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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Planar Graphs—Again
Professors Yin Tat Lee and Thomas Rothvoss are faculty at the Allen School of the University of Washington. Lee has the A.W. Tucker Prize that recognizes the best...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Chair Nadya Bliss Discusses How Technology Can Be Manipulated to Cause Harm
In a Q&A with Arizona State University News, CCC Chair Nadya Bliss spoke about national security challenges, where she shared her contributions to the “Addressing...
From insideHPC
Women in Networking at SC24: SCinet Chair Angie Asmus
The Women in Networking at SC, or WINS, program was created to celebrate and expand the opportunities for early- to mid-career women to participate in advancing...
From insideHPC
Women in HPC Issues Call for Lightning Talk Proposals at SC24 Workshop, Aug. 16 Deadline
July 15, 2024 — Women in HPC has issued a call for submission for Lightning Talks at the WHPC workshop to be held at the SC24 supercomputing conference on Monday...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Chandra Krintz Shares Takeaways from NSF Sustainable Computing Workshop
Last week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released an early version of their final report for their workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability....
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Scientific Citations
Some scholars are inflating their reference counts by sneaking them into metadata: Citations of scientific work abide by a standardized referencing system: Each...
From insideHPC
QuEra Names Ory Acting CEO
Boston, July 15, 2024 — Neutral-atom quantum computing company QuEra announced today that Alex Keesling will transition from CEO to take on a new role in leading...
From insideHPC
IQM Says It Has Set Quantum Milestones
Espoo, Finland, 15th July 2024 – IQM Quantum Computers said it has reached milestones in superconducting quantum computing, demonstrating improvements in two key...
From Writing
Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery is now available as an early release!
Today, I’m excited to announce my new book! It’s called Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery, and it’s a comprehensive, hands-on guide to deploying and...
From Computational Complexity
The Term Quantum Being Misused ... Again
In a post from 2015 I noted that the word quantum is often misused (see here). Have things gotten better since then? I think you know the answer. But two uses of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA At 20 Looking Back #CSTA2024
CTSA turns twenty and as I write this I am about ready to fly out to Las Vegas for the annual CSTA conference. I’m in the mood to look back a bit. After the conference...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking on “Reimagining Democracy in the Age of AI” at the Bozeman Library in Bozeman, Montana...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Art Touch and Talk Tour Tech
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 1994 Lair of Squid Game
I didn’t know: In 1994, Hewlett-Packard released a miracle machine: the HP 200LX pocket-size PC. In the depths of the device, among the MS-DOS productivity apps...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: A Groundbreaking NSF Facility Project
In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing the exciting announcement of a leader-class computing facility project from The U.S. National...
From insideHPC
SoftBank Acquires AI Chip Company Graphcore
July 12, 2024 — Graphcore has confirmed that the Japan-based SoftBank investment firm has acquired the specialty AI chip company. Terms were not disclosed, butSoftBank...
From insideHPC
July 28 Deadline for Office of Science Digital Twins RFI
July 12, 2024 — The Digital Twins Fast-Tracking Committee of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office...
From insideHPC
Research from Vultr on AI Maturity ROI
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.– Cloud computing platform Vultr has released an industry report, The New Battleground: Unlocking the Power of AI Maturity with Multi-Model...
From insideHPC
Eviden and the IOTA Foundation Announce Digital Product Passport
Paris – July 12, 2024 – Eviden today announced ,in partnership with the IOTA Foundation, the Eviden Digital Passport solution (EDPS), “powered by IOTA” technology...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP