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UT Austin’s Scott Aaronson Awarded ACM Price for Work in Quantum
From insideHPC

UT Austin’s Scott Aaronson Awarded ACM Price for Work in Quantum

New York, April 14, 2021 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Scott Aaronson has been named the recipient of the 2020 ACM PrizeUT...

Google Duplex Now Available in 49 States
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Duplex Now Available in 49 States

Noted this, have seen Duplex demonstrated, but never used it.  Concern rightly exists about its misuse.  I am sure that Google is thinking through regulatory issues...

China Creates Own Digital Currency
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Creates Own Digital Currency

 Interesting to see how this could  change payment, collection and monitoring activity. China Creates Its Own Digital CurrencyThe Wall Street Journal, James T.China's...

SNIA and OpenFabrics Alliance in Agreement on High Performance Data Center Infrastructures
From insideHPC

SNIA and OpenFabrics Alliance in Agreement on High Performance Data Center Infrastructures

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) today announced an agreement to improve standards-based, open source management...

dRISK Retrains AVs to Detect High Risk ‘Edge Cases’
From insideHPC

dRISK Retrains AVs to Detect High Risk ‘Edge Cases’

London, 13 April 2021 — dRISK, a London and Pasadena-based startup that has so far been in stealth, today announced its launch and that it has – for the first time...

LiDAR Test Starts up Again
From The Eponymous Pickle

LiDAR Test Starts up Again

 Am now finally getting into my LIDAR test,  on a Apple 12 Pro phone for now.   Using the package Polycam, which looks easy to use and is free for the initial testing...

Quantum Computing Inc. Announces Ready-to-Run Quantum Optimization on AWS
From insideHPC

Quantum Computing Inc. Announces Ready-to-Run Quantum Optimization on AWS

LEESBURG, Va., April 13, 2021 — Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI) today announced that QCI’s Qatalyst constrained optimization is now available as a Software...

DDN and Nvidia Certified AI Channel Program for VARs and Distributors
From insideHPC

DDN and Nvidia Certified AI Channel Program for VARs and Distributors

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – April 13, 2021 –  DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions company, today launched a certified DDN and...

Advances in Language-Based AI Tasks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advances in Language-Based AI Tasks

Not surprising,  language is communications.  Between us and everything else.  Spent lots of time trying to make that work.Advances in Language-Based AI Tasks Seen...

API's Again: Building Blocks for Transformation
From The Eponymous Pickle

API's Again: Building Blocks for Transformation

The recent thing about the Supreme Court ruling in a 6–2 decision that Google's use of the Java APIs fell into fair use, made us think of API's again.    Are they...

Secure Lifecycle for IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Secure Lifecycle for IOT

This issue of the process involved came up recently, here a good intro. Images provided are very The 3 Stages in Secure Product Lifecycle Management  in IOTCentral...

CIFellows Spotlight – From Data to Knowledge: Environmental Sensing and Data Narration
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CIFellows Spotlight – From Data to Knowledge: Environmental Sensing and Data Narration

Cyn Liu began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington in Fall of 2020. Liu is at the University of California...

Consumer Goods AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Goods AI

 Simple example of use of AI and automating paid search.Lingerie Brand Leverages AI for Automating Paid Search and Social Media Marketing  in Emerj.comDaniel Faggella...

Understanding Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Understanding Deep Learning

Quite well put,  thoughtful about neural nets.   Much more at the link. Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking GeneralizationBy Chiyuan Zhang,Communications...

Cybersecurity Experts to Follow on Twitter
From Schneier on Security

Cybersecurity Experts to Follow on Twitter

Security Boulevard recently listed the “Top-21 Cybersecurity Experts You Must Follow on Twitter in 2021.” I came in at #7. I thought that was pretty good, especially...

More Biden Cybersecurity Nominations
From Schneier on Security

More Biden Cybersecurity Nominations

News: President Biden announced key cybersecurity leadership nominations Monday, proposing Jen Easterly as the next head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...

DOE INCITE Program Calls for Proposals by June 18
From insideHPC

DOE INCITE Program Calls for Proposals by June 18

April 12, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is seeking proposals for high...

CSCS to Stand Up ‘Grace’ Arm-based AI Supercomputer from Nvidia, HPE
From insideHPC

CSCS to Stand Up ‘Grace’ Arm-based AI Supercomputer from Nvidia, HPE

LUGANO, Switzerland, April 12, 2021 — The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA have announced what they says...

StorMagic Joins the Active Archive Alliance
From insideHPC

StorMagic Joins the Active Archive Alliance

BOULDER, Colo. – The Active Archive Alliance announced today that StorMagic has joined the organization, which provides end-users with technical guidance to design...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Wobble in the Standard Model

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future—Niels Bohr Boston Globe “Uncertainty” source Lisa Randall is a professor of theoretical physics...
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