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Rose Technology Raises $5.5M Seed Round
From insideHPC

Rose Technology Raises $5.5M Seed Round

NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2021 — Rose Technology, founded by data scientist and former global macro investor Alexander Campbell, raises $5.5m to change the way data-driven...

Analytical Biosciences Named Finalist in IDC’s Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure North America Awards
From insideHPC

Analytical Biosciences Named Finalist in IDC’s Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure North America Awards

SAN FRANCISCO – Analytical Biosciences today announced it has been named a finalist in the inaugural IDC Future Enterprise Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure...

Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services Hack
From Schneier on Security

Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services Hack

Apparently, a nation-state hacked Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services. Not sure why Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services is of any interest...

NEC and Aramco Enter Into HPC R&D Collaboration for Joint Application
From insideHPC

NEC and Aramco Enter Into HPC R&D Collaboration for Joint Application

Düsseldorf, 20 September, 2021 – NEC Deutschland GmbH announced a collaboration with Aramco Europe with the aim of joint development and optimization of various...

TACC’s Stampede2 HPC Simulations Reveal How Cells Regulate Themselves
From insideHPC

TACC’s Stampede2 HPC Simulations Reveal How Cells Regulate Themselves

Supercomputer simulations run on the Stampede2 system of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) have helped scientists studying how cells work understand the...

Pawsey Offers 1st Look at ‘Setonix’ $48M HPE Cray EX Supercomputer
From insideHPC

Pawsey Offers 1st Look at ‘Setonix’ $48M HPE Cray EX Supercomputer

Perth, Australia — The first phase of what the Pawsey Supcomputer Centre said will be the fastest public research supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere has been...

City Wide Quantum Data Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

City Wide Quantum Data Network

 China and Quantum Data NetworksCity-Wide Quantum Data Network in China Is Largest Ever Built  By New Scientist, September 20, 2021China has been running a city...

Sandia Materials and Computer Scientists Help Create Alloys for Hydrogen Energy Storage, Transmission
From insideHPC

Sandia Materials and Computer Scientists Help Create Alloys for Hydrogen Energy Storage, Transmission

LIVERMORE, Calif., Sept. 20, 2021 — A Sandia National Laboratories team of materials scientists and computer scientists, with some international collaborators,Sandia...

Next Generation Brain-Computer Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Next Generation Brain-Computer Systems

Has been kicked around for a long time, how ready is it? Researchers Take Step Toward Next-Generation Brain-Computer Interface SystemBrown University, August 12...

On Search Leadership
From The Noisy Channel

On Search Leadership

As a high-class consultant, I don’t just talk to companies about the technical aspects of search. I also help them them address organizational challenges.For example...

Removing Location Tracking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Removing Location Tracking

Thwarting cellphone tracking.Is Your Mobile Provider Tracking Your Location? This Technology Could Stop It.By USC Viterbi School of Engineering, August 16, 2021...

Taking Altair Structural & CFD Analysis to New Heights with the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors
From insideHPC

Taking Altair Structural & CFD Analysis to New Heights with the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors

At the recent ISC 2021 virtual event in June, I sat down with Kevin Mayo of AMD and InsideHPC’s Doug Black. We discussed how the latest AMD EPYC™ processors are...

Book Review–System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Book Review–System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot is what you get when a top philosopher, a top political scientist, and a top computer scientist get...

From Computational Complexity

The New Jeopardy Champion is a `A CS grad student from a school in New Haven'

 As of Sept 17, Matt Amodio has won 23 straight games in a row on Jeopardy and won over $800,000 in regular play. The following website is not quite up to date,...

Finding Unexpected Training Data?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Finding Unexpected Training Data?

Can we find data that will ultimately lead to novel results.   Like the idea of fitting it to possible . In a  primitive way we looked at means to learn from huge...

Pitfalls of Binary Decisions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pitfalls of Binary Decisions

Good thoughts, but simple is also good. Five ways to avoid the pitfalls of binary decisionsBefore you decide, check how the question is framed to ensure you have...

Ajit Joakar on Digital Twins
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ajit Joakar on Digital Twins

Nicely placed background on analytical method and design based on physical models.The significance of Digital Twins in design and simulation  By Ajit JaokarOpen...

Science and Technology links (September 18th 2021)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (September 18th 2021)

4.5% of us are psychopaths. U.S. per capita CO2 emissions are lower than they were in 1918. 9/10 of People With Alzheimer’s Lose Some of Their Sense of Smell. Graphene...

Biases in AI Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Biases in AI Systems

Excellent piece, broadly useful beyond AI applications.  May 12, 2021, Volume 19, issue 2Download PDF version of this article PDF  Biases in AI Systems     A survey...

The Hacking of McD's Ice Cream Machine
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Hacking of McD's Ice Cream Machine

 A little surreal, but a reminder that anything can be hacked.  I had heard of the problem from McDonalds,  Had been unaware of some of the details involved.  Just...
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