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New FAA Drone Rules Emerging
From The Eponymous Pickle

New FAA Drone Rules Emerging

New drone rules coming out, somewhat haphazardly.   As one might expect, mostly changing commercial rules.   My son is a certified part-time commercial drone pilot...

Considering the Post-Cookie Marketing World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Considering the Post-Cookie Marketing World

 Have mentioned some other tracking methods being experimented with that could lead to dangerous erosion of Web privacy.  See for example: 'CNAME Collusion' tag...

Cameras Hacked
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cameras Hacked

More events and threats to doing business emerging.  Note the links to key infrastructure providers. Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements
From Schneier on Security

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the Australian Cyber Conference 2021 on March 17 and 18, 2021. I’m keynotingRSA...

IBM and Recorded Future Threat Webinar
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM and Recorded Future Threat Webinar

Reported yesterday, have often mentioned Recorded Future now working with IBM on threat management here.  See upcoming Webinar, mentioned at the link.  IBM Security...

Considering  Learnability:  Brainome
From The Eponymous Pickle

Considering Learnability: Brainome

 Was just introduced to a new company:    Brainome    An example problem indicating breadth and possibilities :  " ... We've been working with a genomics research...

Reducing Complexity of Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reducing Complexity of Big Data

 Feature detection and extraction to simplify data use in complex data.  Intriguing approach is worth a look,  Simplifying is always a good idea if it providesAlgorithm...

The State of User Research 2021
From Putting People First

The State of User Research 2021

The US based user research recruiting platform "User Interviews" has just published its State of User Research 2021 report, based on responses from 525 people who...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Hilbert’s Tenth Again

I think it’s never too late to start anything, except maybe being a ballerina. — Wendy Liebman Marta Sved was a Hungarian mathematician who in 1930 moved to Down...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Hilbert’s Tenth Again

I think it’s never too late to start anything, except maybe being a ballerina. — Wendy Liebman Mujeres Con Ciencia source Marta Sved was a Hungarian mathematician...

First Public Quantum Company
From The Eponymous Pickle

First Public Quantum Company

Not premature still lots to do in understanding the potential, needs and directing research, but there is lots also happening with larger players.Quantum computing...

Welcome from the ACM-W Chair
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Welcome from the ACM-W Chair

On March 8th we celebrated International Women’s Day. In some countries, the entire month of March is designated as Women’s History Month.

UK Denies Atos Lawsuit in Microsoft’s $1.2B Weather Supercomputer Contact Win
From insideHPC

UK Denies Atos Lawsuit in Microsoft’s $1.2B Weather Supercomputer Contact Win

In the aftermath of Microsoft’s win of a mammoth, £854 million ($1.2 billion) weather supercomputing contract from the British government, the UK Department for...

XSEDE-Allocated Supercomputers, Comet and Stampede2, Accelerate Alzheimer’s Research
From insideHPC

XSEDE-Allocated Supercomputers, Comet and Stampede2, Accelerate Alzheimer’s Research

By Kimberly Mann Bruch, San Diego Supercomputer Center Communications Since 2009, Daniel Tward and his collaborators have analyzed more than 47,000 images of human...

Double Masking has Limited Benefits, Says Supercomputer Model
From The Eponymous Pickle

Double Masking has Limited Benefits, Says Supercomputer Model

Am not in a place to evaluate this analysis, or seen a validation, but surprised we have not seen similar analytics regarding transmission of CoronaVirus.  Double...

MS Exchange Server, Patched Late
From The Eponymous Pickle

MS Exchange Server, Patched Late

Why did it take so long for Microsoft to respond?    I have been getting updates, including I assume  patches, from Microsoft once a week since the beginning of...

More Agricultural Drone Use
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Agricultural Drone Use

New uses continuing to emerge:Drones vs. Hungry Moths: Dutch Use Tech to Protect Crops  By Associated Press  March 10, 2021A moth-killing drone hovers over plants...

Radio Free HPC:  Cerebras AI Computing at EPCC and HPE’s Chippewa Falls Remodel
From insideHPC

Radio Free HPC:  Cerebras AI Computing at EPCC and HPE’s Chippewa Falls Remodel

We have a full crew for this wide-ranging episode of RFHPC. We start with a discussion of the new Cerebras and HPE-based supercomputer slated for the EdinburghRadio...

Time tothink Your Global Logistics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Time tothink Your Global Logistics

Some thoughts about changes Post Pandemic adjustments in supply chains.It’s Time to Rethink Your Global Logisticsby Willy C. Shih and Adrien Foucault  in the HBR...

Reinforcement Learning and Entropy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reinforcement Learning and Entropy

 Have recently been looking at Reinforcement Learning methods.   And this as a form of simulation-optimization for 'Twin' style models that need training.  Berkeley...
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