cost and complexity driven by tremendous data growth," said Tom Rosamilia, Senior Vice President, IBM Systems...
From insideHPC
Developing Multilevel Security (MLS) Framework
This is the third article in a series designed to address the needs of government and business or collaborative and secure information sharing within a Multilevel...
From Schneier on Security
IRS Encourages Poor Cryptography
I'm not sure what to make of this, or even what it means. The IRS has a standard called IDES: International Data Exchange Service: "The International Data Exchange...
From insideHPC
CHPC Propels Supercomputing in South Africa
CHPC Communications Manager Noxolo Moyake describes how the South African Center for High Performance Computing is fostering the use of supercomputing in the region...
From insideHPC
Video: Intro to Compiler Directives for Accelerators
"Geoscientists need tools to allow them to rapidly develop algorithms that run fast on accelerators, while at the same time deliver portability and improve productivity...
From Schneier on Security
The Equation Group's Sophisticated Hacking and Exploitation Tools
This week, Kaspersky Labs published detailed information on what it calls the Equation Group -- almost certainly the NSA -- and its abilities to embed spyware deep...
From Computational Complexity
Stephan Colbert, Jon Stewart, Andrew Sullivan, William Gasarch
Stephan Colbert is leaving the Colbert Report Jon Stewart is leaving the Daily Show Andrew Sullivan is no longer blogging Bill Gasarch has resigned as SIGACT...
From insideHPC
Video: Panel Discussion on OpenACC Requirements
In this video from the University of Houston CACDS HPC Workshop, Duncan Poole from the OpenACC Standards Group moderates a panel discussion on OpenACC.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Privacy by Design Workshop: Concepts and Connections
The following guest blog post is contributed by Ph.D. students Nick Doty and Richmond Wong working with Deirdre Mulligan from the University of California Berkeley...
From insideHPC
CloudyCluster Moves HPC out of the Data Center and Into the Cloud
CloudyCluster allows you to quickly set up and configure a cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to handle the most demanding HPC and Big Data tasks. You don’t need...
From insideHPC
Satisfying Safety Standards Through Simulation
Because the requirements in terms of energy, emissions, and fuel efficiency have not been globally standardized, vehicle manufacturers are making use of increasingly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One Thing Leads To Another
One of the great things about teacher blogging is the sharing of ideas. Often these ideas can be easily adapted and adopted in new ways. Earlier today Doug Peterson...
From insideHPC
Hartree Centre Collaborates with Lenovo on ARM-based HPC
Today Lenovo announced that the company is collaborating with the STFC Hartree Centre in the U.K. on improving the energy-efficiency of HPC systems.
From Schneier on Security
Co3 Systems Changes Its Name to Resilient Systems
Today my company, Co3 Systems, is changing its name to Resilient Systems. The new name better reflects who we are and what we do. Plus, the old name was kind of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategists Guide to IOT
A Strategist’s Guide to the Internet of Things ... The digital interconnection of billions of devices is today’s most dynamic business opportunity. ... " ... The...
From The Eponymous Pickle