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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
China Tech Giants Known as the BATs
New to me. Video at the link.Who are the Chinese tech giants know as the BATs? : BBCFacebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google have become formidable tech giants...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Join My Meeting
Slightly surprising given Google's recent moves, will work with Google Suite and also MS Office, Skype, Zoom, Chime and others. For a limited time open to all“Alexa...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain: Why, When and How? Link it to Process
Cautionary tale about Blockchains and all that in the TechRepublic. With links to Gartner stats. Fatigue only if it is not appropriately linked to real process...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Setting up a ROCKPro64 (powerful single-card computer)
A few months ago, I ordered ROCKPro64. If you are familiar with the Raspberry Pi, then it is a bit of the same… an inexpensive computer that comes in the form of...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking on "Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers" at Oxford University on Monday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Redesigns their Overall Shopping Experience
They needed to, and the outcome is worth understanding. Remove confusion, intelligently combine sources, frictionless ....Making it easier to shop across Google...
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Set Deep Learning Performance Record on ResNet-50
Today Intel announced a deep learning performance record on image classification workloads. "Today, we have achieved leadership performance of 7878 images per second...
From insideHPC
Quadric.io to Build “Supercomputer for Edge Devices”
Today chip startup Quadric.io announced plans to build the world’s first "supercomputer" specifically designed for the real-time needs of autonomous systems. "Instead...
From insideHPC
EuroHPC – The EU Strategy in High Performance Computing
Thomas Skordas from the European Commission gave this talk at EuroHPC Summit Week in Poland. "The EuroHPC Summit Week brings together relevant European supercomputing...
From insideHPC
Univa Powers ASIC Designs at eSilicon
Today Univa announced that eSilicon has selected Univa’s Grid Engine to help manage its complex FinFET ASIC and IP designs and scale its environment, as well as...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 9 – Interview with Beth Mynatt Part 1
A new episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast is out now! In this episode Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Beth Mynatt, the Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Internet, Dogs, and the ABC Conjecture
An inappropriate comment on the ABC conjecture Joseph Oesterlé and David Masser are famous for their independent discovery of the ABC conjecture. Today I want to...
From insideHPC
Aerospace Moving Forward with Modeling and Simulation
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Gemma Church writes that the aerospace industry is stuck in the past – but it isn't due to a lack...
From Wild WebMink
OSI Board Evolution
I spent last week in New York at the annual new-inductees face-to-face Board meeting of the Open Source Initiative Board (pictured below – Christine Hall is also...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clothes Folding Robot Closes
One of the ultimate examples for home chore completion was washing, drying, folding, ironing and putting away your laundry. Well the company that had a demoIs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and the Dark Web
Intriguing interactions. Again a pointer towards looking for patterns of data and activity.Artificial intelligence shines light on the dark webby Kylie Foy, Massachusetts...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections–May 2019
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Scholarships News from ACM-W Europe Welcome from the ACM-W Chair On April 12-13, ACM-W once...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo Adds Home Security Feature
An unexpected security feature for the smart home. No additional hardware required.Amazon’s Echo can now detect when someone is breaking into your home in Fastcompany...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptanalysis of SIMON-32/64
A weird paper was posted on the Cryptology ePrint Archive (working link is via the Wayback Machine), claiming an attack against the NSA-designed cipher SIMON. You...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog