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Bitcoin as Reserve Currency
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bitcoin as Reserve Currency

Implications of this?Cryptoverse: 10 billion reasons bitcoin could become a reserve currency   By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Medha SinghApril 12 (Reuters) - A crypto...

From Computational Complexity

The Roeder Problem was Solved Before I Posed it (how we missed it)

(This is a joint post with David and Tomas Harris.)In my an earlier post (see here) I discussed the MATH behind a problem that I worked on, with David and Tomas...

Salvaging Scarce Chips
From The Eponymous Pickle

Salvaging Scarce Chips

 Had to read this several times before I understood it.    But apparently they are compatible for use. Chip-Starved Firms Are Scavenging Silicon From Washing Machines...

Siemens: How to Deliver Products to Market Faster by Integrating Electrical, Mechanical, PLM, and MBSE.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Siemens: How to Deliver Products to Market Faster by Integrating Electrical, Mechanical, PLM, and MBSE.

Former colleague now VP at Siemens sends along a Webinar alertVia Suzanne Kopcha,   Vice President Strategy at Siemens Digital Industries SoftwareRegister for our...

Age of the Unreasonable Consumer?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Age of the Unreasonable Consumer?

Been thinking more and more unreasonable of late.   Whats driving it? How to Win in the Age of Unreasonable ConsumerMukesh Gupta  in CustomerThinkI recently stumbled...

Security Tool Based on Surveillance Footage
From The Eponymous Pickle

Security Tool Based on Surveillance Footage

 Have been thinking for sometime, how do you balance security and privacy in a world of quickly advancing and automated surveillance?  Security tool guarantees ...

Future Changing Childhood Survey
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future Changing Childhood Survey

 Thought this was interesting, as we grow older.  How do the young think about technology? Other contexts of our lives?   How should e adapt a future web.  Or just...

Think of Ransomware as a Data Management Problem
From The Eponymous Pickle

Think of Ransomware as a Data Management Problem

As most things can be thought of.   Just reading work of Turing, Von Neumann et al, and their early work was all about how you effectively stored things and used...

Supply Chain Benchmarking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Chain Benchmarking

Important to compare to competitive uses, and changes over time and industry changes.  Why is Supply Chain Benchmarking Important?   By Marisa Brown in APQCSupply...

Example of Medical Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Example of Medical Drones

Using drones for crucial healthcare deliveryU.S. Drone Company Zipline Starts Delivering Medicine in JapanAssociated Press Yuri Kageyama, April 21, 2022  via ACM...

Epidemic Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

Epidemic Research

Simulation and Paradoxes are noted. Researchers Outline Bias in Epidemic Research, Offer Simulation Tool to Guide Future WorkNew York University, March 31, 2022...

Consumer Goods and Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Goods and Data

Lots of companies, like the consumer goods company I worked for, are deeply involved]Coca-Cola, Kraft-Heinz, Unilever: CPG Companies Embracing the Data Revolution...

OCP Global Summit to Be in San Jose, Oct. 18–20, 2022
From insideHPC

OCP Global Summit to Be in San Jose, Oct. 18–20, 2022

The Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit will be held in person on Oct. 18-20 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose. More information can be found here...

Google Talks Ambient Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Talks Ambient Computing

New and old interfaces providing ambient computingIn AI.Googleblog Hidden Interfaces for Ambient ComputingThursday, April 21, 2022Posted by Alex Olwal, Research...

@HPCpodcast: HPC Storage Rock Star Gary Grider Talks How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: HPC Storage Rock Star Gary Grider Talks How We Got Here and Where We’re Going

http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/021@HPCpodcas_Storage-with-Gary-Grider_20220420.mp3 Shahin and I are in violent agreement: if you’re interested in@HPCpodcast...

Reading Tree Heights from Sat Images
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reading Tree Heights from Sat Images

Also something we could have used in Forestry applications. Neural Network Can Read Tree Heights from Satellite ImagesETH Zurich (Switzerland)Stéphanie Hegelbach...

PSC, NCSA, NCAR in $7.5M NSF Project Allocating Access on NSF Supercomputers
From insideHPC

PSC, NCSA, NCAR in $7.5M NSF Project Allocating Access on NSF Supercomputers

April 22, 2022 — The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $7.5 million over five years to the Resource Allocations Marketplace and Platform Services...

Federated Graph Search from Netflix
From The Eponymous Pickle

Federated Graph Search from Netflix

Netflix has received some well deserved criticism of late.   But there is still Interesting Tech out of Netflix.    How Netflix Content Engineering makes a federated...

Robots for Site Security
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots for Site Security

My guess that we will see many more of these types of robots providing and monitoring security.Four-Legged Robot to Help Manage PompeiiReuters, Angelo Amante, March...

Are we Ready for Drone Delivery?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Are we Ready for Drone Delivery?

 Drone use expandingAmazon, Alphabet, Others Quietly Rolling Out Drone Delivery Across AmericaThe Wall Street Journal, Christopher Mims, April 2, 2022A handful...
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