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Many Shoppers Want Zero in Store Human Interaction?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Many Shoppers Want Zero in Store Human Interaction?

Not sure I fully agree,  some shoppers, for some goods.  But now they have now been well trained in the prospect.  Having actual quality interaction may be a big...

Building ROS Robotics Applications
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building ROS Robotics Applications

ROS Pointed out to me as instructive  .... Building Robotics Applications Using ROS and NVIDIA Isaac SDKBy Sameer Tangade and Cenk Oguz Saglam | November 11, 2020...

Virtual SC20 Retrospective: Thinkers’ Thoughts on HPC Today and Tomorrow
From insideHPC

Virtual SC20 Retrospective: Thinkers’ Thoughts on HPC Today and Tomorrow

Check out this assemblages’ reflections on last week’s virtual SC20. Their thoughts range from big-picture insights on how the event reflects the state of HPC to...

Undermining Democracy
From Schneier on Security

Undermining Democracy

Last Thursday, Rudy Giuliani, a Trump campaign lawyer, alleged a widespread voting conspiracy involving Venezuela, Cuba, and China. Another lawyer, Sidney Powell...

DISH and Qualcomm 5G RAN
From The Eponymous Pickle

DISH and Qualcomm 5G RAN

More development of robust network infrastructure planned.DISH and Qualcomm to Collaborate on the Development of the Nation's First O-RAN Compliant 5G NetworkENGLEWOOD...

insideHPC Guide to HPC/AI for Energy – Part 4
From insideHPC

insideHPC Guide to HPC/AI for Energy – Part 4

In this technology guide sponsored by our friends over at Dell Technologies, we take a deep dive into how the team of Dell Technologies and AMD is working to provide...

Automation and Future of Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automation and Future of Work

 Classic issue, but underestimates how fast technology has been advancing.   Good thoughts though on the challenges. MIT Study: Effects of Automation on the Future...

OpenACC Names ORNL’s Jack Wells President, Updates OpenACC API
From insideHPC

OpenACC Names ORNL’s Jack Wells President, Updates OpenACC API

Jack Wells, director of strategic planning and performance management at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named president of OpenACC, a nonprofit dedicated...

Cyber Public Health
From Schneier on Security

Cyber Public Health

In a lecture, Adam Shostack makes the case for a discipline of cyber public health. It would relate to cybersecurity in a similar way that public health relates...

AI Running Your Meetings
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Running Your Meetings

 Well not quite yet.   But in our current situation there are lots of opportunity to test out exactly this idea.  And startups are establishing the first part,AI...

Capturing Words from Silent Speech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Capturing Words from Silent Speech

An Indication of how AI can become very powerful, even replacing the need for actual speech with mouthed muscle activity.  A kind of pattern recognition.UC Berkeley...

Using Human Cognitive Limitations to Enable New Systems
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Using Human Cognitive Limitations to Enable New Systems

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Vincent Conitzer, Kimberly J. Jenkins University Distinguished Professor of New Technologies Professor of Computer Science...

Using AI to See What Eye Doctors Can’t
From insideHPC

Using AI to See What Eye Doctors Can’t

This white paper, "Using AI to See What Eye Doctors Can’t," explains how Voxeleron, a leader in delivering advanced ophthalmic image analysis and machine learning...

Full Truck Alliance:   Uber Trucking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Full Truck Alliance: Uber Trucking

Full Truck Alliance, a Chinese startup which provides an Uber-like service for the trucking industry, raises $1.7B, source says at a ~$12B valuation (Lulu Yilun...

StoryFit Analyzes Stories for Understanding
From The Eponymous Pickle

StoryFit Analyzes Stories for Understanding

Again links to work we did for large advertisers using language analysis for marketing goals. Brought to my attention in a recent podcast on Artificial Intelligence...

CCC Executive Council Member Nadya Bliss on How to Build Resiliency to Disinformation
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Executive Council Member Nadya Bliss on How to Build Resiliency to Disinformation

Nadya Bliss, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council member and Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative (GSI), was recently interviewed...

Adapting Kiosks for the Pandemic
From The Eponymous Pickle

Adapting Kiosks for the Pandemic

 Another are we addressed in the innovation centers, kiosks.  Here a good article about how the Pandemic is making us think more about their useful operation.How...

On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death
From Schneier on Security

On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death

Wired has a detailed story about the ransomware attack on a Dusseldorf hospital, the one that resulted in an ambulance being redirected to a more distant hospital...

Remote Work, Example in Film Production
From The Eponymous Pickle

Remote Work, Example in Film Production

New changes in remote work, an example:The film crews being directed from a continent away  By Richard Baimbridge  Business reporter BBC In a production studioSome...

Robo Taxis are Coming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robo Taxis are Coming

More autonomy to be seen on the roads.   How soon will we see applications in broad use?Robotaxis get the green light for paid rides in CaliforniaThe state’s public...
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