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Planning Cities of the Future with AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Planning Cities of the Future with AI

Like to see much more about this.... planning is tough, and rarely done completely.    Analytic and AI methods require considerable attention to detail and process...

How Apple's "Find My" Feature Works
From Schneier on Security

How Apple's "Find My" Feature Works

Matthew Green intelligently speculates about how Apple's new "Find My" feature works. If you haven't already been inspired by the description above, let me phrase...

Real time Drone   detection of Forest Fires
From The Eponymous Pickle

Real time Drone detection of Forest Fires

More extension of sensors, with direct connection to humans. Drones for Early Detection of Forest Fires Universidad de Carlos III de MadridJune 17, 2019Researchers...

Wal-Mart Tests Autonomous Vans for Middle-Mile
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Tests Autonomous Vans for Middle-Mile

Not fully autonomous, and with fixed routes,  will this simplify the approach and make it safe enough to decrease on-road issues in the early days of on road autonomy...

Modernizing Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Modernizing Marketing

And even poorly understanding the current processes being used to utilize markets and data.Six governing considerations to modernize marketing  in McKinseyLegacy...

Driverless Services in Japan and France
From The Eponymous Pickle

Driverless Services in Japan and France

Continuing to gather information on the use and greater implications of driverless.  My experience is mostly in the supply chain space, but the changes this will...

IKEA as a delivering Foodchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

IKEA as a delivering Foodchain

Never thought of the nearby IKEA as a food chain.   Although have always known about the meatballs.Ikea is now the world’s 6th largest food chain, and it’s testing...

From Computational Complexity

The Urban/Rural Collegiality Divide

Just a reminder that Grigory Yaroslavtsev has taken over the Theory Jobs Spreadsheet. Check out who is moving where and let everyone know where you will continue...

AI and Wireless Spectrum
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Wireless Spectrum

Technical view of controlling spectrum.  A broad and technical look at the history and future of the use of electromagnetic spectrum to communicate and now directly...

Hacking Hardware Security Modules
From Schneier on Security

Hacking Hardware Security Modules

Security researchers Gabriel Campana and Jean-Baptiste Bédrune are giving a hardware security module (HSM) talk at BlackHat in August: This highly technical presentation...

Video: Panasas Delivers Frustration Free HPC Storage at ISC 2019
From insideHPC

Video: Panasas Delivers Frustration Free HPC Storage at ISC 2019

In this video from ISC 2019 in Frankfurt, Dale Brantley from Panasas describes how the company delivers a frustration-free HPC storage environment. "Panasas delivers...

Mellanox Rocks the TOP500 with Ethernet and InfiniBand
From insideHPC

Mellanox Rocks the TOP500 with Ethernet and InfiniBand

Today Mellanox announced that the company’s InfiniBand solutions accelerate six of the top ten HPC and AI Supercomputers on the June TOP500 list. The six systems...

Using Inference Engines to Power AI Apps Audio, Video and more
From insideHPC

Using Inference Engines to Power AI Apps Audio, Video and more

With the demand for intelligent solutions like autonomous driving, digital assistants, recommender systems, enterprises of every type are demanding AI powered –...

Panel Discussion: Exascale and Beyond – Challenges in Productive and Sustainable Software
From insideHPC

Panel Discussion: Exascale and Beyond – Challenges in Productive and Sustainable Software

In this video from PASC 2019, Lois Curfman McInnes from Argonne and Rich Brueckner from insideHPC moderate a panel discussion on the challenges of software development...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Diophantine Equations

Complexity of solving polynomial equations [ Jeff ] Jeff Lagarias is a mathematician or a professor at the University of Michigan. Today I wish to discuss Diophantine...

Risks of Password Managers
From Schneier on Security

Risks of Password Managers

Stuart Schechter writes about the security risks of using a password manager. It's a good piece, and nicely discusses the trade-offs around password managers: which...

Zero Knowledge Proofs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Zero Knowledge Proofs

A good explanation of Zero Knowledge Proofs, starting with simple examples.  Examples of usage at the link. At the tag below there is also a Python implementation...

Nissan Moves HPC to the Cloud with Rescale
From insideHPC

Nissan Moves HPC to the Cloud with Rescale

Today Rescale announced that Nissan selected Rescale and AWS to extend its on-premise high performance computing systems to the cloud. "It is exciting to see that...

Towards Engaging Packaging
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards Engaging Packaging

Recall being pitched a similar idea for product packaging, this seems to take it further.  Now could deeper information be communicated this way?Creating 3-D images...

Smart Contracts Explained
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Contracts Explained

An almost completely non-technical description of blockchains, and in particular smart contracts and their value and limitations.     Using as an example the Ethereum...
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