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How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction
Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based …
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Mystery Dating of the World-famous 'Millionaire' Calculating Machine Solved
Regarding the discovery of new documents about the H.W. Egli AG (Zurich) company in the Museum für Kommunikation, Berne, Switzerland.
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Did Albert Einstein Calculate on the 'Millionaire' in Zurich?
In 1897, ETH Zurich was the first university in the world to have a copy of the legendary four-species calculating machine Millionaire.
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The Binary System Was Created Long Before Leibniz
There are reports of much older number systems using only two symbols that have been developed mainly in Asia.
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SC16 Expands Focus on HPC Provider Community, Practitioners
State of the Practice focus at SC16 expands opportunities for HPC service providers and practitioners to publish their innovations and best practices.
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Intriguing Possibilities as HPC Reaches an Inflection Point
SC15 is taking place at a time when high-performance computing (HPC) finds itself at an inflection point. As we approach the end of CMOS, the path forward for HPC's...
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SF Reading For Computer Scientists: Summer 2015
Summer reading recommendations for computer scientists, courtesy of the SIGCSE 2015 Using Science Fiction in CS Courses BOF.
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Learning About Parallel and Distributed Computing
Parallel and distributed computing are now in the core CS curriculum, and every CS program should be teaching their students about it. How can CS educators learn...
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A Taste of CHI Interactivity in Seoul
Observations from CHI 2015, the first SIGCHI annual conference held in Asia.
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Budget Beowulf Clusters
At SIGCSE 2015, five CS educators brought and live-demo'd the low-cost Beowulf clusters they had built for teaching parallel and distributed computing.
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Socializing with Robots at Ginza
Modern social robots are making their debut in our daily lives.
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Recommended SF Reading For Computer Scientists
Courtesy of a SIGCSE 2014 BOF, here are some SF books containing themes of special interest to computer scientists.
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Software's Vital Role at Japan Robot Week 2014
Modern robots are no longer just about hardware. Software algorithms play an essential role in bringing life-like movements to industrial robots and humanoids. ...
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What Is Reality?
And, what flavor of reality do you prefer: standard, augmented, virtual...
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Through A Google Glass, Darkly
I have been wearing Google Glass as both a technical assessment of utility and as a social study in human dynamics and expectations.
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26 Years of Supercomputing
From humble beginnings 26 years ago to today, the annual SC conference has shaped our community and our technologies.
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Building a Computationally-Literate Workforce
Students must leave their formal training ready to take up the state of the practice in fields that routinely use computational tools, and ready to advance the...
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Turing's 1936 Paper and the First Dutch Computers
The following question has polarized the computer-science community: Did Alan Turing's 1936 paper 'On Computable Numbers' influence the early history of computer...
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Leaping the Exascale Chasm
The global race is on to build ever-faster supercomputers, fueled by a combination of scientific and engineering needs to simulate phenomena with greater resolution...
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Exascale Software: Just a Few Orders of Magnitude
Extraordinary parallelism, unprecedented data locality and adaptive resilience: these are daunting architecture, system software and application challenges for...
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