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Roadrunner? Pfff, your chart-topping 1.105 petaflops are laughable. IBM just announced its 20-freaking-petaflop Sequoia supercomputer due for delivery by 2012. While supercomputer speeds have steadily increased year-over-year, a near 20x jump in calculations per second since the last world ranking is unheard of, even if the system has yet to come on-line. Slated to spend its life simulating nuclear explosions, Sequoia will use 45-nm (PowerPC, presumably) processors with 16 cores per chip for as many as 4,096 processors per rack. That’s a total of 1.6 million cores assisted by 1.6 petabytes of memory. Perhaps all this processing power might help IBM understand the futility of its Lotus Notes strategy.
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If there’s one thing that still grates our nerves, it’s automated calling systems. Or, more specifically, the robotic beings that simply fail to understand our slang and incomprehensible rants. IBM’s working hard and fast to change all that, with a team at the company’s Thomas J Watson research division developing and patenting a computerized voice that can utter “um,” “er” and “yes, we’re dead serious.” The sophisticated system adds in the minutiae that makes conversation believable to Earthlings, and it’s even programmed to learn new nuances and react to phrases such as “shh.” The technology has been difficulty coined “generating paralinguistic phenomena via markup in text-to-speech syntheses,” and while exact end uses have yet to be discussed publicly, we can certainly imagine a brave new world of automated CSRs.
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If there’s one thing that still grates our nerves, it’s automated calling systems. Or, more specifically, the robotic beings that simply fail to understand our slang and incomprehensible rants. IBM’s working hard and fast to change all that, with a team at the company’s Thomas J Watson research division developing and patenting a computerized voice that can utter “um,” “er” and “yes, we’re dead serious.” The sophisticated system adds in the minutiae that makes conversation believable to Earthlings, and it’s even programmed to learn new nuances and react to phrases such as “shh.” The technology has been difficulty coined “generating paralinguistic phenomena via markup in text-to-speech syntheses,” and while exact end uses have yet to be discussed publicly, we can certainly imagine a brave new world of automated CSRs.
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Well, it looks like the long saga of Mark Papermaster’s transition from IBM to Apple is now finally drawing to a close, with the two companies each issuing press releases today announcing that the pesky legal issues have been resolved and that Papermaster is cleared to begin work on April 24th. He’ll be replacing Tony Fadell as head of Apple’s iPod and iPhone hardware engineering teams, and will boast the title of senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting directly to Steve Jobs. Dueling press releases are below.

Read – Apple, “Mark Papermaster to Begin at Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering on April 24″
Read – IBM, “IBM Resolves Lawsuit against Former Employee Mark D. Papermaster”

[Via Mac Rumors]

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