Computer Science for All is the President’s proposed $4 billion initiative to empower all American students from kindergarten through high school to learn computer science and be equipped with the computational thinking skills they need to be creators in the digital economy, not just consumers, and to be active citizens in our technology-driven world. Our economy is rapidly … [Read more...]
Minecraft Education Edition Announced after Microsoft Acquires MinecraftEDU
Microsoft is acquiring MinecraftEdu and investing in a new and expanded version of Minecraft for the classroom called Minecraft: Education Edition. This new title – available as a free trial this summer – will build on the learnings from MinecraftEdu while offering an expanded set of features. And in support of MinecraftEdu customers, they can continue to useMinecraftEdu and … [Read more...]
Microsoft Opensources Javascript Engine
Microsoft moves more software to an open-source model. ChakraCore is the core part of Chakra, the high-performance JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Windows applications written in HTML/CSS/JS. ChakraCore supports Just-in-time (JIT) compilation of JavaScript for x86/x64/ARM, garbage collection, and a wide range of the latest JavaScript features. ChakraCore also … [Read more...]
New Catalyst Converts Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide to Methanol
A study led by G. K. Surya Prakash, a chemistry professor at the University of Southern California, along with the Nobel laureate George A. Olah, a distinguished professor at the University of Southern California has demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide to methanol in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The benefits are … [Read more...]
NVIDIA video shows how machine-learning is redefining visual search
An NVIDIA video by Nervve shows how machine-learning is redefining visual search. The video can be viewed by clicking here. According to the meeting description: From the exabytes of user generated visual content created daily on web services to the projected 859 Petabytes created every day by surveillance cameras in 2017 - Visual content is all around us. However, huge … [Read more...]
Chrome ‘Brotli’ Compression claimed make web 20%-26% Faster
Google chrome will be updated to utilize the Brotli compression scheme, but only for HTTPS connections. According to Google, Brotli is a whole new data format. that provides 20–26% higher compression ratios over the Zopfli scheme introduced two years ago. In a study ‘Comparison of Brotli, Deflate, Zopfli, LZMA, LZHAM and Bzip2 Compression Algorithms, the authors show that … [Read more...]
Intel RealSense app developer winners 2015
Intel has announced the 2015 application developer winners. Intel® RealSense™ camera fits three cameras into into a small package.: a 1080p HD camera, an infrared camera, and an infrared laser projector. In combination these cameras “see” like the human eye to sense depth and track human motion. The Challenge, run by Intel® Software, aims to educate existing developers, … [Read more...]
2016 Looking Good for Virtual Reality
Being born is a good thing. Announcements at CES 2016 show that consumers will finally be able to get VR hardware in hand - or more aptly on their heads and even under their feet. Oculus announced it will be accepting pre-orders starting today (Jan. 6, 2016) for $599 USD. Deliveries will start March 28, 2016.. Every pre-ordered Rift comes bundled with Lucky’s Tale by … [Read more...]
3D XPoint Memory Poised to Revolutionize System Memory and Storage
3D XPoint™ memory (pronounced 3d cross-point) is a new nonvolatile, memory technology co-developed by Intel and Micron that can deliver, “Up to 4x system memory capacity at significantly lower cost than DRAM”, a hundred times lower latency than today’s best performing NAND, and write cycle durability that is 1000x that of NAND. The 3D XPoint memory technology is … [Read more...]
SC15 Excitement! Bright Computing Provisions and Manages HPC and Cloud Clusters Worldwide
The Bright Computing booth was a bustling hub of happy activity at SC15. Solving cluster deployment issues "headache free" has brought Bright Computing to the forefront in the under-appreciated world of HPC and cloud provisioning as well as generated a global customer (and fan) base. In short, Bright Computing provides comprehensive software solutions for provisioning and … [Read more...]