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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
Integrating Smart Devices
In CWorld: Testing Hubs, a case and physical study:" .. Testing the Internet of Things: Can smart devices be united into an integrated whole?We try out the Revolv...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence as Organizational Knowledge
Nine page PDF with some interesting thoughts. No registration required.Business Intelligence 3.0: Revolutionizing Organizational Data ... By PanoramaThis is not...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Architect at Aikon Technologies
Aikon Technologies in Peoria is seeking an HPC Architect in our Job of the Week.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Regression Trees
Regression trees were a favorite method for prediction in the enterprise. Easy to use and also easy to explain to a decision maker. Investigating their use in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Polyglot Data Science
Instead of automating your data science, you could take a polyglot approach that combines the three common open source tools, Mainly so you can get access to different...
From insideHPC
Performance and Power Characterization of GPU-Enabled HPC Applications
"An increasing number of GPU enabled applications are available to the HPC community. The key issues are understanding the enhanced application performance and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Prezi does Creative Visual Storytelling
Prezi announces a tool for storytelling called Nutshell. I like their original tool, this should be interesting, it is " ... the next new tool for creativeJust...
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Automating Data Science
Much in the news lately, have seen at least three other examples of automating major aspects of analytical method recently. Can it put the data analyst out a job...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Systems Learning Tasks
Excellent talk in today's CSIG presentation. How tasks will be learned by cognitive systems. See the demo link below for an early example.Via Jim Spohrer: (U...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Speaks at Cybersecurity Summit and Signs Information Sharing Executive Order
Today the White House hosted a Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection Summit at Stanford University. The event was announced last month as part of the Administration’s...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Tentacle Utensils
Neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security
Cryptography for Kids
Interesting National Science Foundation award: In the proposed "CryptoClub" afterschool program, middle-grade students will explore cryptography while applying...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA: Nobody’s Safe on the Internet
60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl interviewed Dan Kaufman, Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Information Innovation Office...
From insideHPC
DDN Joins OpenPOWER Foundation
This week DDN announced that the company has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation. DataDirect Networks Joins the OpenPOWER Foundation. Formed last year, the OpenPOWER...
From insideHPC
HPC|Music Update – An Advanced Research Project for Enabling HPC in Music Creation and Reproduction
"Through the advent of cinema, video games, in-vehicle Infotainment and virtual reality, the industry has created a roadmap for the future. A true quality upgrade...
From insideHPC
iPlant Collaborative Bridges the Atlantic with Big Data
"Scientists from all over the world use iPlant to share data and computational methods,” said Matt Vaughn, Co-Principal Investigator of the iPlant Collaborative...
From insideHPC
Usable Exascale and Beyond Moore’s Law
"Over the last five years HPC performance growth has been slowing measurably, and in this presentation several reasons for this slowdown will be analyzed. To reach...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Memex is Searching the Dark Web
Those who follow the history of knowledge and the Web will remember the Memex system. Now the term points to an effort by DARPA that looks at the Dark Web. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data vs Decision Science
Brought up in DataScienceCentral: What is the difference? I support making sure we include the people that understand the decision processes involved as early...
From Schneier on Security