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Coffee Tech Overview
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coffee Tech Overview

 Space I worked in for years, a brief  intro in the BBCThe tech helping to bring you your morning coffee,  By Luana FerreiraBusiness reporter, BrazilFor an estimated...

AI Meta Goes Unsupervised for Try at Human AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Meta Goes Unsupervised for Try at Human AI

 Looking to see a good example. Meta’s AI Takes an Unsupervised Step Forward In the quest for human-level intelligent AI, Meta is betting on self-supervised learning...

From Computational Complexity

Juris Hartmanis passed away on July 29 at the age of 94

 Juris Hartmanis, one of the founders of Complexity Theory, passed away on July 29 at the age of 94.  The Gödel's Last Letter blog has an obit posted here. When...

Neurotechnology and the Law: Implants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neurotechnology and the Law: Implants

Considerable issue as Neurotech advances,  Some good examples below and at link.   Including implants for non medical reasons?Neurotechnology and the Law   By Esther...

Drones for Stadium Security
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drones for Stadium Security

Examples for upcoming soccer World CupWorld Cup to Use Drones to Help Protect StadiumsBy BBC News, July 26, 2022A drone interceptor captures a fixed wing droneThis...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Juris Hartmanis 1928–2022

A sure foundation for Computational Complexity source—wonderful 2015 CACM interview Juris Hartmanis passed away this morning. He was a professor in Cornell’s computer...

Selling Zero Days?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Selling Zero Days?

Too weird, wouldn't it be directly caught doing this?0-days sold by Austrian firm used to hack Windows users, Microsoft saysWindows and Adobe Reader exploits said...

Multi Channel Digital Merchant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Multi Channel Digital Merchant

Brought to my attention: Martech and Digital Experience Management: The New Frontier, by John SchneiderMartech is experiencing unprecedented growth. In just the...

Artificial Creativity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Artificial Creativity

A favorite topic,  like any method that provides a good set of solutions can be useful. Artificial Creativity?    By O'Reilly, July 28, 2022Image:Artist's palette...

ALCF to Hold Cerebras AI Testbed Workshop, Aug. 9-10
From insideHPC

ALCF to Hold Cerebras AI Testbed Workshop, Aug. 9-10

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will hold a virtual AI testbed training event Aug. 9-10 that will introduce users to the Cerebras hardware andALCF...

Considering the Uncanny Valley
From The Eponymous Pickle

Considering the Uncanny Valley

Often considered, we did in building early interactions with consumers.Crossing the Uncanny Valley,    By Logan KuglerCommunications of the ACM, August 2022, Vol...

Google AR Glasses Update
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google AR Glasses Update

 Will this open the door to new augmented reality AR?Google Starts Real-World Testing for Augmented Reality Glasses That May Employ North Focals TechERIC HAL SCHWARTZ...

ORNL’s Rafael Ferreira da Silva Elevated to IEEE Senior Member
From insideHPC

ORNL’s Rafael Ferreira da Silva Elevated to IEEE Senior Member

Oak Ridge, TN — Rafael Ferreira da Silva, a senior research scientist in the Data Lifecycle and Scalable Workflows group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)...

Green Revolution Cooling Announces Lineup for Data Center Liquid Immersion Cooling Awareness Month
From insideHPC

Green Revolution Cooling Announces Lineup for Data Center Liquid Immersion Cooling Awareness Month

AUSTIN – July 28, 2022 – GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), maker of single-phase data center liquid immersion cooling, announced today the lineup of participantsGreen...

Watching Humans to Learn
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watching Humans to Learn

Humans can be taught,  carefully.   dealt with lots of these.   Robots Learn Household Tasks by Watching HumansCarnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science...

Increasing Retail Sales via Product Discovery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Increasing Retail Sales via Product Discovery

 Seems obvious, what are the most useful details?   Google has been on this for some time. Increasing Sales via AI Product DiscoveryJuly 28, 2022, Supply ChainBrain...

Jacdac and Micro:Bit 2.0–First Look
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Jacdac and Micro:Bit 2.0–First Look

Learning about Jacdac devices was my incentive to buy a Micro:Bit 2.0 The Micro:Bit 2.0 has a number of upgrades and new features from the original. These include...

Most Proteins Mapped with Deepmind
From The Eponymous Pickle

Most Proteins Mapped with Deepmind

 New Digital Biology Advances with DeepmindDeepMind found the structure of nearly every protein known to scienceThey’ll all be freely availableBy Nicole Wetsman...

Fraunhofer Works Audio  Experience
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fraunhofer Works Audio Experience

 Emphasizing personal experience, working with Mercedes.Fraunhofer IDMT’s audio software enables an individual listening experienceNews / July 07, 2022  by Frauhofer...

Accessibility Challenges
From The Eponymous Pickle

Accessibility Challenges

 Working at the edge of  accessibility is very instructive.For Blind Internet Users, the Fix Can Be Worse Than the FlawsThe New York Times   Amanda Morris, July...
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