Abstract: Technologies for enhanced network discovery and configuration include a network with a fabric manager and multiple network devices. A network device requests platform information from a management controller and receives the platform information via a sideband interface. The network device broadcasts a discovery message indicative of the platform information on a link layer network. The fabric manager discovers the network topology with an enhanced link layer discovery protocol and creates a vPOD in the network. The vPOD includes an application network with multiple racks. The fabric manager creates a tagged network domain for the vPOD. The fabric manager sends an out-of-band configuration command to the network device with a tag associated with the vPOD. After receiving the out-of-band configuration command, the network device receives a packet, compares domain metadata of the packet to the tag received from the fabric manager, and routes the packet. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of user interface competence adaptation and fraud detection. The innovation includes a user device that provides a user interface to receive user interactions. A monitoring component monitors user interactions by the user on the user device. The user interactions can be controlling, navigating, or inputting to the user interface. A determination component determines a user proficiency based on the monitored user interactions. A configurator determines and implements a device configuration for the user device based on the determined user proficiency. A security component determines a different user is accessing the user device based on a change in user proficiency exceeding a threshold change. The security component implements security measures upon determine a different user has access.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to providing a technology based learning platform for persons having autism. According to an aspect, skills of interest for a user are identified. The user is then aided in acquiring each of the identified skills. The progress of the user for each skill is monitored and a dashboard is provided to display the progress of the user for the skills.

Abstract: In some examples, a system includes a plurality of fluid ejection devices, a fluid ejection controller, and a plurality of data lines shared by the plurality of fluid ejection devices and connected between the fluid ejection controller and the plurality of fluid ejection devices. A first data line of the plurality of data lines communicates data of a first memory of a first fluid ejection device of the plurality of fluid ejection devices, and a second data line of the plurality of data lines communicates data of a second memory of the first fluid ejection device.

Abstract: A method, a communication device, and a computer program product for identifying a live phone call. The method includes receiving, at a first communication device, an activation of a verification mode for a phone call. The method includes receiving, from a second communication device on the phone call, first audio data associated with the phone call. The method further includes determining, via a processor of the first communication device, if the first audio data contains machine originated audio, and in response to determining that the first audio data does not contain machine originated audio , generating and outputting an alert that the phone call is live.

Abstract: A method, a communication device, and a computer program product for identifying a live phone call. The method includes receiving, at a first communication device, an activation of a verification mode for a phone call. The method includes receiving, from a second communication device on the phone call, first audio data associated with the phone call. The method further includes determining, via a processor of the first communication device, if the first audio data contains machine originated audio, and in response to determining that the first audio data does not contain machine originated audio, generating and outputting an alert that the phone call is live.

Abstract: Technologies for accelerating edge device workloads at a device edge network include a network computing device which includes a processor platform that includes at least one processor which supports a plurality of non-accelerated function-as-a-service (FaaS) operations and an accelerated platform that includes at least one accelerator which supports a plurality of accelerated FaaS (AFaaS) operation. The network computing device is configured to receive a request to perform a FaaS operation, determine whether the received request indicates that an AFaaS operation is to be performed on the received request, and identify compute requirements for the AFaaS operation to be performed. The network computing device is further configured to select an accelerator platform to perform the identified AFaaS operation and forward the received request to the selected accelerator platform to perform the identified AFaaS operation. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A method includes detecting a keyword within an audio stream. The keyword is one of multiple keywords in a database, in which each of the multiple keywords relates to at least one of multiple domains in the database. The database stores a first confidence weight for each of the multiple keywords that are related to a first domain among the multiple domains. Each first confidence weight indicates a probability that a corresponding keyword relates to the first domain. The method includes determining whether a first confidence weight of the keyword is at least equal to an activation threshold value associated with the first domain. The method includes, in response to the first confidence weight of the keyword meeting the activation threshold value, activating a DS-ASR engine corresponding with the first domain to perform speech-to-text conversion on the audio stream.

Abstract: A method and data processing device for detecting a communication between a first and second entity. The method includes identifying whether a previous communication between the first and second entity has been detected. In response to identifying that the previous communication between the first and second entity has been detected, the method determines an elapsed time since detection of the previous communication. The method predicts a topic of the communication, in part based on the determined elapsed time. The topic corresponds to a specific domain from among a plurality of available domains for automatic speech recognition (ASR) processing. The method triggers selection and activation of a first domain specific (DS) ASR engine from among a plurality of available DS ASR engines to utilize a smaller resource footprint than a general ASR engine and facilitate recognition of specific vocabulary and context, in part, based on the elapsed time since the previous communication.

