Communications of the ACM
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December 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
Germany's Energiewende
As a native, a keen watcher of German energy efforts. I remember all the windmills sprouting in the 90s. Here a good overview in IEEE Spectrum.
Germany's Energiewende, 20 Years Later
Germany's far-reaching program to reduce…From The Eponymous Pickle
Blackberry and IVY
A long time examiner of how automobiles, today or in a more autinomos future, will link to more sensors and the web. Also an early user of Blackberry devices in the enterprise, before they were driven under by the iPhone. …
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Smart Home
Have not seen too much of a move by IKEA as yet, especially in linking to other capabilities. But here is one example.
IKEA's smart home system now supports scenes
Long-awaited shortcut buttons appear to be coming soon, too.
Jon…From insideHPC
VMware’s SaaS and Subscription Revenue Spikes 44%
SaaS and subscription revenue of its VMware surpassed its on-premises license revenue for the first time in its Q3 fiscal year 2021 which ended in October 2020. According to the research data analyzed and published by Comprar…
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to HPC/AI for Energy – Part 5
In this technology guide sponsored by our friends over at Dell Technologies, we take a deep dive into how the team of Dell Technologies and AMD is working to provide solutions for a wide array of needs for more strategic cultivation…
From BLOG@CACM
Birthday Bit Boundaries
Which birthdays would have special significance if our culture were binary-based instead of decimal-based?
From insideHPC
Xilinx Acquires Falcon Computing for Software Programmability and Expand Developer Community
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced it has acquired Falcon Computing Solutions, a privately-held leading provider of high-level synthesis (HLS) compiler optimization technology for hardware acceleration…
From insideHPC
Women in Quantum III – Global Virtual Summit, Dec. 14-16
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2020 — OneQuantum LLC today announced the third “Women in Quantum” Virtual Summit from December 14-16 free to all who RSVP at: https://www.runtheworld.today/app/invitation/9041 Women in Quantum serves to spotlight…
From insideHPC
AWS and Intel Announce Gaudi (Habana)-based EC2 Instances for AI Training
As customer validations go, it’s safe to say AWS is at the – *cough* – high end of any vendor’s wish list. So it’s understandable Intel is crowing today about a notable win for Gaudi AI accelerators from Habana Labs, an Intel…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2020 AAAS Fellows Announced
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) just announced its 2020 Fellows! The honor recognizes diverse accomplishments, including pioneering research, leadership within a given field, teaching and mentoring…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Teams to be Enhanced for Business Plays
Been looking for ways that the now numerous collaborative systems will really improve task and goal oriented business process. Its still mostly the basics. Very useful but hardly 'intelligence' in any sense. For example a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Trainium Chip For Cloud ML
Cute name, new to me. Another example of the hardware linking with the software methods for driving AI. What improvements can we expect, and where?
Amazon debuts Trainium, a custom chip for machine learning training in theBy…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Do I Care About This Program I am Coding?
Why do we program? Well, for some of us it is because we get paid to write code. For some it is part of our learning experiences. For a few it is the fun of it. There are a lot of motivations and they are different for different…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holiday Shopping in 2020
Based on a number of studies. Will be interesting to see how this plays out after some normalcy returns.
Consumers, longing for normalcy and eager for something to celebrate, plan to spend money while…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Interview by Adam Gordon Bell
A few weeks ago, Adam Gordon Bell had me on his podcast. You can listen to it. Here is the abstract: Did you ever meet somebody who seemed a little bit different than the rest of the world? Maybe they question things that others…
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Hyperion’s Earl Joseph on the High Cost and High Potential of HPC Taking on ‘National Problems’
Earl Joseph, CEO of HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, has been working in and scrutinizing HPC for decades, first on the vendor side and later as the leader of an analyst group at International Data Corp. that became…