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Visiting the NSA
Yesterday, I visited the NSA. It was Cyber Command's birthday, but that's not why I was there. I visited as part of the Berklett…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: More Materials Science from Squid Skin
Article: "How a Squid's Color-Changing Skin Inspired a New Material That Can Trap or Release Heat." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Hawaii
Recently I've heard Edward Snowden talk about his working at the NSA in Hawaii as being "under a pineapple field." CBS News recently ran a segment on that NSA listening...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Driverless up to the Doorstop
Most interesting is that the computing power for the 'robot' will be from the vehicle. Good now, but I wonder if advances will make this unnecessary. The wheel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI More Human by Adding Dilemma
Wondering if the Prisoners Dilemma is the right thing to use here, but agree that showing typical human emotions can bring sympathy to a machine as it can to humans...
From insideHPC
HPC Powers Evolution of Defects for Superconductors
Researchers are using supercomputers to introduce and assess the impact of different configurations of defects on the performance of a superconductor. "When people...
From insideHPC
New Blueprint lays out Strategic Research Agenda for HPC in Europe
The European ETP4HPC initiative has published a blueprint for the new Strategic Research Agenda for High Performance Computing. "This blueprint sketches the big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Estate Investment Support via Blockchain
Brought to my attention to support a potential project, examining motivation of block chains, their architecture and integrated smart contact use.For Real Estate...
From insideHPC
Colombian and Botswana Researchers Awarded ISC Travel Grant
Today ISC 2019 announced the recipients of the ISC Travel Grant this year will be from Columbia and Botswana. The winners will each be awarded a grant of 2500 euros...
From insideHPC
Video: The First Catalan Quantum Computer
Pol Forn from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre gave this talk at the BSC Annual Meeting. "QUANTIC is a joint venture between the Barcelona Supercomputing Center...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deriving Scent from DNA?
Way back when we were looking at scent and flavor in consumer products, we talked to scientists about the possibility of extracting these measures from DNA ofScience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Puppets the Human Face
With lots of interesting video examples at the link. From Samsung's AI group. Fascinating and also a scary. When will we not need actors at all? First I had...
From Schneier on Security
Germany Talking about Banning End-to-End Encryption
Der Spiegel is reporting that the German Ministry for Internal Affairs is planning to require all Internet message services to provide plaintext messages on demand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New IOT Security Features
As more susceptible devices are out there, they need to be better protected.Rice U. Researchers Unveil IoT Security FeatureRice University By Jade BoydResearchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Reports Your Blood Sugar Level
An example of smart home data reporting, though not sure how they have gotten beyond regulations in the space.Alexa, Whats my Blood Sugar Level? in WiredAmazon...
From Computational Complexity
Logic Then and Now
This week I attended the Association of Symbolic Logic North American Annual Meeting in New York City, giving a talk on P v NP. First I must share the announcement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bosch is Thinking IOT Smart Contracts
An example of SC use by big players, here with IOT transactions. No what happens when the code goes beyond counting coins?Why Bosch is jumping on the Ethereum ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Duo Group Video
Notable this is available for bot IOS and and Android. Will take a look. Ability to share docs and screens for sharing work? Integration with Google Drive...
From Schneier on Security
German SG-41 Encryption Machine Up for Auction
A German auction house is selling an SG-41. It looks beautiful. Starting price is 75,000 euros. My guess is that it will sell for around 100K euros....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Signage
An area we spent lots of time on in innovation labs, check out the 'digital signage' tag below for more.About this event and signup,The latest interactive, future...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog