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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 insideHPC
Riken Claims Quantum Breakthrough: Entanglement of Three Spin Qubits
Researchers at Japan’s RIKEN scientific research institute have claimed a breakthrough in quantum computing, increasing the number of silicon-based qubits thatRiken...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hybrid Smart Contracts
Uses and considerations:5 Ways Hybrid Smart Contracts Are Changing the Blockchain Industry by 7wDataFor years, the blockchain industry has been defined by the...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Ram’s Horn Squid Shells
You can find ram’s horn squid shells on beaches in Texas (and presumably elsewhere). As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Driven Video to Enhance Work Environment?
Seen hints of this in my increased use of Youtube for keeping connected with tech changes. Of course it is Google that is controlling the details of the AIHow...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy UnBirthday Ken
Mad Hatter: Now, statistics prove, prove that you’ve one birthday. March Hare: Imagine, just one birthday every year. Mad Hatter: Ah, but there are three hundred...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computer Race in China
Why and in what direction?Competing Visions Underpin China’s Quantum Computer Race Alibaba builds their own qubits, Baidu remains quantum hardware-agnostic By ...
From insideHPC
Cerebras Alliance Offers CS-2 AI Supercomputer as Cloud Service
High performance AI chip maker Cerebras, maker of the Wafer-Scale Engine, the world’s largest computer chip, today announced Cerebras Cloud @ Cirrascale, delivering...
From Schneier on Security
Zero-Click iMessage Exploit
Citizen Lab released a report on a zero-click iMessage exploit that is used in NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Apple patched the vulnerability; everyone needs to update...
From insideHPC
Human Brain Project’s EBRAINS Shares Laptop-to-Supercomputer Brain Simulator
EBRAINS, a new digital research infrastructure set up by the EU-funded Human Brain Project, has made available a brain simulation software, called NEST 3, for use...
From insideHPC
Indian Institute of Tech, Max-Born Institut Team Say Graphene Valleytrionics Could Enable Room Temperature Quantum
A research team from the Indian Institute of Technology and Max-Born Institute of Germany have published a study on a novel approach for encoding quantum information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Fusion Power with AI
More moves towards fusion.Can AI Make a Better Fusion Reactor? Nuclear physics may be one of machine learning's newest frontiers Rebecca SohnSince the 1940s, physicists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey On Autonomous Plants
The autonomous plant: Entering a new digital era September 10, 2021 | Article McKinseyBy Gopal Chakrabarti, Dominik Don, Micah Smith, and Premal VoraThe autonomous...
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Launches High-Density HPC and HCI Servers with Gigabyte
Calgary, Alberta. September 16, 2021 – CoolIT Systems Inc., a maker of modular, scalable data center liquid cooling technology, has announced a joint product launch...
From insideHPC
ALCF, IIT Team Develops Benchmark for Scientific Deep Learning Efficiency
The emergence of deep learning techniques has provided a new tool for accelerating scientific exploration and discoveries. A group of researchers from the Argonne...
From insideHPC
HPC/AI in the Spotlight: Jensen Huang Named to Time Magazine’s Most Influential People List
Estranged royalty, movie stars and Olympic athletes have influence, sure, but if you want to build a list of people with lasting impact then Time magazine got it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Italian Data Protection Authority Queries Smart Glasses
I thought there might be some regulatory push back on Facebook smart glasses that gather and store data and images, here perhaps the first case. Italy DataReuters...
From insideHPC
DOE Funds $13M Project for Adapting Scientific Software for HPC
A project involving researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and national lab and academic collaborators has received U.S. Department of Energy...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming Oct 19 deadline for NSF Graduate Research Fellowships: Applicants and Reviewers encouraged
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) and JD Kundu (Deputy Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Foundational AI?
We worked with Stanford in the early days of AI. Can't we all get along? I like the idea of using foundational definitions to decide what to emphasize on next...
From insideHPC