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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 CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Coordinate conundrum puzzles and vector graphics
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One way computers store images is as a set of points (as coordinates) that make up lines and shapes. This is the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Validating gigabytes of Unicode strings per second… in C#?
We have been working on a fast library to validate and transcode Unicode and other formats such as base64 in C++: simdutf. We wondered: could we achieve the same...
From insideHPC
Classiq Teams with BMW Group and Nvidia for Quantum Applicability in Electrical Systems
TEL AVIV | June 20, 2024 — Classiq today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA and the BMW Group to optimize mechatronic systems. The initiative is focused on solving...
From insideHPC
WEKA Grows IP Portfolio to More Than 100 Patents
CAMPBELL, Calif., June 20, 2024 – WekaIO, the AI-native data platform company, today announced its IP portfolio has been awarded more than 100 patents by the United...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robotics Meets Workforce Shortage
In recent years, industries have been struggling with a significant challenge: a shortage of skilled labor. This issue spans various fields, from manufacturing...
From Computational Complexity
Luca Trevisan (1971-2024)
Complexity theorist Luca Trevisan lost his battle to cancer yesterday in Milan at the age of 52. A terrible loss for our community and our hearts go out to hisTCS4All...
From Schneier on Security
Recovering Public Keys from Signatures
Interesting summary of various ways to derive the public key from digitally signed files. Normally, with a signature scheme, you have the public key and want to...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Aged 11-16? Share your views on Computing education in England.
Deadline tomorrow for the Young People's Advisory Group on Computer Science - have your say on how computing is taught in England.
From Schneier on Security
New Blog Moderation Policy
There has been a lot of toxicity in the comments section of this blog. Recently, we’re having to delete more and more comments. Not just spam and off-topic comments...
From insideHPC
ACM Announces Awards in AI, Graph Processing, OS Software and Internet Privacy
New York, June 18, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced the recipients of four technical awards. They are: David Blei, ColumbiaACM...
From Yoshua Bengio
The International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI
In November 2023, I’ve been given the responsibility to chair the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI as part of an international… L’article...
From insideHPC
Pasqal Delivers 100+ Qubit Quantum Processing Unit to GENCI and CEA
Paris, June 19, 2024 – A 100+ qubit quantum processing unit (QPU), acquired by GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif), was delivered at TGCC, the CEA...
From insideHPC
June 21 Call for Proposals Deadline for OCP Global Summit and Future Technologies Symposium
The 2024 OCP Global Summit (and co-located Future Technologies Symposium) call for proposals opened on May 13 and will close this Friday, June 21 at 5 pm PT. Click...
From Computational Complexity
Rethinking Hueristica
I've argued that more and more we seem to live in an Optiland, a computational utopia where through recent developments in optimization and learning we can solve...
From Schneier on Security
The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt
Culture is increasingly mediated through algorithms. These algorithms have splintered the organization of culture, a result of states and tech companies vying for...
From insideHPC
Nvidia AI Computing by HPE Portfolio Announced for Generative AI
On a day that Nvidia climbed over Microsoft as the most valuable U.S. company measured by stock valuation, Nvidia and Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced...
From insideHPC
HPE and Danfoss Partner on Data Center Energy Consumption
Las Vegas – June 18, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) and Danfoss today announced a collaboration to deliver HPE IT Sustainability Services – Data...
From insideHPC
Penguin Solutions: OriginAI Expanded for AI Factory Deployments up to 16,000 GPUs
Penguin Solutions today announced the expansion of its OriginAI offering to include validated, pre-defined AI architectures incorporating NVIDIA technology. ItPenguin...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Like science & tech? Maybe thinking about careers in it? Come to our FREE online Science Festival on Monday (24th June)
There's a free online science festival on Monday 24th for people interested in medical / dentistry careers but two of the talks are specifically about technology...
From Schneier on Security