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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
AI and the SEC Whistleblower Program
Tax farming is the practice of licensing tax collection to private contractors. Used heavily in ancient Rome, it’s largely fallen out of practice because of the...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Claude Shannon: Inventing for the fun of it
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London. Claude Shannon, inventor of the rocket powered Frisbee, gasoline powered pogo stick, a calculator that worked using...
From Computational Complexity
Contrast an Episode of Columbo with the recent Nobel Prizes
I quote Lance's blog post (here) about Computing and the Nobelsa) On Wednesday October 9th half of the Chemistry Nobel was awarded to computer scientists Demis...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The logic of Queens
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Queens is a fairly simple kind of logic puzzle found for example on LinkedIn as a way to draw you back to the site...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award
The NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award is an amazing program for young women THe students I have had who earned these awards have found it very useful...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Scarf
Cute squid scarf. Blog moderation policy.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Opportunity to Respond to NITRD RFI on a National Plan for Cyber-Physical Systems Resilience
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) would like to encourage you to consider responding to the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development...
From Schneier on Security
Justice Department Indicts Tech CEO for Falsifying Security Certifications
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the CEO of a still unnamed company has been indicted for creating a fake auditing company to falsify security certifications...
From insideHPC
Hyperion/HPC User Forum: 2 Weeks Left to Apply for Innovation Excellence Award
The HPC Innovation Excellence Awards recognize noteworthy achievements by users of high-performance computing (HPC). The 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Award winners...
From insideHPC
Intersect360 Research: HPC-AI Leadership Organization Adds 6 Advisory Committee Members
SUNNYVALE, CA—Oct. 10, 2024— HPC and AI industry analyst firm Intersect360 Research has announced the addition of six new Advisory Committee Members to the HPC-AI...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you parse a CSV file in C#?
We often store large datasets using comma-separated-value (CSV) files. The format is simple enough, each line of a text file is made of several values separated...
From insideHPC
Breaking the ICE at Livermore: ICECap to Use Exascale Fusion Simulations for Digital Design
A groundbreaking multidisciplinary team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers is combining the power of exascale computing with AI, advanced workflows...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Laureates on Mechanisms for Successful Visioning
CCC’s mission is to catalyze computing research, and we are always on the lookout for ways to promote visioning about the future of computing across disciplinary...
From insideHPC
Exascale Day 2024: How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World
The Exascale Era began in spring 2022 when the Top500 list certified that the HPE-AMD Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory had broken through...
From insideHPC
n2 Group Acquires Managed Services Company X-ISS
Oxford, UK – 17 October 2024 – n2 Group, a computing technology investment company, announces the acquisition of high-performance computing (HPC) and AI specialists...
From Computational Complexity
Computing and the Nobels
Herb Simon Herbert Simon while a political scientist in the 1940s at my institution, the Illinois Institute of Technology, developed the theory of bounded rationality...
From Schneier on Security
Cheating at Conkers
The men’s world conkers champion is accused of cheating with a steel chestnut.
From insideHPC
IQM Selected for 2 Quantum Computers for Euro-Q-Exa Hybrid System at LRZ
Munich, 16th October 2024 – The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a purchase agreement with IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), a maker of superconducting...
From insideHPC
Women in High Performance Computing and ISC Group Extend Partnership for 2025
Bicester, UK—Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) and ISC Group announced the continuation of their partnership in advance of ISC 2025, scheduled for June...
From insideHPC