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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
Lightmatter Announces $155M Funding Round, Expands Photonic Chip Deployments
December 19, 2023, BOSTON — Photonics company Lightmatter announced it has raised a $155M Series C-2 led by GV (Google Ventures) and Viking Global Investors, with...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 21: stars and celestial navigation
Every day from the 1st to the 25th of December this blog will publish a Christmas Computing post, as part of our CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar. On the...
From insideHPC
Arrcus Joins Ultra Ethernet Consortium for AI and HPC Data Center Networking
SAN JOSE –Dec. 19, 2023 – Arrcus, a hyperscale networking software company, announced it has joined the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a Linux Foundation initiative...
From insideHPC
EuroHPC JU Issues Quantum Hosting Call
Dec. 19, 2023 — The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a call for expression of interest to select hosting entities...
From insideHPC
qPOC: QauntumBasel, D-Wave and VINCI Energies in HVAC Design Proof-of-Concept
PALO ALTO, Calif. & BURNABY, British Columbia–December 19, 2023 — A quantum proof of concept (qPoC) project in the area of sustainable building design has beenqPOC...
From The Noisy Channel
Query Understanding and Ecommerce
Yesterday, I had the privilege to deliver a “last lecture” at eBay, where I have been working with the query science team for nearly 6 years. I took the opportunity...
From Computational Complexity
2023 Complexity Year in Review
Result of the year goes to Polynomial-Time Pseudodeterministic Construction of PrimesLijie Chen, Zhenjian Lu, Igor C. Oliveira, Hanlin Ren and Rahul SanthanamAn...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: Wisdom of the trustworthy
(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It") Wisdom of the crowds...
From insideHPC
Quantum Technology Companies Qubitekk and Qunnect Claim First Equipment Interoperability on EPB Quantum Network
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Dec. 19, 2023) – In an industry collaboration to establish quantum networking interoperability on a commercial network, quantum networking hardware...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 19: jingle bells or warning bells? Avoiding computer scams
It’s Day 19 of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar. Every day throughout Advent we’ll be doing our best to publish a computing-themed post that relates...
From Schneier on Security
OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today
There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing. Some articles are...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 18: cracker or hacker? Cyber security
It’s Day 18 of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar. We’ve been posting a computing-themed article linked to the picture on the ‘front’ of the advent calendar...
From The Noisy Channel
Indexing by Intent
Search developers mostly focus on mapping queries to results. This perspective is natural, insofar as search starts with the user formulating a query and (hopefully)...
From Schneier on Security
Police Get Medical Records without a Warrant
More unconstrained surveillance: Lawmakers noted the pharmacies’ policies for releasing medical records in a letter dated Tuesday to the Department of Health and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Much Hardware Knowledge do CS Students Need
Back to the basics! Get students close to the hardware! Really? Just how much hardware knowledge do students need today? This post was prompted by a post getting...
From Computational Complexity
Archimedes, Pi, and Pickelball
I typed 3,1,4,1,5,9 into OEIS and, as expected, I found that these are the first few digits of \(\pi\). See here.I then read on the page:\(\pi\) is sometimes refereed...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 17: pocket-switching networked reindeer
Gosh, Christmas is just around the corner! It’s Day 17 of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar and we’ve posted a blog post every day since 1 December,...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 16: candy cane or walking aid: designing for everyone, human computer interaction
Welcome to Day 16 of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar in which we’re posting a blog post every day in December until (and including) Christmas Day....
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP