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Registration is now open for the Stanford HPC Conference. The two day 'condensed' agenda combines thought leadership and practical insights on HPC, AI, Data Science and much more. The virtual event takes place April 21-22. "The…
Today Lifebit Biotech announced it is providing its premium Lifebit CloudOS license free to all researchers and teams working on COVID-19 efforts, including diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines. As increasing demand for widely…
Reasonably done look at things that make sense, we have done much remote work for some time now, years in many cases, but now its just lots more of it.
HBRWK: Business Research for Business Leaders
The New Rules for Remote Work…
Today Nimbix announced the availability of Xilinx Alveo U50 Accelerator Cards on the Nimbix Cloud. "Nimbix has paved the way for FPGA-accelerated cloud computing and today leads with the broadest portfolio of cloud FPGA solutions…
NCSA is joining C3.ai, Microsoft Corporation, and research institutions across the country as part of the new C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai DTI). This new institute, a multi-disciplinary effort focused on artificial…
A company of interest for advanced data visualization. We worked with them in the Enterprise.
Virtualitics Selected fof the Air Force Strategic $7 Million Award
March 16, 2020 By Amy Gunzenhauser
Virtualitics is pleased to announce…
The trade-offs are changing: As countries around the world race to contain the pandemic, many are deploying digital surveillance tools as a means to exert social control, even turning security agency technologies on their own…
UKRI has awarded contracts to run elements of the next national supercomputer, ARCHER2, which will represent a significant step forward in capability for the UK’s science community. ARCHER2 is provided by UKRI, EPCC, Cray (an…
A visual proof with no abstract-algebra overhead Composite crop of src1, src2 Dominique Perrin and Jean-Éric Pin are French mathematicians who have done significant work in automata theory. Their 1986 paper “First-Order Logic…
As part of a larger project that is looking at Data Sources, Open Source Data, Data as an Asset, Data Quality, Data for Machine Learning, Semantic Data, Knowledge Mapping, Metadata and related topics. This looks to be a great…
Recent posts that relate to Contravirus and COVID-19 in this blog. Primarily dealing with data, prediction, data visualization, Modeling, communication, AI and emergent technologies role in addressing pandemic issues. Please…
In this segment from the NPR Here and Now program, Joe Palca talks to researchers using ORNL supercomputers to fight COVID-19. "Supercomputers have joined the race to find a drug that might help with COVID-19. Scientists are
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Now have looked at lots of sites claiming to provide accurate data in this space, and it is clear you can drive wrong results from much that is out there. So this effort addresses a need.
World Health Organization Teams With…
Shahin Khan from OrionX.net gave this talk at the Washington Quantum Computing Meetup. "A whole new approach to computing (as in, not binary any more), quantum computing is as promising as it is unproven. Quantum computing goes…
Vint Cerf on a favorite topic. The senses. He points to two inspirational books on the topic. We are starting to 'understand' senses, at least if we use as a measure how we are able to mimic them.
Multisensory Adventures
By…
More advances in fast vision systems.
Optical System Could Lead to Devices That Can Recognize Objects Instantly
UCLA Newsroom
Matthew Chin
March 4, 2020
An optical neural network developed at the University of California, Los Angeles…
In our day this was integrated with other kinds of analysis and management. It may well make sense to focus this more generally.
The emergence of the professional AI risk manager
By Kenn So in Venturebeat
When the 1970s and
We…
Rand piece on the topic developed for Military scenarios, but could it be used for systems that include coopetition as well? Costs, resources, strategies.
Force Planning in the New Era of Strategic Competition
The RAND Blog
March…
When administration announced we were moving to remote teaching I started adjusting my plans. Now understand that when the semester started I had a plan for every singe school day for every one of my classes. They were greatSo…
In a laboratory, we know how to turn any of our cells into youthful stem cells using something called the Yamanaka. If you expose cells to such factors for a short time, they appear to remain functional specialized cells butContinue…
Ultimately this will take over for most coding.
Low Code And No Code: A Looming Trend In Mobile App Development By Nitin Nimbalkar -
Today’s businesses are implementing enriching their operations with capabilities little by
At…
The Center of Innovation for Flow through Porous media (COIFPM) at the University of Wyoming has multiple openings for highly motivated research scientists to join its computational research branch. The focus of the modeling
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There has been a lot in the news about schools being closed and how schools are dealing with it. There seems to be everything for regular online synchronous teaching like my school is doing to no school at all. A range in between…
Very nicely done, just eight minutes plus animated video about the topic. For the whole family to understand. By the German Kurzgesagt animation studio.
Kurzgesagt Animation Studio (with other language translations)
Amazing: Revealing yet another super-power in the skillful squid, scientists have discovered that squid massively edit their own genetic instructions not only within the nucleus of their neurons, but also within the axon -- the…
Intersect360 Research has released a new report guiding its clients that the market for HPC products and services will fall significantly short of its previous 2020 forecast, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The newly-revised…
Thoughtful and apparently simple idea.
Approach Could Protect Control Systems From Hackers
IEEE Spectrum
Michelle Hampson
March 26, 2020
Researchers at Siemens and Croatia’s University of Zagreb have developed a technique to more
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Note our examination of virtual world retail, mentioned here earlier. This piece gives us a look at the current status of world tech with current supporting tech like VR. Last I looked SL was not heavily used.
Why 'Second Life'…
The US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has published a milestone report that summarizes the status of all thirty ECP Application Development (AD) subprojects at the end of fiscal year 2019. "This report…
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