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The following Great Innovative Idea is from Ehsan Hoque, Asaro-Biggar (’92) Family assistant professor of Computer Science and interim Director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science at the University of Rochester. Hoque was…
Optimizing Infrastructure Through AI
Makes sense that Cisco would be into this, nicely explained below. I like the visualization of the process. Optimization of all sorts of static and dynamic resources to achieve a goal is…
Looking at some use cases for the adoption of big data in industries that deal with physical things, and drawing some inferences.
Further, related to my current data and activity investigation, its also very useful to see how Google uses Location History Tracking to infer aspects of behavior and activity, implications are that it works very well. You
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In this video, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich presents: Scientific Benchmarking of Parallel Computing Systems. "Measuring and reporting performance of parallel computers constitutes the basis for scientific advancement of high…
Nothing? Well at least not what they expected, or were willing to reveal. Still, negative examples are useful.
Blockchain: What’s it good for? Absolutely nothing, report finds
In a joint report for the Monitoring, Evaluation,…
Management in context and some forecast of future context is powerful.
" ... Achieving digital alpha in asset management
The ability to generate value through digitization will increasingly separate leaders and followers in North…
The research group AI Now just published its annual report. It's an excellent summary of today's AI security challenges, as well as a policy agenda to address them. This is related, and also worth reading....
With a new upgrade, the University of Birmingham is set to benefit from the largest IBM POWER9 machine learning cluster in the UK, delivering unprecedented performance for AI workloads. Working with OCF, the high-performance
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In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Ziv Kalminovich from VMware describes how the company's powerful virtualization capabilities bring flexibility and performance to HPC workloads. "With VMware, you can capture the benefits of…
Intel has a long history of making important announcements at the annual Supercomputer shows, and this year was no exception. This guest post from Intel covers what new technology was front and center from Intel at SC18, including…
The TV show The Big Bang Theory portrays academia so I am naturally curious how realistic it is. I have posted about this before (see here) in the context of whether actual things they say about physics are true. Today I post…
On the arithmetic complexity of the matrix transpose [ KKB ] Michael Kaminski, David Kirkpatrick, and Nader Bshouty are complexity theorists who together and separately have proved many wonderful theorems. They wrote an interesting…
Yesterday morning, I read a news article that my former student Scott Krulcik had died. Surely they’ve got the wrong guy, I thought.
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| Scott on an apple-picking trip that he helped organize. |
In this video SC18, Jack Wells from ORNL describes how OpenACC enables scientists to port their codes to GPUs and other HPC platforms. "OpenACC, a directive-based high-level parallel programming model, has gained rapid momentum…
Today Equus Compute Solutions rolled out its new G2660 2U 2xGPU server, ideal for artificial intelligence and deep learning environments. This GPU platform offers higher performance, reduced rack space requirements, and lower…
The Game of Questions, once again looking at a means of questioning to gather knowledge ... we explored this idea from a game perspective.
Back in 2013, posted about this:
https://eponymouspickle.blogspot.com/2013/09/asking-questions…
Making data more intelligently available to analytics. Integrating data assets.
Nielsen, Microsoft Unveil Strategic Data Alliance
Nielsen and Microsoft have jointly developed an enterprise solution that brings the former’s consumer…
I recommend the links at the bottom of Peter Norvig’s post: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
Followup with AINow, promoting regulation and transparency in the AI development space.
After a Year of Tech Scandals, Our 10 Recommendations for AI (Outline Overview)
Let’s begin with better regulation, protecting workers,
Today…
In the process of looking at modeling processes that link to and handle incident driven operations, I was pointed to:
Atlassian: Opsgenie
Plan and prepare for incidents
Determine who should respond
Use templates to prepare messaging…
I like the pieces from Think with Google, good to follow.
We often addressed the problem when dealing with the term 'Optimal', which often followed with the question: In what context? under what Constraints? When we use 'best'…
The energy density of lithium-ion batteries doubled between 1995 and 2005 but only increased by about 15% between 2005 and 2015. It is estimated that there is relatively little further gains in energy density possible with lithium…
Machines doing design, and the creative process. How do they interact with people?
A Robot Scientist Will Dream Up New Materials
Technology Review By Will Knight
Cambridge, MA-based startup Kebotix has created machine learning…
Pharma R&D in the ‘age of agile’ From McKinsey
As innovation reshapes the pharma landscape, pharma companies will need to revisit their R&D operating models to thrive. ...
Sent from McKinsey Insights, available in the App Store…
In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Brent Gorda from ARM presents: Arm + Lustre in HPC. At the show, DDN announced that its Whamcloud division is delivering professional support for Lustre clients on Arm architectures. With…
The good folks at the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) Group in Champaign, Illinois is seeking an HPC Software Developer in our Job of the Week. "The HDF Group provides a unique suite of technologies and supporting services that…
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has some problems with the squid emoji. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
Initial report from this work:
Stanford: One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)
Stanford University has invited leading thinkers from several institutions to begin a 100-year effort to study and anticipate…
Five years ago, the NSA published 23 years of its internal magazine, Cryptolog. There were lots of redactions, of course. What's new is a nice user interface for the issues, noting highlights and levels of redaction....
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