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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 Noisy Channel
Take Searchers Seriously, Not Literally
Search application developers manage numerous tradeoffs, foremost the tradeoff between precision and recall. Precision measures the fraction of search results that...
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $118M for Energy Frontier Research Centers
Sept. 4, 2024 — Ten Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) designed to bring together teams of scientists for fundamental research have been funded in nine states...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Parity Games
August EditionA quasipolynomial-time algorithm for a long standing open problem. Yes, we have two of them this decade.Deciding Parity Games in Quasi-polynomialCristian...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Participation: Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research
The Community Computing Consortium (CCC) is engaging in a new visioning activity to craft a research agenda focused on how human-computer collaborations can solve...
From Schneier on Security
Security Researcher Sued for Disproving Government Statements
This story seems straightforward. A city is the victim of a ransomware attack. They repeatedly lie to the media about the severity of the breach. A security researcher...
From Schneier on Security
List of Old NSA Training Videos
The NSA’s “National Cryptographic School Television Catalogue” from 1991 lists about 600 COMSEC and SIGINT training videos. There are a bunch explaining the operations...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Compressing floating-point numbers quickly by converting them to brain floats
We sometimes have to work a large quantity of floating-point numbers. This volume can be detrimental to performance. Thus we often want to compress these numbers...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240902: Nvidia and Blackwell Hit Limits, Revved-Up AI Inference and Oncoming Regulations, HPC in Russia
Happy Labor Day to you! From the world of HPC-AI, we offer a rapid (5:57) review of recent news, including: Nvidia and Blackwell push technology's limits, bigHPC...
From Schneier on Security
SQL Injection Attack on Airport Security
Interesting vulnerability: …a special lane at airport security called Known Crewmember (KCM). KCM is a TSA program that allows pilots and flight attendants toVarious...
From Computational Complexity
Six degrees of separation has been proven. Really?
There is a paper (see here for an article about the paper, the link to the paper itself is later) that claims to PROVE that, on average, the distance (for someMy...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Economic Fallout from Falklands Halting Squid Fishing
Details. Blog moderation policy.
From insideHPC
NTT: All-Photonics Network Activated between Taiwan and Japan
NTT Corp. and Chunghwa Telecom announced they have activated the first all-photonics network between Taiwan and Japan with approximately 17 msec on an approximately...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: NSF and NIH to Hold AI and Menopause Workshop
In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity to attend a workshop centered around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and...
From The Noisy Channel
Hallucinating a Post-Search World
When I first heard about 3D printing, I imagined something like a Star Trek replicator that could synthesize arbitrary objects — or at least meals — on demand.generative...
From Yoshua Bengio
Bounding the probability of harm from an AI to create a guardrail
As we move towards more powerful AI, it becomes urgent to better understand the risks, ideally in a mathematically rigorous and quantifiable way, and use… L’article...
From insideHPC
NSF Issues $39M in Quantum Science and Engineering Grants
Aug. 29, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $39 million to help grow quantum research activities at U.S. institutions through the NSF Expanding...
From insideHPC
Accenture Wins $75M AI Contract with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 28, 2024 – Accenture Federal Services has won a $75 million, five-year contract to scale the use of artificial intelligence and modernizeAccenture...
From Computational Complexity
My Quantum Summer
Rendering of PsiQuantum's facility in Chicago I wasn't looking for quantum this summer but it found me. At various events I ran into some of the most recognized...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Weisong Shi Awarded Two NSF Grants for Autonomous Research
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share that council member Weisong Shi was awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to...
From insideHPC