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DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Selects 80 U.S. Graduate Students
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DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Selects 80 U.S. Graduate Students

May 3, 2022 — The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected 80 graduate students representing 27 states for the Office of Science Graduate Student...

Sustainable Data Center Technology Company Asperitas in CEO Transition
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Sustainable Data Center Technology Company Asperitas in CEO Transition

Amsterdam – May 3, 2022 – Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas announced Ronald Monster is stepping into the position of CEO following a milestone with a newSustainable...

NSF-funded Computer Program Receives $150,000 in Improvement Funding
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NSF-funded Computer Program Receives $150,000 in Improvement Funding

Work of a computer program to improve predictions of the physical behavior of industrially important materials, designed with leadership from Pittsburgh Supercomputing...

Thoughts of Mining Asteroids
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thoughts of Mining Asteroids

Was also involved in an analysis of making this possible.  Still difficult thing to do if we cannot easily determine the value of resources there.      Not tooNASA...

Neural Nets Speed Simulations
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Neural Nets Speed Simulations

 Very interesting piece, Often the speed of complex simulations can be key. Below an introductory text, makes a good case.  More at the link.Neural Networks Learn...

VR Relieving Pain
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VR Relieving Pain

Recall this being studied some time ago.  Seeking study.Can VR Help Ease Chronic Pain?Virtual reality has emerged as a tool to treat chronic pain and is gaining...

Clearview and Facial Recognition.
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Clearview and Facial Recognition.

 Remain intrigued by facial recognition. consider the similarity of its emergence to fingerprint techniques.  A comparison is useful. Can having enough data ultimately...

Amazon Investing in Robotics and Logistics
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Amazon Investing in Robotics and Logistics

 Makes considerable Sense.Amazon Plans to Invest $1 Billion in Logistics and Robotics CompaniesApril 21, 2022 BloombergAmazon.com Inc. says it plans to invest $1...

Proposals Open to Research Community for ALCF AI Testbed’s Cerebras and SambaNova Systems
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Proposals Open to Research Community for ALCF AI Testbed’s Cerebras and SambaNova Systems

Proposals are now being accepted by the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility for access to its AI Testbed, a collection of advanced artificial intelligence accelerators...

NReal Glasses
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NReal Glasses

 Still awaiting these,NReal AR glasses set to launch this spring in UKDetails on a release date of the product’s release or pricing remain unclearChinese augmented...

Dell Technologies Interview: Univ. of Liverpool’s Hybrid HPC Strategy Boosts Scientific Computing with a Burst
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Dell Technologies Interview: Univ. of Liverpool’s Hybrid HPC Strategy Boosts Scientific Computing with a Burst

[SPONSORED CONTENT]  In a recent Dell Technologies interview on this site, we talkied about HPC-as-a-Service with R Systems, provider HPC-on-demand resources and...

Hyperion Research Expands Analyst Team
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Hyperion Research Expands Analyst Team

St. Paul, MN — May 2, 2022 – HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, covering high performance computing, AI, cloud, quantum and associated emerging markets...

Deepmind Startup Factory
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Deepmind Startup Factory

 How successful in the current climate?The team that built an AI to dominate poker is now picking stocks  in TheNextWebDeepMind's becoming a talent-churning startup...

Tracking Animals with Deep Learning
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Tracking Animals with Deep Learning

 Unusual ApplicationTime to Get Social: Tracking Animals with Deep LearningEPFL (Switzerland), April 22, 2022Researchers at Switzerland's École polytechnique féd...

From Computational Complexity

Elon Musk To Buy Complexityblog

Elon Musk has offered to buy out Complexityblog. The money is too good to turn down. As part of the contract we can't say how much or in what cryptocurrency, but...

On the End of Passwords
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On the End of Passwords

 Please, still will the crooks still be ahead of us, looking for new vulnerabilities. The end of passwords  Short piece in Technology Review, here an intro of the...

Russia will Quit ISS  Space Station over Sanctions
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Russia will Quit ISS Space Station over Sanctions

Long of implications, here, loss of technical collaboration, other work threatened? Russia Will Quit International Space Station Over Sanctions  Via BloombergRussia...

Japanese VR Piloted Robotics for Rail Productivity Management
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Japanese VR Piloted Robotics for Rail Productivity Management

Having had some amount of experience in the use and maintenance of rail-based equipment, can understand the usefulness and safety issues  involved here.ACM TECHNEWS...

Can a robot vacuum work as an air purifier?
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Can a robot vacuum work as an air purifier?

 Comments on multi function digital /physical assistants.   Useful? Can a robot vacuum work as an air purifier?  By Patrick Hearn  in DigitalTrendsApril 24, 2022...

AI for Handwriting Skills
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AI for Handwriting Skills

 Always looking for things that will look for patterns that need to be selectively taught.  Here a good example, teaching children to improve handwriting.  Other...
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