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Manufacturing pulls together all the tech, data and process, a good read.
McKinsey Talks Industry 4.0 and More
Digital transformations are notoriously difficult to scale up across manufacturing networks, but when implemented successfully…Completely New to me.
An Ancient Namibian Stone Could Hold The Key to Unlocking Quantum Computers?
DAVID NIELD 19 APRIL 2022 in ScienceAlert
One of the ways we can fully realize the potential of quantum computers is by basingScientists…Many behavioral scientists propose and test interventions that attack policy problems by seeking to change individual behavior (adopting an “i-frame”) rather than the system in which they operate (an “s-frame”). Such i-frame…
This week a very good podcast session in TWIT:Security Now: https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/869?autostart=false Regarding the future of security, especially on Open source.
For full text https://www.grc.com/sn/SN…At @HPCpodcast we’ve been fortunate to host some highly distinguished computer scientists and HPC thinkers, people who have shaped supercomputing as the technology has advanced human knowledge and taken on the world’s most vexing…
Chips scans possible to reveal designs
X-Ray Tech Reveals Chip Design in IEEE
No trade secret or hardware trojan can hide from ptychographic X-ray laminography
By ANTHONY F.J. LEVI GABRIEL AEPPLI30 APR 2022
HEN YOU’RE BAKING…Advances in recognition.
An Optimized Solution for Face Recognition
MIT News.Jennifer Michalowski, April 6, 2022
Neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that a deep neural network taught to identify…ST. PAUL, Minn., May 5, 2022 — HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research today announced a special HPC User Forum to be held June 21-22, 2022 hosted onsite by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory…
Useful examples here.
Kraft Heinz’s Latest Tech Investments Tackle Control Tower and Digital Twins
Lisa Johnston Senior Editor
The Kraft Heinz Company is investing heavily in its supply chain resiliency as part of the next step…May 4, 2022 — The SC Steering Committee is seeking future leaders for the SC Conference Series. Nominations for the SC25 general chair are now open and will close on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. To enter a nomination, send an email…
Those who gave up for dead Intel's Omni-Path fabric, which Intel began working on 2012 and stopped supporting seven years later, may want to re-think that. Cornelis Networks, the company breathing life into Omni-Path since 2020…
Obviously, but worth a thought:
Platforms Need to Work with Their Users – Not Against Them
by Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and Andrew Hall, May 04, 2022 in HBR.org
As online platforms have become dominant, many have leveraged their…Fraunhofer work on Etna Sensors
Scientists Spy on Mount Etna with Fiber-Optic Cables
Wired, Matt Simon, April 8, 2022
Scientists at the German Research Center for Geosciences at the Technical University of Berlin, working with…Inventory taking and misplaced items.
Robot Takes Stock of Books at Akita Public Library
The Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
Tsutomu Yamatani, April 12, 2022
The loan and return procedures at the Omonogawa Library in Yokote, Akita Prefecture…Retire from your job, but never retire your mind. Bob Sedgewick is becoming an emeritus professor: When Faculty transfer to emeritus status and retain a professional connection with Princeton, they are expected to conduct their…
It’s easy to assume that because some data is “personal”, protecting it is a private matter. But privacy is both a personal and a collective affair, because data is rarely used on an individual basis, writes Carissa Véliz in…
One of the key success factors of Regulatory Technology ("RegTech") is a commitment to radical user-centricity, according to a new white paper by the World Economic Forum.
LAS VEGAS — May 3, 2022 –Tachyum Inc. today announced it is running applications in Linux interactive mode on Prodigy FPGA hardware with SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing) Linux and the floating-point unit enabled on the FPGA …
The Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium is chasing the utopian tech dream, now being realized in an increasing number of high performance servers, of a high-speed, open-interface interconnect that enables the heterogenous Babel…
Brought to my attention in another study. Am a follower of materials use and supply chain of need and availability. Here as it related to electric vehicles (EVs).
The perfect storm increasing the cost of a crucial metal …May 3, 2022 — The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected 80 graduate students representing 27 states for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program’s 2021 Solicitation 2 cycle. Through…
Amsterdam – May 3, 2022 – Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas announced Ronald Monster is stepping into the position of CEO following a milestone with a new investor and prepares the award-winning company for a prosperous …
Work of a computer program to improve predictions of the physical behavior of industrially important materials, designed with leadership from Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, has been awarded $150,000 through the National Science…
Was also involved in an analysis of making this possible. Still difficult thing to do if we cannot easily determine the value of resources there. Not too much different from mining the earth or ocean, though the risks and…
Very interesting piece, Often the speed of complex simulations can be key. Below an introductory text, makes a good case. More at the link.
Neural Networks Learn to Speed Up Simulations By Chris Edwards
Communications of the…Recall this being studied some time ago. Seeking study.
Can VR Help Ease Chronic Pain?
Virtual reality has emerged as a tool to treat chronic pain and is gaining popularity.
The New York Times Magazine, From ACM TechNews | MayVirtual…Remain intrigued by facial recognition. consider the similarity of its emergence to fingerprint techniques. A comparison is useful. Can having enough data ultimately remove error?
Why Facial Recognition Technology Has an Uncertain…Makes considerable Sense.
Amazon Plans to Invest $1 Billion in Logistics and Robotics Companies
April 21, 2022 Bloomberg
Amazon.com Inc. says it plans to invest $1 billion in companies developing technologies in logistics, supply…Proposals are now being accepted by the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility for access to its AI Testbed, a collection of advanced artificial intelligence accelerators available for science. Researchers interested in using
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