Communications of the ACM
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April 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D-Printing Approach Melds Solids, Liquids
Some interesting applications emerge.
3D-Printing Approach Melds Solids, Liquids
CU Boulder Today. Daniel Strain, April 18, 2022
University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) engineers have created three-dimensional (3D) printing…From insideHPC
HPE Launches 2 HPC-AI Offerings for ML Implementation and and Collaboration
Two announcements today from HPE underscore the strategic imperative of combining HPC and AI — along with demand for systems designed to ease AI implementation complexity. HPE announced its Machine Learning Development System…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reviewing Google Project Zero
Good thing to review, what its done and aims to do. Below just an intro, links through ...
News and updates from the Project Zero team at Google
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
The More You Know, The More You Know You Don’t…From The Eponymous Pickle
Driverless Big Rigs Cruising Around Houston
Forwarded to me. Be safe!
Driverless big rigs cruising around Houston
| The Texas A&M program behind the new technology in Khou
Texas A&M and its one-of-a-kind testing facility are helping to make sure the future of the industry…From The Eponymous Pickle
Can the US Avoid a Recession?
Good points here. Ultimate influence of COVID, Ukraine?
Can the U.S. Avoid a Recession? in Knowledge@Wharton
Many economists are warning of a recession, while Wall Street bulls are saying those fears are overblown. Wharton experts…From insideHPC
It’s Time to Resolve the Root Cause of Congestion
[SPONSORED POST] In this paper, Matthew Williams, CTO at Rockport Networks, explains how recent innovations in networking technologies have led to a new network architecture that targets the root causes of HPC network congestion…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Releases 51-Language Dataset for Understanding
Impressive release of key knowledge for language understanding. The breadth of languages is good too.
Amazon Releases 51-Language Dataset for Language Understanding by 7wData, April 26, 2022
Imagine that all people around the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers in a Cookieless World
Have received several inquiries up this alley.
Will retailers be ready when the third-party cookies crumble?
@lelia_milaya via Twenty20
CONSUMER MARKETING DATA-DRIVEN MARKETING DIGITAL MARKETING IT CHALLENGES ONLINE RETAIL PRIVACY…From The Eponymous Pickle
NOKIA Leaving Russian Market
Late to this. We will at least have some measures about how global sanctions work and further change global business.
Ukraine War Update: Nokia to fully exit the Russian market via SeekingAlpha
Apr. 12, 2022 3:55 PM ETNOK By…From insideHPC
Changes Afoot at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Exascale Computing Project
Change is afoot at the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). Those who listened to Jeff Nichols’ appearance this month on the @HPCpodcast know about the upcoming retirement…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MITSloan Podcast on AI
Informed of, following
A Podcast on Artificial Intelligence in Business
Why do only 10% of companies succeed with AI? In this series from MIT SMR and BCG, we talk to leaders achieving big wins with AI in their…From insideHPC
Lawrence Berkeley’s Marques to Run Exascale Computing Project’s Training & Productivity Effort
April 26, 2022 — Osni Marques, a staff scientist in the Applied Math and Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has been tapped to lead the Training & Productivity (T&P) effort…
From insideHPC
Intel Wins DARPA R&D Contract for Off-Road AV R&D
April 26, 2022 — DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has awarded Intel Federal LLC a contract to develop advanced simulation solutions for off-road autonomous ground vehicles. The company said Intel Labs will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Deere Does Autonomy
Impressive regarding autonomous applications. I recall the NavCon Satellite based work.
