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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
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
PINQ² to Operate IBM Quantum System One in Quebec
Bromont, Quebec, September 22, 2023 – The Platform for Digital and Quantum Innovation of Quebec (PINQ²), a non-profit organization (NPO) founded by the Ministry...
From insideHPC
Kao Data Appoints David Bloom Chairman
London, September 21st, 2023 – Kao Data, the specialist developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has appointed...
From insideHPC
Sandia Labs Researchers Win 6 R&D 100 Awards
Sandia researchers took home six R&D 100 Awards, one joint with Los Alamos National Laboratory, and one special award for 2023 in the annual international technical...
From Schneier on Security
New Revelations from the Snowden Documents
Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Nothing major, but a few...
From insideHPC
Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe Develop Quantum ML Method for Disaster Routing
St. Gallen, Munich and Frankfurt, Germany, September 21, 2023 – Quantum computing company Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU), a center for...
From insideHPC
DOD Announces $238M CHIPS and Science Act Awards for Microelectronics Hubs
Washington, DC, Sept. 20, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Defense today announced the award of $238 million in CHIPS and Science Act funding for eight Microelectronics...
From Computational Complexity
We Must Be Doing Something Right
The Chicago Tribune ran an editorial Monday that started What’s the best four-year college in Illinois? Not the University of Chicago, Northwestern University or...
From insideHPC
VAST Data Names Marianne Budnik CMO
New York – September 20, 2023 – AI data platform company VAST Data has named Marianne Budnik chief marketing officer. She will lead all marketing functions including...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Introducing Stories From Our First Student Chapter Buddies!
ACM-W has started a new campaign. The aim of this campaign is to encourage all ACM-W chapters to partner with other ACM-W chapters to become a Buddy for collaborative...
From insideHPC
KAUST and Cerebras Named Gordon Bell Award Finalist
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and THUWAL, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 20, 2023 — Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and AI chip developer Cerebras...
From insideHPC
Air Force Research Lab Adds 12PFLOPS Penguin HPC System
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has announced the installation of a supercomputer built by Penguin Systems, named the Raider. The system delivers about...
From insideHPC
University of Maryland and IonQ Open Quantum Computing Research
COLLEGE PARK, MD – September 19, 2023 – The University of Maryland (UMD) today announced the opening of the National Quantum Laboratory (QLab), a quantum research...
From Schneier on Security
On the Cybersecurity Jobs Shortage
In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported on extreme cybersecurity job shortage: Global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350 percent, from one million openings...
From insideHPC