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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Scaling and Fame

Scaling the pandemic is different from scaling the US budget Sydney Morning Herald interview source Terence Tao is now “properly” famous. He was cited earlier this...

Ayar Labs Establishes UK Subsidiary, Adds to Executive Team
From insideHPC

Ayar Labs Establishes UK Subsidiary, Adds to Executive Team

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & LONDON — In order to address the UK and European market demand for in-package Optical I/O, Ayar Labs has established an international subsidiary...

Rigetti Launches Scalable Multi-chip Quantum Processor
From insideHPC

Rigetti Launches Scalable Multi-chip Quantum Processor

BERKELEY, Calif.— June 29, 2021 — Rigetti Computing, a full-stack quantum computing company, announced today it is launching what it said is the world’s first multi...

NSF DCL: Opportunities for Collaboration between CISE and SBE Researchers
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF DCL: Opportunities for Collaboration between CISE and SBE Researchers

The computer and information science and engineering (CISE) fields can benefit greatly from collaborations with the social, behavioral, and economic science (SBE)...

DHS Offers ML Funding
From The Eponymous Pickle

DHS Offers ML Funding

Examples of funding out there.   Note detection and classification examples.  Fast and relatively simple applications. Interesting Opportunities.DHS Awards $2M ...

Risks of Evidentiary Software
From Schneier on Security

Risks of Evidentiary Software

Over at Lawfare, Susan Landau has an excellent essay on the risks posed by software used to collect evidence (a Breathalyzer is probably the most obvious example)...

Pose Detecting Carpet for Health Monitoring
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pose Detecting Carpet for Health Monitoring

 Quite a remarkable set of hardware and AI software out of MIT to detect human 'poses'.  See an image at the link to see what this looks like and how it can beIntelligent...

Atos: 10 New HPC Entries in Top500 Supercomputer List
From insideHPC

Atos: 10 New HPC Entries in Top500 Supercomputer List

Paris — June 29, 2021 — Atos today announces that 10 new supercomputers, based on its BullSequana X high-performance infrastructure, are in the TOP500 global supercomputing...

Quantum Errors Not Random, Tied to Cosmic Rays, Researchers Say
From insideHPC

Quantum Errors Not Random, Tied to Cosmic Rays, Researchers Say

Research by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) physicist and a group of collaborators is shedding light on one of the major challenges to realizing...

At Virtual ISC: Atos Talks Its New ‘ThinkAI’ Offering
From insideHPC

At Virtual ISC: Atos Talks Its New ‘ThinkAI’ Offering

At virtual ISC, we interviewed Atos’ Eric Eppe, head of Solution Marketing, HPC, AI & Quantum Solution Marketing & Portfolio; and Cédric Bourrasset, AI Distinguished...

Food & Beverage Consumer Research and Prospective Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Food & Beverage Consumer Research and Prospective Marketing

 Mady new kinds of prospective marketing enabled by AI methods that How PepsiCo uses AI to create products consumers don’t know they want  in VenturebeatBy Sage...

Blinkist for Speeding up Content Acquisition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blinkist for Speeding up Content Acquisition

This brought to mind some work I was involved with at the University of Pennsylvania's Language Laboratory.   We worked with more efficient ways to deliver books...

At Virtual ISC: Getting Caught up with Gilad Shainer and Nvidia’s ‘Data Center on a Chip’
From insideHPC

At Virtual ISC: Getting Caught up with Gilad Shainer and Nvidia’s ‘Data Center on a Chip’

At virtual ISC 2021, we sat down with Gilad Shainer, Nvidia’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and a long time figure – with a background at high performanceAt...

Banning Surveillance Based Advertising?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Banning Surveillance Based Advertising?

 Bruce Schneier talks about the Norwegian Consumer report on the topic.  He quotes the intro below. Which is a good   Its worth looking at the comments in his post...

Dell Releases Open Source Suite Omnia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dell Releases Open Source Suite Omnia

 This was new to me, lots more detail at the link. I like the combination of AI, analytics and process workload,  which is the way it should be.  Dell releasesBy...

Amazon's Ring Will Ask Police to Publicly Request User Videos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon's Ring Will Ask Police to Publicly Request User Videos

Making things as hard for police as you can. Amazon's Ring Will Ask Police to Publicly Request User VideosBy Bloomberg,  June 7, 2021Starting this week, law enforcement...

UK Adopts Alan Turing Note
From The Eponymous Pickle

UK Adopts Alan Turing Note

BravoNew 50-pound British Banknote Honors Computer Pioneer Alan TuringBy Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Netherlands)The Bank of England this week will releaseOn...

NVIDIA and Partners Launch HGX A100 Systems for Industrial AI and HPC
From insideHPC

NVIDIA and Partners Launch HGX A100 Systems for Industrial AI and HPC

NVIDIA today announced a revamp of its NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform with new technologies that fuse AI with high performance computing, designed to make...

Argonne Researchers Use AI to Optimize Material Coating for Making Microprocessors
From insideHPC

Argonne Researchers Use AI to Optimize Material Coating for Making Microprocessors

To make computer chips, technologists around the world rely on atomic layer deposition (ALD), which can create films as fine as one atom thick. Businesses commonly...

New Supermicro Servers Featuring NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs
From insideHPC

New Supermicro Servers Featuring NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs

San Jose, June 28, 2021 — Super Micro Computer, Inc., a maker of enterprise computing, storage, networking and green computing technology, announced SupermicroNew...
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