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Zenotech launches Aerospace Cloud Services
From insideHPC

Zenotech launches Aerospace Cloud Services

Zenotech is launching a new two-year project, Aerospace Cloud Services, to provide technology to enable the UK aerospace sector to add competitiveness to simulation...

The Eco-System of AI and How to Use It
From insideHPC

The Eco-System of AI and How to Use It

Glyn Bowden from HPE gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "This presentation walks through HPE's current view on AI applications, where it is driving outcomes...

Kroger Selling its Marketing Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Selling its Marketing Technology

Excerpt from ModernRetail: Why Kroger’s advertising program remains a nascent opportunityBy Cale Guthrie Weissman " ..... Kroger — which boasts over 443,000 employees...

Tracking Your Data: Exist
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tracking Your Data: Exist

Brought to my attention:Exist: Track everything together. Understand your behaviour.By combining data from services you already use, we can help you understandBring...

The Future of Malicious Online Activity
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Future of Malicious Online Activity

Recent events have been troublesome here.     We like to trust our machines, but the more autonomous and 'intelligent' they are,  leads to lest trust and more complexity...

Details on Uzbekistan Government Malware: SandCat
From Schneier on Security

Details on Uzbekistan Government Malware: SandCat

Kaspersky has uncovered an Uzbeki hacking operation, mostly due to incompetence on the part of the government hackers. The group's lax operational security includes...

Are the World’s Top Websites Truly Accessible for Global Audiences?
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

Are the World’s Top Websites Truly Accessible for Global Audiences?

Are the World’s Top Websites Truly Accessible for Global Audiences? An Evaluation of Acceptance of Email Addresses in 2019. By Mark W. Datysgeld, UASG Ambassador...

Near the Root of Cybersecurity Dysfunction
From CERIAS Blog

Near the Root of Cybersecurity Dysfunction

I’ve been missing from the CERIAS blog for much of the last year+ as I enjoyed a long-overdue sabbatical. While I was away, I was going through some materials...

From Computational Complexity

William Kruskal's 100th birthday

Today, Oct 10, 2019 is William Kruskal's 100th birthday (he's dead, so no cake. Oh well.) William Kruskal was a great statistician. To honor him we have a guest...

New Reductor Nation-State Malware Compromises TLS
From Schneier on Security

New Reductor Nation-State Malware Compromises TLS

Kaspersky has a detailed blog post about a new piece of sophisticated malware that it's calling Reductor. The malware is able to compromise TLS traffic by infecting...

Altair Acquires PollEx Electronic Design Automation Software
From insideHPC

Altair Acquires PollEx Electronic Design Automation Software

Today Altair announced the acquisition of Polliwog Co. Ltd., a high-tech software company based near Seoul, providing EDA software to the rapidly growing electronics...

Q-CTRL Software to power Bleximo Quantum Accelerators for Business Computing
From insideHPC

Q-CTRL Software to power Bleximo Quantum Accelerators for Business Computing

Today quantum startup Q-CTRL announced a global partnership to power superconducting ‘quantum accelerators’ from Bleximo, a full-stack quantum computing startup...

Standardizing Deep Learning Model Deployment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Standardizing Deep Learning Model Deployment

Got this more detailed invite late,  and the talk is over,  but below you can follow along on slides and talk, see below:Nick Pentreath, IBM , "Standardizing deep...

Smart City Index that takes citizen engagement into account
From Putting People First

Smart City Index that takes citizen engagement into account

A team of researchers from IMD in Switzerland and SUTD in Singapore put together the Smart City Index. For the first time, researchers attempted to assess people...

ExaNoDe Builds Groundbreaking 3D prototype of Compute Element for Exascale
From insideHPC

ExaNoDe Builds Groundbreaking 3D prototype of Compute Element for Exascale

Today the European ExaNoDe project announced it has built a groundbreaking compute node prototype paving the way to exascale. "In the ExaNoDe project, we have built...

Rolling Your Own Neural Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rolling Your Own Neural Network

Seen several of these tutorials now interlaced with all concepts, math and code.  This one seems nicely done.   When we first played with these in the 80s we wrote...

Video: Arm as a Viable Architecture for HPC & AI
From insideHPC

Video: Arm as a Viable Architecture for HPC & AI

Dr. Oliver Perks from Arm gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "The ARM architecture has grown in availability and usability for the HPC community in just the...

New Reinforcement Training Frameworks
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Reinforcement Training Frameworks

Good to see the kind of open source development being done.DeepMind Has Quietly Open Sourced Three New Impressive Reinforcement Learning FrameworksThree new releases...

Michael Backus Alaska Middle School Computer Science Teacher
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Michael Backus Alaska Middle School Computer Science Teacher

Every so often I run into a computer science teacher’s work online and ask myself “how have I never heard of this person before?” This week I listened to a podcast...

What is Watson? A Significant Part of the Future of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

What is Watson? A Significant Part of the Future of AI

Thoughtful piece.   Despite recent criticism as not having attained enough, Watson is a genuine accomplishment.    We saw it early on and remarked about how itThis...
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