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Amazon's Ring Will Ask Police to Publicly Request User Videos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon's Ring Will Ask Police to Publicly Request User Videos

Making things as hard for police as you can. Amazon's Ring Will Ask Police to Publicly Request User VideosBy Bloomberg,  June 7, 2021Starting this week, law enforcement...

UK Adopts Alan Turing Note
From The Eponymous Pickle

UK Adopts Alan Turing Note

BravoNew 50-pound British Banknote Honors Computer Pioneer Alan TuringBy Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Netherlands)The Bank of England this week will releaseOn...

NVIDIA and Partners Launch HGX A100 Systems for Industrial AI and HPC
From insideHPC

NVIDIA and Partners Launch HGX A100 Systems for Industrial AI and HPC

NVIDIA today announced a revamp of its NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform with new technologies that fuse AI with high performance computing, designed to make...

Argonne Researchers Use AI to Optimize Material Coating for Making Microprocessors
From insideHPC

Argonne Researchers Use AI to Optimize Material Coating for Making Microprocessors

To make computer chips, technologists around the world rely on atomic layer deposition (ALD), which can create films as fine as one atom thick. Businesses commonly...

New Supermicro Servers Featuring NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs
From insideHPC

New Supermicro Servers Featuring NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs

San Jose, June 28, 2021 — Super Micro Computer, Inc., a maker of enterprise computing, storage, networking and green computing technology, announced SupermicroNew...

Registration Open for First CRA-Industry Committee Virtual Roundtable: Corporate Responsibility and Computing Research
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Registration Open for First CRA-Industry Committee Virtual Roundtable: Corporate Responsibility and Computing Research

The following is a message from the new CRA-I Industry Committee.  The CRA-Industry Committee is hosting a series of virtual roundtable meetings focused on issues...

Atos Launches ‘ThinkAI’ for High Performance AI Applications
From insideHPC

Atos Launches ‘ThinkAI’ for High Performance AI Applications

Paris, June 28, 2021 – Atos today launched ThinkAI, which the company described as its secure end-to-end scalable offering which enables organizations to successfully...

Emotion AI creator Affectiva acquires Smart Eye
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emotion AI creator Affectiva acquires Smart Eye

Another example of Acquisition of Advanced AI Capabilities.Emotion AI Creator Affectiva Acquires Smart Eye for $73.5MBy Ryan Daws | May 26, 2021 | TechForge Media...

Extending Zero Trust Security
From The Eponymous Pickle

Extending Zero Trust Security

Security in Industrial NetworksExtending Zero Trust Security to Industrial NetworksRuben Lobo, CiscoRecent cyber attacks on industrial organizations and critical...

insideHPC’s ISC Video Lineup: HPC Experts on Conference Highlights, ‘HPC Shark Tank’ and Our Vendor Interviews
From insideHPC

insideHPC’s ISC Video Lineup: HPC Experts on Conference Highlights, ‘HPC Shark Tank’ and Our Vendor Interviews

insideHPC offers a rich lineup of video events and interviews for virtual ISC 2021, including off-hours events designed to enlighten and entertain along with ainsideHPC...

Fugaku Stays on Top of Top500 Supercomputer List – But Is China Hiding Something?
From insideHPC

Fugaku Stays on Top of Top500 Supercomputer List – But Is China Hiding Something?

The 56th edition of the Top500 saw the Japanese Fugaku supercomputer solidify its number one status in a list that the list organizers said shows a somewhat static...

Phun with Phidgets
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Phun with Phidgets

Recently I requested a free (for educators) starter kit from Phidgets. Phidgets are small controllers and sensors that are easy to use and with a helpful API. The...

From Computational Complexity

Someone thinks I am a fine artist! Why?

A while back I got an  email asking me to submit to a Fine Arts Journal. Why me? Here are some possibilities:1) They were impressed with my play: Sure he created...

AI and UK NHS
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and UK NHS

Given what we have seen China and Europe doing, makes lots of sense to continue to push AI.NHS Gets £36-million Boost for AI TechnologiesBy Scientific Computing...

Simulation with Python
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simulation with Python

By far my biggest effort in the enterprise was doing simulations.   Often integrated with optimizations, and later AI applications, both knowledge based and neural...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Model
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Model

Pretty wooden model. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines...

Friday Squid Blogging: Best Squid-Related Headline
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Best Squid-Related Headline

From the New York Times: “When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That’s a Moray.” The article is about the eel; the squid is just eel food. But still...

Lenovo at ISC: ‘Exascale to Every Scale’
From insideHPC

Lenovo at ISC: ‘Exascale to Every Scale’

For at least four years, Lenovo has been vocal about its high ambitions in high performance computing, and by all appearances the company is progressing towardLenovo...

Atos Comes into ISC off Strong Year in HPC
From insideHPC

Atos Comes into ISC off Strong Year in HPC

Atos, with its BullSequana line of supercomputers, will no doubt be a prominent player at this year’s ISC conference. While ISC is an international HPC event, it...

China and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

China and AI

In McKinsey, China needs watching on this, has fewer constraints. Forward Thinking on China and artificial intelligence  with Jeffrey DingThis researcher is making...
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