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Intel Acquires AI Chipmaker Habana Labs
From insideHPC

Intel Acquires AI Chipmaker Habana Labs

Today Intel announced it has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center for approximately $2...

Podcast: UnifyFS Software Project steps up to Exascale
From insideHPC

Podcast: UnifyFS Software Project steps up to Exascale

In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, Kathryn Mohror LLNL and Sarp Oral of ORNL provide an update ECP’s ExaIO project and UnifyFS. "UnifyFS can provide ECP applications...

Supercomputing a Neutron Star Merger
From insideHPC

Supercomputing a Neutron Star Merger

Scientists are getting better at modeling the complex tangle of physics properties at play in one of the most powerful events in the known universe: the mergerSupercomputing...

Dr. Eng Lim Goh presents: Transforming Tomorrow with AI & HPC
From insideHPC

Dr. Eng Lim Goh presents: Transforming Tomorrow with AI & HPC

In this keynote from HPE Discover More in Paris, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE offers up some inspiring real-world use cases that demonstrate the transformative power...

Banning the Prediction of Emotion?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Banning the Prediction of Emotion?

We examined and experimented with aspects of the idea for 20 years.   A number for these efforts are touched on in this blog, see the tags below.  But now its seen...

Introducing AI Index Report
From The Eponymous Pickle

Introducing AI Index Report

Access at the link, worthwhile to look at.  Like strong human-centric looks, we need more of that.Introducing the AI Index 2019 Report   By Stanford UniversityAn...

Lucid AI and Cyc: Seeking Common Sense Reasoning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lucid AI and Cyc: Seeking Common Sense Reasoning

In support of reading Rebooting AI, been exploring where the implementation of CYC has taken place.    We saw it demonstrated in the 80s.   Followed it here since...

Security Vulnerabilities in the RCS Texting Protocol
From Schneier on Security

Security Vulnerabilities in the RCS Texting Protocol

Interesting research: SRLabs founder Karsten Nohl, a researcher with a track record of exposing security flaws in telephony systems, argues that RCS is in many...

IBM Has Successful AI Kickstarting Effort
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Has Successful AI Kickstarting Effort

Worked on several IBM initiated projects, was unaware of this particular effort.  A little unlcear how success is measured.  Though they say data science at first...

What Does Quantum Tell us About Reality?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Does Quantum Tell us About Reality?

Good piece on Sciam I am reading.  With a background in physics I understand the general concept, but not its direct and potential  future application to computer...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

An Ancient Conjecture on Primes

After 50 years we still are baffled by the primes. Cornell faculty album source Juris Hartmanis needs no introduction. But we can note this long interview last...

Fairness Indicators for AI Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fairness Indicators for AI Machine Learning

Brought to my attention, dealing with a potential solution for a project at hand.   Good technical and non technical coverage.  The approach is now available in...

UiPath for RPA in Gartner Quadrant
From The Eponymous Pickle

UiPath for RPA in Gartner Quadrant

Via UiPath. of interest:2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation SoftwareUiPath achieves the highest and furthest overall position for its ability...

Wit and Wisdom of an Engineer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wit and Wisdom of an Engineer

Had not mentioned this blog in a long time, deserves to be followed:Wit and Wisdom of an EngineerCovering the environment, engineering, technology and economics...

Hacking Nuclear Plants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hacking Nuclear Plants

Good reason for very strict identification policies.  And in the meantime,  just keeping some things off the Net.How a nuclear plant got hackedPlugging nuclear ...

Kroger Doubles Down on Food Delivery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Doubles Down on Food Delivery

A visit to my local Kroger indicates that more people are actively ordering and getting it delivered.  In my own case have never even seriously thought of doing...

The Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Science: Challenges and Opportunities
From insideHPC

The Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Science: Challenges and Opportunities

This presentation examines selected modern scientific discoveries, such as the detection of gravitational waves from the CI perspective. It aims to answer the following...

Aldec’s new FPGA-based NVMe Data Storage Targets HPC Applications
From insideHPC

Aldec’s new FPGA-based NVMe Data Storage Targets HPC Applications

Today Aldec, Inc. launched a powerful, versatile and time-saving FPGA-based NVMe Data Storage solution to aid in the development of High Performance Computing applications...

ACM-W Connections–December 2019
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

ACM-W Connections–December 2019

Welcome from the ACM-W Chair As we come to the end of this calendar year, I invite you to take a look back at the work of ACM-W over the 2018-2019 academic year...

Energy Grid Outages Addressed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Energy Grid Outages Addressed

Duke Energy is our local Energy system.Universities team up on effort to improve grid for Duke EnergyUNC Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center...
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