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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 Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Global Internet Community Encouraged to Submit Event Proposals for UA Day 2025
Event proposals are now being accepted for the third annual Universal Acceptance (UA) Day, to be held on or around 28 March 2025 (between 1 March and 30 May 2025)...
From Schneier on Security
US Federal Court Rules Against Geofence Warrants
This is a big deal. A US Appeals Court ruled that geofence warrants—these are general warrants demanding information about all people within a geographical boundary...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Bank holiday fun: website whimsy, and try your hand at making 3D pictures
Happy Summer bank holiday from CS4FN!
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Inaugurates the Luiz André Barroso Award
It has been almost a year since computer scientist Luiz André Barroso passed away. On September 16, 2023, he left a huge legacy behind. Barroso was a distinguished...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Self-Healing Materials from Squid Teeth
Making self-healing materials based on the teeth in squid suckers. Blog moderation policy.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: NCSA Gives Students Opportunities to Learn About Machine and Deep Learning
In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity for undergraduate students across the country to work on cutting-edge...
From Schneier on Security
Take a Selfie Using a NY Surveillance Camera
This site will let you take a selfie with a New York City traffic surveillance camera.
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance Watch
This is a fantastic project mapping the global surveillance industry.
From insideHPC
Sandia and Arizona State to Integrate Photonics and Light-Wave Frequency for Quantum Processing
Aug. 22, 2024 — SandiaNational Laboratories and Arizona State University are collaborating to combine quantum technology and large-scale optical systems into integrated...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Responds to the NITRD Request for Information on Digital Twins Research and Development
Envisioning a future of digital twins leads to near limitless possibilities. Researchers predict digital twins will become increasingly personalized, with every...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Foundations of Computer Science
Santosh Vempala is the chair of this FOCS 2024 conference. Here is the schedule of the talks. And in our next section are the accepted papers with links so you...
From Putting People First
Refreshed Experientia presentation
We just shortened and refreshed our company presentation.
From The Noisy Channel
Handling Facets With Many Values
The previous post addresses the challenge of selecting which facets a search application should present to searchers as query refinements. However, there is another...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: ECP Software Leader Mike Heroux on Building and Sustaining Exascale-Class Codes
The @HPCpodcast is delighted to have Dr. Mike Heroux as special guest to discuss HPC software in general and, in particular, his work as the Exascale Computing@HPCpodcast...
From Computational Complexity
The Levin Translation
Earlier this summer I attended a Celebration for Leonid Levin who recently turned 75. To prepare my talk I wanted to go back to Levin's 1971 two-page Russian masterpiece...
From Schneier on Security
Story of an Undercover CIA Agent who Penetrated Al Qaeda
Rolling Stone has a long investigative story (non-paywalled version here) about a CIA agent who spent years posing as an Islamic radical. Unrelated, but also in...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
5 Ways to Build Resilience to Disinformation
In 2020, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) published the quad paper “An Agenda for Disinformation Research,” where seven researchers came together to share...
From insideHPC
Academic Supercomputing Community Gathers at TACC Frontera User Meeting
Aug. 19, 2024, Austin, TX — More than 50 scientists gathered in Austin for the 2024 Frontera User Meeting held at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), August...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Questions Keeping Me Awake Tonight
It’s about 2:45 AM as I start this post. Why am I writing at this hour? Well, it’s because some things are keeping my mind from shutting down and maybe by writing...
From insideHPC