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Ideo Designer Designing Smarts to Compete with Apple
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ideo Designer Designing Smarts to Compete with Apple

We worked with Ideo in some of our shopping labs and problem solving spaces.   So the emergence of the emergence of a new smart speaker from an Ideo designer was...

Basic, Non-technical look at Quantum Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Basic, Non-technical look at Quantum Computing

Looks to be a good, basic, non technical introduction, and also links to further free courses.Quantum Computing for the NewbIntroductory ConceptsBy Amelie Schreiber...

Wal-Mart Grounding Jet.com
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Grounding Jet.com

No new news, but some of the motivations provided of interest,    Would they have thought differently if they knew of the virus coming?  Will it fundamentally change...

Covid-19, changing social practices and the transition to sustainable production and consumption
From Putting People First

Covid-19, changing social practices and the transition to sustainable production and consumption

Covid-19, changing social practices and the transition to sustainable production and consumptionSustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchesterby...

Hats Over Hearts
From insideHPC

Hats Over Hearts

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Rich Brueckner. His passing is an unexpected and enormous blow to both his family and the HPC Community.Hats...

Google Letting You Buy with Voice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Letting You Buy with Voice

This has been  possible directly with Amazon Alexa for a long time, I use it fairly often, but the claim here is that Google Assistant  is much more secure, using...

Bluetooth Vulnerability: BIAS
From Schneier on Security

Bluetooth Vulnerability: BIAS

This is new research on a Bluetooth vulnerability (called BIAS) that allows someone to impersonate a trusted device: Abstract: Bluetooth (BR/EDR) is a pervasive...

Plasma Jets may Propel Aircraft
From The Eponymous Pickle

Plasma Jets may Propel Aircraft

Some of the interesting details in the link below.Plasma Jets May One Day Propel AircraftPlasma thrusters could help jet planes fly without fossil fuelsBy Charles...

Facebook's Blenderbot
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook's Blenderbot

 Good indication of what Facebook has been doing in this space..  From O'Reilly: Facebook open-sources BlenderBotFacebook AI has open-sourced BlenderBot, an open...

COAST, Machine names, Sun, and Microsoft
From CERIAS Blog

COAST, Machine names, Sun, and Microsoft

I received considerable feedback from people who read the last post on the history of the COAST Lab. Several people asked for more history, and a few former students...

COAST, Machine names, Sun, and Microsoft
From CERIAS Blog

COAST, Machine names, Sun, and Microsoft

I received considerable feedback from people who read the last post on the history of the COAST Lab. Several people asked for more history, and a few former students...

COAST, Machine names, Sun, and Microsoft
From CERIAS Blog

COAST, Machine names, Sun, and Microsoft

I received considerable feedback from people who read the last post on the history of the COAST Lab. Several people asked for more history, and a few former students...

Embedding Machine Learning into RPA Process
From The Eponymous Pickle

Embedding Machine Learning into RPA Process

Something we did, but with BPM models and process flow.   Makes sense because you can better understand the context involved.  Process models, even simple visualizations...

ACM Digital Library is Open for Free
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

ACM Digital Library is Open for Free

Like most K-12 teachers, a membership in a professional society like ACM or IEEE is not funded by my school. So I pay out of pocket for an ACM membership and have...

Could You Run your Business as a Sim Game?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Could You Run your Business as a Sim Game?

The overall idea here was pitched to us, especially the supply chain aspects of such a sim.  Since we were already doing related analytics, you could see how such...

Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes

Ultimately in delivery,  workflow design is key, here a presentation on the topic.Kubernetes  is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application...

From Computational Complexity

Oldest Living Baseball Players- can you estimate...

(The Baseball season is delayed or cancelled, so I post about baseball instead.) This post is going to ask a question that you could look up on the web. But what...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Proof of the Diagonal Lemma in Logic

Why is the proof so short yet so difficult? Saeed Salehi is a logician at the University of Tabriz in Iran. Three years ago he gave a presentation at a Moscow workshop...

Maintaining Business Continuity with the Spectra Logic Remote Installation Program
From insideHPC

Maintaining Business Continuity with the Spectra Logic Remote Installation Program

Spectra Logic launched a new Remote Installation Program to support customers during the global coronavirus outbreak. Through this program, customers will realize...

Where is remote research? Ethnographic positioning in shifting spaces
From Putting People First

Where is remote research? Ethnographic positioning in shifting spaces

Last week EPIC people gathered for a panel discussion on remote research to share guidance and inspiration as many of us take on new, remote positions. Here are...
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