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Self Checkout is Harder than it Should be
More on the use of the automated checkout process and related issues, with links to a survey and review:Shoppers have a love/hate…
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Tachyum Processor to power 2021 AI/HPC Supercomputer
Today semiconductor company Tachyum announced today that its Prodigy Processor AI/HPC Reference Design will be used in a supercomputer at an unnamed customer site...
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Fujitsu to Deploy Arm-based Supercomputer at Nagoya University
Today Fujitsu announced that it has received an order for an Arm-based supercomputer system from Nagoya University's Information Technology Center. "For the first...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Iowa Caucus 2020–What Happens When Software Doesn’t Work?
It’s too early to tell exactly what went wrong with the Iowa caucus this year but I suspect it will wind up being a case study in several ways. Political Science...
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Podcast: Rewriting NWChem for Exascale
In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, researchers from the NWChemEx project team describe how they are readying the popular code for Exascale. The NWChemEx team’s...
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DIII-D Researchers Use Machine Learning to Steer Fusion Plasmas
Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility achieved a scientific first this month when they used machine learning calculations to automatically preventDIII...
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Efficient Model Selection for Deep Neural Networks on Massively Parallel Processing Databases
Frank McQuillan from Pivotal gave this talk at FOSDEM 2020. "In this session we will present an efficient way to train many deep learning model configurations at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Upgrades Debate AI Tool to Better Derive Evidence
Intriguing approach to mining information to support a goal directed conversation. A key aspect to making conversational systems more powerful. Note also the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Healthcare Supply Chain
Useful and logical piece here. Good additional data at the link.Five Tips for Optimizing Healthcare Supply ChainsBy James Hickland, SCB ContributorHealthcare supply...
From Schneier on Security
New Research on the Adtech Industry
The Norwegian Consumer Council has published an extensive report about how the adtech industry violates consumer privacy. At the same time, it is filing three legal...
From Putting People First
The first of a thousand nights – ToNite project opening event
Presentation event on 14 February in Torino of the European project that aims to improve the liveability of the areas around the river Dora
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Smart Surface Improves WiFi
From the images , seems it may be difficult to install, but having a more universal surface could be quite useful for smart home and business installations.MIT's...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Tricks of The Trade
Tricks are used in deep results. [ IAS ] Pierre Deligne is a famous number theorist who has won most of the top honors in mathematics. Among many achievements he...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competition in Retail Pricing Algorithms
Algorithms don't just come from the suggestion of AI methods, we worked with many, over many years. Here an attempt to infer retail pricing strategies from data...
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vScaler Launches AI Reference Architecture
A new AI reference architecture from vScaler describes how to simplify the configuration and management of software and storage in a cost-effective and easy tovScaler...
From Putting People First
La prima di mille notti – Evento di inaugurazione progetto ToNite
Evento di presentazione del progetto europeo che intende migliorare la vivibilità delle aree attorno al fiume Dora
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Computing Community Consortium at AAAS 2020
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to be a part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2020 Annual Meeting taking place...
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Reflecting on 10 Years of Active Archive
In this special guest feature, Molly Presley from the Active Archive Alliance reflects on how the unstructured data storage industry has evolved and the implications...
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Call for Submissions: 8th Annual Altair Enlighten Awards
Today Altair announced that the 2020 Altair Enlighten Awards is now open for submissions. Presented jointly with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), the 8th...
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Researchers transmit genome sequence using quantum cryptography
Tohoku University Medical Megabank Organisation (ToMMo) has demonstrated the world’s first quantum cryptography transmission of whole-genome sequence data in collaboration...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson