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CES indicates we're still a far way off seeing technology for the home that genuinely fosters our sense of comfort, wellbeing and community.
We could decide to treat people as sensors, and not as things to be sensed – to observe Kant’s injunction that humans should be “treated as an end in themselves and not as a means to something else”.
Tricia Wang of Sudden Compass pokes holes in big data hype, arguing for the course-correcting power of thick data. I share podcast highlights, such as her dismantling of "data-driven" infatuations.
How might policymakers better understand citizens’ perspectives when designing policy? Put another way, how should we improve and innovate the way policy is made to ensure it becomes more human-centred?
In this video from the DDN booth at SC19, Scot Schultz from Mellanox presents: Connecting Visions: HDR 200GB/sec InfiniBand. "HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand accelerates 31 percent of new InfiniBand-based systems on the current TOP500…
The Norwich Biosciences Institute Partnership (NBIP) is seeking a new Head of Research Computing in our Job of the Week. "We have an exciting opportunity for a strategic High-Performance Computing (HPC) leader to take accountability…
A look of how retailers are using new technology from the recent NRF conference. Human labor and its management still a very important topic.
NRF 2020 Review: Human vs. Machine
by Ron Margulis in Retailwire with further expert…
IBM continues to make alliances in Quantum computing.
Quantum Machines Joins the IBM Q Network
TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Machines (QM), creators of The Quantum Orchestration Platform, a complete hardware…
So many groups working on how to make such models smaller and faster. Not different from the very long hunt for faster models to solve optimization problems over the years. Discussion is technical.
A Tool to Simplify Complex…
Decrease in skill increase. Lots of other interesting skills, in particular by language. Now lets get the quality and intelligence up
New Alexa Skill Data Show New U.S. Skills Launched in 2019 Fall to Lowest Level Since 2016
Bret…
This is fantastic work: In total, the researchers identified approximately 2.7 billion DNA base pairs, which is around 90 percent the size of the human genome. There's nothing particularly special about that size, especially…
If the QR Contact lens finally here in prototype. Has been talked about for some time. Ultimate kind of wearable.
Tech Start-up Develops AR Contact Lenses
Financial Times
Patrick McGee
Start-up Mojo Vision is developing augmented…
Today Groq announced that the company's tensor processing hardware is now available on the Nimbix Cloud for select partners. The Groq processor is designed specifically for the performance requirements of computer vision, machine…
In this Sciencetown podcast, we follow experts from around the world to the epicenter of supercomputing - the annual, North American supercomputing conference or SC19. We ask them to weigh in on how the future of computers, artificial…
In a previous post, I benchmarked the allocation of large blocks of memory using idiomatic C++. I got a depressing result: the speed could be lower than 2 GB/s. For comparison, the disk in my laptop has greater bandwidth. Methodologically…
Good thoughts here, with the usual cautions coming from this source.
Pessimism dematerialized: Four reasons to be hopeful about the future
In More from Less, MIT Sloan School of Management’s Andrew McAfee argues that the “four
by…
Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020 is a platform for the thought leaders from both academia and industry to interact and discuss the visionary ideas, the most important global trends and substantial innovations in supercomputing…
Not unexpected.... classic examples of looking for patterns, then creating efficiency based predictions. Use that to provide the right profitable incentives. Has always been a good place to star, even before AI.
AI… for Pizza…
Researchers at the University of Florida are using XSEDE supercomputers to unlock the mysteries of boron carbide, one of the hardest materials on earth. The material is also very lightweight, which explains why it has been used…
Looks to be of interest, both technical and philosophical. Undergrad view at least, but could inspire people to think about where all this emerging tech and hype is going once again. The word 'Theory' scares many people, but…
A broader take than chatbots, more addressed to solving specific customer service issues. We used the term in loose combination with agent-models to deliver goal-specific assistants. Was always important to have very specific…
'Seeing' is constructing useful models about spaces from sensors to understand and navigate them. Predict current and future states. A good studey of the idea.
An Idea From Physics Helps AI See in Higher Dimensions
The laws of…
Today Mellanox announced that 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand has been selected by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) to accelerate their new world-leading supercomputer, based on Atos’ latest BullSequana…
Novel look to track and verify activity on grants. Testing an innovation.
US Treasury Department testing blockchain tech for tracking federal grants in TheBlockCrypto
The U.S. Department of the Treasury, which manages government…
The Computing Research Association (CRA) seeks a highly motivated individual to serve as a Program Associate for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) subcommittee. The program associate works closely with the CCC Director…
Today Exxact Corporation announced the company is joining the Panasas Accelerate Channel Partner Program. Exxact will become a key distributor and integrator for the Panasas ActiveStor Ultra product line, providing installation…
Today ScaleMP announced that it has accomplished best-ever recorded results for the SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark for any system size of four processors and higher. ScaleMP’s results for 32-, 24- and 16-processor systems are now holding…
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team lays out their tech predictions for 2020. "Henry predicts that we’ll see a RISC-V based supercomputer on the TOP500 list by the end of 2020 – gutsy call on that. This is a double down
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Story of how Tiffany & Company moved all of its inventory from one store to another. Short summary: careful auditing and a lot of police....
James Moawad and Greg Nash from Intel gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "FPGAs are a natural choice for implementing neural networks as they can handle different algorithms in computing, logic, and memory resources in the same device…
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