Abstract: Mechanisms for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chaining and unified FPGA views to a composed system hosts and associated methods, apparatus, systems and software A rack is populated with pooled system drawers including pooled compute drawers and pooled FPGA drawers communicatively coupled via input-output (IO) cables. The FPGA resources in the pooled system drawers are enumerated, identifying a location of type of each FPGA and whether it is a chainable FPGA. Intra-drawer chaining mechanisms are identified for the chainable FPGAs in each pooled compute and pooled FPGA drawer. Inter-drawer chaining mechanism are also identified for chaining FPGAs in separate pooled system drawers. The enumerated FPGA and chaining mechanism data is aggregated to generate a unified system view of the FPGA resources and their chaining mechanisms. Based on available compute nodes and FPGAs in the unified system view, new compute nodes are composed using chained FPGAs.

Abstract: A method and system that enhances a service life of a battery is provided. The method includes values of a set of operational characteristics of a plurality of electrochemically active materials of at least one electrode of the battery. The set of operational characteristics include a voltage, a change in accumulated energy, a change in ohmic resistance, and a change in a rate of change in accumulated energy with respect to a rate of change in ohmic resistance. The values are compared with predefined values of the set of operational characteristics. A rate of depletion and a type of depletion of each of the plurality of electrochemically active materials are determined, and a range of the State of Charge, a range of the voltage, and a range of current to operate the battery for enhanced service life are determined.

Abstract: A processor-implemented battery management method includes iteratively determining fractions of components in an electrode of a battery; calculating a composite state of charge (SoC) of the battery by applying the iteratively determined fractions of the components to a composite cathode model used to predict a state of the battery; and predicting the state of the battery based on the calculated composite SoC.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound selected from Formula I and a process for preparing the same, wherein, R2, T, L1, A, G, J, n, W, Z and Z1 are each as defined in the description. The invention also relates to the combination and composition comprising the compound of Formula I.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that stores first hardware related data to a basic input output system (BIOS) memory area and generates a mailbox data structure, wherein the mailbox data structure includes a first identifier-pointer pair associated with the first hardware related data. Additionally, the technology may generate an operating system (OS) interface table, wherein the OS interface table includes a pointer to the mailbox data structure. In one example, the technology also stores second hardware related data to the BIOS memory area at runtime and adds a second identifier-pointer pair to the mailbox data structure at runtime, wherein the second identifier-pointer pair is associated with the second hardware related data.

Abstract: Techniques are described for policy driven on-demand tunnel creation and deletion between end points in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) having a hub-and-spoke topology. A software-defined networking (SDN) controller that facilitates cloud-based services of a service provider network that sets up the SD-WAN is configured to determine whether a tunnel between end-points is to be created or deleted based on information indicative of the traffic, such as amount, time, application generating the traffic, and the like, between end-points.

Abstract: Described is a computing platform, which comprises: a non-volatile memory having a firmware boot program; and a CPU to execute the firmware boot program when the CPU is reset, the firmware boot program including instructions to create Power and Performance Measurement (PPM) interface data structures including an error injection table structure to provide error injection services to an OS.

Abstract: Techniques for improving the execution of database queries in a multi-processor system or distributed processing system environment are provided. In a database system including multiple parsing engines (PEs) for parsing database queries, or requests, received by the system and generating execution plans for the requests, execution plans generated for requests can be saved in a global request cache accessible to each of the parsing engines. Requests which have been parsed and cached by a PE can be retrieved for use by other PEs, thereby avoiding unnecessarily parsing the same database request in multiple PEs. The global request cache may be a distributed cache consisting of request caches local to each parsing engine, with execution plans allocated to the local request caches using hashing techniques applied to the database requests associated with the execution plans.

Abstract: In some examples, a system includes a plurality of fluid ejection devices, a fluid ejection controller, and a plurality of data lines shared by the plurality of fluid ejection devices and connected between the fluid ejection controller and the plurality of fluid ejection devices. A first data line of the plurality of data lines communicates data of a first memory of a first fluid ejection device of the plurality of fluid ejection devices, and a second data line of the plurality of data lines communicates data of a second memory of the first fluid ejection device.

Abstract: A method of estimating an available power of a battery may include: receiving discharge data associated with the battery and a minimum voltage cut-off of the battery; determining one or more discharge curves based on the discharge data; estimating a model representing the one or more discharge curves; calculating a plurality of parameter values of the model at a plurality of time intervals; and estimating the available power of the battery based on the plurality of parameter values and the minimum voltage cut-off of the battery.

Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for optimizing load scheduling for a power plant having one or more power generator units. An exemplary method and corresponding system can involve detecting an event indicative of a need for adapting one or more constraints for an objective function used in load scheduling. On such detection, the objective function is analysed to determine adaptive constraint values for the one or more constraints for optimally solving the objective function. These adaptive constraint values can be used to solve the objective function and the solution of the objective function with the one or more adapted constraint values can be used to operate the one or more power generation units of the power plant.