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Monte Carlo Methods to be used by TSA in Risk Assessment

Over the past several years, airport and transportation security has become a major issue in the US and around the world.  The problem is that there are so many different scenarios for what could go wrong, why and how, that it’s unrealistic for security officials to reason about all the variables at play and […]

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Apple Patents Tech for Matrix Multiplication in Vector Processing Unit

With so many hot applications like computer graphics, advanced audio synthesis, and video relying heavily on matrix multiplication, Apple is making efforts to make this process more efficient and accurate with a dedicated vector processing unit (VPU) that can be carried out these operations for various applications.  Rather than having to simplify the […]

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Ray Tracing Goes Mobile

Up until very recently, the job of rendering graphics has been left up to graphics processing units (GPU), which have extremely large bandwidth ideal for processing complex 3D images and converting them to pixels on the screen using rasterization and various shaders.  However, many electronic devices do not have powerful GPU’s, yet […]

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