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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
DOE Office of Science: $100M Funding Opportunity for Energy Frontier Research Centers
January 22, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES) program, is issuing a $100 million funding opportunity announcement...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Mary Lou Maher to Join CRA as Director of Research Community Initiatives
The following originally appeared on the CRA Bulletin, written by Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications The Computing Research Association (CRA) is excited...
From Schneier on Security
AI Bots on X (Twitter)
You can find them by searching for OpenAI chatbot warning messages, like: “I’m sorry, I cannot provide a response as it goes against OpenAI’s use case policy.” I...
From insideHPC
GPU-powered HPC Workloads in the Cloud with AWS and NVIDIA
Across industries cloud-based high performance computing (HPC) is on the rise. Find out from AWS and NVIDIA how GPU-accelerated compute is helping organizations...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Eggheads: helping us to visualise objects and classes
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London Past CS4FN articles have explored object-oriented programming through self-aware pizza and Strictly Come Dancing...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Turing Award Winner Speaker Series
A new series of publicly available lectures at Georgia Tech Zvi Galil has been a good friend for a long time and came to Georgia Tech as my Dean from 2010 until...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Empowering women to return to computing: a game of snakes and ladders
This ACM Women post aims to be as celebratory for the women returning to the field of computing, as much as a reflection of the challenges that as a whole community...
From Computational Complexity
A paper that every Undergraduate should read
The paper As we may thinkbyVannevar Bush appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, in July 1945. I first read it since it was one of the papers in Ideas that Created the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
C23: a slightly better C
One of the established and most popular programming languages is the C programming language. It is relatively easy to learn, and highly practical. Maybe surprisingly...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Foods from Squid Fins
We only eat about half of a squid, ignoring the fins. A group of researchers is working to change that. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
From Schneier on Security
Zelle Is Using My Name and Voice without My Consent
Okay, so this is weird. Zelle has been using my name, and my voice, in audio podcast ads—without my permission. At least, I think it is without my permission. It...
From insideHPC
Chip War: Banned NVIDIA GPUs Trickle into China, TSMC Shares Jump on AI
The advanced chips sector and its geopolitical significance is in the news this week as a Reuters story reports that “Chinese military bodies, state-run artificial...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How much memory bandwidth do large Amazon instances offer?
In my previous post, I described how you can write a C++ program to estimate your read memory bandwidth. It is not very difficult: you allocate a large memory region...
From Schneier on Security
Canadian Citizen Gets Phone Back from Police
After 175 million failed password guesses, a judge rules that the Canadian police must return a suspect’s phone. [Judge] Carter said the investigation can continue...![[Book] The Experimentation Field Book](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] The Experimentation Field Book
This book is a hands-on manual for crafting and conducting useful experiments in real-life settings. It guides readers from any background or discipline through...
From insideHPC
Quantum: Honeywell Closes $300M Round for Quantinuum
Some still insist quantum computing is a false dream and a fool’s errand, but quantum continues to make incursions into broader validation and wider backing. Quantum...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Names Former Secretary of Homeland Security to Board of Directors
Jan. 17, 2024 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a maker of quantum computing systems, software, and services, today announced the addition of Kirstjen Nielsen...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: CCC Call for Council Member Nominations
Thank you to everyone who has nominated a colleague or self-nominated themselves for the opportunity to be a CCC Council member for the three-year term beginning...
From Computational Complexity
Offer Timing
In most academic fields, departments, either formally or informally, have their interviews and make their junior faculty offers at about the same time. Facultytackled...
From Schneier on Security