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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
Text Signals as Sentiment
An area that a number of groups are looking at. " ... In this burgeoning era of big data, a substantial majority of all the data is unstructured. Much of this unstructured...
From Putting People First
Will the internet of things finally kill privacy?
The journalist Hamza Shaban is concerned by the contents of a new US Federal Communications Commission report that probes the privacy implications of connected...
From Apophenia
An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media
In the days that followed Andrew Watts’ “A Teenager’s View on Social Media written by an actual teen” post, dozens of people sent me a link. I found myself getting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Apps from Teradata
Have just had cause to go back and look to see what Teradata has done in the Big Data space. Interesting capabilities. Taking a deeper dive. " ... To ease companies...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Review / Ruby Wizardry: An Introduction to Programming for Kids
I think story is a powerful way to teach computer science. I also think that too many programming books are boring. Boring is fine for the experienced programmer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data in Retail
In SiliconAngle: Obvious and not very much detail. Lots of room for innovative approaches to using data in retail. The opening sentence is telling:" ... Although...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Impacts of Effective Data
Measuring the result is important, or how would you know you had any? The means and techniques of measurement are very important. And then what is the value of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science at the Command Line
This is how I did analytics some time ago, with tools like SAS. It can still be done that way. Not sure I want to do it that way, but This book shows how.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Addressing Privacy Issues at Davos
Recently, the world’s top leaders and thinkers gathered for the World Economic Forum’s annual conference in Davos, Switzerland. In addition to the great variety...
From Schneier on Security
Programming No-Fly Zones into Drones
DJI is programming no-fly zones into its drone software. Here's how it'll work. The update will add a list of GPS coordinates to the drone's computer that tells...
From insideHPC
ThinkParQ Launches BeeGFS on Demand Parallel Storage
This week ThinkParQ launched BeeGFS on Demand parallel storage offering. Dubbed BeeOND, the new offering allows users with HPC clusters to generate job-dedicated...
From insideHPC
How OpenCL Could Open the Gates for FPGAs
"The silver bullet in HLS is the ability to take a sequential description that has been written in C and then find this parallelism, the concurrencies, without...
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Powers Statistical Genetics at Wellcome Trust Centre
Today Fujitsu announced that the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics [WTCHG] at the University of Oxford is using the company's HPC systems to support the...
From insideHPC
Utilizing Cloud HPC Resources for CAE Simulations
"Industry research indicates that both the general HPC market and cloud HPC are continuing to grow to meet engineering and science demand. As cloud resources increase...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Creating Code Hunt Puzzles
As I mentioned the other day (see Learning From the Code Hunt Dashboard) I have been creating my own Code Hunt puzzles for use with my students. Earlier this week...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Workforce Analytics
Sue Lam in the APQC Blog:" .... By now, I’m sure you’ve heard all of the buzz about analytics and the importance of it for your HR function. Though it is a newer...
From Schneier on Security
Electronic Surveillance Failures Leading up to the 2008 Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
Long New York Times article based on "former American and Indian officials and classified documents disclosed by Edward J. Snowden" outlining the intelligence failures...
From insideHPC
Lustre Metadata Performance and Solutions from Seagate
"Alongside the increasingly high demands of streaming bandwidth in HPC storage solutions, there is a growing need for higher levels of metadata performance for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commerce Anywhere
Brought to my attention: Oracle's Commerce Anywhere Blog. " .... David Dorf, Sr Director Technology Strategy for Oracle Retail, shares news and ideas about the...
From My Biased Coin