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Putting Digital in Perspective
From The Eponymous Pickle

Putting Digital in Perspective

 In CustomerThink: " ... This year, the number of smartphones, tablets and connected devices is expected to cross 7 billion – that will mean more connected devices...

Seagate Announes Industry-First 2TB M.2 Enterprise SSD
From insideHPC

Seagate Announes Industry-First 2TB M.2 Enterprise SSD

Today Seagate unveiled a first-of-its kind, high-capacity drive that can help data centers more easily accommodate exponential data growth, while still maintaining...

Punch Hard
From The Noisy Channel

Punch Hard

If you’ve read my posts on reducing scope and incremental product development, you may have concluded that I’m conservative about the…Continue reading on Medium...

For Better Decisions: Get more Varied input
From The Eponymous Pickle

For Better Decisions: Get more Varied input

In Inc.    Big observer of the decision process.  How do you improve the decision process?  Get a diversity of input.     People that fundamentally think about...

Tracking the Owner of Kickass Torrents
From Schneier on Security

Tracking the Owner of Kickass Torrents

Here's the story of how it was done. First, a fake ad on torrent listings linked the site to a Latvian bank account, an e-mail address, and a Facebook page. Using...

Video: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Moves Forward with HPC Strategy at ISC 2016
From insideHPC

Video: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Moves Forward with HPC Strategy at ISC 2016

At ISC 2016, HPE introduced new high-performance computing solutions that aim to accelerate HPC adoption by enabling faster time-to-value and increased competitive...

Gruntwork Infrastructure Packages: world-class infrastructure, all of the control, none of the work
From Writing

Gruntwork Infrastructure Packages: world-class infrastructure, all of the control, none of the work

An Infrastructure Package is a reusable, battle-tested, documented, configurable, best-practices definition of a piece of infrastructure. We think it’s a better...

Google Data Studio Beta
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Data Studio Beta

Brought to my attention. Looks interesting.  Seems a limited trial.   Will report on this." ... Beautiful data stories start hereGoogle Data Studio (beta) provides...

Flight 370: With search suspended, a cold-case file awaits
From Phys.org Technology News

Flight 370: With search suspended, a cold-case file awaits

For two years and more, it has been a lost ship, a metal container carrying 239 souls that simply disappeared one late Asian night never to be seen again. And now...

Gireesh, thanks for the response.
From The Noisy Channel

Gireesh, thanks for the response.

Given the interest in this post, I’ll try to follow it up with further thoughts about scoping and prioritization.Continue reading on Medium »

Nestle Innovation Platform
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nestle Innovation Platform

Previously mentioned,  my former colleague Pete Blackshaw announces Nestle's Open Innovation  Platform. :" ... I’m extremely excited to unveil our new “Open Innovation...

Decoded, by Mai Jai
From Schneier on Security

Decoded, by Mai Jai

Has anyone read this book?...

Three NSF Webinars on Thursday
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Three NSF Webinars on Thursday

There are three National Science Foundation (NSF) webinars this Thursday, July 28th about three different solicitations. Read about them below and register to join...

P&G Sells UK Product Innovation Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Sells UK Product Innovation Center

Does innovation need location anymore?   It has been debated.   Known as the Egham Center.   In Bizjournals:" ... Procter & Gamble has agreed to sell a major product...

Video: Building HPC Clusters as Code in the (Almost) Infinite Cloud
From insideHPC

Video: Building HPC Clusters as Code in the (Almost) Infinite Cloud

Jeff Layton from Amazon presented this talk at the AWS Public Sector Summit. "Learn how to build HPC clusters on the fly, leverage Amazon’s Spot market pricingVideo...

Need for Dynamic Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Need for Dynamic Machine Learning

In one sense all typical, static machine learning methods are wrong.  That is they are based on past data, and the context that drove that data has changed.   The...

MIPT in Moscow Develops New Method of Calculating Protein Interaction
From insideHPC

MIPT in Moscow Develops New Method of Calculating Protein Interaction

Biologists and mathematicians from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have accelerated the rate at which a computer can predict the structure...

Mellanox Receives Baidu Award for Innovation in Machine Learning
From insideHPC

Mellanox Receives Baidu Award for Innovation in Machine Learning

Today Mellanox announced it has received the Award for Technology Innovation from Baidu, Inc. The award recognizes Mellanox's achievements in designing and delivering...

History of Measuring Time
From The Eponymous Pickle

History of Measuring Time

In Gizmag, a remarkable illustrated look at the history of the stopwatch,  A very favorite topic, the history and process of measurement.  One of my earliest jobs...

Common sense in  artificial intelligence… by 2026?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Common sense in artificial intelligence… by 2026?

Lots of people want to judge machine intelligence based on human intelligence. It dates back to Turing who proposed his eponymous Turing test: can machines “pass”...
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