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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
Call for Applicants- Networking Tour in Artificial Intelligence
Are you a Ph.D. candidate or postdoctoral researcher in the field of artificial intelligence looking for a new opportunity? Do you want to connect with leading...
From insideHPC
AI and Weather Expert Amy McGovern To Keynote RMACC’s HPC Symposium
Boulder, CO – Feb. 10, 2021 — Dr. Amy McGovern, the Lloyd G. and Joyce Austin Presidential Professor in the School of Computer Science and School of Meteorology...
From insideHPC
Unikie Joins the Edge AI and Vision Alliance to Advance Its Offering to the US Market
February 10, 2021 – Deep technology Finland-based company Unikie Inc. has joined the worldwide Edge AI and Vision Alliance industry partnership. Unikie is specialized...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
News from the ACM-W Scholarships Committee
The pandemic has caused many small and not so small changes in everyone's life. We know that women are being disproportionately affected by it.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Far Side Cartoon
The Far Side on squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines...
From insideHPC
NeuReality Out of Stealth with $8M Seed for AI Compute Infrastructure
Tel Aviv – Feb. 10, 2021 – NeuReality, an Israeli startup developing high performance AI compute for cloud data centers and edge nodes, emerges from stealth today...
From insideHPC
RapidAPI Acquires Paw, Extends API Development Platform
San Francisco —February 10, 2021—RapidAPI, a platform to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs, announced today the acquisition of Paw, a leading API design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Robot Consciousness
OK, we are far from this, still sci fi. but worth a thought. So we will be ready then. If a Robot Is Conscious, Is It OK to Turn It Off? The Moral Implications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SolarWinds Hacking Overviewed
Considerable look at the problem and many links to current work in progress. Tracking the HackersBy David Geer Commissioned by CACM StaffU.S. government agencies...
From insideHPC
HPE Supercomputer Installed at Oak Ridge for U.S. Air Force
HPE has delivered a two-systems-in-one supercomputer to support weather modeling and forecasting for the U.S. Air force and Army. The HPC system, powered by two...
From insideHPC
Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 Specification — Closer Alignment with ISO C++
Today, The Khronos Group, an open consortium of companies creating advanced interoperability standards, announces the ratification and public release of the SYCL...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Weakness Imperils Encryption
Click through to access Bloomberg. Regarding use of quantum computing. Following up on details.A Swiss Company Says It Found Weakness That Imperils Encryption...
From insideHPC
oneAPI DPC++ in SYCL 2020 Final Spec
oneAPI Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) features are included in the SYCL 2020 final specification, released today by The Khronos Group, an open consortium of industry...
From insideHPC
Lenovo to Power SURF Dutch National Supercomputer
Amsterdam — February 8, 2021 – Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) announced it will deliver high-performance computer (HPC) infrastructure for SURF, the ICT cooperative...
From insideHPC
ORNL Now Accepting Abstracts for SMC 2021
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now accepting abstracts for the 2021 Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference...
From insideHPC
Inspur: 4-Socket Server Achieves SPECpower Benchmark Record, Performance-to-Power Ratio up by 52.4%
San Jose — Jan. 9, 2021 — Inspur Information, an IT infrastructure solutions provider, announced the Inspur NF8480M6, a high-end 4-socket rackmount server, achieved...
From insideHPC
Q-CTRL AI-Based Tools Enable Quantam Computers to ‘Self-Tune’
Los Angeles, Feb. 10, 2021 – An AI-based toolset developed by scientists at Q-CTRL enables quantum computers to optimize their own performance autonomously without...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On the cost of converting ASCII to UTF-16
Many programming languages like Java, JavaScript and C# represent strings using UTF-16 by default. In UTF-16, each ‘character’ uses 16 bits. To represent all 1Continue...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Robotics Initiative 3.0
Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Council member Holly Yanco (University of Massachusetts, Lowell). In 2009, the CCC published a report, A Roadmap...
From The Eponymous Pickle