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Thinking and Teaching about Technology Policy Issues
What are the top technology issues for the 2020s? Brad Smith, Microsoft President, wrote an interesting post about a month ago…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple App Store Generates $1 Billion a Week
An amazing number for the Apple store.Apple’s App Store generates a billion dollars a weekWe’re more willing than ever to buy digital products, and that’s goodOn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Panasonic Cloud Analytics for Safety
Digital 'Seatbelt' combines safety data. A clever play for this problem. Also data for future development of safety methods and devices. "a central nervousPanasonic...
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE and Incooling to Develop Two-Phase Liquid Cooled Servers for High Frequency Trading
Incooling has adopted GIGABYTE’s overclockable R161 Series server platform as the test-bed and prototype model for a new class of two-phase liquid cooled overclockable...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you allocate a large block of memory in C++?
In C++, the most basic memory allocation code is just a call to the new operator: char *buf = new char[s]; According to a textbook interpretation, we just allocated...
From insideHPC
2020 HiPEAC Conference to Showcase European Computing Technologies
The 2020 HiPEAC conference will kick off next week in Bologna to showcase the innovative made-in-Europe technologies driving computing systems from the edge to2020...
From insideHPC
Call for Abstracts: 19th Workshop on High Performance Computing in Meteorology
The 19th Workshop on High Performance Computing in Meteorology has issued its Call for Abstracts. With a theme entitled "Towards Exascale Computing in Numerical...
From Schneier on Security
5G Security
The security risks inherent in Chinese-made 5G networking equipment are easy to understand. Because the companies that make the equipment are subservient to the...
From insideHPC
Spanish Supercomputing Network serves up record computing hours for Science
The Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) closed the year 2019 with a record in the number of processor hours allocated to Spanish researchers in different areas...
From Computational Complexity
What would you do if you showed P=NP? I would reread Factor Man by Matt Ginsberg
Lance has often said (and also in this) that if P=NP that would be great for the world: much more efficient ways to build things, science could be done better,Factor...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections–January 2020
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair ACM-W is kicking off 2020 with lots of exciting news! It with great pleasure that I announce the official establishment of ACM-W Asia...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM Celebrations in North America
er the last two months, three Celebrations were held in three countries of North America reaching over 1,000 students!
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Rising Star Award Recipient: Vivienne Sze
ACM-W would like to announce Dr. Vivienne Sze as the winner of the inaugural ACM-W Rising Star Award.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
The First ACM-W Professional Chapter in Turkey: ACM-W Ankara
As the first professional ACM-W chapter established in Turkey, ACM-W Ankara will organize events and also act as an umbrella organization for the existing ACM and...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Elena Ferrari and Wendy Mackay awarded ACM Fellowship
In December 2019, Prof. Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria) and Prof. Wendy Mackay (Inria -Saclay) were awarded ACM Fellowships, the two women from Europe to...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Will the ExaSky Project be First to Reach Exascale?
In this Lets Talk Exascale podcast, Katrin Heitmann from Argonne describes how the ExaSky project may be one of the first applications to reach exascale levelsPodcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Next Generation Smart Contracts
Some introductory information about smart contractsSee also Ricardian Contracts: "... a method of recording a document as a contract at law, and linking it securely...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Having Fun With Computer Science
There is no question that there are a lot of ways to have fun with computer science. Some of them are inexpensive. Some of them cost a lot of money. You can doComputer...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Planet Formation at SDSC
Researchers are using a novel approach to solving the mysteries of planet formation with the help of the Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center...
From insideHPC
TMGcore teams with FSG as Certified OTTO Ready Electrical Contractor
Today TMGcore announced that Facility Solutions Group (FSG) will be the first OTTO-Ready Electrical Contractor. OTTO is a line of highly efficient, high density...
From The Eponymous Pickle