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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 ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Invisible Women in IT
By Ingrid Maria Christensen and Melissa Høegh Marcher The lack of IT specialists in Europe is a growing problem, with 63% of European hiring enterprises reporting...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Announcing the New ACM-W Professional Chapters Chair and Committee!
ACM-W is excited to announce the launch of the ACM-W Professional Chapters Committee! This new project team will promote the mission of ACM-W to support the creation...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Transcriptome Analysis of the Indian Squid
Lots of details that are beyond me. Blog moderation policy.
From insideHPC
IBM and Pasqal Expand Quantum-Centric Supercomputing Initiative
Yorktown Heights, New York, and Paris, Nov. 21, 2024 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Pasqal today announced an update to their intended collaboration to build new, integrated...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
From insideHPC