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From Computational Complexity

Logic Then and Now

This week I attended the Association of Symbolic Logic North American Annual Meeting in New York City, giving a talk on P v NP. First I must share the announcement...

Bosch is Thinking IOT Smart Contracts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bosch is Thinking IOT Smart Contracts

An example of SC use by big players, here with IOT transactions.  No what happens when the code goes beyond counting coins?Why Bosch is jumping on the Ethereum ...

Google Duo Group Video
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Duo Group Video

Notable this is available for bot IOS and and Android.    Will take a look.   Ability to share docs and screens for sharing work?   Integration with Google Drive...

German SG-41 Encryption Machine Up for Auction
From Schneier on Security

German SG-41 Encryption Machine Up for Auction

A German auction house is selling an SG-41. It looks beautiful. Starting price is 75,000 euros. My guess is that it will sell for around 100K euros....

Digital Signage
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Signage

An area we spent lots of time on in innovation labs, check out the 'digital signage' tag below for more.About this event and signup,The latest interactive, future...

CS for Social Good White Paper Competition
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CS for Social Good White Paper Competition

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in conjunction with Schmidt Futures, will sponsor and administer a white paper competition on the future of “CS for Social...

Use of AI in Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

Use of AI in Retail

Useful to see how big retail is thinking this.BBQ Guys and Lowe’s discuss best practices for implementing AI tech by Guest contributor   Bryan Wassel, Associate...

Lifelong Learning with Nets?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lifelong Learning with Nets?

Considerable challenge.  True we can get more data over time to improve our learning.  But my guess is that the architecture nets will also change as well.  How...

TACC Powers Climate Studies with GRACE Project
From insideHPC

TACC Powers Climate Studies with GRACE Project

Researchers are using powerful supercomputers at TACC to process data from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). "Intended to last just five years in...

Thangrycat: A Serious Cisco Vulnerability
From Schneier on Security

Thangrycat: A Serious Cisco Vulnerability

Summary: Thangrycat is caused by a series of hardware design flaws within Cisco's Trust Anchor module. First commercially introduced in 2013, Cisco Trust Anchor...

Designing Robots with Personality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing Robots with Personality

We always attribute a bit of personality into our devices,  but what amount and kind is useful for the best results, and minimal unintended consequences??Character...

Call for Workshops: HiPEAC 2020 in Bologna
From insideHPC

Call for Workshops: HiPEAC 2020 in Bologna

The HiPEAC 2020 conference has issued its Call for Workshops. The event takes place January 20-22, 2020 in Bologna, Italy. "The HiPEAC conference is the meeting...

Ian Foster to receive IEEE Charles Babbage Award
From insideHPC

Ian Foster to receive IEEE Charles Babbage Award

Ian Foster has been selected to receive the 2019 IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) Charles Babbage Award for his outstanding contributions in the areas of parallel...

Epic HPC Road Trip Continues to NCAR
From insideHPC

Epic HPC Road Trip Continues to NCAR

In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX continues his Epic HPC Road Trip series with a stop at NCAR in Boulder. "Their ability to increase model precision...

Are Memory Bottlenecks Limiting Your Application’s Performance?
From insideHPC

Are Memory Bottlenecks Limiting Your Application’s Performance?

Often, it’s not enough to parallelize and vectorize an application to get the best performance. You also need to take a deep dive into how the application is accessing...

Evaluating the Use-ability of VR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Evaluating the Use-ability of VR

Useful to see the proposal of a measure here, regarding usability.  How Usable Is VR? University of GottingenPatrick Harms at the University of Gottingen in Germany...

Following Locations on Google Maps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Following Locations on Google Maps

Clever idea.   Let places advertise to you by alerts.  Monetizes the map with change alerts for a place.  Events etc.  Now I just want Google to work on repairNow...

Visiting the NSA
From Schneier on Security

Visiting the NSA

Yesterday, I visited the NSA. It was Cyber Command's birthday, but that's not why I was there. I visited as part of the Berklett Cybersecurity Project, run out...

TACC Upgrades Ranch Storage System for Wrangling Big Data
From insideHPC

TACC Upgrades Ranch Storage System for Wrangling Big Data

TACC has completed a major upgrade of their Ranch long-term mass data storage system. With thousands of users, Ranch archives are valuable to scientists who want...

New Paper: Nanophotonic Neural Networks coming Closer to Reality
From insideHPC

New Paper: Nanophotonic Neural Networks coming Closer to Reality

Over at the Intel AI blog, Casimir Wierzynski writes that Optical Neural Networks have exciting potential for power-efficiency in AI computation. "At last week’s...
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