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Artificial Intelligence: Teaching Algorithms to Unlearn

By Dick Weisinger

It’s important to be able to unlearn. This can be true about bad personal habits, but we’re talking here about trained AI algorithms. More frequently there are requirements for trained AI algorithm to unlearn specific data because the particular data…

Semiconductors: Export Controls on EDA Software Will Hurt Chinese Chip Manufacturers

By Dick Weisinger

Today’s computer chips can contain more than a billion transistors, and because of their complexity are only possible to layout using sophisticated electronic design automation (EDA) software. On August 12, 2022, the US Commerce Department announced a ban on EDA…

Storage: Misconfigurations and Vulnerabilities Make Storage and Backup Environments Easy Hacking Targets

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise IT storage and backup environments are lagging considerably behind application and networking security. A 2021 study by Continuity Software analyzed data from 400 different types of enterprise storage devices obtained from customers in banking, financial services, healthcare, and elsewhere.…

Long-Term Data Storage: Molecular Dyes that can Archive Data

By Dick Weisinger

Today it’s easy and cheap to store mega and gigabytes of photographs and documents to cloud storage repositories run by tech giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon. But where will your data be 10, 20, or 30 years out from…

Neural Algorithmic Reasoning: An Approach for Solving Messy Real-World Problems with Algorithmic Elegance

By Dick Weisinger

The use of neural networks in AI research have led to very impressive results which include: Image classification and identification – figuring out what objects are in an image Generation of text that can be written in a certain style…