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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Congrats Avi and Laci on the Abel Prize

The joy of knowing, understanding, and creating is common to all the sciences.—Vera Sós. Dorit Aharonov is a researcher in quantum computation. She was a Ph.D....

José Correia, University of Porto, Wins PRACE Best Poster Award at EuroHPC Summit
From insideHPC

José Correia, University of Porto, Wins PRACE Best Poster Award at EuroHPC Summit

PRACE has selected the winner of the PRACE Best Poster Award at PRACEdays21 during the EuroHPC Summit Week 2021 Digital from 22 to 26 March. The winner is JoséJos...

Intel Announces 5 CERN-Argonne oneAPI Challenge Winners
From insideHPC

Intel Announces 5 CERN-Argonne oneAPI Challenge Winners

Intel has announced the winners of the Great Cross-Architecture Challenge, a collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and Argonne...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Potato Masher
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Potato Masher

A squid potato masher for only $11.50. 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...

Hacking Weapons Systems
From Schneier on Security

Hacking Weapons Systems

Lukasz Olejnik has a good essay on hacking weapons systems. Basically, there is no reason to believe that software in weapons systems is any more vulnerability...

Lip Reading Software for Messaging
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lip Reading Software for Messaging

 Intriguing idea.   An air gap indeed, but secure? Lip-Reading Software Helps Users of All Abilities to Send Secure MessagesUniversity of California News,  Lorena...

Technology Will Create Many Jobs, Can we fill them?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Technology Will Create Many Jobs, Can we fill them?

The considerable challenge.   Adaptable workers, processes and systems will be required.Technology Will Create Millions of Jobs. The Problem Will Be to Find Workers...

cPacket Networks Delivers 100Gbps Packet Capture and Analytics for Network Observability
From insideHPC

cPacket Networks Delivers 100Gbps Packet Capture and Analytics for Network Observability

SAN JOSE – cPacket Networks, a leading provider of intelligent observability for hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud networks, today announced a new addition to its cStor...

Quantum Computing for Chemical Characteristics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Computing for Chemical Characteristics

An local example of the use of quantum simulation.UC Chemists Use Supercomputers to Understand SolventsUniversity of Cincinnati News, Michael Miller, March 19,University...

Enhancing Exoskeletons
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enhancing Exoskeletons

Interesting approaches to add AI to exoskeletal robotics solutions.  Broad applications?Engineers Combine AI, Wearable Cameras in Self-Walking Robotic Exoskeletons...

From Computational Complexity

The key to my Taylor series problem: Buddy can you spare a penny, nickel, dime, or quarter

 In my last blog post I posed a question about finding the coeff of x^100 in a particular Taylor Series. The question and answer are given  here:The key to the...

Amazon Lookout for Metrics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Lookout for Metrics

This was just pointed out to me today  'Amazon Launches Lookout for Metrics in AWS '.    As described this seems quite useful.  Detecting anomalies can be doneAmazon...

Battlefield History Training and Simulation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Battlefield History Training and Simulation

 Certainly not a new thing, saw and participated in such wargaming simulations as early as the late 70's with very advanced graphics.  But was clearly not whatVirtual...

Aliro Quantum Partners with HQAN to Build Distributed Quantum Networks
From insideHPC

Aliro Quantum Partners with HQAN to Build Distributed Quantum Networks

 BOSTON, March 24, 2021 – Aliro Quantum and the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks (HQAN) have joined forces inAliro...

Pure Storage: FlashBlade Nears $1B in Sales
From insideHPC

Pure Storage: FlashBlade Nears $1B in Sales

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — March 25, 2021 — Today Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), which offers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced growth milestonesPure...

Amazon and Red Hat Announce GA of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
From insideHPC

Amazon and Red Hat Announce GA of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

SEATTLE and RALEIGH, N.C. — March 24, 2021 — Amazon Web Services, Inc (AWS) and Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, announced...

Consumer Goods Simulation and Digital Twins
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Goods Simulation and Digital Twins

This article points out that simulation can be essential in dealing with the understanding of consumer goods.  Even mentions the idea of  'digital twins' as a model...

AiDANT Picks Core Scientific for GPU-as-a-Service
From insideHPC

AiDANT Picks Core Scientific for GPU-as-a-Service

BELLEVUE, Wash., March 25, 2021 – Core Scientific, an infrastructure and software solutions provider for artificial intelligence and blockchain, announced it will...

Coindesk Crypto Newsletter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coindesk Crypto Newsletter

New State of Crypto weekly newsletter, which covers both cryptocurrency and blockchain global usage, events, regulation and technology.  From the Coindesk folks...

Digital Clothes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Clothes

 Because the company I worked for is one of the largest manufacturer of detergents, we got lots of questions about the future of the design, use, manufacture and...
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