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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving a webinar via Zoom on Wednesday, May 22, at 11:00 AM ET. The topic is “Should the“...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Learning from the object-oriented mania
Back when I started programming professionally, every expert and every software engineering professor would swear by object-oriented programming. Resistance was...
From Schneier on Security
Another Chrome Vulnerability
Google has patched another Chrome zero-day: On Thursday, Google said an anonymous source notified it of the vulnerability. The vulnerability carries a severity...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New Top500 List
In this episode of @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, Shahin and Doug discuss the big news on the Monday of each annual ISC conference in Germany, the release of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Forwarding references in C++
In C++, there are different ways to pass a value to a function. Typically, at any given time, an object in C++ ‘belongs’ to a single function. The various waysContinue...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Addressing the Unforeseen Deleterious Impacts of Technology
Recent years have seen increased awareness of the potential negative impacts of computing technologies, and yet these harms are often unforeseen when the technology...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240513: ISC 2024 Starts, Quantum Investments, China-Taiwan-TSMC Scenario Planning, Electricity Supply Running Low
Let's take a quick (6:21) run through new developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: ISC 2024 begins today, substantial new investments in quantum continue...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Announces Installations of 9 Grace Hopper-Powered Supercomputers
May 12, 2024 — Nvidia has announced nine new supercomputers using Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips that combined deliver 200 exaflops, or 200 quintillion calculations...
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Announces AI Advisory Committee
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 13, 2024 – HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has launched an expanded AI focus with the announcement of the Hyperion ResearchHyperion...
From insideHPC
New Top500 List: Aurora Joins Frontier in the Exascale HPC Club
Aurora, the Intel-HPE Cray problem-child supercomputer, has officially received the blessing of the Top500 organization as having surpassed the exascale (a billion...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Pac-Man and Games for Girls
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London In the beginning video games were for boys…and then came Pac-Man. Before mobile games, game consoles and PC based...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Peer review is not the gold standard in science
Peer review as we know it today was introduced very late, over a century after the scientific revolution. It happened after Einstein’s time… arguably the most productive...
From Computational Complexity
What is Closed Form? The Horse Numbers are an illustration
In the book Those Fascinating Numbers by Jean-Marie De Konick they find interesting (or `interesting') things to say about many numbers. I reviewed the book inhere...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Just Jim
James Harris Simons just passed away—he preferred Jim so we will use that here. I know that there will be here articles, posts, and special places to read about...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Mating Strategies
Some squids are “consorts,” others are “sneakers.” The species is healthiest when individuals have different strategies randomly. As usual, you can also use this...
From Schneier on Security
New Attack Against Self-Driving Car AI
This is another attack that convinces the AI to ignore road signs: Due to the way CMOS cameras operate, rapidly changing light from fast flashing diodes can be...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
COMPUTATION, LOGIC, AND INFORMATION
The organizers of a conference on this topic is on July 3-5, 2024 at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland are: Wojciech Szpankowski the Director of the Center...
From Schneier on Security
How Criminals Are Using Generative AI
There’s a new report on how criminals are using generative AI tools: Key Takeaways: Adoption rates of AI technologies among criminals lag behind the rates of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Members Spark Attention at Senate Robotics Showcase and Demo Day
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is excited that three members were exhibitors at the Senate Robotics and Demo Day. Holly Yanco (Chair, Distinguished University...
From insideHPC