HPC Meets Smart Cities at SC17 in Denver

We are very excited to present this video live from the SC17 Plenary session on Smart Cities. The Smart Cities initiative looks to improve the quality of life for residents using urban informatics and other technologies to improve the efficiency of services. With the accelerating volume of data about cities, HPC is helping cities to optimize … [Read more...]

A Rolling Development Platform for Autonomous Cars

In this video from SC17 in Denver, Bobby Hambrick from AutonomouStuff describes the company's rolling development platform for self-driving cars. AutonomouStuff is the world’s leader in supplying components used within autonomy systems. The company got its start when CEO Bobby Hambrick noticed a large gap in the industry's supply chain. He … [Read more...]

Interview: ACM Forms Special Interest Group on Smart Cities

In this video, Wilf Pinfold from Urban.Systems describes the Smart Cities Emerging Interest Group, a new addition to ACM. What is a Smart City? The way we like to think about it is that bringing technology to make a city more livable, more workable, more enjoyable to live in, it starts to qualify as smart city. Now there are a lot of ways in which … [Read more...]