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Intel-Apple-AMD-Tesla Chip Architect Jim Keller Joins AI Startup Tenstorrent
From insideHPC

Intel-Apple-AMD-Tesla Chip Architect Jim Keller Joins AI Startup Tenstorrent

Jim Keller, one of the leading names in HPC, AI and data center chip architecture, has landed at a Toronto hardware startup developing AI chips after a two-year...

CSTA Expands Focus on CS Equity
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

CSTA Expands Focus on CS Equity

The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) has expanded their CSTA Equity Fellowship program.

[Book] Design of Supporting Systems for Life in Outer Space
From Putting People First

[Book] Design of Supporting Systems for Life in Outer Space

Annalisa Dominoni presents a new discipline that will have an increasingly strong impact on behavior and performance of astronauts.

Looking Under the Skin
From The Eponymous Pickle

Looking Under the Skin

 More advances in healthcare imaging capabilities.  A Quick Look Under the SkinTechnical University of Munich (Germany)Researchers at the Technical University of...

Cambridge Quantum Computing Appoints  Oxford Professor Bob Coecke as  Chief Scientist
From insideHPC

Cambridge Quantum Computing Appoints Oxford Professor Bob Coecke as Chief Scientist

Cambridge, UK, Jan. 6, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), a global leader in quantum computing software and algorithms, has announced the appointment ofCambridge...

Using Virtual Backgrounds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Virtual Backgrounds

Hiding the mess is a good reason.  Though other than plain backgrounds do quickly get tedious.(OWL is a Business Partner of Zoom)31 Free Zoom Virtual Backgrounds...

From Computational Complexity

My Survey on Hilbert's 10th for particular (d,n) is ready for you to help me on!

 Hilbert's 10th problem is  (in modern terminology) to find an algorithm that will, given a poly p(x1,...,xn) in Z[x1,...,xn], determine if it has a solution in...

Update from the Frontier of Exascale Software Development at the University of Delaware
From insideHPC

Update from the Frontier of Exascale Software Development at the University of Delaware

In advance of the scheduled shipment this year of the U.S.’s first exascale supercomputer, Frontier, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, an international team ofUpdate...

C by GE Turns to Cync
From The Eponymous Pickle

C by GE Turns to Cync

 Wish that this had happened so strongly when I was connected, nice to see them back connected to IOT Home.  But will this direction survive?C by GE gets rebranded...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Predictions For 2021

This year is a Blum integer, 43*47 2017 article, not via Zoom Allan Lichtman correctly predicted the 2020 presidential election, based on a 7-6 edge in “keys” to...

No Driver on Board: Autonomous Trucks to Take to the Road
From The Eponymous Pickle

No Driver on Board: Autonomous Trucks to Take to the Road

 Evan Ackerman presents a good overview of the state of autonomous trucking.   Door to door, with lots of links to background information.    This should get us...

NSF CISE Upcoming Due Dates
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF CISE Upcoming Due Dates

Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Full Proposal Window: January 25, 2021 DMREF is the primary program by which NSF participates...

Towards Battery Free IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards Battery Free IOT

A particular challenge for IOT devices.Battery-Free IoT: These Tiny Printable Computers Harvest Energy From Radio WavesIn Forbes by John KoetsierThe Wiliot Internet...

Identity in Your Smartphone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Identity in Your Smartphone

Working some related topics here. we have a considerable opportunity now to have a universal device that can provide identity.   Need to make the credentials secure...

Northern Data: Existing Bitcoin Mining Customer Expands Contract Volume by More Than 200MW
From insideHPC

Northern Data: Existing Bitcoin Mining Customer Expands Contract Volume by More Than 200MW

Frankfurt am Main – Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87), a provider of high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, has announced the extension ofNorthern...

Extracting Personal Information from Large Language Models Like GPT-2
From Schneier on Security

Extracting Personal Information from Large Language Models Like GPT-2

Researchers have been able to find all sorts of personal information within GPT-2. This information was part of the training data, and can be extracted with the...

Backdoor in Zyxel Firewalls and Gateways
From Schneier on Security

Backdoor in Zyxel Firewalls and Gateways

This is bad: More than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point controllers contain a hardcoded admin-level backdoor account that can grant attackers...

Latest on the SVR’s SolarWinds Hack
From Schneier on Security

Latest on the SVR’s SolarWinds Hack

The New York Times has an in-depth article on the latest information about the SolarWinds hack (not a great name, since it’s much more far-reaching than that). ...

Data from Cars for Evidence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data from Cars for Evidence

Not unexpected.    We give up all kinds of data now.  More is coming. Insecure Wheels: Police Turn to Car Data to Destroy Suspects' AlibisNBC News, By Olivia Solon...

HPC Predictions 2021: Quantum Beyond Qubits, Rising Composable and Memory-Centric Tide, Neural Network Explosion and 5G’s Slow March
From insideHPC

HPC Predictions 2021: Quantum Beyond Qubits, Rising Composable and Memory-Centric Tide, Neural Network Explosion and 5G’s Slow March

Annual technology predictions are like years: some are better than others. Nonetheless, many provide useful insight and serve as the basis for worthwhile discussion...
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