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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 Computational Complexity
What Happened to MOOCS?
In 2012 I wrote a blog post about the growing influence of Massively Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.John Hennessey, president of Stanford, gave the CRA keynote address...
From Schneier on Security
AI Data Poisoning
Cloudflare has a new feature—available to free users as well—that uses AI to generate random pages to feed to AI web crawlers: Instead of simply blocking bots,...
From insideHPC
Phasecraft: Algorithm Improves Quantum Simulation Efficiency
Bristol, London and Washington, D.C, 26 March 2025: Quantum algorithms company Phasecraft said it has developed a novel approach to quantum simulation that improves...
From insideHPC
Torsten Hoefler Wins ACM Prize in Computing for Contributions to HPC and AI
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Torsten Hoefler, a professor at ETH Zurich, the recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing for fundamental...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
HERSTORIES
Career perspectives from the Professional Chapters Committee as told during the “Celebrating Technology Leaders Episode 16” This March, in celebration of Women’s...
From insideHPC
Alphawave Semi Unveils Optoelectronics Silicon Products for Hyperscalers and AI Interconnect
LONDON and TORONTO – March 25, 2025 – Alphawave Semi (LSE: AWE), maker of connectivity and compute silicon for technology infrastructure, has announced its portfolio...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Congratulations to ACM Fellow Diane J. Cook!
Professor Diane J. Cook, a Regents Professor at Washington State University, is a widely recognised computer scientist, who has most recently been named an ACM...
From insideHPC
LiquidStack Opens Second Manufacturing Facility in Texas
CARROLLTON, Texas, March 25, 2025 — Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced that it has opened a second manufacturing facility in Carrollton...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Welcomes Five New Professional Chapters in First Quarter 2025
ACM-W is excited to announce five new professional chapters across four continents, expanding its global reach from December 2024 to March 2025. These chapters...
From Schneier on Security
Report on Paragon Spyware
Citizen Lab has a new report on Paragon’s spyware: Key Findings: Introducing Paragon Solutions. Paragon Solutions was founded in Israel in 2019 and sells spyware...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
High School Cybersecurity Course–What Belongs
The last few years have seen a huge expansion in the number and types of cyber security courses in high schools. Much of this has been driven by a growth in the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Unsigned comparisons using signed types
There are two main types of fixed-precision integers in modern software: unsigned and signed. In C++20 and above, the signed integers must use the two’s complement...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20250324: Quantum Day at GTC 2025, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Blockchain?, HDD Storage
Happy late March morning to you! Shahin Khan takes charge of this edition of HPC News Bytes, a rapid (8:43) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, of which...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Should K-12 CS Education Be About Belonging in CS
I’ve been rather wrapped up in moving the last few weeks so haven’t been thinking about high school, or K-12, computer science education as I intended since mySchool...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Reconnecting, Celebrating, and Growing: ACM-W North America in Action
Reconnecting and Reenergizing at SIGCSE TS 2025 From February 26 to March 1, ACM-W North America had the pleasure of hosting a booth at the SIGCSE TS 2025 Conference...
From Schneier on Security
More Countries are Demanding Back-Doors to Encrypted Apps
Last month I wrote about the UK forcing Apple to break its Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud. More recently, both Sweden and France are contemplating...
From Computational Complexity
Recording lectures? Posting the Recordings? Using Slides?
The issue of whether to record lectures or post slides or more generally how much material to give to the students is a new question (the last 20 years?) but IWe...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Aaron and the art of art
Aaron is a successful American painter. Aaron’s delicate and colourful compositions on canvas sell well in the American art market, and have been exhibited worldwide...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Sue Sentance: Teaching the world to program
How do you learn to program? How do you best teach programming. When the English school curriculum changed, requiring even primary school students to learn programming...
From insideHPC