John Deere is slowly becoming one of the world’s most important AI companies
Nothing runs (autonomously) like a Deere
Artificial Intelligence…From insideHPC
PNY Named 2021 NVIDIA Partner Network Americas Distribution Partner of the Year
[SPONSORED POST] On April 5, 2022, PNY was proud to be named the 2021 NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) Americas Distribution Partner of the Year, for being a value-added partner and trusted advisor to the channel for NVIDIA’s professional…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Two Factor Authorization
Improving Security of Two-Factor Authentication Systems
Texas A&M Engineering News, Stephanie Jones, April 14, 2022
An international team of researchers led by Texas A&M University's Nitesh Saxena created…From insideHPC
Optical I/O Company Ayar Labs Raises $130M in Series C Funding
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – April 26, 2022 – Ayar Labs, a chip-to-chip optical connectivity company, today announced that the company has secured $130 million in additional financing led by Boardman Bay Capital Management to drive …
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Building a More Inclusive Internet for All: A Radix Initiative
By Aman Masjide, UA Ambassador; Consulting Advisor, Trust and Safety, Radix The ironic fact of the matter remains that there’s rigidity hardcoded into the ever-evolving Internet in the way of Universal Acceptance. But that only…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Univever Boosts Availability
Our biggest competitor ....
Unilever’s Newest Way to Boost On-Shelf Availability, Lisa Johnston, Senior Editor
The tool recommends whether to continue manufacturing products and accounts for such factors as profitability, consumer…From insideHPC
Qumulo Launches ‘Cloud Now’ Program with 1 Free Petabyte of Storage
SEATTLE – Apr. 25, 2022 – Qumulo, a high performance data storage and management company, today unveiled “Cloud Now,” a new program that offers cloud builders the ability to create and test up to one petabyte (PB) of multi-cloud…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Ushers in next-gen Prior Authorization in Healthcare
Had yet to see this specific kind of application
AI ushers in next-gen prior authorization in healthcare in McKinsey
Healthcare payers recognize prior authorization as a core administrative process that’s ripe for improvement with…From The Eponymous Pickle
Musk Takes Twitter
Worth a look to think of implications, who guarantees freedom of speech?
A complete timeline of the Elon Musk-Twitter saga from TechCrunch
It’s been a wild month of news for the social network that we collectively love to hate…From The Eponymous Pickle
Regulation of US Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
Been following commercial drone use here for some time. We see that the US has today rolled out a 'whole-of-government plan' for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the US to 'counter threats to the US posed by drones'. But…
From insideHPC
Japanese Custom ASICS Company MegaChips to Enter US Market
San Jose – April 26, 2022 – MegaChips, a custom ASIC company in Japan, today announced the launch of its AI Partner Program, which allows companies to integrate powerful AI capabilities without requiring in-house AI experts, …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Newly Powered LiDAR System
Note mention of piezoelectric method for powering Lidar. Could be a big step.
LiDAR System Promises 3D Vision for Cameras, Cars, Bots
IEEE Spectrum, Mark Harris, April 21, 2022
New Lidar System Promises 3D Vision for Cameras,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics in Nursing Homes
Saw related work being outlined in Japan.
Can Robots Save Nursing Homes?
The New York Times, John Leland, April 24, 2022
As more nursing home and assisted living facility staff leave the profession, some facilities are turning to…From The Noisy Channel
Content Structure
One of the challenges facing search applications is that users aren’t necessarily searching for documents. To put it another way, the unit of content that a user is looking for doesn’t necessarily correspond to a unit of content…
From insideHPC
JARVICE™ XE, The Platform Powering Hybrid Supercomputing
Since its debut in 2019 as the world’s first container-native, hybrid cloud supercomputing application delivery platform, JARVICE™ XE has seen rapid innovation and increased customer adoption. As Nimbix became an Atos company…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A First IBM Mainframe for AI
Have not tested this, nor checked completely what a 'mainframe AI'device means fully, but here is the claim:
The first IBM mainframe for AI arrives
The next-generation IBM z16 comes with an IBM Telum processor for real-time AI…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bitcoin as Reserve Currency
Implications of this?
Cryptoverse: 10 billion reasons bitcoin could become a reserve currency By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Medha Singh
April 12 (Reuters) - A crypto platform's pledge to amass $10 billion worth of bitcoin toSeoul…