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Podcast: Memory-Driven Computing
From insideHPC

Podcast: Memory-Driven Computing

In this podcast, HPE Distinguished Technologist Kim Keeton describes the concept of Memory-Driven Computing and how it relates to traditional high performance computing...

Bypassing Apple FaceID's Liveness Detection Feature
From Schneier on Security

Bypassing Apple FaceID's Liveness Detection Feature

Apple's FaceID has a liveness detection feature, which prevents someone from unlocking a victim's phone by putting it in front of his face while he's sleeping....

Google Assignments and More
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Assignments and More

Here is something I was not expecting.  Google sets up a system called 'Assignments' which works in combination with Learning Management Systems (LMS).    Was unaware...

Penguin Computing Expands Altus Product Family with AMD EPYC 7002
From insideHPC

Penguin Computing Expands Altus Product Family with AMD EPYC 7002

Penguin Computing just announced the availability of AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors for Penguin Computing’s Altus server platform. AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors...

Side-Channel Attack against Electronic Locks
From Schneier on Security

Side-Channel Attack against Electronic Locks

Several high-security electronic locks are vulnerable to side-channel attacks involving power monitoring....

Data Governance in the Age of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Governance in the Age of AI

Have been asked to look at governance issues.  ( see governance piece below from yesterday)  Data being used, Algorithms and resulting decisions and their results...

Singularity Desktop Beta comes to macOS
From insideHPC

Singularity Desktop Beta comes to macOS

Today Sylabs announced Beta 1 release of Singularity Desktop for macOS, which allows Linux containers to be designed, built, tested, and signed/verified on macOS...

Smart Glasses of the Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Glasses of the Future

Considerably less intrusive smart glasses by Snap.     Will this be the future?   I think enough interesting social functionality will draw people to smart glasses...

Volkov and Demmel Paper on GPUs Wins SC19 Test of Time Award
From insideHPC

Volkov and Demmel Paper on GPUs Wins SC19 Test of Time Award

Today SC19 announced the winners of the Test of Time Award. The annual award recognizes an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline. We are...

Video: NVIDIA Accelerates Conversational AI
From insideHPC

Video: NVIDIA Accelerates Conversational AI

In this video, NVIDIA's Bryan Catanzaro explains how recent breakthroughs in natural language understanding bring us one step closer to conversational AI. "Today...

Podcast: ExaStar Project Seeks Answers in Cosmos
From insideHPC

Podcast: ExaStar Project Seeks Answers in Cosmos

In this podcast, Daniel Kasen from LBNL and Bronson Messer of ORNL discuss advancing cosmology through EXASTAR, part of the Exascale Computing Project. "We want...

Observability
From The Eponymous Pickle

Observability

A new term to me, but apparently in use to understand how a system operates to work with it or debug systems.   The description makes logical sense, the details...

Whitepaper: Data Governance, Knowledge Graphs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Whitepaper: Data Governance, Knowledge Graphs

Continue to follow the problem of how the enterprise can most effectively support AI.   Just downloaded the following free white paper that addresses this fromhttps...

Language of Mind
From The Eponymous Pickle

Language of Mind

More about AI .... an interview.  Towards General Intelligence (GA) and what it may need, and  mean.The Language of Mind, In EdgeA Talk By David Chalmers [8.8.19]...

Attorney General Barr and Encryption
From Schneier on Security

Attorney General Barr and Encryption

Last month, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy­what is commonly known as "going dark." Speaking at Fordham University in New...

Geopolitics of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Geopolitics of AI

Continuing to see more AI development from China. This AcAm article provides a non technical article.The Geopolitics of Artificial IntelligenceAs the U.S. and China...

Breaking the Linguistic Barriers to Access the Internet
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

Breaking the Linguistic Barriers to Access the Internet

The 9th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2019) published a paper from members of the UASG. The paper explains IDNs, which are domain names in local languages...

Baidu Open Sources its Language Understanding
From The Eponymous Pickle

Baidu Open Sources its Language Understanding

In O'Reilly:Baidu has open-sourced its natural language understanding framework, ERNIE 2.0 (enhanced representation through knowledge integration) and the ERNIE...

Nike Links RFID to Predictive Analytics for Inventory
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nike Links RFID to Predictive Analytics for Inventory

Good example of sensors and analytics and transparency in the supply chain.Nike to marry predictive analytics and RFID to optimize inventory performanceby Tom Ryan...

IBM Deploys Triton AI Supercomputer at University of Miami
From insideHPC

IBM Deploys Triton AI Supercomputer at University of Miami

Today the University of Miami (UM) announced that their new Triton supercomputer is installed and helping their researchers explore new frontiers of science. The...
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