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Ryan Quick works at the crossroads of advanced technology innovation, where hyperscale, HPC and AI come together. A principal and co-founder of boutique consulting firm Providentia Worldwide, which implements systems solutions…
The first online CSTA Conference is now about 24 hours behind me. I was fortunate to experience it both as an attendee and a presenter. After mulling it over a bit I have to say it was a much better experience than I expected…
We visited Japan in the 90s to talk robotics in retail. Ended up mainly seeing eldercare and related home solutions. Impressed, but did not see that many really implemented. Is this changing now? Will Pandemic add to new…
What looks like a minimalist robot, but with a great reach. Evidently primarily for tele-operation. And thinking about it, reach is a big component of convenience in a home, say for assisting a disabled person. Unclear if it…
Struck me as quite interesting, how do we make societal decisions? Can we learn the right information to support the right decisions? You can usually state sub problems in a way that they can optimized based on goals and constraints…
The NSA's Central Security Service -- that's the part that's supposed to work on defense -- has released two documents (a full and an abridged version) on securing virtual private networks. Some of it is basic, but it contains…
Piece in Venturebeat talks 6G and says it will fundamentally enable tech like holograms and Digital Twins. Note the date, 2028 is a long way out to predict. And the two technologies are very different. Digital Twins,
Samsung…
We looked at many applications of the smart shopping cart for work in our innovation centers. The idea seemed to fade then, after 2010, and none of them succeeded in real practice. Now surprisingly, Amazon, which has been …
In this episode, we drill down on what Intel is doing with their cool Optane memory tech, shooting for speeds that remind you of memory, sizes that look like storage, and costs that make it look like a deal, with real byte-addressable…
An area we spent lots of time in, Fraunhofer provides an introduction. Combinations of available solutions that can be quickly chosen from can be a key approach.
Algorithms for optimized supply chains
Cost-effective ways to minimize…
Welcome to the 2020 OpenFabrics Workshop video gallery. The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is focused on accelerating development of high performance fabrics. The annual OFA Workshop, held in virtual format this year, is a premier…
The first thing I did this morning was to prepare for my presentation. I may have made some last minute changes to my presentation deck.
The first thing I attended was a Birds of a Feather session called White Teachers as Anti…
Using the Google Cloud, aiming at personalized experiences.
Google Cloud Helps Power More Personalized Experience for Procter & Gamble Consumers in PRNewswire CISION
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Google Cloud…
The Flatiron Institute, New York, a community of scientists using modern computational tools to advance the basic sciences, is deploying a 320-node addition to its research cluster that will be managed by cluster management software…
Good general introduction. Impressed by the approach being worked on.
AI Enables Efficiencies in Quantum Information Processing
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
July 8, 2020
Researchers from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development…
Like the general thought, measures are important, but what is driving and changing the measures? Another example of maintaining the model in use. Changes will happen.
Modern IT KPIs emphasize cloud, DevOps and user experience…
Emphasizing the automated, inevitable that such method will be more broadly integrated with general IT analytics. But will also require automated updating of their use in context.
AutoML: Not A Magic Bullet, But A Powerful Business…
A new caution regarding how machine learning can lead to extraction of IP.
Reverse Engineering of 3D-Printed Parts by Machine Learning Reveals Security Vulnerabilities
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
July 1, 2020
Researchers at
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Intriguing thought, though the actual result, 8 percent, seems it might be within the noise of measurement. Work recording the institute name, which I had not heard of.
Too many security tools weaken enterprise incident response…
Intel is the prime vendor for the first US exascale supercomputer, the Aurora system, scheduled for delivery in 2021 at Argonne National Lab. The late Rich Brueckner of insideHPC caught up with Intel’s senior principal engineer…
A four-rotor Enigma machine -- with rotors -- is up for auction....
Day one of the online CSTA 2020 conference has been today. I’m blogging this as the day goes on and posting it at the end of the day. We started with welcome remarks and some tutorial about using the Hopin conference platform…
Industry analyst firm Hyperion Research announced today that it and the HPC User Forum Steering Committee are accepting submissions for the 16th round of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. The program started in 2011 and has…
The first steps in large scale replacement of human labor?
Tyson Turns to Robot Butchers, Spurred by Coronavirus Outbreaks
The Wall Street Journal
Jacob Bunge; Jesse Newman
Engineers and scientists at meatpacking company Tyson Foods…
Been at times responsible for cable rooms, and know of the messiness in manipulating cable. Never thought of this being solved by robotics. In fact thought of it as a particularly difficult thing to do that way. This particular…
Scientific inquiry, in The Edge
The Shifting Terrain of Scientific Inquiry
A Conversation with David Kaiser
Most historians of science, certainly these days, consider themselves historians. That means we use historical methods of…
Taking a look at this as a possible means for capturing contextual insights.
Google pushes “text fragment links” with new Chrome extension
New feature can deep-link to specific text on a Web page, with highlighting. ...
Ron Amadeo…
Dr. Patrick Flick, a software engineer at Google who earned his PhD in computational science from Georgia Tech in 2019, has won the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (ACM…
Ramping up AI technology holds the key to deploying robotic arms at-scale. This case study "Industrial Servers Ramp Up AI for Robotic Arms" from our friends over at Advantech explores the benefits of augmenting robotic arms with…
A personal account of someone who was paid to buy products on Amazon and leave fake reviews. Fake reviews are one of the problems that everyone knows about, and no one knows what to do about -- so we all try to pretend doesn't…
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