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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
TIP Quarterly Update – One year anniversary of the CHIPS and Science Act getting signed into law
NSF Assistant Director of TIP, Erwin Gianchandani, and NSF Deputy Assistant Director for TIP Gracie Narcho wrote a letter to the community marking the one year...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptographic Flaw in Libbitcoin Explorer Cryptocurrency Wallet
Cryptographic flaws still matter. Here’s a flaw in the random-number generator used to create private keys. The seed has only 32 bits of entropy. Seems like this...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Threads & Yarns – textiles and electronics
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London, from June 2011 At first sight nothing could be more different than textiles and electronics. Put opposites together...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Coding of domain names to wire format at gigabytes per second
When you enter in your browser the domain name lemire.me, it eventually gets encoded into a so-called wire format. The name lemire.me contains two labels, one of...
From Computational Complexity
The Acting Professor
When I taught Programming for Engineers at Northwestern in 2008, the textbook gave access to PowerPoint slides I could use to teach the class. Since C++ is notseries...
From insideHPC
LLNL: 9,000 Exascale Nodes for Power Grid Optimization
Ensuring the nation’s electrical power grid can function with limited disruptions in the event of a natural disaster, catastrophic weather or a manmade attack is...
From Schneier on Security
Using Machine Learning to Detect Keystrokes
Researchers have trained a ML model to detect keystrokes by sound with 95% accuracy. “A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards...
From insideHPC
Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers Featured with NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH
Aug. 8, 2023 – Today, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 was featured on stage at SIGGRAPH as an NVIDIA OVX server that will soon include the newly announced NVIDIA...
From insideHPC
MindsDB AI Company Secures Funding from NVIDIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8, 2023 — MindsDB, an artificial intelligence virtual database, today announced an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm,MindsDB...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Unveils GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip Platform with HBM3e Processor
NVIDIA today at the SIGGRAPH conference announced the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper platform — based on a new Grace Hopper Superchip with the first HBM3e processor,...
From insideHPC
Exxact Corporation Systems to Feature NVIDIA Ada Generation GPUs
Fremont, CA, August 8, 2023 — Exxact Corporation today announced it will feature new NVIDIA RTX professional GPUs in its configurable workstations, servers, and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Challenge Problems Requiring AI/OR Collaboration
The CCC, in collaboration with INFORMS and ACM SIGAI, will be hosting the final workshop of a three-part series titled, Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Operations...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH: DGX Integration with Hugging Face for LLM Training; Announcement of AI Workbench
At the the SIGGRAPH conference this morning in Los Angeles, NVIDIA made several generative AI-related announcements, including a partnership with Hugging Face intended...
From insideHPC
Applied Digital and ZEDEDA Form Partnership for On-Demand Transmutable AI Cloud Service
SAN JOSE and DALLAS — August 8, 2023 — Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD) (“Applied Digital”), a designer, builder, and operator of next-generation digital...
From insideHPC
Multiverse Computing Partners with Tech Mahindra on Quantum Solutions
SAN SEBASTIÁN, SPAIN, August 8, 2023 – Multiverse Computing, a quantum computing solutions company, announced a partnership to deliver its quantum computing software...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Generative AI Coast-to-Coast Webinar Series
A number of institutions are coming together to discuss how researchers are using generative AI as a tool for research in The Generative AI Coast to Coast webinar...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Quantum Company and Davidson Technologies Collaborate on National Defense Efforts
BURNABY, B.C., PALO ALTO, Calif. and HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — August 7, 2023 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a quantum computing systems, software and services; and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Computing Community Consortium Responds to PCAST Working Group on Generative AI Invites Public Input
In May 2023, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) published a Request for Public Input to help assess key opportunities and risks...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $4.7M for Research on Integrative Computational Tools for Systems Biology Research
Aug. 7, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $4.7 million in funding for five new research projects in computational biology. These projects...
From insideHPC