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Autodesk and Digital Twins
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Autodesk and Digital Twins

 Have been connected with Autodesk when it primarily advanced drafting and visualization capabilities, via a number of tools we used.  See now that they are working...

Tracking Seabirds with Drones
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Tracking Seabirds with Drones

Interesting environmental capability with links to monitoring seabird colonies with drones.Keeping a Closer Eye on Seabirds with DronesDuke University NicholasUsing...

Smart Speakers and secure environments.
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Smart Speakers and secure environments.

Have often had this objection to smart speakers brought. Here a possible solution. Less Nosy Smart SpeakersThe Michigan Engineer News Center, Gabe Cherry, JuneUniversity...

EU Deciding to Widen the Idea of a Vaccination Wallet
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EU Deciding to Widen the Idea of a Vaccination Wallet

 The EU has decided to widen the notion of a smartphone enabled 'passport' for vaccines to a more general wallet that would hold other kinds of ID credentials.EU...

AI of Autonomous Cars also Useful for Conventional Autos
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AI of Autonomous Cars also Useful for Conventional Autos

As you might expect, for example automatic lane holding and parking capabilities are already well known.  My guess to is that such autonomous solutions will beAI...

Google Proposes Advanced AI Chip Design
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Google Proposes Advanced AI Chip Design

 Google Proposes an advanced AI chip that is itself improved  by AI over time.   Impressive idea.  Google used reinforcement learning to design next-gen AI accelerator...

National Strategic  Computing Reserve
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National Strategic Computing Reserve

 Good proposal, with strong initial emphasis on security. The U.S. Needs a National Strategic Computing ReserveBy Scientific American,  June 9, 2021Last spring,...

Voice-assisted AI is Becoming smarter, but Consumers have Higher expectations
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Voice-assisted AI is Becoming smarter, but Consumers have Higher expectations

I see here is a post by a former school of mine ...   Some reasonable thoughts. Voice-assisted AI is becoming smarter, but consumers have higher expectations  by...

EU COVID-19 'Digital Pass' Gateway System Goes Live
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EU COVID-19 'Digital Pass' Gateway System Goes Live

Following this aspect of construction, delivery and use of passport systems.EU COVID-19 'Digital Pass' Gateway System Goes Live      By TechCrunch, June 8, 2021...

Super Productive 3D Bioprinter Speeding Drug Development
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Super Productive 3D Bioprinter Speeding Drug Development

Another example.  Have now heard many such claims regarding drug development. How many are being used effectively? Here is another. Super Productive 3D Bioprinter...

More on Amazon Sidewalk
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More on Amazon Sidewalk

This continues to generate controversy, here from CNet and ACM:Amazon Sidewalk: What to know before sharing your home's bandwidthBy CNet  June 9, 2021June 8 marked...

Automating Excel with Python
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Automating Excel with Python

 Nice idea.  In fact can think of several application examples where we were appending to capabilities of existing spreadsheets.   One a much used, almost historical...

Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

Was just pointed out to me, seems a good resource.The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) leads the industry in offering cloud security-specific research, education,Welcome...

Podcast:  Why Our Judgment is Flawed
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Podcast: Why Our Judgment is Flawed

 An important idea to understand,  and I think even our quick jump to assume that our judgments are wrong also needs to be better understood.   In ourselves and...

Google to Add Atlantic Sea Cable
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Google to Add Atlantic Sea Cable

Somewhat surprising with all the attempts to get Satellite based links.  I assume to get more backup connections as we continue to depend more on reliable data....

Managing Mental Health
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Managing Mental Health

But needs to be carefully studied in various contexts.   Recall some of the various 'therapist' capabilities in early AI that had unexpected results.TechnologyTexas...

Big Players Want to Play Semantics for Meaning
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Big Players Want to Play Semantics for Meaning

 This precisely what we wanted to do, to let our systems understand the meaning of words, rather than just what the meaning they have been assigned by language....

AI and Machine Learning in Supply Chain Logistics
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AI and Machine Learning in Supply Chain Logistics

Am a  long time player in the space.  Here a good overview of general example of work being done in supply chain with AI style approaches.  Not enough detail, but...

Scoping from Big Data to Big Knowledge
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Scoping from Big Data to Big Knowledge

 This was brought to my attention by the 'Windows Weekly Podcast' this week, in part because it dealt with conversations we had with Linkedin long before they were...

Demonstrating Quantum Advantage
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Demonstrating Quantum Advantage

Some description of how quantum computing can improve the performance of algorithms using sensors and classical methods. Here a short intro, much more at the link...
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