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Reprogrammable Satellite Launched,  is it Hackable?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reprogrammable Satellite Launched, is it Hackable?

Had know about this for a while.  'Reprogrammable' Satellite the European Space Agency said.   I also saw a number of the big time security wags were quick to call...

CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program Webinar
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program Webinar

NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is providing information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program...

IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate on AI-Driven Monitoring Solutions
From insideHPC

IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate on AI-Driven Monitoring Solutions

ARMONK, N.Y.  and OVERLAND PARK, Kan., August 3, 2021 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Black & Veatch today announced a collaboration to jointly market Asset Performance Management...

How fast can you pipe a large file to a C++ program?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

How fast can you pipe a large file to a C++ program?

Under many operating systems, you can send data from from one process to another using ‘pipes’. The term ‘pipe’ is probably used by analogy with plumbing and we...

Nvidia’s Arm Acquisition May Be Hitting Snags in China, Europe
From insideHPC

Nvidia’s Arm Acquisition May Be Hitting Snags in China, Europe

Tea leaf reading regarding Chinese regulators’ decision on Nvidia’s intended takeover of Arm may have taken a negative — or at least a time consuming — turn. ANvidia...

Update on Smart Speaker Use
From The Eponymous Pickle

Update on Smart Speaker Use

Follow this at Voicebot.aiThere is always a question about whether a popular consumer electronic device will be just a fad or become a lasting fixture of daily...

Former IBM Research AI Scientist, Dr. Zoltán Tüske, to Join AppTek
From insideHPC

Former IBM Research AI Scientist, Dr. Zoltán Tüske, to Join AppTek

McLEAN, Va., Aug. 3, 2021 — AppTek, a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), automatic speech recognition (ASR), neural machine...

IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate

Notable collaboration on AI asset monitoring maintenance and digital twins.IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate on AI-Driven Monitoring SolutionsPublish date: Tuesday...

Accelerate Artificial Intelligence Initiatives with DDN and NVIDIA at Any Scale
From insideHPC

Accelerate Artificial Intelligence Initiatives with DDN and NVIDIA at Any Scale

[Sponsored Post] In this whitepaper, DDN and NVIDIA invited ESG to interview several of their joint customers that have been running production AI environmentsAccelerate...

Molecular Recycling with Eastman at P&G
From The Eponymous Pickle

Molecular Recycling with Eastman at P&G

 Most interesting as I worked in this in the future analysis of this space at P&G.  Good to see the continued advances made.Eastman molecular recycling technologies...

Paragon: Yet Another Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer
From Schneier on Security

Paragon: Yet Another Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer

Forbes has the story: Paragon’s product will also likely get spyware critics and surveillance experts alike rubbernecking: It claims to give police the power to...

AI Recognized as an Inventor in Australia
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Recognized as an Inventor in Australia

 Interesting, should this be the case?   Most AI does not invent.  Does an optimization of a supply chain invent?  Patents and their origins and application will...

Request for Information (RFI) on an Implementation Plan for a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Request for Information (RFI) on an Implementation Plan for a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation released a Request For Information (RFI) to gather public input on the...

The Coming Growth?
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Coming Growth?

Good intro to a quite optimistic view of productivity, below is just his intro, pointing on to a more complete look.    I certainly hope so. The Coming Era of Productivity...

DOE to Fund $100M for High Energy Physics Research
From insideHPC

DOE to Fund $100M for High Energy Physics Research

Aug. 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science announced a plan to provide $100 million over the next four years for university...

Responsible  and Explainable AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Responsible and Explainable AI

I would call this more broadly, 'responsible decision making' to embrace what is called 'AI' and analytical decision making.  Useful and considered look at what...

IoT, Python, and Raspberry Pi–Oh My
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

IoT, Python, and Raspberry Pi–Oh My

Trying learn too many things can be a risky proposition. But sometimes it feels like the way to go. Regular readers of this blog know that I have been trying to...

NGD Joins Los Alamos’ Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium
From insideHPC

NGD Joins Los Alamos’ Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 2, 2021– As the HPC community enters an era in which computation can be offloaded to storage devices, it is important to explore the mechanisms...

Atos Increases Galician Supercomputing Center’s HPC Capacity 12x with ‘Finisterrae III’
From insideHPC

Atos Increases Galician Supercomputing Center’s HPC Capacity 12x with ‘Finisterrae III’

Atos has followed up its acquisition of HPC cloud platform provider Nimbix, announced last week, with the news that it has been selected by the Galician Supercomputing...

Benefits of Ransomware
From The Eponymous Pickle

Benefits of Ransomware

Makes the usual case, we have been alerted. Could Ransomware Attacks Ultimately Benefit Consumers?   in HBR by Rahul TelangSummary.   In the past year alone, ransomware...
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