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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: NERVE Center Summer Camp Welcomes Middle School Students to the Field of Robotics
In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity for middle school students to explore the diverse field of robotics....
From insideHPC
CoreWeave and Bloom Energy Partner on AI Data Center Power
SAN JOSE, July 19, 2024 — Solid oxide fuel cell technology company Bloom Energy Corporation (NYSE: BE) and GPU cloud services company CoreWeave have formed a partnership...
From insideHPC
WHPC Announces 20th International Women in HPC Workshop: Lightning Talk Submissions Aug. 16 Deadline
Bicester, England, July, 2024 – The WHPC Executive Committee and Volunteers for SC24 have announced the launch of the 20th International Women in HPC Workshop:WHPC...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Day Three
Before I start on my day three report, I want to suggest people look at Mike Zamansky’s Day Two report on his blog. We attended mostly different sessions and he...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2024 Exhibit Hall
The exhibit hall was impressive this year. I believe three are something like 80 exhibitors. Below is a snapshot of s few of them that caught my eye. The usualFuture...
From insideHPC
TSMC Reports Second Quarter YoY Revenue Jump of 40%, Income up 36%
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Jul. 18, 2024 — TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced consolidated revenue of NT$673.51 billion, net income of NT$247.85 billion...
From insideHPC
Full Circle: Cornelis Names Intel Veteran Lisa Spelman CEO
Interconnect company Cornelis Networks today said it has named Lisa Spelman its new CEO. Spelman joins the company from Intel, which made a major push into theFull...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Joyce Weisbecker: the first indie games developer?
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
From insideHPC
Exascale: Frontier Supercomputer Used in Molecular Dynamics Simulation of 2M Electrons
The exascale- class Frontier supercomputer set a new standard for calculating the number of atoms in a molecular dynamics simulation 1,000 times greater in size...
From Schneier on Security
Criminal Gang Physically Assaulting People for Their Cryptocurrency
This is pretty horrific: …a group of men behind a violent crime spree designed to compel victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency savings. That announcement...
From insideHPC
U.S. in Preliminary $400M Deal with GlobalWafers to Build 300mm Silicon Wafer Fabs
The U.S. Department of Commerce yesterday announced a proposed $400 million CHIPS + Science Act investment to build what the agency said would be the first domestic...
From Computational Complexity
The Story of Shor's Algorithm
The quantum factoring algorithm of Peter Shor (FOCS 1994, SIAM Review 1999) turns thirty this year. Before his algorithm, quantum computing lacked the killer app...
From insideHPC
Crusoe to Build 200MW AI Data Center, Then Expand at 1.2 GW Lancium Clean Campus
SAN FRANCISCO and Abilene, TX — July 18, 2024 — Crusoe Energy Systems LLC announced it is building a 200 MW data center at the Lancium Clean Campus outside Abilene...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Day Two
Day two starts with sessions for ALL attendees. I started proctoring a session called Classroom To Career – CS Curriculum With a Purpose. This was a session presented...
From insideHPC
Argonne Lab Unveils Upgraded Advanced Photon Source
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) Argonne National Laboratory has emerged from a year-long shutdown ready for its second act. “Together with Argonne's new exascale...
From The Noisy Channel
Is Search Trying Too Hard?
Last year, the emergence of ChatGPT and its ability to generate volumes from short prompts led me to speculate about the compressibility of thought. In a related...
From insideHPC
LightSolver Announces Management Changes
TEL AVIV, Israel – July 16, 2024 – Laser-based computing company LightSolver today announced the appointment of Amir Oz as Chief Operations Officer and Miki Sapir...
From insideHPC
Riverlane Partners with Atlantic Quantum on Error Correction
July 17, 2024 — Quantum error correction technology company Riverland and Atlantic Quantum, a developer of scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computers, today announced...
From Schneier on Security
Cloudflare Reports that Almost 7% of All Internet Traffic Is Malicious
6.8%, to be precise. From ZDNet: However, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be cybercriminals’ weapon of choice, making up over 37% of all...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson