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IBM Announces New AI Inference POWER9 Server
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IBM Announces New AI Inference POWER9 Server

Today IBM announced a new AI Inference POWER9 Server. The new IBM Power System IC922 is a purpose-built inference server designed to put your AI models to workIBM...

Intel Powers HLRN-IV Supercomputer at ZIB in Germany
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Intel Powers HLRN-IV Supercomputer at ZIB in Germany

In this video, Prof. Ramin Yahayapour from the University of Göttingen describes how the Lise supercomputer at ZIB is powering research and discovery. With 5.355...

Google Receives Geofence Warrants
From Schneier on Security

Google Receives Geofence Warrants

Sometimes it's hard to tell the corporate surveillance operations from the government ones: Google reportedly has a database called Sensorvault in which it stores...

Complexity of Showing How AI Decides
From The Eponymous Pickle

Complexity of Showing How AI Decides

Thoughtful piece on the problem of how to reasonably provide explanation.  Have now looked at several means of addressing the problem.   Consider carefully theGrilling...

Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate
From Schneier on Security

Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate

Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned facial recognition; the neighboring...

Candace Culhane from LANL to Chair SC22
From insideHPC

Candace Culhane from LANL to Chair SC22

Candace Culhane, a program/project director in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Directorate for Simulation and Computation, has been selected as the general chair...

Met Police to Use Live Facial Recognition Cameras in London
From The Eponymous Pickle

Met Police to Use Live Facial Recognition Cameras in London

Not surprising at all to me, given the broad use of cameras already in the UK.   And despite all the complaints regarding privacy, this will be the future of such...

Video Showcase: Lenovo Hosts AI Researchers at SC19
From insideHPC

Video Showcase: Lenovo Hosts AI Researchers at SC19

In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX.net writes that university researchers had an opportunity to showcase their work at the the third annual University...

Avast Data to be Sold
From The Eponymous Pickle

Avast Data to be Sold

Currently looking at the process of how data is gathered, enhanced and sold ... here a good exampleAvast packaged detailed user data to be sold for millions ofThe...

Call for Applications: ATPESC 2020 Extreme-Scale Computing Training Program
From insideHPC

Call for Applications: ATPESC 2020 Extreme-Scale Computing Training Program

The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) has issued its Call for Applications. The event will take place from July 26–August 7 in the Chicago...

Top Three Predictions for HPC, AI, and the Cloud 2020
From insideHPC

Top Three Predictions for HPC, AI, and the Cloud 2020

In this special guest feature, Altair CTO Sam Mahalingam predicts that HPC and AI will continue to move forward in interesting ways in 2020. "As the decade hasTop...

Podcast: Supercomputing the Human Microbiome
From insideHPC

Podcast: Supercomputing the Human Microbiome

In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, Kathy Yelick and Lenny Oliker from LBNL describe how the ExaBiome project is developing computational tools to analyze microbial...

Alexa Self Learning to Correct Mistakes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Self Learning to Correct Mistakes

In all conversation there is adjustments of our interactions.Good piece here that shows how this is being proposed for a common assistant.Amazon Uses Self-Learning...

Private Micro Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Private Micro Networks

Do that already in business with things like Slack and Teams.Why private micro-networks could be the future of how we connect in Technology ReviewForget amassing...

Real-time Mapping and Localization
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Real-time Mapping and Localization

Much work underway in smart mapping ... Given the increasing need for real-time intelligence.   We used aspects of this in forestry asset analysis.Collaborative...

Experientia supports Interaction 20 conference in Milan
From Putting People First

Experientia supports Interaction 20 conference in Milan

Next week the major Interaction 20 conference will take place at the Zaha Hadid-designed Milano Convention Center (MiCo). Experientia supports this huge conference...

Smartphone Election in Washington State
From Schneier on Security

Smartphone Election in Washington State

This year: King County voters will be able to use their name and birthdate to log in to a Web portal through the Internet browser on their phones, says Bryan Finney...

Experientia workshop at Interaction20 conference in Milan
From Putting People First

Experientia workshop at Interaction20 conference in Milan

On Tuesday 4 February Experientia will run a half day workshop on netnography and digital ethnography for Interaction20 participants.

When can you Selectively look at Less than all of the Data?
From The Eponymous Pickle

When can you Selectively look at Less than all of the Data?

I pass along Jason Brownlee's links from time to time, have found them very useful.   Subscribe to his stream, buy his books.  Here its about sampling and whenJason...

Numba: Speeding up Python
From The Eponymous Pickle

Numba: Speeding up Python

Just brought to my attention.  Python use for numerical algorithms can be an issue when speed is required.  Technical.Accelerate Python FunctionsNumba translates...
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