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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 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
CS for Social Good White Paper Competition
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in conjunction with Schmidt Futures, will sponsor and administer a white paper competition on the future of “CS for Social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use of AI in Retail
Useful to see how big retail is thinking this.BBQ Guys and Lowe’s discuss best practices for implementing AI tech by Guest contributor Bryan Wassel, Associate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lifelong Learning with Nets?
Considerable challenge. True we can get more data over time to improve our learning. But my guess is that the architecture nets will also change as well. How...
From insideHPC
TACC Powers Climate Studies with GRACE Project
Researchers are using powerful supercomputers at TACC to process data from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). "Intended to last just five years in...
From Schneier on Security
Thangrycat: A Serious Cisco Vulnerability
Summary: Thangrycat is caused by a series of hardware design flaws within Cisco's Trust Anchor module. First commercially introduced in 2013, Cisco Trust Anchor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Robots with Personality
We always attribute a bit of personality into our devices, but what amount and kind is useful for the best results, and minimal unintended consequences??Character...
From insideHPC
Call for Workshops: HiPEAC 2020 in Bologna
The HiPEAC 2020 conference has issued its Call for Workshops. The event takes place January 20-22, 2020 in Bologna, Italy. "The HiPEAC conference is the meeting...
From insideHPC
Ian Foster to receive IEEE Charles Babbage Award
Ian Foster has been selected to receive the 2019 IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) Charles Babbage Award for his outstanding contributions in the areas of parallel...
From insideHPC
Epic HPC Road Trip Continues to NCAR
In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX continues his Epic HPC Road Trip series with a stop at NCAR in Boulder. "Their ability to increase model precision...
From insideHPC
Are Memory Bottlenecks Limiting Your Application’s Performance?
Often, it’s not enough to parallelize and vectorize an application to get the best performance. You also need to take a deep dive into how the application is accessing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evaluating the Use-ability of VR
Useful to see the proposal of a measure here, regarding usability. How Usable Is VR? University of GottingenPatrick Harms at the University of Gottingen in Germany...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Following Locations on Google Maps
Clever idea. Let places advertise to you by alerts. Monetizes the map with change alerts for a place. Events etc. Now I just want Google to work on repairNow...
From insideHPC
TACC Upgrades Ranch Storage System for Wrangling Big Data
TACC has completed a major upgrade of their Ranch long-term mass data storage system. With thousands of users, Ranch archives are valuable to scientists who want...
From insideHPC
New Paper: Nanophotonic Neural Networks coming Closer to Reality
Over at the Intel AI blog, Casimir Wierzynski writes that Optical Neural Networks have exciting potential for power-efficiency in AI computation. "At last week’s...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog