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AI Papers to Read in 2020:
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Papers to Read in 2020:

Reading suggestions to keep you up-to-date with the latest and classic breakthroughs in AI and Data Science.   Beyond just healthcare, where the writers main applications...

Friday Squid Blogging: After Squidnight
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: After Squidnight

Review of a squid-related children’s book. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read...

Echo Auto Options an in-Car Display
From The Eponymous Pickle

Echo Auto Options an in-Car Display

Have now been using Echo Auto for over a 2 years.   Took some time to get to work well, but like it now.  Now how can companies further extend the voice control...

Robots Aim for Covid With UV Light in London
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Aim for Covid With UV Light in London

This kind of effort will increase the number of people comfortable with robotics.Robots Target Coronavirus with Ultraviolet Light at London Train StationReuters...

What is the IOT?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What is the IOT?

 A good generalized, non-technical view of what the IOT (Internet of Things) is all about and what its implications and dangers are.In ZNet: What is the IoT? Everything...

Moving to Enterprise Tech Beyond Survival Mode
From The Eponymous Pickle

Moving to Enterprise Tech Beyond Survival Mode

Enterprise Tech Efforts Move Beyond Survival ModeThe Wall Street Journal , Angus LotenMany companies that rushed to install remote-work applications at the start...

MicroBlocks For IoT and other Physical Computing
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

MicroBlocks For IoT and other Physical Computing

Well, there is a new tool in town for programming micro devices like the Micro:bit and the AdaFruit Circuit Playground Express and many more! It's called MicroBlocks...

Microsoft Zerologon Threat
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Zerologon Threat

Have now seen this reported from several directions.  Actively being exploited.  Microsoft admits it.   Unclear though what is being done about it.   I seem toransomware...

HPE Announces End-to-End Supply Chain for Hardened Data Protection During Manufacturing Process
From insideHPC

HPE Announces End-to-End Supply Chain for Hardened Data Protection During Manufacturing Process

San Jose – Oct. 1, 2020 – HPE today announced it is delivering the highest level of security for a growing number of U.S. federal and public sector customers that...

Santa Fe Institute’s COMPLEXITY Podcast- Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Santa Fe Institute’s COMPLEXITY Podcast- Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

Check out this recent podcast from the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute (with a somewhat unorthodox title based on this book) that attempts to illuminate...

Santa Fe Institute’s COMPLEXITY Podcast- Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Santa Fe Institute’s COMPLEXITY Podcast- Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

Check out this recent podcast from the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute (with a somewhat unorthodox title based on this book) that attempts to illuminate...

Will the Future Contain 'Amazon Rooms'?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Will the Future Contain 'Amazon Rooms'?

We experimented with a simpler method, a lockbox on a porch.   Will homes of the future include ‘Amazon Rooms’?by Matthew Stern in Retailwire with further expert...

NNSA Purchasing $105M HPE Cray EX Supercomputer, to be Sited at Los Alamos
From insideHPC

NNSA Purchasing $105M HPE Cray EX Supercomputer, to be Sited at Los Alamos

Los Alamos National Laboratory has announced a contract for a new HPE supercomputer to be installed in spring of 2022 with quadrupled performance over the existing...

SingularityNET Switches to Cardano
From The Eponymous Pickle

SingularityNET Switches to Cardano

Had not examined the relationship here, worth an a deeper look.  AGI progress is suggested.Full-stack AI solution SingularityNET is switching the Ethereum blockchain...

McKinsey Talks AI Banks of the Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

McKinsey Talks AI Banks of the Future

The challenge is in how our behavior will adapt.  My recent banking interactions are less than pleasing.  Good non-technical overview piece. AI-bank of the future...

Self Driving Vehicle Tech: Progress and Promise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Self Driving Vehicle Tech: Progress and Promise

 Good quick overview of measures and status:In Communications of the ACM, October 2020Viewpoints: Technology Strategy and Management  Self-Driving Vehicle Technology...

Outages and their Cause and Consideration
From The Eponymous Pickle

Outages and their Cause and Consideration

 Been a student of internet outages since our enterprise management asked me:  Yes, its great but what do we do when it goes down?   All computers and networksAn...

Composable Supercomputing Optimizes Hardware for AI-driven Data Calculation
From insideHPC

Composable Supercomputing Optimizes Hardware for AI-driven Data Calculation

In this sponsored post, our friend John Spiers, Chief Strategy Officer at Liqid, discusses how composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) solutions are emerging...

Finger Vein Biometric Identification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Finger Vein Biometric Identification

Another biometric identification.  A kind of expansion of a much older method.   We also expanded iris vein ID methods.   Deep fake spoofing threat?3D Biometric...

Detecting Deep Fakes with a Heartbeat
From Schneier on Security

Detecting Deep Fakes with a Heartbeat

Researchers can detect deep fakes because they don’t convincingly mimic human blood circulation in the face: In particular, video of a person’s face contains subtle...
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