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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 9
February 11: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing titled “The Connected World: Examining the Internet of Things.” 10 a.m...
From insideHPC
2015 High Performance Computing Trends
In this video from the 2015 Stanford HPC Conference, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presents: High Performance Computing Trends. "Intersect360 Research's...
From insideHPC
New Seagate EVault BTA Appliance Backs Up to the Cloud
Today Seagate announced a new backup device for large enterprises and service providers seeking data protection for multiple operating systems and appliances....
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Engineer at Nimbo in New York
Nimbo in New York is seeking an HPC Engineer in our Job of the Week.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotional Targeting Board
Mediabrix announces an emotional targeting advisory board. From the neuromarketing buzz connections. An interesting move. Though I note there is no one on the...
From insideHPC
Video: Tips and Tricks to Build Your Own HPC Cluster
"Learn tips and tricks to build your own HPC cluster in an hour! We’ll provide details on how to integrate hardware such as Infiniband adapters, GPU’s, direct-contact...
From insideHPC
PRACE Opens 11th Call for Proposals
Today the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe issued their 11th Call for Proposals.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Predictive HR
It has been common to use data analytics in HR for years. Here in Bloomberg, predicting when you are going to quit your job. Some interesting details.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Intelligence and Genetic Codes
Addressing the recipe's that convert codes to tasks.Machine Intelligence Cracks Genetic ControlsEvery cell in your body reads the same genome, the DNA-encoded instruction...
From insideHPC
Video: Interconnecting Future DoE Leadership Systems
CORAL (Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore National Labs) is a project that was launched in 2013 to develop the technology and meet the Department...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 February 2015
I’m back in Redmond WA today. First time in over three years I have been here. I expect it to feel different as a visitor after being hear many times as an employee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Analytics is Critical
Says Cisco. I agree. I would slightly alter it and say 'as real-time as necessary'. But what is necessary is changing rapidly. Not too long ago data would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
We Need to Control Our Data
Artificial Intelligence Is Doomed if We Don't Control Our DataThis model is why the discussion about individuals selling their personal data is missing the point...
From Computational Complexity
Pros and Cons of students being wikiheads
A wikihead is someone who learns things from the web (not necc. Wikipedia) but either learns things that are not correct or misinterprets them. I've also heard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tradeoff Analytics Services
Have been examining some of the Watson services announced last week. These are available free (with limited amounts of data) with registration on the Bluemix...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Recursion – Love it or hate it?
The following was posted to the AP CS Facebook page yesterday with the question "What would the answer be?" Things went along just fine for 3 replies of people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing with the Gamification of Tasks
Notes on Choosing Tasks in a Job to Improve or Replace with Gamification (Published elsewhere) When doing business process modeling (BPM) you connect a group of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Rolling out VR Demo
In Engadget: Another entry into the VR space. Available for demonstration this week. Head mounted displays that are not meant to be unobtrusive. Focused, perhaps...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching Data Visualization with Legos
Interesting means of teaching incremental representation of data. I have seen lots of bad visualization in journalism lately. I would hope they would be able...
From The Eponymous Pickle