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Using AI to Improve Agricultural Yields
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using AI to Improve Agricultural Yields

Impressive outlines, Podcast: Big Data in AgricultureAugust 30, 2022 / The farm-to-fork cooperative uses artificial intelligence to improve agricultural yields....

Robots Built from Magnetic Fluid
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Built from Magnetic Fluid

A robot made from magnetic fluid can be made smaller, thinner, or directed to break up with special magnets, which could be useful for delivering drugs into the...

Researchers Bring Underwater Messaging App to Smartphones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Researchers Bring Underwater Messaging App to Smartphones

Quite Unusual Direction here, but could empower such teams. Researchers Bring Underwater Messaging App to SmartphonesAllen School News (University of Washington)...

MIT AI Policy Forum Virtual Summit Sept. 28 to Explore Challenges Surrounding AI Deployment 
From insideHPC

MIT AI Policy Forum Virtual Summit Sept. 28 to Explore Challenges Surrounding AI Deployment 

Cambridge, MA — Sept. 22, 2022 — On Wednesday, Sept. 28 from 9 am to 5 pm Eastern Time, the MIT AI Policy Forum will host a free, virtual summit convening leading...

Microfluidic Lab on a Chip
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microfluidic Lab on a Chip

New to me.  ACM NEWSBring the Laboratory With YouBy R. Colin JohnsonFor decades, laboratory procedures have been a popular target for automation; sequencing the...

Linguistics and the Development of NLP
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linguistics and the Development of NLP

Home/Opinion/Interviews/Linguistics and the Development of NLP/Full TextACM OPINIONLinguistics and the Development of NLP   By The GradientSeptember 9, 2022Christopher...

Amazon Builds a Visual Conversation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Builds a Visual Conversation

 Conversation flow with a No-code environmentAmazon Is Adding Visual Conversation Builder for Amazon LexSEP 19, 2022   in Infoq.comby  Daniel DominguezAmazon is...

A Look at AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Look at AI

From the Gartner Blog:When AI is Really AGF (Artificial Gut Feel)     By Anthony J. Bradley | September 20, 2022Human Interviewer: “Do you prefer dogs or cats?”...

Dealing With Student Misconceptions
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Dealing With Student Misconceptions

I was reading through The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy, as one does, the other night. Specifically, the section on student misconceptions. Misconceptions are...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Cheating at Chess—Not Again

Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the end game like a machine — Rudolf Spielmann Kenneth Regan is my dear friend and co-writer...

From Computational Complexity

POSTED UPDATED VERSION OF Computers and Intractability: A guide to Algorithmic Lower Bounds posted (New title)

We have posted a revised version of Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Boundsby Demaine-Gasarch-HajiaghayiThe book is here.(For the original...

@HPCpodcast: Cluster Pioneer John Gustafson Talks Gustafson’s Law, Unums and Richard Feynman on the Bongos
From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: Cluster Pioneer John Gustafson Talks Gustafson’s Law, Unums and Richard Feynman on the Bongos

Here at the @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug are treated to speaking with some of the world’s leading HPC computer scientists, the ones who have made a deep and lasting...

DOE SciDAC: $30M Awarded to 5 National Labs for Research on High Energy Physics through Advanced Computing
From insideHPC

DOE SciDAC: $30M Awarded to 5 National Labs for Research on High Energy Physics through Advanced Computing

Sept. 21, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $30 million in funding for five projects in computation and simulation techniques and tools...

Supermicro Announces NVIDIA H100 GPU Systems
From insideHPC

Supermicro Announces NVIDIA H100 GPU Systems

SAN JOSE, Sept. 20, 2022 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a enterprise computing, GPUs, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology company...

Equinix Partners with NUS Centre for Energy on Hydrogen-powered Data Centers
From insideHPC

Equinix Partners with NUS Centre for Energy on Hydrogen-powered Data Centers

SINGAPORE and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022 — Equinix, Inc. ( Nasdaq: EQIX) today announced a partnership with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology...

Tumor Size Tracking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tumor Size Tracking

Seems novel application.Engineers Develop Wearable to Monitor Tumor SizeStanford NewsAndrew Myers, September 16, 2022Stanford University engineers have designed...

NSF Releases Open Knowledge Network Roadmap Report
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Releases Open Knowledge Network Roadmap Report

Transformative advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technology require large amounts of accurate, comprehensive data. There is a widening disparity...

The Book: Stories, Dice and Rocks that Think, by Byron Reese
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Book: Stories, Dice and Rocks that Think, by Byron Reese

 Completed reading ....  Recommended!  An excellent book that looks at a number of leaps of key technical history that have led us to today.   Should be read by...

Pitching Your Startup to a robot.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pitching Your Startup to a robot.

 Found this case study of how you might pitch a new startup to a GPT-3 Based robot, called Pitchexpert.I pitched my ridiculous startup idea to a robot VC,    By...

Human-Centered Design: what architects can learn from UX designers
From Putting People First

Human-Centered Design: what architects can learn from UX designers

Approaching architectural design with a UX designer’s mindset ensures a more holistic approach to designing the experience of using a building. From the outset,...
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