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Summit Supercomputing Cracking Covids Code
From The Eponymous Pickle

Summit Supercomputing Cracking Covids Code

Saw the supercomputing systems tested with combinatorial problems.  Will this be a coup for understanding Covid?Has Summit Cracked Covid's Code?IEEE SpectrumMark...

Quantum Computing Breakthrough?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Computing Breakthrough?

Much more re technical aspects at the bottom:Quantum Computing Breakthrough as Scientists Find Possible Solution to Technology's Biggest HurdleThe Independent (UK)...

Blue Sky Conference Track at AAMAS 2020
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Blue Sky Conference Track at AAMAS 2020

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent...

Spot Robot Does Disinfection
From The Eponymous Pickle

Spot Robot Does Disinfection

The perhaps obvious use of robots for disinfection is happening broadly, even with the much touted 'Spot'  from Boston Dynamics.For Robots, It's a Time to Shine...

Quantum Computing Breakthrough?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Computing Breakthrough?

Noise an issue, is this a solution?  See article and further link from the click through.Quantum Computing Breakthrough as Scientists Find Possible Solution toThe...

Air Force in Space with AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Air Force in Space with AI

More examples of military applications of AI.Air Force Readies Launch of In-Orbit Network to Support AI Applications in SpaceThe Wall Street JournalSara Castellanos...

Canadian AI Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

Canadian AI Research

Brought to my attention again:Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence The Vector Institute is an independent, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to research...

Mobile Assistants Pave Way to Retail Future?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Assistants Pave Way to Retail Future?

This sounded like an interesting premise, so passing it on:Intelligent Mobile PDAs Pave the Way to the FutureThe COVID-19 crisis has created urgency for businesses...

Pure Storage and Cohesity in Partnership to Deliver Rapid Recovery at Scale
From insideHPC

Pure Storage and Cohesity in Partnership to Deliver Rapid Recovery at Scale

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and SAN JOSE, Calif. – August 12, 2020 – Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the storage-as-a-service in a multi-cloud world vendor, and Cohesity,Pure...

Google goes for More AI Automation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google goes for More AI Automation

More indications to the automation of the design and delivery of AI.   See the quite technical paper referenced below.The trend most likely to continue.Google’s...

Cryptanalysis of an Old Zip Encryption Algorithm
From Schneier on Security

Cryptanalysis of an Old Zip Encryption Algorithm

Mike Stay broke an old zipfile encryption algorithm to recover $300,000 in bitcoin. DefCon talk here....

Intel Optane Persistent Memory Tops IO500 List
From insideHPC

Intel Optane Persistent Memory Tops IO500 List

Intel announced today that its Optane persistent memory (PMem), in combination with Intel’s open-source distributed asynchronous object storage (DAOS) solution,...

CCC Reversible Classical Computing Workshop – Position Papers Submission Deadline Extended to August 21st
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Reversible Classical Computing Workshop – Position Papers Submission Deadline Extended to August 21st

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a virtual workshop the week of Oct. 5-9 (with a reception on Fri., Oct. 2) to address the physics & engineering...

Kroger to Compete with Amazon Beyond Grocery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger to Compete with Amazon Beyond Grocery

Quite a move, will see how they can compete with established online playersKroger to launch digital marketplace this fallPartnership with e-commerce specialistRussell...

Nissan Shifts to Oracle Cloud for CFD, 3D Visualization HPC Design Workloads
From insideHPC

Nissan Shifts to Oracle Cloud for CFD, 3D Visualization HPC Design Workloads

Oracle announced today that Nissan Motor Co. is migrating its on-premises engineering simulation HPC workloads to run on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Nissan...

Knowledge Graphs vs Property Graphs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Knowledge Graphs vs Property Graphs

Upcoming Webinar of interest, register at the link.Knowledge Graphs vs. Property Graphs — A Brief Overview and Comparisonby Kristi Lee-John | Jul 29, 2020 | Webinars...

Phones Create Earthquake Monitor
From The Eponymous Pickle

Phones Create Earthquake Monitor

Saw similar applications suggested for some time.  I am still a member of a CA based system that in part combines sensors and crowd sourcing monitors.  I get alerts...

Collecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data
From Schneier on Security

Collecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data

The Wall Street Journal has an article about a company called Anomaly Six LLC that has an SDK that's used by "more than 500 mobile applications." Through that SDK...

NReal Korean Mixed Reality Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

NReal Korean Mixed Reality Glasses

Another attempt at more generalized smart glasses, here aimed at mixed reality in particular.  Casual everyday wearable, or context specific wearable for the job...

ORNL Offers Virtual Tour of Summit’s Supercomputer Center
From insideHPC

ORNL Offers Virtual Tour of Summit’s Supercomputer Center

Oak Ridge National Lab has released a virtual tour of the facility that houses Summit, the world’s second most power supercomputer. The tour is offered by the National...
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