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IFTF: News from the Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

IFTF: News from the Future

We and our executives worked with and provided corporate insight and data  for the Institute for the Future  https://www.iftf.org/home/ for years, here a pointer...

Backlash to Zoom Emotion Detecting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Backlash to Zoom Emotion Detecting

 I agree that AI is not fully ready to do this well today,  but that 9t is inevitable, this will happen. And its a good idea to experiment with it now.  Not Dystopian...

UK fines Clearview AI £7.5M for Scraping Citizens’ Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

UK fines Clearview AI £7.5M for Scraping Citizens’ Data

 Recently talked to a company about collection 'public data' to build an infrastructure of facial images for non individual recognition purposed. . The governing...

UK’s Durham University Using Rockport Switchless Network for COSMA7 Exascale Workload Modeling
From insideHPC

UK’s Durham University Using Rockport Switchless Network for COSMA7 Exascale Workload Modeling

Rockport Networks today announced that Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) has selected the Rockport Switchless Network as part of the...

Lenovo Talks TruScale HPC-as-a-Service, Supply Chain Strategy and ISC 2022
From insideHPC

Lenovo Talks TruScale HPC-as-a-Service, Supply Chain Strategy and ISC 2022

This Q&A was conducted by Nages Sieslack of the ISC 2022 organizing team who spoke with Noam Rosen, Managing Director for High Performance Computing at Lenovo EMEA...

Bluetooth Hack can Unlock Tesla
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bluetooth Hack can Unlock Tesla

This will get further attention. Bluetooth Hack Can Unlock Tesla, Devices  By Ars TechnicaSultan Qasim Khan at U.K.-based security firm NCC Group has devised an...

Improved Motion Capture with Neural Network State Prediction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Improved Motion Capture with Neural Network State Prediction

 Improving Motion CaptureA One-Up on Motion CaptureMIT News, Lauren Hinkel, April 29, 2022Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and IBM researchers developed...

Restaurant AI Phone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Restaurant AI Phone

 Just made sever reservations and payments at restaurants, is this good enough?  In the right direction.  SoundHound Debuts Restaurant Voice AI Phone Service With...

Atos Takes Fight Over Met Office-Microsoft $1.6B Weather HPC Contract to UK High Court
From insideHPC

Atos Takes Fight Over Met Office-Microsoft $1.6B Weather HPC Contract to UK High Court

Atos’ fight over the UK Met Office awarding a $1.56 billion contract to Microsoft to build the world’s biggest weather and climate supercomputer will soon go to...

Metaverse UGC Platform BUD Raises $36.8M Series B 
From insideHPC

Metaverse UGC Platform BUD Raises $36.8M Series B 

23rd May 2022; BUD, a metaverse user-generated platform, announces its $36.8M Series B round led by Sequoia Capital India with participation from ClearVue Partners...

D-Wave Announces Slate for Public Company Board of Directors
From insideHPC

D-Wave Announces Slate for Public Company Board of Directors

PALO ALTO, Calif. & BURNABY, B.C. (May 23, 2022) – D-Wave Systems Inc., a quantum computing systems, software, and services company, has announced the anticipated...

Use of Digital Twins in City Planning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Use of Digital Twins in City Planning

Had not seen this approach used in city planning beforeBarcelona Bets on 'Digital Twin' as Future of City PlanningPolitico Europe, Aitor Hernandez-Morales, MayOfficials...

Potentially Deadly AI?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Potentially Deadly AI?

Don't know how much of a real issue this is, but it is being reported by the Swiss Spiez lab, about their own drug discovery platform.  I would like to see a deeper...

Infant Pacifier as Sensor
From The Eponymous Pickle

Infant Pacifier as Sensor

 Clever applicationSmart Pacifier Developed to Monitor Infant Health in HospitalsBy WSU Insider, May 19, 2022U.S. and South Korean researchers have designed a wireless...

Advances in Image Captioning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advances in Image Captioning

 Another example of an area we worked in, Webinar, details at the link:AI advances in image captioning: Describing images as well as people doImage captioning is...

Has Science-based Marketing taken a Pandemic hit?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Has Science-based Marketing taken a Pandemic hit?

 Surprised at the suggestion, but interesting. Has science-based marketing taken a pandemic hit?May 20, 2022    In Retailwire  by Tom RyanSurveys show that trust...

Hello World! ISC Is ON And We Are Back!
From insideHPC

Hello World! ISC Is ON And We Are Back!

As the HPC world gathers in Hamburg, Germany for the International Supercomputing (ISC) conference, a deep and heartfelt sigh of relief can be heard from everyHello...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Hilbert’s Lost Problem

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way—Pólya. David Hilbert famously presented 23 important open mathematical problems...

Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems

Integrating game playing.Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems  in Bir BerkeluyNathan Lambert, Aaron Snoswell, Sarah Dean, Thomas Krendl...

From Computational Complexity

In the 1960's students protested the Vietnam war!/In 1830 students protested... Math?

 I was at SUNY Stonybrook for college 1976-1980. I remember one student protest about a change to the calendar that (I think) would have us go home for winter break...
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