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Is Your Storage Infrastructure Ready for the Coming AI Wave?
From insideHPC

Is Your Storage Infrastructure Ready for the Coming AI Wave?

In this new whitepaper from our friends over at Panasas, we take a look at whether your storage infrastructure is ready for the robust requirements in support of...

Hacking Voice Assistants with Ultrasonic Waves
From Schneier on Security

Hacking Voice Assistants with Ultrasonic Waves

I previously wrote about hacking voice assistants with lasers. Turns you can do much the same thing with ultrasonic waves: Voice assistants -- the demo targeted...

IBM & DOE Launch COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium
From insideHPC

IBM & DOE Launch COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium

Today, IBM, in collaboration with the DOE, launched the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. "The consortium bring together an unprecedented amount of...

Free Registration: Supercomputing Frontiers Europe Conference this Week
From insideHPC

Free Registration: Supercomputing Frontiers Europe Conference this Week

Today the organizers of Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020 announced that it has waived registration for their virtual conference this week. "Over twenty outstanding...

AI at the Edge
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI at the Edge

Some useful thoughts about the use of AI in devices, enabled by faster ubiquitous connections like 5G.AI at the Edge Enabling a New Generation of Apps, Smart Devices...

NOAA seeks proposals to help develop world’s best weather forecast model
From insideHPC

NOAA seeks proposals to help develop world’s best weather forecast model

NOAA is seeking a technology partner to help design and build the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC). This extramural center will accelerate scientific research...

Fractal Uncertainty and Quantum
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fractal Uncertainty and Quantum

Intriguing but technical view:Finding solutions amidst fractal uncertainty and quantum chaosMath professor Semyon Dyatlov explores the relationship between classical...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Star-Free Regular Languages and Logic

Part 1 of a two-part series Daniel Winton is a graduate student in mathematics at Buffalo. He did an independent study with me last semester on descriptive complexity...

Multi-Agent VR for Task Application?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Multi-Agent VR for Task Application?

Might this be useful for simulating multi-agent complex, interactive tasks in VR?    We encountered such problems when assigning multiple people to do a job and...

Drone Detection and usage Database
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drone Detection and usage Database

Also would seem to create a useful database for detailed matching to contexts and task usage.Research Improves Drone DetectionAalto UniversityMarch 18, 2020Researchers...

Urban Seismology in Megacities: the Los Angeles BASIN Experiment
From insideHPC

Urban Seismology in Megacities: the Los Angeles BASIN Experiment

Dr. Patricia Persaud from Louisiana State University gave this talk in a recent IRIS webinar. "Our goal is to first map the structure of the basins in the Los Angeles...

Google Virus Information Site
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Virus Information Site

I see that Google has put out a generalized site on the Coronavirus Pandemic.    Contains lots of links to other resources.  See:  https://www.google.com/covid19...

Edison Research: Infinite Dial on Podcasts, Voice Use
From The Eponymous Pickle

Edison Research: Infinite Dial on Podcasts, Voice Use

Short excerpt about Podcast use, been some time since I have followed:Infinite Dial from Edison Research:" .... Podcasting awareness and consumption in the U.S....

Thinking about the Laws of Voice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking about the Laws of Voice

Note that this article points to an interesting book on the topic.  Have not read, but plan to.Voice Assistants in Pre and Post-Operative Care and the Duty to Warn...

Nokia Introduces Beacon for Wi-Fi 6 Mesh
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nokia Introduces Beacon for Wi-Fi 6 Mesh

Good to see more out of Wifi for enhanced communications.    Nokia puts out a useful overview of the capabilities.Nokia introduces new Wi-Fi 6 mesh router and technology...

AnswerLab’s Guide to Remote Research
From Putting People First

AnswerLab’s Guide to Remote Research

The guide includes best practices for conducting remote research, advice on creating a virtual best place to work, and selected tools for successful remote research...

Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer at William & Mary
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer at William & Mary

William & Mary in Virginia seeks an HPC Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The HPC Systems Engineer provides day-to-day operations, maintenance and hardware...

Microsoft Healthcare Bot for COVID-19
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Healthcare Bot for COVID-19

How quickly can we create and deliver these kinds of context specific examples for epidemics will be important.   Here the Microsoft example looks very interesting...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Orders Down in Italy
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Orders Down in Italy

COVID-19 is depressing the demand for squid in Italy. The article is a week old, and already seems almost comically quaint. As usual, you can also use this squid...

Machine Learning Flaw?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning Flaw?

Musing this, is there really a flaw here? Hmm.  OK, you need enough data to fulfill the  accuracy needed.   So a reasonable caution.Widely Used Machine Learning...
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