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Asperitas and Qarnot Collaborate in Liquid Cooling
From insideHPC

Asperitas and Qarnot Collaborate in Liquid Cooling

Today Dutch cleantech company Asperitas and French green HPC service provider Qarnot announced a partnership centered around liquid cooling for datacenters. Qarnot...

Video: I/O Challenges in Brain Tissue Simulation
From insideHPC

Video: I/O Challenges in Brain Tissue Simulation

"Blue Brain Project simulations use mathematical models of individual neurons and synapses to compute the electrical activity of the network as it evolves overVideo...

WCAI and Earth Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

WCAI and Earth Networks

An interesting collaboration, reminiscent of work by IBM with the Weather ChannelEarth Networks and Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Collaborate to Advance...

Detecting Stingrays
From Schneier on Security

Detecting Stingrays

Researchers are developing technologies that can detect IMSI-catchers: those fake cell phone towers that can be used to surveil people in the area. This is good...

Cybersecurity–This Summer's Computer Science Education Buzzword
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Cybersecurity–This Summer's Computer Science Education Buzzword

Cybersecurity seems to be all the rage these days. It was a big topic of conversation at this summer's CSTA conference, I've had a number of parents ask me if we...

How “Demo-or-Die” Helped My Career
From Apophenia

How “Demo-or-Die” Helped My Career

I left the Media Lab 15 years ago this week. At the time, I never would’ve predicted that I learned one of the most useful skills in my career there: demo-or-die...

Kuri Finds a Skill as Family Photographer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kuri Finds a Skill as Family Photographer

The crawling, bleeping, recording, greeting, even friendly home robot called Kuri has announced some a new skill.  It can now act as a kind of resident family still...

High Dimensional Data Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

High Dimensional Data Visualization

Good generalized piece.  In explaining this idea to decision makers I always point out that in nearly all real problems there are more than three dimensions.  How...

Connecting to Customers with Voicebots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Connecting to Customers with Voicebots

A excerpt from Venturebeat, not from a while ago, about connecting to customers via voicebots.  Good piece.   But as of this time the Google Home calling functionality...

Virginia Tech Transportation Institute Webinar on SHRP 2 Safety Data
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Virginia Tech Transportation Institute Webinar on SHRP 2 Safety Data

On Wednesday, August 9, 2017 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) will host the first webinar in a series of two that...

Alexa Disruptive to CPG Retail Brands?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Disruptive to CPG Retail Brands?

Does this take us back to the old-time, self service store?    True we can ask for a particular brands, influenced by advertising, but the quick way is to justHow...

E4 Computer Engineering Demonstrates OpenPOWER Servers at ISC 2017
From insideHPC

E4 Computer Engineering Demonstrates OpenPOWER Servers at ISC 2017

In this video from ISC 2017, Fabrizio Magugliani from E4 Computer Engineering describes the company's innovative OP205 OpenPOWER server for HPC applications. "Our...

Interview: Toni Collis on Improving Diversity at SC17
From insideHPC

Interview: Toni Collis on Improving Diversity at SC17

In this special guest feature, Toni Collis from EPCC discusses her new role as SC17 Inclusivity Chair and a member of the Executive Committee. " As the leadingInterview...

Sansar is a Virtual World using VR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sansar is a Virtual World using VR

We explored SL, built locations, thought of advertising there, swam through our data, had group meetings.  Click the tags below for more on all that.The VR successor...

Information, Decision Making, Asset value
From The Eponymous Pickle

Information, Decision Making, Asset value

The Question Every Executive Should AskMagazine: Summer 2017 Bernard J. Tyson, interviewed by Paul Michelman Gone are the days of centralized control of information...

DOE Labs Adopt Asetek Liquid Cooling
From insideHPC

DOE Labs Adopt Asetek Liquid Cooling

Today Asetek announced two incremental orders from Penguin Computing, an established data center OEM. The orders are for Asetek’s RackCDU D2C™ (Direct-to-Chip)DOE...

Advancing AI Capabilities with Next-Generation HPC Solutions
From insideHPC

Advancing AI Capabilities with Next-Generation HPC Solutions

HPE and NVIDIA are delivering IT solutions with superhuman intelligence to harness the full power of AI and pioneer the next generation of HPC systems. In thisAdvancing...

NSA Collects MS Windows Error Information
From Schneier on Security

NSA Collects MS Windows Error Information

Back in 2013, Der Spiegel reported that the NSA intercepts and collects Windows bug reports: One example of the sheer creativity with which the TAO spies approach...

Vulnerabilities in Car Washes
From Schneier on Security

Vulnerabilities in Car Washes

Articles about serious vulnerabilities in IoT devices and embedded systems are now dime-a-dozen. This one concerns Internet-connected car washes: A group of security...

NN4IR's logo
From Mostafa Dehghani

NN4IR's logo

We're going to organize the "Neural Networks for Information Retrieval" tutorial at SIGIR2017, Tokyo, Japan. You can read about our tutorial at http://nn4ir.com...
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