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The Scale of Geoblocking by Nation
From Schneier on Security

The Scale of Geoblocking by Nation

Interesting analysis: We introduce and explore a little-known threat to digital equality and freedom­websites geoblocking users in response to political risks from...

2nd ACM Celebration of Women in Computing in Africa: Africa CWIC 2024
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

2nd ACM Celebration of Women in Computing in Africa: Africa CWIC 2024

The organizers of Africa CWIC 2024 report on their 2nd ACM Celebration of Women in Computing. On Friday, 1st November 2024, United States International University...

Mixing Research with Entrepreneurship: Find a need and solve it
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Mixing Research with Entrepreneurship: Find a need and solve it

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Becoming a successful entrepreneur often starts with seeing a need: a problem someone has that needs to be fixed...

Parsing floats at over a gigabyte per second in C#
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Parsing floats at over a gigabyte per second in C#

A few years ago, we wrote csFastFloat, a C# library to parse floating-point numbers faster. Given the string “3.1416”, it computes the binary value 3.1416. TheContinue...

Introducing JUST ACM-W Student Chapter
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Introducing JUST ACM-W Student Chapter

This month, we are introducing the ACM-W Student Chapter at Jordan University of Science and Technology, officially established on August 19, 2024. The chapter...

Exascale: Gordon Bell Prize Team Presents Record-Breaking Algorithm for Chemistry and Biology
From insideHPC

Exascale: Gordon Bell Prize Team Presents Record-Breaking Algorithm for Chemistry and Biology

Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named an eight-member team drawn from Australian and American institutions as the winnerExascale...

Hyperion Annunces 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
From insideHPC

Hyperion Annunces 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards

ST PAUL, Minn., Nov. 21, 2024 — Hyperion Research today announced the recipients of the 20th round of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. Since 2011, these semi-annual...

ACM Presents Winners of Gordon Bell Climate Modelling Prize
From insideHPC

ACM Presents Winners of Gordon Bell Climate Modelling Prize

Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 12-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for...

DOE Office of Science Funds $31M for Research Capacity at Academic Institutions
From insideHPC

DOE Office of Science Funds $31M for Research Capacity at Academic Institutions

WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 21, 2024 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $31 million in funding for 42 projects to 36 institutions in 24 states to...

C1 Edge Research: 99% of Organizations Accelerating Gen AI Adoption
From insideHPC

C1 Edge Research: 99% of Organizations Accelerating Gen AI Adoption

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Nov. 21, 2024 — C1, a global technology solution provider, today published a report titled The Era of AI-Powered Connected Human ExperienceC1...

Hammerspace Reports Records in MLPerf1.0 Benchmark with Tier 0 Storage
From insideHPC

Hammerspace Reports Records in MLPerf1.0 Benchmark with Tier 0 Storage

SAN MATEO, Calif. – November 21, 2024 – Data orchestration platform company Hammerspace has unveiled groundbreaking MLPerf1.0 benchmark results that highlight the...

CCC Q&A: Supporting At-Risk Users Through Responsible Computing Organizers Get Open About Upcoming Workshop
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Q&A: Supporting At-Risk Users Through Responsible Computing Organizers Get Open About Upcoming Workshop

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will be hosting the Supporting At-Risk Users Through Responsible Computing workshop from December 9-10 in Washington, DC...

Meta FAIR and VSParticle Launch Catalyst Database Designed to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition
From insideHPC

Meta FAIR and VSParticle Launch Catalyst Database Designed to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition

Delft, 20th November 2024: In a bid to accelerate the transition to clean energy in the fight against climate change, VSParticle (VSP) – a Dutch nanotechnologyMeta...

MiTAC Computing Unveils AI/HPC Servers at SC24
From insideHPC

MiTAC Computing Unveils AI/HPC Servers at SC24

Atlanta– SC24 – Nov 19, 2024 – MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation, a server platform design manufacturer and a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings (TSE:3706), hasMiTAC...

Where Do Categories Come From?
From The Noisy Channel

Where Do Categories Come From?

In my previous post, I argued that categories are fundamental for search applications. I characterized a robust set of categories as offering coverage, coherence...

Quantum: Atom Computing and Microsoft Report Entangling 24 Logical Qubits
From insideHPC

Quantum: Atom Computing and Microsoft Report Entangling 24 Logical Qubits

November 19, 2024 —    Quantum computing company Atom Computing announced that together with Microsoft they have entangled 24 logical qubits, which they said sets...

Call for Participation: 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum for Outstanding Young Researchers in Mathematics and Computer Science
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Call for Participation: 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum for Outstanding Young Researchers in Mathematics and Computer Science

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) would like to encourage young researchers to consider applying for a spot at the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in...

From Computational Complexity

For what d is the following true: For all 2-colorings of \(R^d\) has a mono unit square (Answering(?) the Question)

 In my last post (see here) I invited you to work on the following question:Find a \(d\) such that--There is a 2-coloring of \(R^d\) with no mono unit square.--For...

ASUS Presents Storage-Server Solutions for AI at SC24
From insideHPC

ASUS Presents Storage-Server Solutions for AI at SC24

Atlanta, Nov. 19, 2024 — ASUS today announced its next-generation infrastructure solutions at SC24, featuring a lineup powered by AMD and Intel, as well as liquid...

Dell Expands AI Factory in Collaboration with Microsoft
From insideHPC

Dell Expands AI Factory in Collaboration with Microsoft

Round Rock, TEXAS – November 19, 2024 — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) introduced AI offerings designed to help Dell and Microsoft customers simplify AI adoption...
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