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Wearable Tech and Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wearable Tech and Work

 Performance and Commuting, with some prediction of performance from machine learning. Wearable Tech Confirms Wear-and-Tear of Work Commute, By Dartmouth College...

Healthcare AI Models from Microsoft
From The Eponymous Pickle

Healthcare AI Models from Microsoft

Healthcare AI innovation with Zero Trust technologyFacebook Twitter LinkedInPosted on October 26, 2021John Doyle Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Health & Life...

Blue Sky at HCOMP 2021
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Blue Sky at HCOMP 2021

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at The Ninth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing...

Ahead for Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ahead for Augmented Reality

Heads up for the road ahead.  Good piece.Home/News/The Road Ahead for Augmented Reality/Full TextThe Road Ahead for Augmented Reality, By Keith KirkpatrickCommunications...

Robots Using Echo location
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Using Echo location

 Recall this being proposed as a solution in navigation, but noise in general being a problem., and the speed needed was not there, now solved?Robots Can Use Their...

Amazon Failing to Protect Your Data?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Failing to Protect Your Data?

Implications for future nuse?Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data, By Wired, November 19, 2021  in ACM NewsOn September 26, 2018, a row of tech...

Explosive sensing with insect-based biorobots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Explosive sensing with insect-based biorobots

Smell again is something we examined in retail interaction,  here much more dramatic.Explosive sensing with insect-based biorobots  in ScienceDirectHighlightsAAbstract...

Moon Oxygen
From The Eponymous Pickle

Moon Oxygen

But how usable?    Quite a claim.The Moon’s Surface Has Enough Oxygen to Sustain 8 Billion People for 100,000 Years  in SingularityHubBy John Grant -Nov 14, 2021157...

Securing Your Digital Life
From The Eponymous Pickle

Securing Your Digital Life

Some good thoughts.Securing your digital life, the finale: Debunking worthless “security” practices  in ArsTechnicaWe tear down some infosec conventional wisdom...

Ethereum to Remove Miners?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ethereum to Remove Miners?

Had looked at other non-mining approaches, but these had other issues.Bye-Bye, Miners! How Ethereum’s Big Change Will WorkBy The Washington Post, August 19, 2021...

Starbucks and Amazon Go Joint Concept Stores
From The Eponymous Pickle

Starbucks and Amazon Go Joint Concept Stores

 Seems a novel approach:Starbucks and Amazon open first joint concept store with more to comeby George Anderson  in Retailwire   with expert commentsStarbucks and...

Novartis and Pharma AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Novartis and Pharma AI

 Fairly broad look at how drugs can use AI:Novartis empowers scientists with AI to speed the discovery and development of breakthrough medicinesBy Bill BriggsHere...

Imagine if Your Therapist Could Access  Your Smartphone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Imagine if Your Therapist Could Access Your Smartphone

Very interesting thought, will the contents of our phones provide maps to our psyche in the future?     Useful, but beware of possible uses, privacy?Imagine ifThe...

Thoughts on SC21: Exascale, TOP500, Diversity in HPC, Quantum, the Metaverse
From insideHPC

Thoughts on SC21: Exascale, TOP500, Diversity in HPC, Quantum, the Metaverse

We pulled together a quartet of HPC thought leaders from the technology analyst and national lab communities to gather their reflections on SC21, ranging from big...

ICANN72 Recap: Highlights on the Progress of UA and IDNs
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

ICANN72 Recap: Highlights on the Progress of UA and IDNs

By Sarmad Hussain, Sr. Director IDN & UA Programs ICANN’s global multistakeholder community recently came together virtually for ICANN72 Annual General MeetingICANN72...

LLNL Team Wins SC21 Reproducibility Advancement Award for Approximation Framework
From insideHPC

LLNL Team Wins SC21 Reproducibility Advancement Award for Approximation Framework

A suite developed by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) team to simplify evaluation of approximation techniques for scientific applications has won...

Developers are Better with Automation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Developers are Better with Automation

 Will have to deal with this as automation progresses. How about the influence on say the security of the code being written?Developers Are Better With Automation...

Cornelis Fabric Tapped by DOE / NNSA for Advanced Sim
From insideHPC

Cornelis Fabric Tapped by DOE / NNSA for Advanced Sim

Cornelis Networks announced it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) as an HPC network provider...

Towards Mind Mapping
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards Mind Mapping

 Have used mind mapping for a number of serious applications, both for documenting and building, but  it seems to be less mentioned of late.  Here Google talksHow...

AI Risk and Coming Regulation
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Risk and Coming Regulation

More needs to be done here  here, though though predicting it wil be hsrd.  Consider risk analyses under varying scenarios.Assess AI Risk to Prepare for Coming ...
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