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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
Humanizing Assistants a kind of Privacy Invasion?
From a retail perspective, with further expert comment.Does humanizing virtual assistants undermine consumer privacy? by Tom Ryan in RetailwireA university study...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: MSST 2020 Mass Storage Conference in Santa Clara
The MSST 2020 Mass Storage Conference has issued its Call for Papers. The event will be held May 4-8, 2020 at Santa Clara University, with the Research Track taking...
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Video: The Parallel Computing Revolution Is Only Half Over
In this video from ATPESC 2019, Rob Schreiber from Cerebras Systems looks back at historical computing advancements, Moore's Law, and what happens next. "A recent...
From Schneier on Security
Artificial Personas and Public Discourse
Presidential-campaign season is officially, officially, upon us now, which means it's time to confront the weird and insidious ways in which technology is warping...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Going More Robotic
Note in particular the emphasis on out of stocks.Walmart Expands Its Robotic Workforce to 650 Additional StoresShelf-scanning devices aim to help reduce out-of-stock...
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Sharing with a Core Scientific Data Model
With data getting more complex, and havig to include many aspects of context-specific metadata, sharing it efficiently can be messy. In our experience the integration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving AI via Deep Learning and Process
Thoughts on how machine learning will improve. I agree that in particular hybrid models that bring in process logic, extensions of RPA methods, and simulation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Project Loon
Was recently reminded of Google's project to deliver internet access to remote Earth locations. Proposed as early as 2008. Now spun off, but still active. here...
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Atos Supercomputer to enhance weather forecasting at ECMWF
Today Atos announced an €80 million contract with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) to supply its for a BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leadership for Reskilling, Relearning
Been a long time proponent of continuous learning and re-skilling aimed at continuously changing tech and goals. This blog is one aspect of that effort. Below...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Our Thoughts on P=NP
The Clay prize anniversary is soon. SME keynote lecture source Evelyn Lamb is a mathematician who is also a journalist. She has a blog called Roots of Unity on...
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Los Alamos National Laboratory joins IBM Q Network for quantum computing
Today Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that it is joining the cloud-based IBM Q Network as part of the Laboratory’s research initiative into quantum computing...
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NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD: Instant Infrastructure for AI Leadership
Darrin Johnson from NVIDIA gave this talk at the DDN User Group. "The NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD is a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputing infrastructure...
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Warrant Canaries are Here
A term that was new to me .... I remember well the notion of the 'canary in the coal mine', the canary tells us by dying, that something has happened. Now theWarrant...
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What Amazon Alexa Announced ot CES
A number of interesting things announced about Alexa at the just completed CES. Hard to understand what is serious investment and what is not. Like to see more...
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Kaiser Permanente Bets on Watch Based Health Compliance
Some good stats about how such compliance sensors like smart watches could be used in pharma.Kaiser Permanente Bets on Smartwatches to Lower CostsThe Wall Street...
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OrCam for Visual, Hearing Impairment
Basically a navigation aid, which could have profound assistive effect, but implies it must be taught specific contexts to be most useful. How hard that is toPersonal...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (January 11th 2020)
The extra wealth that ones acquires by attending college is now estimated to be indistinguishable from zero. The authors control for the parent’s education andContinue...
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Podcast: PSIP Brings Software Development teams together at the Exascale Computing Project
In this Lets Talk Exascale podcast, Elaine Raybourn from Sandia National Laboratories decribes how Productivity Sustainability Improvement Planning (PSIP) is bringing...
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