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Google Goes More Local Yet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Goes More Local Yet

 In a recent Google Blog entry, about local ads:The holidays are a critical time of year for your stores, as shoppers stop in to get an item quickly or see it in...

Autonomous Entities
From The Eponymous Pickle

Autonomous Entities

Also a strong interest of mine, how close are we to building such systems and trusting them in every day life?  Certainly too, in the near term such systems will...

Innoviz to Accelerate AI for Autonomous Vehicles with WekaIO
From insideHPC

Innoviz to Accelerate AI for Autonomous Vehicles with WekaIO

Today WekaIO announced that Innoviz, a leading manufacturer of high-performance, solid-state Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors and Perception Software...

HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand Sees Major Growth on Latest TOP500 List
From insideHPC

HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand Sees Major Growth on Latest TOP500 List

Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) reported the latest TOP500 List results show that HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand accelerates 31 percent of new InfiniBand-based...

NGD Systems Steps up with Arm Processors on SSDs at SC19
From insideHPC

NGD Systems Steps up with Arm Processors on SSDs at SC19

In this video from the Arm booth at SC19, Scott Shadley from NGD Systems describes the company's innovative computational storage technology. "In a nutshell, Computational...

Sustainability of LEDs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sustainability of LEDs

This came up in a project done during the earlier days of LED adoption.  Good piece here that makes  the case.  Another landfill scenario?LED Technology Isn't All...

Extending Battery Life for IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Extending Battery Life for IOT

Waking up your IOT device when needed.Chips for IOT Battery LifeUC San Diego News CenterLiezel LabiosUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) researchers have...

Extracting Data from Smartphones
From Schneier on Security

Extracting Data from Smartphones

Privacy International has published a detailed, technical examination of how data is extracted from smartphones....

News from ACM-W Europe, December 2019
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

News from ACM-W Europe, December 2019

Advances in Computational Biology (AdvCompBio 2019), Barcelona The first conference on the Advances in Computational Biology (AdvCompBio 2019) was held in Barcelona...

News from ACM-W Scholarships–December 2019
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

News from ACM-W Scholarships–December 2019

We are delighted to welcome the following new Student Chapters to ACM-W: University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Washington Bothell University of Illinois Urbana...

Japan to Use Blockchain Payments
From The Eponymous Pickle

Japan to Use Blockchain Payments

Another indication of the wider adoption of Blockchain for tracking verified currency transfer.JPMorgan Chase’s blockchain payments platform looks to be expanding...

When Autonomous Cars Arrive in the Car Chase
From The Eponymous Pickle

When Autonomous Cars Arrive in the Car Chase

Dr. Lance Eliot spends considerable time and detail in examining how the autonomous car will be included in the classic California 'car chase'.    Also points to...

IBM Trials AI Soccer Commentary
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Trials AI Soccer Commentary

Note similarity to the Wimbledon video clip management example.   As I commented there  I would also like this done as real-time assitistive commentary to business...

Analyzing Papers to Determine Tech Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analyzing Papers to Determine Tech Future

Somewhat weak attempt, but the general thought is interesting,  yet how well can  we predict without knowing future context?We analyzed 16,625 papers to figureOur...

GigaIO Wins Most Innovative New Product Award for Big Data
From insideHPC

GigaIO Wins Most Innovative New Product Award for Big Data

Today GigaIO announced that the company's FabreX technology has been selected as the winner of Connect's Most Innovative New Product Award for Big Data. The Most...

Verne Global brings hpcDIRECT to Bonseyes AI Marketplace
From insideHPC

Verne Global brings hpcDIRECT to Bonseyes AI Marketplace

Today Verne Global announced that is has partnered with the Bonseyes secure marketplace and collaborative platform for building and trading AI applications. The...

NEC SX-Aurora Tops Energy Efficiency on HPCG Benchmark
From insideHPC

NEC SX-Aurora Tops Energy Efficiency on HPCG Benchmark

In this video from SC19, Erich Focht from NEC describes how the company's SX-Aurora vector architecture achieves extreme energy efficiency on the HPCG benchmark...

Data Scientist Thomas Thurston to speak at HPC User Forum in New Jersey
From insideHPC

Data Scientist Thomas Thurston to speak at HPC User Forum in New Jersey

Venture Capitalist and Data Scientist Thomas Thurston is slated to speak at the upcoming HPC User Forum in Princeton, New Jersey. Thurston will give a talk titled...

Intel Powers HPE Apollo 20 for HPC Workloads
From insideHPC

Intel Powers HPE Apollo 20 for HPC Workloads

In this video from SC19, Larry Keller from HPE and Taha Mughi from HPE describe how the two companies collaborated on the innovative new Apollo 20 server for HPC...

ACM-W Annual Report 2018-2019
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

ACM-W Annual Report 2018-2019

Mission and Impact From the Chair Celebrating, supporting, and advocating for women in computing is the mission and motivating force behind the work of ACM-W. In...
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