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Google Maps and DeepMind AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Maps and DeepMind AI

Another interesting example of AI pattern matching applications.   Use in location and mapping is intriguing.Google Maps is improving travel ETAs with DeepMindThe...

Alexa Launches Services for Property Managment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Launches Services for Property Managment

Can expect push back on this regarding privacy.   Amazon  wants to bring Alexa to property managers. by Sarah Perez in Tech CrunchThe company this morning launched...

Lenovo Data Center Group Releases Cloud-Based Business Agility Solutions for the New, Smarter Normal
From insideHPC

Lenovo Data Center Group Releases Cloud-Based Business Agility Solutions for the New, Smarter Normal

Sept. 3, 2020 – Research Triangle Park, NC – Today, Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) announces a range of new and updated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions...

The Joint Network Center Archives Scientific Data for Max Planck Society with Quantum
From insideHPC

The Joint Network Center Archives Scientific Data for Max Planck Society with Quantum

SAN JOSE — Sept. 2, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO), a global leader in unstructured data and video solutions, today announced that the Joint Network Center...

Altair CTO Interview: PBS Professional Gets a Major Upgrade
From insideHPC

Altair CTO Interview: PBS Professional Gets a Major Upgrade

Altair® PBS Professional® is the industry-leading workload manager that’s been an HPC workhorse for decades, enabling efficient job scheduling, management, monitoring...

2017 Tesla Hack
From Schneier on Security

2017 Tesla Hack

Interesting story of a class break against the entire Tesla fleet....

2017 Tesla Hack
From Schneier on Security

2017 Tesla Hack

Interesting story of a class break against the entire Tesla fleet.

2017 Tesla Hack
From Schneier on Security

2017 Tesla Hack

Interesting story of a class break against the entire Tesla fleet.

Sentinels can be faster
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Sentinels can be faster

A standard trick in programming is to use “sentinel values”. These are special values that represent metadata efficiently. The C language represents strings asContinue...

Broad Testing Thank You
From My Biased Coin

Broad Testing Thank You

 I have a loose association with the Broad Institute, an institute created so that "complementary expertise of the genomic scientists and the chemical biologists...

McKinsey on Risk and Resilience
From The Eponymous Pickle

McKinsey on Risk and Resilience

Good thoughts, I like he term 'value chains', but also like means to use the concept  analytically use it such that it gives us genuine measures.  Not done enough...

New Competence Centre to Fast-Track Academic and SME Participation in EU Supercomputing Initiative
From insideHPC

New Competence Centre to Fast-Track Academic and SME Participation in EU Supercomputing Initiative

The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), Ireland’s high-performance computing authority, today, Wednesday 2nd September launched Ireland’s Euro-HPC Competence...

Dell Technologies HPC Community: Cancer Computer Founder Roy Chartier Talks HPC in Support of Cancer, COVID Research
From insideHPC

Dell Technologies HPC Community: Cancer Computer Founder Roy Chartier Talks HPC in Support of Cancer, COVID Research

Roy Chartier, founder and CTO of Cancer Computer, Ottawa, with more than 25 years in HPC, HPDA and AI, has assembled a team of  volunteers who support cancer researchers...

More Elon Musk on Brain Implants
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Elon Musk on Brain Implants

Some more detailed comments on the Neuralink talk given by Elon Musk last week.  And a link to the talk.  Was an area we looked at carefully, especially how itHumans...

Fighting Disasters with AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fighting Disasters with AI

We connected with PNNL, an impressive group.DOE Announces ‘First Five Consortium’ to Fight Natural Disasters with AIOliver Peckham in DatanamiAs wildland firesThe...

CAS Signs Enterprise Agreement with P&G
From The Eponymous Pickle

CAS Signs Enterprise Agreement with P&G

Considerable agreement for data and process workflow.CAS announces signing of multi-year enterprise agreement with P&GAgreement expands long-term partnership to...

GigaSpaces Announces Version 15.5 for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Deployments to Empower Digital Transformation Initiatives
From insideHPC

GigaSpaces Announces Version 15.5 for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Deployments to Empower Digital Transformation Initiatives

New York — September 2, 2020 —GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, the fastest in-memory data and analytics processing platform, announced today the release...

Human AI Collaboration
From The Eponymous Pickle

Human AI Collaboration

Google talks one of the most important aspects of the use of advanced tech.  I would further say that this should not be about just 'AI' as it is defined today,...

Too Many Satellites?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Too Many Satellites?

Have been among those to warn of having too many communications sats in orbit.  Now it is becoming a reality.  Article talks some of the details.Hundreds of astronomers...

Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library
From Schneier on Security

Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library

Greg Priore, the person in charge of the rare book room at the Carnegie Library, stole from it for almost two decades before getting caught. It's a perennial problem...
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