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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Mathematics of COVID-19

Its not just [ Sir Francis Galton by Charles Wellington Furse ] Francis Galton is a perfect example of a Victorian era scientist. Sir Galton, he was knighted in...

Friday Squid Blogging: Cocaine Smuggled in Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Cocaine Smuggled in Squid

Makes sense; there's room inside a squid's body cavity: Latin American drug lords have sent bumper shipments of cocaine to Europe in recent weeks, including one...

Drone Flying Medications to Villages
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drone Flying Medications to Villages

Its been done before, but now we are having a significant part of a supply chain serviced.UPS to Fly Medications by Drone to Florida Retirement AreaBloombergByUPS...

Security and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Security and AI

We saw this dichotomy early,  plusses and minuses simply stated here.AI and CybersecurityAI is changing everything about cybersecurity, for better and for worse...

Better Public Speaking via Speaker Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Better Public Speaking via Speaker Assistants

Clever idea for assistant speaker devicesAnxious About Public Speaking? Your Smart Speaker Could HelpPenn State NewsBy Jessica HallmanResearchers at Pennsylvania...

Breathable Electronics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Breathable Electronics

Advances in functional wearable tech from NC State'Breathable' Electronics Pave the Way for More Functional Wearable TechNC State NewsApril 30, 2020Engineering...

IBM Extends Jupyter for Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Extends Jupyter for Data Science

Seems to indicate a seriousness for AI and data science enabled process.IBM Extends Jupyter Notebooks for AI DevelopmentBy George LeopoldIBM has released a newThe...

Telehealth Here to Stay
From The Eponymous Pickle

Telehealth Here to Stay

Just scheduled by first telehealth doctor meeting.Telehealth booms amid COVID-19 crisis; virtual care is here to stayThe coronavirus pandemic that has erupted worldwide...

Amazon and Home Productivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon and Home Productivity

Interesting non-typical thoughts on this.  via Walter RikerBoosting Work from Home Productivity with Amazon Alexa  in AWS Amazonby Sandeep RaoHow I set-up my home...

Bethany Goldblum from UC Berkeley to Receive James Corones Award
From insideHPC

Bethany Goldblum from UC Berkeley to Receive James Corones Award

Bethany L. Goldblum, a nuclear scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, is the 2020 recipient of the Krell Institute’s James Corones Award in Leadership...

CRA Survey on NSF CISE Departmental BPC Plans
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CRA Survey on NSF CISE Departmental BPC Plans

The following is a guest post from Heather Wright, Associate Director of the Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP) at the Computing Research Association...

Registration Opens for SC20 Housing
From insideHPC

Registration Opens for SC20 Housing

Registration is now open for the SC20 conference. The event is scheduled to take place Nov. 15-20 in Atlanta. "SC20 has room blocks reserved at hotels in the vicinity...

From Computational Complexity

Predicting the Virus

As a complexity theorist I often find myself far more intrigued in what we cannot compute than what we can. In 2009 I posted on some predictions of the spread of...

Appentra raises €1.8M for its Parallelware Analyzer software
From insideHPC

Appentra raises €1.8M for its Parallelware Analyzer software

Today Appentra announced that the company has raised €1.8M in new funding in a round led by Armilar Venture Partners and K Fund. Appentra is a Deep Tech globalAppentra...

Accelerating vaccine research for COVID-19 with HPC and AI
From insideHPC

Accelerating vaccine research for COVID-19 with HPC and AI

In this special guest feature, Peter Ungaro from HPE writes that HPC is playing a leading role in our fight against COVID-19 to support the urgent need to findAccelerating...

Me on COVAD-19 Contact Tracing Apps
From Schneier on Security

Me on COVAD-19 Contact Tracing Apps

I was quoted in BuzzFeed: "My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value," Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman...

LUMI: the EuroHPC pre-exascale system of the North
From insideHPC

LUMI: the EuroHPC pre-exascale system of the North

The LUMI pre--exascale supercomputer will be the one of the most powerful and advanced computing systems on the planet at the time of its installation. The vast...

Supply Chain Best Practices after Crises.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Chain Best Practices after Crises.

Good overview in APQC regarding management after and during crisis.Keys to Maintaining Best Practices in Supply Chain After a CrisisAs one-third of 2020 is behind...

Chrome Extension for Browsing Etherium
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chrome Extension for Browsing Etherium

Unusual application for browser userstanding ot ethereum blockchain.Unstoppable Domains Chrome Extension Lets Users Browse Ethereum-Based SitesUnstoppable Domains...

What Virus crisis Means for Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Virus crisis Means for Business

Another short thoughtful piece on this topic, with some short 'answers' and links.    Worthwhile to spur possible work  ...What the COVID-19 Crisis Means for Businesses...
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