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CCC Welcomes New Council Members and Leadership!
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Welcomes New Council Members and Leadership!

Today, July 1st, is the start of a new term at CCC! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is happy to announce that Liz Bradley from the University of Colorado...

RadioFreeHPC Podcast: New Top on the TOP500
From insideHPC

RadioFreeHPC Podcast: New Top on the TOP500

We have a new #1 on the TOP500 list of most powerful supercomputers. Big gets bigger by a factor of 2.8x as Fujitsu’s “Supercomputer Fugaku” tops the list at 415...

Math Aware Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Math Aware Search

Interesting  idea, and in some cases could be useful.  Perhaps search for similar math stated algorithms as starting points for analysis?RIT Researchers CreateRochester...

Reduced Attack Surfaces
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reduced Attack Surfaces

Quite a term: ... Attack Surfaces ... so government .... but a real issue now.   A former connection, 'Recorded Future' does a good job of talking it in the article...

Securing the International IoT Supply Chain
From Schneier on Security

Securing the International IoT Supply Chain

Together with Nate Kim (former student) and Trey Herr (Atlantic Council Cyber Statecraft Initiative), I have written a paper on IoT supply chain security. The basic...

Robot Adoption in a New Retail World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Adoption in a New Retail World

Was pointed out to me this was posted and updated:Robot Adoption Trends in a New Retail WorldThe Retail Analytics Council (RAC) recently hosted a roundtable discussion...

The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner and ECP’s Doug Kothe Talk Exascale, Containers of the Future and Multiple Machine Coordination
From insideHPC

The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner and ECP’s Doug Kothe Talk Exascale, Containers of the Future and Multiple Machine Coordination

As director of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), Doug Kothe leads one of the United State’s most important strategic computing efforts, one that promises significant...

On Contact Tracing Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Contact Tracing Apps

Intriguing piece I have only scanned so far.  What got me most interested is that the tracing aspect included a considerable human element, at least if you were...

CCC Transition 2020 & Accomplishments 2017-2020
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Transition 2020 & Accomplishments 2017-2020

The following is a letter from CCC Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hello: Tonight the Computing Community Consortium transitions leadership...

CCC Computational Support for Substance Use Disorder Prevention, Detection, Treatment, and Recovery Workshop Report Released
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Computational Support for Substance Use Disorder Prevention, Detection, Treatment, and Recovery Workshop Report Released

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the release of the Computational Support for Substance Use Disorder Prevention, Detection, Treatment...

A2I POWER Processor Core Contributed to OpenPOWER Community
From insideHPC

A2I POWER Processor Core Contributed to OpenPOWER Community

The IBM-led OpenPOWER Foundation announced the contribution of the IBM A2I POWER processor core design and associated FPGA environment to the open source ecosystem...

Seeing Around the Corner
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeing Around the Corner

The general idea has been brought up a number of times.  Bouncing radar and cooperative systems can get more data, and if we interpret it to detect dangers, weRadar...

Banning Facial Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Banning Facial Recognition

What I have been thinking.  Specifically, not generally accountable.   Even if the major players stop doing this, others quickly will.Bans on Facial Recognition...

Android Apps Stealing Facebook Credentials
From Schneier on Security

Android Apps Stealing Facebook Credentials

Google has removed 25 Android apps from its store because they steal Facebook credentials: Before being taken down, the 25 apps were collectively downloaded more...

New, Open DPC++ Extensions Complement SYCL and C++
From insideHPC

New, Open DPC++ Extensions Complement SYCL and C++

In this guest article, our friends at Intel discuss how accelerated computing has diversified over the past several years given advances in CPU, GPU, FPGA, andNew...

Smart Columbus Connects Everyday Vehicles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Columbus Connects Everyday Vehicles

Yet another example of using more sensors and connections to build intelligent management of vehicles within large systems.   Just underway.Pilot Test Begins for...

Quantum Computers, Quantum Sensors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Computers, Quantum Sensors

Sensors gather measurement data, which is crucial to learning hypothesis about complex systems.  Here an introduction to the concept of a quantum sensor.Quantum...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Taking a Problem Down a Peg

By blowing up its objects Composite crop of src1, src2 Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb proved last month that every smooth Jordan curve in the plane and real , there...

From Computational Complexity

Can you name a famous living Chemist? Can anyone?

I was re-watching the  Greatest-of-all-time Jeopardy championship and the following happen (I paraphrase) ---------------------- Alex Trebek: The category isBreaking...

Thomas Sterling Eulogizes Rich Brueckner, Ann Redelfs, Steve Tuecke, Lucy Nowell: 4 Leaders Lost to the HPC Community
From insideHPC

Thomas Sterling Eulogizes Rich Brueckner, Ann Redelfs, Steve Tuecke, Lucy Nowell: 4 Leaders Lost to the HPC Community

At his annual keynote address closing out the ISC 2020 conference, Thomas Sterling, Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering at the University of Indiana, eulogized...
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