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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
2023 NAE Meeting
With a memorial to William Wulf Anita Jones will be attending the next 2023 National Academy of Engineering’s annual meeting in Washington DC. Kathryn and I will...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AFOSR Hosting a Webinar on AI for Humanity
On October 31st, 2023 from 2-3:30 PM ET the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is hosting a webinar AI for Humanity. Led by AFOSR program officer for...
From insideHPC
Argonne Preps Aurora for Exascale Simulations of Nuclear Reactors
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are preparing to use Aurora, the laboratory’s upcoming exascale supercomputer, to delve into the inner mechanics of a...
From insideHPC
LESSENGERS in Volume Production of 800G Active Optical Cables and Transceivers for AI/ML Clusters
SEOUL / GLASGOW – September 27, 2023 — LESSENGERS Inc., a provider of optical components based on its patented “direct optical wiring” (DOW) technology, today announced...
From insideHPC
DOE Funds $30M for Research to Accelerate Scientific Advances at National Labs
Sept. 27, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $30 million in funding for three projects to increase scientific productivity and discoveries...
From insideHPC
IonQ Announces Rack-Mounted Quantum Systems for Data Center Environments
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 27, 2023 — Quantum computing company IonQ today unveiled the Forte Enterprise and Tempo, rack-mounted systems the company said are canIonQ...
From Schneier on Security
Critical Vulnerability in libwebp Library
Both Apple and Google have recently reported critical vulnerabilities in their systems—iOS and Chrome, respectively—that are ultimately the result of the same vulnerability...
From Apophenia
The Screens are the Symptom.
I decided to re-read Fahrenheit 451 with my eldest this last week. I don’t think that I have read this classic Bradbury text since high school. What I had remembered...
From insideHPC
HPC User Forum 2023: How AI is Overturning the Legal Industry
“Lawyers who use AI will replace lawyers who don’t.” That was the coda of a presentation given at the recent HPC User Forum in Tucson by Arizona State University...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA-Powered CoreWeave and VAST Data Partner on Public Cloud for GenAI, HPC
Sept. 26, 2023 — VAST Data and CoreWeave today announced a partnership to build an NVIDIA GPU-powered computing cloud for generative AI, high performance computing...
From Schneier on Security
Signal Will Leave the UK Rather Than Add a Backdoor
Totally expected, but still good to hear: Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the nonprofit...
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Integrator ParTec AG Raises €5M
Munich — Modular supercomputing company ParTec AG has announced that as a result of its years of work in the field of quantum computing, it is positioning itself...
From insideHPC
MIT: Qubit Architecture Achieves Progress on Quantum Error Correction
MIT researchers report they have demonstrated a novel superconducting qubit architecture that can perform operations between qubits with greater accuracy, addressing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Kick-off to the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Today marks the first official day of the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Heidelberg, Germany. The Computing Community Consortium has attended and covered...
From insideHPC
Exascale Early Adopter Series Webinar Sept. 27: Optimizing SYCL Workloads on Aurora and Sunspot
On Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 11 am Central Time, Varsha Madananth, an applications engineer at Intel, will lead an online webinar on optimizing SYCL workloads forExascale...
From Putting People First
Using psychology to bolster cybersecurity
In an article for Communications of the ACM, David Geer explains how the U.S. Defense Department uses cyberpsychology to get into the minds of attackers to better...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing integers quickly with AVX-512
If I give a programmer a string such as "9223372036854775808" and I ask them to convert it to an integer, they might do the following in C++: std::string s = .....
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species
An ancient squid: New research on fossils has revealed that a vampire-like ancient squid haunted Earth’s oceans 165 million years ago. The study, published in June...
From insideHPC
Large Language Models: The Power and the Mystery
Large language models fit the classic model of a red-hot technology in an early stage of commercial viability: there’s more talk about it than knowledge, and FOMO...
From insideHPC