Wes Garland, Chief Technology Officer at Kings Distributed Systems, shares his vision for redefining the future of distributed computing.

Distributed Computing on the Web Stack - Wes Garland

In this episode of the O’Reilly Data Show, I spoke with Fang Yu, co-founder and CTO of DataVisor. We discussed her days as a researcher at Microsoft, the application of data science and distributed computing to security, and hiring and training data scientists and engineers for the security domain.

Using Apache Spark to Predict Attack Vectors Among Billions of Users and Trillions of Events

I recently talked to Sean Suchter, co-founder and CEO of Pepperdata, about why Spark has become so popular and where it still presents challenges. Spark represents the evolution of how the computer field understands and is addressing the challenge of handling big data (a term I will casually use without trying to define—any definition you care to plug in will be relevant for this discussion).

Sean Suchter on the promise and challenges of Spark

Moore's Law -- putting more and more transistors on a chip -- accelerated the computing industry by so many orders of magnitude, it has (and continues to) achieve seemingly impossible feats. However, we're now resorting to brute-force hacks to keep pushing it beyond its limits and are getting closer to the point of diminishing returns (especially given costly manufacturing infrastructure). Yet this very dynamic is leading to "a Cambrian explosion" in computing capabilities… just look at what's happening today with GPUs, FPGAs, and neuromorphic chips. Through such continuing performance improvements and parallelization, classic computing continues to reshape the modern world.

But we're so focused on making our computers do more that we're not talking enough about what classic computers can't do -- and that's to compute things the way nature does, which operates in quantum mechanics. So our smart machines are really quite dumb, argues Rigetti Computing founder and CEO Chad Rigetti; they're limited to human-made binary code vs. the natural reality of continuous variables. This in turn limits our ability to work on problems that classic computers can't solve, such as key applications in computational chemistry or large-scale optimization for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Which is where quantum computing comes in.

But what is quantum computing, really -- beyond the history and the hype? And where are we in reaching the promise of practical quantum computers? (Hint: it will take a hybrid approach to get there.) Who are the players -- companies, countries, types of people/skills -- working on it, and how can a startup compete in this space? Finally, what will it take to get "the flywheel" of application development and discovery going? Part of the answer comes full circle to the same economic engine that drove previous computing advances, argues Chris Dixon; Moore's Law, after all, is more of an economic principle that combined the forces of capitalism, a critical mass of ideas, and people moving things forward by sheer will. Quantum computing is finally getting pulled into the same economic forces as well.

a16z Podcast: Quantum Computing, Now and Next

Carl Bass is the former CEO of Autodesk - a 3D design company located in San Francisco. As of the time of this interview, Bass was a special adviser to Larry Page and his team at Alphabet (including Google X), as well as adviser to a number of startups working to improve the physical world.

Carl Bass: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Bass

Autodesk:
https://www.autodesk.com/

Amar Hanspal: 
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/autodesks-amar-hanspal-talks-about-the-future-of-manufacturing/

Chris Anderson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Anderson_(writer)

3D Robotics:
https://3dr.com/

Joe Decuir:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_C._Decuir

RI Podcast 18:   Carl Bass - Generative Design, Distributed Computing, Autodesk and Beyond

In this podcast, I talked with Martin Zorn, the President and COO of the world's leading provider of risk management solutions, Kamakura Corporation. 

I reached out to Kamakura recently because of their unique position in relation to what could have been ground zero for a catastrophic event to the likes that we have not seen this century. I am referring to the event on January 13th 2017, when the emergency broadcast system in Hawaii sent out a (false alarm) message to all cell phones, radio, TV and every other mechanism available. It read "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL".

Kamakura Corporation has regional offices in the US, Canada, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. However, their headquarters are located in Honolulu, Hawaii. As a company focussed on risk management, they were perfectly positioned to offer their insight into what the immediate and residual effects would be to their organization if the event in Hawaii was not a false alarm.
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https://DesigningRisk.com

Intro music: 
Artist - Trifonic 
Album - 9th Wave
Track - Baalbek
http://www.trifonic.com/

Technology emergence podcast

001 - Operational risk for global organizations in the wake of a ballistic missile attack

Any company looking to learn more about blockchain technology will quickly find that there are different network deployments - Permissioned (where the network is closed to invite-only nodes) and Permissionless (where the network access and participation are publicly available). Which network type makes sense for your use case?

In this episode of the Fluree Video Podcast, Brian Platz (Co-CEO and Co-Founder @ Fluree) takes us through the key differences between permissioned and permissionless blockchains, along with a discussion on factors to consider when choosing. Key tradeoffs include time, money, privacy, and efficiency. Key factors to consider are data relevancy and data security. 
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Website: www.flur.ee
Docs: http://docs.flur.ee
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FlureePBC
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fluree-pbc/
Medium (Blog): http://medium.com/fluree
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/flureepbc
Contact: Support@flur.ee

Brian Platz Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianplatz/
Brian Platz Website: https://www.platz.me/

Fluree Blockchain Podcast Ep 3: Permissioned Versus Permissionless [Part 1]: Overview

Today’s monolithic mainframe approach to computing will soon be shattered and dispersed because that’s the nature of computing, according to Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey. This is a visionary talk he gave to technology analysts at .NEXT in Anaheim, California in 2019.

Digital Transformation - Modernizing IT

Dheeraj Pandey: Shattering Monoliths – Dispersion of Computing

This podcast focuses on issues that are top of mind for many people in the cybersecurity industry. We take a deep dive into those topics and address them head-on with a Canadian perspective.
In this podcast, we look at interactions and patterns between computing systems, people and processes in an effort to predict and understand emergence within them.

Music: Trifonic - Baalbek

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