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[Book] A City Is Not a Computer
From Putting People First

[Book] A City Is Not a Computer

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

WSJ Meets Group Algorithms

Our whole life is solving puzzles. — Ernő Rubik Cropped from source Jessica Fridrich is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Binghamton...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

WSJ Meets Group Algorithms

Our whole life is solving puzzles. — Ernő Rubik Cropped from source Jessica Fridrich is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Binghamton...

IBM Says Quantum Error Correcting Software Coming in 2023 – ‘Quantum Comes of Age’
From insideHPC

IBM Says Quantum Error Correcting Software Coming in 2023 – ‘Quantum Comes of Age’

If quantum isn’t to be a technology “that’s always 10 years away,” then quantum error correction (QEC) – one of the high hurdles to quantum becoming a practical...

AWS Enhances Amazon Managed Blockchain with Ethereum support
From The Eponymous Pickle

AWS Enhances Amazon Managed Blockchain with Ethereum support

 This is interesting because it incudes ethereum support for Smart Contracts, being examined here.AWS Enhances Amazon Managed Blockchain with Ethereum support Maria...

AI Finds Battery Materials
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Finds Battery Materials

More detail about the method at the link.Using AI to Find Essential Battery MaterialsAs battery demand soars, researchers are turning to artificial intelligence...

Four Microsoft Exchange Zero-Days Exploited by China
From Schneier on Security

Four Microsoft Exchange Zero-Days Exploited by China

Microsoft has issued an emergency Microsoft Exchange patch to fix four zero-day vulnerabilities currently being exploited by China.

AI Video Analysis in Athletics
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Video Analysis in Athletics

An example of how AI pattern recognition can achieve fine grain pattern detection and matching.   Here in athletic training planning and evaluation.   Note links...

How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-0.0)?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-0.0)?

The ubiquitous IEEE floating-point standard defines two numbers to represent zero, the positive and the negative zeros. You also have the positive and negativeContinue...

Soft Robot Swims in the Mariana Trench
From The Eponymous Pickle

Soft Robot Swims in the Mariana Trench

An example of extreme exploration, using a soft biomimicking design.  Considerable possibilities here.Soft robot swims in the Mariana Trench  in Techexplore byA...

China Charges Ahead with National Digital Currency
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Charges Ahead with National Digital Currency

Implications of these changes for US and Others? China Charges Ahead with National Digital Currency  By The New York Times,  March 4, 2021China has charged ahead...

Quantum Wavelength Switch
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Wavelength Switch

Interesting direction outlines.   Note the number of users in the quantum network being key.Quantum Internet Closer to Reality, Thanks to This SwitchBy Purdue University...

DevGraph CloudFix Designed to Cut AWS Costs
From insideHPC

DevGraph CloudFix Designed to Cut AWS Costs

 Austin,  TX – DevGraph has released CloudFix AWS cost optimization software, built to automatically analyzes AWS accounts and find cost-savings opportunities and...

CoolIT Receives Growth Investment
From insideHPC

CoolIT Receives Growth Investment

Calgary, Alberta. March 4, 2020 – CoolIT Systems, maker of scalable direct liquid cooling technology (DLC), has announced the completion of an undisclosed eight...

10 Teams Slated for 1st Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition
From insideHPC

10 Teams Slated for 1st Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition

Dan Olds, chief research officer at HPC industry analyst firm Intersect360, provides this update on the Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition10...

Amazon Launches tools to Manage Workflows
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Launches tools to Manage Workflows

We were mainly looking at how to manage work flows in general,  but the same goal really.    Replace some of the resource components with robots, people, analytics...

Leopard Imaging Teams with Socionext, Hailo, AWS for AI Video Analytics    
From insideHPC

Leopard Imaging Teams with Socionext, Hailo, AWS for AI Video Analytics    

FREMONT, CA, YOKOHAMA and TEL AVIV, Israel, March 3, 2021 — Leopard Imaging Inc., provider of embedded camera design and manufacturing, is collaborating with three...

Fabless Semiconductor Startup Xsight Labs Closes Series D Led by Valor and Atreides, Joined by Fidelity
From insideHPC

Fabless Semiconductor Startup Xsight Labs Closes Series D Led by Valor and Atreides, Joined by Fidelity

TEL-AVIV and SAN JOSE — March 3, 2021— Xsight Labs, a fabless semiconductor startup company, today announced the closing of its Series D funding. The round wasFabless...

CoolIT Systems in Agreement with nVent for High Density Rack-level Liquid Cooling
From insideHPC

CoolIT Systems in Agreement with nVent for High Density Rack-level Liquid Cooling

Calgary, Alberta – March 3, 2020 – CoolIT Systems Inc., a global leader in modular, scalable data center liquid cooling technology, has announced a strategic agreement...

Google Cardboard VR is Gone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Cardboard VR is Gone

I used to recommend these in classes.   Still have some around, somewhere ....  Too bad.  Downward trend in VR signaled?   Google stops selling its Cardboard VR...
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