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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
Cisco and NVIDIA Partner on Integrated AI Infrastructure
February 6, 2024 — Cisco and NVIDIA today announced plans to deliver AI infrastructure solutions for the data center designed to be easy to deploy and manage. “AI...
From insideHPC
Kathy Yelick to Deliver ISC 2024 Keynote on Post-Exascale Computing
The opening keynote at the ISC 2024 conference in Hamburg will be delivered by Kathy Yelick, cice chancellor for research and the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished...
From insideHPC
Tenstorrent Selects Blue Cheetah Chiplet Interconnect IP for AI and RISC-V Solutions
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 6, 2024 — Tenstorrent and Blue Cheetah Analog Design today announced that Tenstorrent has licensed Blue Cheetah’s die-to-die interconnect...
From Putting People First
Human-centered design to go beyond the mere “what customers want”
In a context of economic and geopolitical flux and volatility, a more in-depth human-centered design approach is now more necessary than ever, as it helps forward...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Announces Shortlisted Events for UA Day 2024
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has published the shortlisted events for the second annual Universal Acceptance (UA) Day, which will be held from...
From insideHPC
QuEra to Build Quantum Testbed in UK
BOSTON, February 5th, 2024 – Neutral-atom quantum company QuEra Computing has announced that the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) at Harwell, Oxfordshire...
From Schneier on Security
Deepfake Fraud
A deepfake video conference call—with everyone else on the call a fake—fooled a finance worker into sending $25M to the criminals’ account.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
AMPER: AI helping future you remember past you
Research to develop a new AI tool to help people with dementia to remember, and gain confidence. Also includes some suggested classroom activities and examples...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast is rolling Karp-Rabin hashing?
A hash function maps values (e.g., strings) into a fixed number of strings, typically smaller than the original. It is useful to compare quickly two long strings...
From Computational Complexity
The advantage of working on obscure things
I got an email from an organization that wants to publicize one of my papers. Which paper did they want to publicize? 1) If the organization was Quanta, they...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Lego Computer Science: Turing Machines Part 2: the controller
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Last time we started to build a working computer out of Lego: a Turing Machine. So far we have seen that we canContinue...
From Putting People First
[Book] Filterworld: how algorithms flattened culture
From New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Predictions 2024
Would an AI-powered meta-prediction be smarter? Cropped from video source Punxsutawney Phil is our populace’s perennially perspicacious prognosticator. Every February...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid in Argentina Waters
Argentina is reporting that there is a good population of illex squid in its waters ready for fishing, and is working to ensure that Chinese fishing boats don’t...
From Schneier on Security
David Kahn
David Kahn has died. His groundbreaking book, The Codebreakers was the first serious book I read about codebreaking, and one of the primary reasons I entered this...
From Schneier on Security
A Self-Enforcing Protocol to Solve Gerrymandering
In 2009, I wrote: There are several ways two people can divide a piece of cake in half. One way is to find someone impartial to do it for them. This works, but...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Lego Computer Science: Turing Machines Part 1: the tape
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London It it possible to make a working computer out of lego and you do not even have to pay for an expensive robot Mindstorm...
From insideHPC
Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing to Install Lenovo HPC Cluster
Lenovo announced it has won a contract for the joint construction of an AMD/NVIDIA-powered HPC cluster with the University of Paderborn in Germany. The system will...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Last Call for CCC Council Member Nominations
Thank you to everyone who has nominated a colleague or self-nominated for the opportunity to be a CCC Council member for the three-year term beginning July 1, 2024...
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