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First American Financial Corp. Data Records Leak
From Schneier on Security

First American Financial Corp. Data Records Leak

Krebs on Security is reporting a massive data leak by the real estate title insurance company First American Financial Corp. "The title insurance agency collects...

NVIDIA EGX Accelerates AI on TYAN Edge Server
From insideHPC

NVIDIA EGX Accelerates AI on TYAN Edge Server

Today TYAN announced that it is teaming with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA EGX platform with its Thunder SX TN76-B7102 edge server, completing TYAN’s GPU server...

Semi supervised learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Semi supervised learning

Brought to my attention, explanation in DataRobot, much more at the link.Semi-Supervised Machine LearningWhat is Semi-Supervised Machine Learning?Semi-supervised...

Managing Drone Draffic
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Drone Draffic

Likely to continue to become more important.Managing Drone traffic in CitiesNASA's first-of-kind tests look to manage drone in citiesby Scott SonnerIn this MayNASA...

Sony Launches IoT Chip
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sony Launches IoT Chip

Low power, 60 mile range, but just in Japan for now.  Seems would be ideal for Smart city applications.  Most notable a new means to gather data and deliver applications...

Pervasive Intelligence Signals
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pervasive Intelligence Signals

Everywhere, thus most importantly in context, on the edge.   It is getting there. Pervasive intelligenceSmart machines everywhereBy David Schatsky, Jonathan Camhi...

From Computational Complexity

separating fact from fiction with the 56% of Americans say Arabic Numerals should not be taught in school

On the excellent TV show Veep there was a subplot about a political candidate (who himself had failed algebra in HS) objecting to Algebra since it was invented...

Unleashing the Next Wave of HPC Breakthroughs with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory and Intel Optane DC Solid State Drives
From insideHPC

Unleashing the Next Wave of HPC Breakthroughs with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory and Intel Optane DC Solid State Drives

In the face of unrelenting data growth, rising numbers of high-performance computing (HPC) workloads are memory bound. Caught between the high cost and limitedUnleashing...

New NVIDIA EGX Platform Brings Real-Time AI to the Edge
From insideHPC

New NVIDIA EGX Platform Brings Real-Time AI to the Edge

Today NVIDIA announced NVIDIA EGX, an accelerated computing platform that enables companies to perform low-latency AI at the edge. “The combination of high-performance...

BBC Reports on Shareholder Vote Amazon on Rekognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

BBC Reports on Shareholder Vote Amazon on Rekognition

Shareholders vs government regulation.   Intriguing details from the UK, where advanced camera surveillance is ubiquitous.  Advanced automation of these systems...

Key Look at the Meaning and Value of Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Key Look at the Meaning and Value of Blockchain

A favorite commenter of mine talks about the Blockchain.  Who we worked with at IBM.   With some great additional references.  Recommended read and reference.Irving...

Automation ROI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automation ROI

Perspectives on value measurement, when and how.Measuring Automation ROI  by DeloitteMaximizing your mileage...Taking a strategic, holistic approach to automation...

Beware of Giant Underwater Volcanoes and Seismic Hums
From The Eponymous Pickle

Beware of Giant Underwater Volcanoes and Seismic Hums

The planet is alive.Geologists Discover Largest Underwater Volcano, Explain Weird Hum Heard Around the World   By Laura Geggel in LivescienceA strange seismic event...

Dell HPC Community Meeting returns to Frankfurt for ISC 2019
From insideHPC

Dell HPC Community Meeting returns to Frankfurt for ISC 2019

Dell EMC will once again host the HPC Community Meeting at ISC 2019. "The Dell EMC HPC Community is a worldwide technical forum that fosters the exchange of ideas...

Cybersecurity and Risk Management for HPC
From insideHPC

Cybersecurity and Risk Management for HPC

Henry Newman from Seagate Government Solutions gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Santa Fe. "Cyber attacks and security breaches have become commonplace with...

What do the Amazon Star Product Ratings Mean?  Can we get Transparency?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What do the Amazon Star Product Ratings Mean? Can we get Transparency?

Well they are just an average of all the individual ratings, no?   Well that approach would be very manipulable, and you see right away that they place more weight...

Voice Control for all Your Gadgets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voice Control for all Your Gadgets

Hands free is good though perhaps not necessary.   Gesture, which we also  looked at, has emerged much less.One Day your Voice will Control all your Gadgets, and...

Memory Lane by Accenture
From The Eponymous Pickle

Memory Lane by Accenture

Nice idea, I have some colleagues that are working on related problems, will bring this up.Accenture Interactive creates 'Memory Lane' AI project to tackle elderly...

Video: Kubernetes for Biomedical Analysis
From insideHPC

Video: Kubernetes for Biomedical Analysis

Kevin Sayers from the University of Basel gave this talk at the hpc-ch forum. "The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics BioMedIT project is developing the computing...

Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at the Milwaukee School of Engineering
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at the Milwaukee School of Engineering

Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) invites applications for a full-time HPC Systems Administrator to join our Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department...
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