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Would you eat a 3-D printed pizza?
Could you imagine serving a 3-D printed turkey for Christmas lunch? Or munching on a 3-D printed pizza for an afternoon snack…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The threat of technological unemployment
There is a widely reported threat to our economy: robots are going to replace human workers. It is nothing new… In 1930, Keynes, the famous economist introduced...
From insideHPC
Maxeler Dataflow Engine Speeds Compliance Capture and Analytics for Financial Institutions
"As financial institutions acknowledge the importance of data as an asset and as they continue to deploy sophisticated analytics to realize the benefit of thatMaxeler...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Subatomic Particle Research on Titan
By using multiple grids and separating the modes in the problem onto the various grids most efficiently, the researchers can get through their long line of calculations...
From insideHPC
Nimbus Data Patents Parallel Memory Architecture
Today Nimbus Data announced the award of a patent for its non-blocking all-flash architecture. Nimbus Data’s Parallel Memory Architecture scales capacity and performance...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Deep Learning 101
In this AI Podcast, Host Michael Copeland speaks with NVIDIA's Will Ramey about the history behind today's AI boom and the key concepts you need to know to getPodcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wireless Augmented Reality
In Kickstarter (Prototype) .Makes sense, if we want to improve our reality we should not have to be on a wire tether. OKULARION: The First Wireless Mixed Reality...
From Computational Complexity
Hidden Figures
Yesterday in our tradition of seeing math movies on Christmas, we saw Hidden Figures, the story of African-American women who worked as "computers" at NASA in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Notion AI to Improve Email and Communications
Years goal is to improve email capabilities. Was just introduced to the Notion AI system. In particular because it can be linked to the Echo voice system. Notion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding Cognitive Systems
Jim Spohrer of the Cognitive Systems Institute has started a useful curriculum, click through the below for more information. I recently passed along this comment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearables for Eldercare
Some obvious solutions, but improved usability will also be important. Many improved sensory approaches too. These methods also align with memory applications...
From insideHPC
NCI Australia Joins OpenPOWER Foundation
Australia’s National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) has become the first Australian organization to join the OpenPOWER Foundation, a global open technical community...
From insideHPC
Video: How GPUs are Remaking Cloud Computing
In this video from the Nvidia Booth at SC16, Jonathan Symonds from MapD presents: How GPUs are Remaking Cloud Computing. "This video discusses how price/performance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hilton Builds Connie Assistant with Watson
More hotel chains thinking about the usefulness of virtual assistants. Notably includes Watson, and looking at the notion of conversation via a humanoid bot called...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reality on Your Table Spaces
Saw a similar idea which showed architectural drawings represented in front of a client on a table. This will likely advance to provide both demonstration level...
From insideHPC
Jülich Installs New QPACE3 Supercomputer for Quantum Chromodynamics
A new supercomputer has been deployed at the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) in Germany. Called QPACE3, the new 447 Teraflop machine is named for "QCD Parallel...
From insideHPC
Beauty Meets HPC: An Overview of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center
"The multidisciplinary research team and computational facilities –including MareNostrum– make BSC an international centre of excellence in e-Science. Since its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Analytics and Productivity
I like the fact that the word 'Analytics' is used, its not just data science, its what we do with it. Its not all about science its about understanding process...
From updated sporadically at best
We Need To Talk About How We Talk About Science
A while ago, Brian Burg commented on Twitter that he would like to see more discussion of marketing in academia. I decided I'd rather write a meta-post about how...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squidmas Cards
Merry Squidmas. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
