Supercomputer
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President Obama has signed an Executive Order calling for the US to significantly up its game in the supercomputer space. The effort, known as the National Strategic Computer Initiative (NSCI), will aim to build the world's fastest supercomputer by 2025.
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ScienceA team of researchers has created a new device that allows for the steering of light around sharper corners than ever before. The device is tiny, constructed from an inexpensive material, and could one day become an integral part of computer hardware.
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It seems like every celebrity comes out with a cookbook at some point and IBM's Watson supercomputer is no exception. The newly released Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson includes 65 recipes developed with the help of what's billed as "the world’s first cognitive cooking system."
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The Dino CogniToy isn't just a plastic dinosaur with a chip, it's a plastic dinosaur connected to an IBM's Watson artificially intelligent computer system, which makes it not simply interactive, but also a toy that can "evolve, learn, and grow" with a child.
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By strengthening the galactic winds in a computer simulation of the entire history of the universe, astronomers may have a more accurate model with which to study galaxies and their evolution.
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ScienceScience may be entering a golden age of climate modeling as high-resolution simulations of the global climate become possible and local extreme weather events in particular get more accurately simulated.
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The UK's obsession with the weather has just been stepped up a gear. The Met Office has announced that it will begin using a new supercomputer enabling highly detailed forecasts. The Cray XC40TM will cost £97 million and is aimed at making the UK a world leader in weather and climate science.
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It might be time to start being nicer to your laptop, because a supercomputer program has passed the Turing Test for the first time in history. On Saturday, at the Turing Test 2014, the chatbot Eugene Goostman convinced the judges 33 percent of the time that it was a human being and not a computer.
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Watson, IBM's natural language-understanding supercomputer, now comes with an impressive new feature. When asked to discuss any topic, it can autonomously scan its knowledge database for relevant content, "understand" the data, and argue both for and against that topic.
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IBM's Watson supercomputer is being re-tasked to help clinicians create personalized treatments for a common form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma. Watson will analyze vast quantities of data in order to suggest a personalized life-saving treatment based on the patient's individual case.
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IBM has put Watson, its cognitive computing system, in control of the menu at a food truck feeding attendees at this week's SXSW festival and the appointment has resulted in some particularly imaginative dishes.
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IBM’s cognitive supercomputer Watson will be available to more end users than before, with an announcement today that puts Watson in the cloud. Through an API, application developers can access Watson’s skill at distilling big data into human meaning.
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