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The two key properties of program analysis are dual of each other.
Early-career setback cause a performance improvement among those who persevere. This is related to the observation that immigrants are four times more likely to become millionaires. In biology, that is called hormesis: by challenging…
In this video, Curtis Anderson from Panasas describes how different NAS architectures optimize data flow to bring competitive advantage to your business. "You have a vision: to use high performance computing applications to help…
D.E. Shaw Research is seeking and HPC System Administrator in our Job of the Week. "Exceptional sysadmins sought to manage systems, storage, and network infrastructure for a New York–based interdisciplinary research group. Ideal…
Have not seen it in the US except for specialty examples, but Alphabet is doing it in Australia.
Wing Officially Launches Australian Drone Delivery Service in IEEE Spectrum
After years of testing, Wing is now offering consumerBy…
Good short piece, makes good points about what is needed, and should be expected. I have taught forecasting in the enterprise, and its more about how the forecast is used than what it is. You would love to have it perfect…
IBM has created lots of interesting pieces of the solution, but not the harder solution of the broader process involved. Can these be connected into big value? And Hype has an element as well. Not too dissimilar from what…
An outline of the use of RPA in Contact centers. A natural place because the customer establishes themselves as needing help. But its use goes far beyond, to most any process. Also clearly useful in an attentive assistant…
Is everything in Google turning into an ad-oriented assistant? Into product curation? Yes, see how their fundamental service, search, has already turned that way. I ask for help, it gives me good results and then sets…
Turned out this problem occurred recently in related applications. Not fixing this kind of problem can lead to large scale problems. Ultimately its all about seamless integration of knowledge and skills. When you talk to
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Had worked with them in the enterprise, and itt had come to mind that some of what SAP did could be done with clouds and automated efficient pattern analysis. But the article does not really make the case that SAP is in trouble…
There's a new diversity of species. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
Am looking to do an application that will insert 'smart contract' type specifications to observed business process, focused by business process models. Anyone used IOTA's Qubic? Qubic is still in development I know, but any…
Might we use gaming, or interactive storytelling to interact with our history? Not a bad look at what exists,perhaps not enough usage to contextual use details. The source code of a set of Iranian cyber-espoinage tools was leaked online....
Afterlife Is A Hard Hitting VR
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clash of the Digital Platforms
The Clash Of The Digital Platforms: The 5-year Update
By James L. McQuivey, Vice President, Principal Analyst Forrester
On March 7, 2014 I wrote
Marketers…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Hot Interconnects Conference in Silicon Valley
The Hot Interconnects conference has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place August 14-16 in Silicon Valley. "Hot Interconnects is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware…
From insideHPC
Dr. Lin Gan Reflects on the SC19 Theme: HPC is Now
In this special guest feature from the SC19 Blog, Charity Plata from Brookhaven National Lab catches up with Dr. Lin Gan from Tsinghua University, who's outstanding work in HPC has been recognized with a number of awards including…
From insideHPC
Dr Debora Sijacki wins 2019 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Today the European PRACE initiative announced that Dr Debora Sijacki from the University of Cambridge will receive the 2019 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC for her outstanding contributions to and impact on high performance
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From insideHPC
Evolving NASA’s Data and Information Systems for Earth Science
Rahul Ramachandran from NASA gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) missions help us to understand our planet’s interconnected systems, from a global scale down to minute processes. ESD delivers…
From Schneier on Security
Iranian Cyber-Espionage Tools Leaked Online
And a possible approach to avoid this obstacle Valentine Kabanets is a famous complexity theorist from Simon Fraser University. He has been at the forefront of lower bounds for over two decades. Today we draw attention to this…
My favorite analytics methods.
It’s been said that the three hardest things in programming are naming things and off by one errors. For some reason, this semester, my students are having the most trouble with naming things. Specifically, they seem to haveFor…
Worked with paper coupon redemption analytics from the very beginning at very big CPG. Is it about their physical nature? Will there always be room for the paper coupon? Would not have guessed it, but the statistics still…
Now having experienced Wifi in Hospitality since its inception, I recall having a conversation with a Hotel Chain innovation group. At the time they were unconvinced that Wifi had value, and there too many dangers. Things…
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Barry Smyth, the Digital Chair of Computer Science at University College Dublin and the Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Dr. Smyth was one of the Computing Community…
I changed the title, they will likely not write code in the future, they will create algorithms by some interface other than 'writing code'. Coding, as it has developed, is far too inefficient and error prone.
DJs of the Future…
Rick Wagner from Globus gave this talk at the Singularity User Group "We package the imSim software inside a Singularity container so that it can be developed independently, packaged to include all dependencies, trivially scaled…
In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Dan Olds from OrionX discusses the human impact of AI with Greg Schmidt from HPE. The industry buzz about artificial intelligence and deep learning typically focuses on hardware…
Young people looking to further their careers in HPC are encouraged to sign up for the ISC STEM Student Day program. As part of the ISC High Performance Conference coming to Frankfurt in June, this program offers undergraduate…
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