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AUSTIN, TX – February 24, 2021 – Katana Graph, the high-performance scale-out graph processing, AI and analytics company, announced today that it has completed a $28.5 million Series A financing round led by Intel Capital with…
MAISONS-LAFFITTE, France — SiPearl, designer of high-performance, energy-efficient microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer and Open-Silicon Research, the India-based entity of OpenFive, a leading provider of custom…
I had mentioned reading some comments by Roger Schank. Also noted he now has an 'academy', Emphases in Cyber Security, Software Development and Data Analytics. Always liked his fresh approaches, even criticisms of our efforts…
Continued advances in lenses, leading to more capabilities in computational sensors. Continue to be amazed by abilities to take pictures on phones, and capture in real time information about the world and react to it. Advances…
In this insideHPC Guide, “10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI,” our friends over at WEKA offer 10 important questions to ask when starting with AI, specifically planning for success beyond the initial stages of a project…
Certainly changing. What drives such changes, more legislation, which are likely to produce yet more and likely less creative participants. It was lack of govt oversight that drove that creativity.
The worldwide web as we…Suggestions from Tim Mercer, founder of IBOXG, which provides technology services and solutions to government agencies and corporations. Cybersecurity breaches have become all too common, putting public health, individuals’ private…
SEOUL — Feb. 24, 2021 — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced it has begun mass producing its most advanced line of data center SSDs, the PM9A3 E1.S. The new PM9A3 fully complies with the Open Compute Project (OCP) NVMe…
SUNNYVALE, CA and CAMBRIDGE, UK, February 24, 2021 – Crown Bioscience (CrownBio), JSR Life Sciences and Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced a partnership agreement to explore the application of quantum technology…
Recall our previous mentions of D-Wave Quantum Methods.
Using a method called quantum annealing, D-Wave's researchersBy…Paris and Madrid, February 23, 2021 – Atos announced it has been selected by the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) to supply and install its computing and storage technology, through the tender “Contracting of Supply…
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Feb. 23, 2021 – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions company, today announced record-breaking annual revenue of $400 million and its highest ever profitability in…
Taipei, Taiwan, Feb 23, 2021 – Rackmount server and storage manufacturer, Chenbro (TWSE: 8210), has announced a new line of updates to its open-bay server chassis products. Joining Chenbro’s existing open-bay products, the new…
23 February 2021 – Oxford, UK: The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) will provide machine learning guidance to Microsoft Azure users via the new Azure HPC & AI Collaboration Centre. In partnership with NVIDIA, this new centre …
Of interest, the future of Voice nd AI. Will be following.
Voice Talks Rises to the Clouds for February 25 Episode by Eric Hal Schwartz in Voicebot.ai
Modev’s VOICE Talks Presented by Google Assistant will peer into the future…Industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has completed its latest study of high performance computing buyers and users, it’s first since 2017, and the report reveals a quickly evolving and innovating industry in which, among other…
An increasing number of National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) solicitations, including the CISE Core Programs (for which SMALL Projects do not have a submission deadline), are…
Is it the future of display to have information pinned on the wall. Or floating in space?
Qualcomm’s new AR ‘Smart Viewer’ lets you pin virtual screens to your walls
Lenovo adopted the design for its ThinkReality glasses
By Adi…I see that our interesting correspondent and critic from before the first AI winter, Roger Schank, has posted a note strongly criticizing IBM on AI and cognitive claims. Below an excerpt, link through to more:
They are not …SAN JOSE, Feb. 23, 2021 – Addressing the demands of the modern data center, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced a range of new data center products and solutions, including a new family of Alveo SmartNICs, Smart World…
Zurich – Feb. 23, 2021 – RISC-V International, a non-profit corporation controlled by its members to drive the adoption and implementation of the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), unveiled its Fast Track…
CAMARILLO, CA, Feb. 23, 2021 –Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, today announced sampling of a new solution (GN2255), Semtech’s Tri…
Reston, Virginia – February 23, 2021 – ScienceLogic, provider of AI-driven monitoring solutions for hybrid cloud management, announced today that it has raised $105 million in growth financing. Silver Lake Waterman led the company…
In my post on Alex Trebek, see here, I noted that Jeopardy! is not a good name for the game show since it doesn't tell you much about the show. Perhaps Answers and Questions is a better name.
The following game shows have names…Programmers often write out numbers as strings (e.g., 3.1416) and they want to read back the numbers from the string. If you read and write JSON or CSV files, you do this work all of the time. Previously, we showed that we could…
Excellent Brookings paper: “Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy.”
From the introduction:
Treating data like it is property fails to recognize either the value that varieties of personal information…Big follower of astronomy and astronautics. Connections to modern computing are also of continued interest. The latest efforts to Mars are instructive. What else can be done to support the capability for modern, long distance…
Interesting, recall the announcement then, mostly technical points are made here, but worth noting. Not clear then hw this will effect Microsoft's work in the space, if at all.
Microsoft’s Big Win in Quantum Computing Was …Good thoughts, somewhat obvious, but still useful tips about the ideas involved.
Modernizing Data Dashboards. Posted by Technovert Solutions on February 21, 2021 in DSC.
Modernizing is critical to apply the latest technologies…The following Great Innovative Idea is from Daniel Larremore, Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder Computer Science Department and the BioFrontier Institute, where he leads Larremore Lab. In addition, he holds…