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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
Harbor Service, VAST Data Provide Storage Upgrade for NCSA Systems
Nov. 20, 2024: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and VAST Data are giving supercomputing system Delta and the newly launched DeltaAI a boost in...
From insideHPC
Webinar: ALCF Developer Session on HPC Workflows to Be Held Dec. 11
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar at 11 am Central Time on Wednesday, Dec. 11 covering remote workflows at ALCF. Registration is here...
From The Noisy Channel
Documents, Queries, and Categories
I have published a number of posts and presentations about the bag-of-documents model, which essentially represents query intent as a distribution in a document...
From insideHPC
Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute Selects IQM Spark Quantum Computer
Taipei, Taiwan, 25th November 2024 – The Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI) under the National Applied Research Laboratories today announces the procurement...
From Computational Complexity
We Will All Write Like AI
Will our writing all converge to a generic AI style? Let's take a quick detour into LaTeX. Back in the late '80s, before LaTeX was the standard, there was TeX—a...
From Schneier on Security
Security Analysis of the MERGE Voting Protocol
Interesting analysis: An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways. Abstract: The recently published “MERGE” protocol is designed to be used in...
From insideHPC
Jan. 5 Registration Deadline for ASC25 Student Supercomputer Challenge
ATLANTA, Nov. 22, 2024 –The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge 2025 (ASC25) kicked off its inaugural briefing session at SC24, unveiling a timeline for the upcoming...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
To be (CEO) or not to be (CEO)
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London, based on an interview between Hamit Soyel and Queen Mary Innovations Just because you start a start-up doesn’tContinue...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The Blue Planet?
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London How much should we change the world to make it easier for our machines to work? Plant scientists have spotted aContinue...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM Women at Computing Education Research conferences: ICER and UKICER
By Adriana Wilde, ACM-W Communication co-chair, and Arati Dixit, ACM-W Regional Activities, co-chair Earlier this year (12-15 August 2024), as representatives of...
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...12