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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 Schneier on Security
Whale Song Code
During the Cold War, the US Navy tried to make a secret code out of whale song. The basic plan was to develop coded messages from recordings of whales, dolphins...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Careful with Pair-of-Registers instructions on Apple Silicon
Egor Bogatov is an engineer working on C# compiler technology at Microsoft. He had an intriguing remark about a performance regression on Apple hardware following...
From Computational Complexity
Math Thoughts Inspired by the TV show Succession
I watched Succession one-episode-a-day on treadmill for 39 days. I'm glad I did this in 2023 since Season 2 aired its last show on Oct 19, 2019, and Season 3 had...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
T. V. Raman and his virtual guide dogs
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London It’s 1989, a year with lots of milestones in Computer Science. In March, Tim Berners-Lee puts down in writing the...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Science Section
Alice says “How long is forever?” “Sometimes just one second.” Replies the White Rabbit Tuesday is a special day for the New York Times—since it always contains...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Large language models (e.g., ChatGPT) as research assistants
Software can beat human beings at most games… from Chess to Go, and even poker. Large language models like GPT-4 offered through services such as ChatGPT allowContinue...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid
A cruise ship is searching for the colossal squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered...
From insideHPC
IBM in $137M Semiconductor Agreement with Canada
BROMONT, QC, April 26, 2024 — IBM, the government of Canada and the government of Quebec today announced agreements to develop the assembly, testing and packaging...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Members named 2023 AAAS Fellows
CCC is proud to announce two of its council members Michela Taufer and Holly Yanco as the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) 2023 Fellows...
From insideHPC
Join the AMD HPC User Forum for an HPC Sync at ISC 2024
[SPONSORED GUEST POST] The AMD HPC User Forum is holding a technical workshop prior to ISC High Performance on Sunday, May 12th, 2024, from 8:00AM – 12:00PM in...
From insideHPC
Nvidia AI Enterprise Available on Oracle US Government Cloud
April 25, 2024 — Oracle today announced that Nvidia AI Enterprise on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Supercluster is now available in the Oracle U.S. Government Cloud...
From insideHPC
Diane Bryant Named to Celestial AI Board
SANTA CLARA, CA – April 29, 2024 – Optical interconnect company Celestial AI today announced the appointment of Diane Bryant to the company’s board of directors...
From insideHPC
Duke Researcher Dr. Amanda Randles Wins ACM Prize in Computing for Medical Diagnostics
The Association for Computing Machinery, named Amanda Randles of Duke University the recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Opportunity to Attend Public Workshops on Cybersecurity
Ever thought about providing input that will shape a possible future in federal data collection on the U.S. cybersecurity workforce? The Cybersecurity Workforce...
From insideHPC
Jump Trading Selects DDN for AI Quantitative Trading
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – April 24, 2024 – Data management company DDN has announced that quantitative trading firm Jump Trading has selected DDN for its high-performance...
From Schneier on Security
The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization
The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA to Acquire Run:ai GPU Orchestration Software Vendor
Nvidia today announced it has agreed to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Terms were not released butNVIDIA...
From Computational Complexity
Is Persistence an Anachronism?
Guest post by Martin BullingerVery recently, Vijay Vazirani's paper A Theory of Alternating Paths and Blossoms, from the Perspective of Minimum Length got accepted...
From insideHPC
Lenovo Launches AI Servers with AMD MI300X GPUs
Lenovo today announced AI-centric infrastructure systems in collaboration with AMD, including the ThinkSystem SR685a V3 8GPU server (pictured here), designed for...
From Schneier on Security