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A Neuromorphic Chip for AI on the Edge
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Neuromorphic Chip for AI on the Edge

Chips for AI A Neuromorphic Chip for AI on the EdgeUC San Diego News CenterBy Ioana Patringenaru, August 17, 2022An international team of researchers created the...

Starlink Hacked
From The Eponymous Pickle

Starlink Hacked

 Another look at this recent development. Researcher Hacks Starlink Terminal to Warn SpaceX of Dangerous FlawsLennert Wouters has apparently made the details of...

Make Your Systems UA-Ready with the New UA-Readiness Report for FY22
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

Make Your Systems UA-Ready with the New UA-Readiness Report for FY22

By Ajay Data, UASG Chair “What gets measured gets managed.” This quote is popular in business settings because it speaks to a widely accepted truth:  if you can...

Sylabs and Anchore Collaborate to Bring SBOM Support for Singularity Containers
From insideHPC

Sylabs and Anchore Collaborate to Bring SBOM Support for Singularity Containers

Reno, NV – August 24, 2022 – Sylabs, a provider of container technology and services for performance-intensive workloads, today announced it has collaborated with...

Disruption Examined
From The Eponymous Pickle

Disruption Examined

Via Irving Wladawsky-BergerA collection of his observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology, leadership, and other subjects...

Anti-Reflective Coating Allows Wi-Fi Through Walls
From The Eponymous Pickle

Anti-Reflective Coating Allows Wi-Fi Through Walls

Could be useful in homes, offices. 'Anti-Reflective' Coating Allows Wi-Fi Through WallsIn  TechRadar,  Steve McCaskill,  August 18, 2022Scientists at Austria's...

Photonics Company Lightmatter Names Google TPU Engineer Richard Ho VP of Hardware Engineering
From insideHPC

Photonics Company Lightmatter Names Google TPU Engineer Richard Ho VP of Hardware Engineering

BOSTON — Photonics company Lightmatter has named Richard Ho its new Vice President of Hardware Engineering. Ho spent nearly nine years at Google leading the Cloud...

ALCF to Hold Annual Simulation, Data and Learning Workshop Oct. 4-6
From insideHPC

ALCF to Hold Annual Simulation, Data and Learning Workshop Oct. 4-6

The ARgonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will hold its annual Simulation, Data and Learning Workshop this October 4-6. The event is designed to help researchers...

Quantum Company Q-CTRL Names Alex Shih Head of Product 
From insideHPC

Quantum Company Q-CTRL Names Alex Shih Head of Product 

SYDNEY, August 23, 2022 – Quantum control infrastructure software company Q-CTRL today announced the addition of Alex Shih as head of product. He will lead theQuantum...

HPC4EI to Celebrate National Manufacturing Day Oct. 7 with Virtual Event
From insideHPC

HPC4EI to Celebrate National Manufacturing Day Oct. 7 with Virtual Event

On Friday, Oct. 7, the Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) will hold a free virtual event entitled “Computational Science...

Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think:
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think:

Just  Reading, very interesting, will review further as I progress.  by a correspondent I have often mentioned here.  Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans...

LLNL and Korea Institute of Science and Technology to collaborate
From insideHPC

LLNL and Korea Institute of Science and Technology to collaborate

Livermore, CA — Leaders at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have signed a memorandum of understanding...

More on Car Security Issues
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Car Security Issues

Schneier points to other vehicle encryption issues, here just a snippit, more at the link. in the Software developer cracks Hyundai car security with Google search...

Google Tests AI Robotics in a Kitchen
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Tests AI Robotics in a Kitchen

Look forward to seeing this.  Kitchen has many tasks that could be automated, but usually not well positioned for broad application and integration.  Note hereGoogle...

A Guide to Using User-Experience Research Methods
From Putting People First

A Guide to Using User-Experience Research Methods

Modern day UX research methods answer a wide range of questions. To help you know when to use which user research method, each of 20 methods is mapped across 3...

Competition Makes Big Datasets Winners
From The Eponymous Pickle

Competition Makes Big Datasets Winners

 For a number of reasons, big datasets are better.  I have used ImageNet, good example, very useful. Also Mechanical Turk. Competition Makes Big Datasets the Winners...

Surgery Robot on ISS
From The Eponymous Pickle

Surgery Robot on ISS

Clearly needed as distances and times in space grow. A Surgery Robot Will Board the ISS in 2024By Adrianna Nine on August 4, 2022   in ExtremeTechAfter nearly 20...

“Democracy depends on it”: Carissa Véliz on privacy and ending data surveillance
From Putting People First

“Democracy depends on it”: Carissa Véliz on privacy and ending data surveillance

“There is nothing shocking or radical about ending an economic practice that has too many negative externalities. We have banned certain kinds of economic activity...

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
From Putting People First

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

Physical buttons are increasingly rare in modern cars. Most manufacturers are switching to touchscreens – which perform far worse in a test carried out by Swedish...

From Computational Complexity

20 Years of the Computational Complexity Weblog

I first posted on this blog twenty years ago today, still the oldest and longest running weblog in theoretical computer science, possibly in all of computer science...
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