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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Asperitas Launches Direct Forced Convection Immersion Cooling
Amsterdam – June 25, 2024 – Thermal management company Asperitas today launched Direct Forced Convection technology, designed to enable scale, power and reliability...
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Aug. 1 Deadline for Margaret Butler Fellowship in Computational Science at Argonne
June 25, 2024 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s Margaret Butler Fellowship in Computational Science is accepting applications until Thursday, Aug. 1...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking the M-209
Interesting paper about a German cryptanalysis machine that helped break the US M-209 mechanical ciphering machine. The paper contains a good description of how...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Can Robots Be Mentors For Children?
In today’s rapidly advancing technological landscape, robots are seen as a potential tool for childhood education and development. From educational resources to...
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HPC News Bytes 20240624: GPU Price War?, Rectangular Chip Packaging, AI for Science Assistant, Big HPC-AI Systems Keep Coming
Good first-Monday-of-summer morning to you! Here’s a rapid (6:35) run-though recent HPC-AI news, including: GPU price war in the offing?; the big chip companies...
From The Noisy Channel
Is Similarity Objective?
Some search problems have binary answers. We often frame these problems in terms of matching or equivalence. A simplistic formulation of relevance is that a canonicalized...
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Diraq Quantum Adds Deeptech and Venture Investors to $22M Investment Round
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – JUNE 24, 2024 – Quantum computing company Diraq today announced the expansion of its investment round, bringing the total raised to USD $22Diraq...
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CEA-Leti Announces Launch of FAMES Pilot Line As Part of EU Chips Act
GRENOBLE, France – June 24, 2024 – CEA-Leti announced the kick-off meeting today of the FAMES Pilot Line, a project aimed at advancing semiconductor technologies...
From Computational Complexity
Soliciting open problems in honore of Luca T for my Open Problems Column
As you all know Luca Trevisan, a Giant in our field, passed away at the too-young age of 52. See Lance's post on Luca HERE. As the editor of the SIGACT News Open...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome to our new ACM-W Rising Star Committee Chair!
Silvia is Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain. She is also Director of the Master’s Degree in Software...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Performance tip: avoid unnecessary copies
Copying data in software is cheap, but it is not at all free. As you start optimizing your code, you might find that copies become a performance bottleneck. Let...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Advice To First Timers at #ISTE24 or #CSTA2024
Summer conference season is coming up. ISTE starts this weekend (without me) and CSTA (with me) is in July. Over the years I have been to scores of conferences...
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GENCI to be Site of 2nd EuroHPC Exascale HPC System
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a hosting agreement with the French national research organization GENCI for its next exascale supercomputer, called Alice...
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Wave Photonics Secures £4.5M Investment Round
June 20, 2024 — Wave Photonics, a Cambridge-based start-up, has received £4.5 million to develop on-chip photonics designs for quantum technologies, sensors, and...
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IQM Quantum Opens Data Center in Germany
Munich, 21st June 2024 – IQM Quantum Computers today announced the opening of its first quantum data center in Munich to support industry applications, with plans...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Coordinate conundrum puzzles and vector graphics
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One way computers store images is as a set of points (as coordinates) that make up lines and shapes. This is the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Validating gigabytes of Unicode strings per second… in C#?
We have been working on a fast library to validate and transcode Unicode and other formats such as base64 in C++: simdutf. We wondered: could we achieve the same...
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Classiq Teams with BMW Group and Nvidia for Quantum Applicability in Electrical Systems
TEL AVIV | June 20, 2024 — Classiq today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA and the BMW Group to optimize mechatronic systems. The initiative is focused on solving...
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