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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 Awards $135M for Research by 93 Early Career Scientists
Aug. 4, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of 93 early career scientists from across the country who will receive a combined...
From Schneier on Security
Political Milestones for AI
ChatGPT was released just nine months ago, and we are still learning how it will affect our daily lives, our careers, and even our systems of self-governance. But...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Frequency Analysis for Fun
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Frequency Analysis, a technique beloved by spies for centuries, and that led to the execution of at least one Queen...
From The Noisy Channel
Upcoming Search Classes this Fall
I hope that everyone has been enjoying the summer. I took a sabbatical from teaching, but I’m looking forward to new students this fall.Are you excited to learn...
From insideHPC
Hyro Survey: Generative AI to Transform Healthcare Sector
NEW YORK – August 3, 2023 — Healthcare conversational AI company Hyro today announced the publication of a report, “State of Healthcare Call Centers, 2023.” The...
From Schneier on Security
The Need for Trustworthy AI
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Keeping secrets on the Internet – encryption keeps your data safe
How do modern codes keep your data safe online? Ben Stephenson of the University of Calgary explains When Alan Turing was breaking codes, the world was a pretty...
From insideHPC
McKinsey on the Future of Compute: The Rise of Domain-Specific Architectures
There’s more to the rise in HPC and AI of domain-specific architectures (DSAs), starting with GPUs, than the superior throughput they can deliver. Yes, the deceleration...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Committees Respond to NSF Request for Information on New Technology, Innovations, and Partnerships Directorate: Seek Additional Community Input
In April 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) published a Request for Information (RFI) to inform the development of a roadmap for the recently established...
From Computational Complexity
The College Visits
My wife's cousin and her daughter came and visited Chicago. The daughter, between junior and senior year of high school, is on the tail end of college tour season...
From insideHPC
PCI-SIG Exploring PCIe over Optical Interconnects
BEAVERTON, OR. – August 2, 2023 – PCI-SIG today announced the formation of a workgroup to deliver PCI Express (PCIe) technology over optical connections. The PCI...
From insideHPC
ISC 2024 Announces Contributed Program Categories and Committee Leaders
HAMBURG, August 2, 2023 – The ISC 2024 HPC conference has announced the contributed program categories for next year’s event (May 12-16) in Hamburg along with committee...
From insideHPC
Sylabs Partners with Carahsoft on Software Container Services for the Public Sector
Reno, Nv. – August 2, 2023 – Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for high performance container technologies, announced a partnership with Carahsoft Technology...
From insideHPC
QuEra Expands Access to Quantum Computers
BOSTON, August 2, 2023 – QuEra Computing, a developer of neutral-atom quantum computers, today announced it now supports new ways of accessing its quantum computers...
From Schneier on Security
New SEC Rules around Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures
The US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules around the disclosure of cybersecurity incidents. There are two basic rules: Public companies must...
From insideHPC
Livermore Lab Team Boosts Trust in AI for Science by Making Machine Learning Explainable
As machine learning techniques become increasingly used in the sciences, a team of researchers in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Computing and Physical...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for White Papers for the 2024 Robotics Roadmap
The US National Robotics Roadmap was first created 14 years ago. It has since been used by government agencies, universities and companies as a reference about...
From insideHPC
CIQ Names 5 New VPs
RENO, Nev., August 1, 2023 — CIQ, a company building software infrastructure for enterprises running data-intensive workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise Linux...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font
The Washington Post is reporting on a hack to fool automatic resume sorting programs: putting text in a white font. The idea is that the programs rely primarily...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)