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America’s lead in advanced computing is almost gone

Part 2: Semiconductor Manufacturing

Abstract In Part 1, we focused on the decline in U.S. leadership across multiple dimensions of advanced computing.  It’s well understood that progress in these systems is intimately dependent upon advances in the underlying hardware, and specifically the processor (CPU), graphics (GPU), and ASIC accelerators.  In Part 2, we focus on the design of semiconductor […]

Abstracting Redistricting: Non-Geographic Evaluation of the 2022 Congressional Maps

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    Discussions of redistricting throughout history have focused almost solely on the shape of the legislative maps; cuts through cities or across bays, awkward appendages, even animal-like silhouettes have all made headlines as states finish the decennial process of redrawing their Congressional maps. Articles that top google search results, like the Washington Post’s ranking […]