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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
HPC News Bytes 20230911: NVIDIA LLM Inferencing; Honeywell and Quantinuum; TSMC in Silicon Photonics; Microsoft Copilot AI Indemnification
As we reflect on the events of 9/11/2001 (it's still living hell no matter how long ago it happened), let’s quickly (4:52) review last week's HPC news highlights...
From Schneier on Security
On Robots Killing People
The robot revolution began long ago, and so did the killing. One day in 1979, a robot at a Ford Motor Company casting plant malfunctioned—human workers determined...
From Computational Complexity
Asymptotics of R(4,k)- a new result!
At the workshop Ramsey Theory: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Edited by Alexander Soifer, 2011. (There is a printed proceedings that you can find.) I saw Joel...![[Book] Sustainable Innovation](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Sustainable Innovation
This book by Experientia president Michele Visciola puts forward a new paradigm to understand and implement Sustainable Innovation (SI). Innovation without sustainability...
From insideHPC
At the HPC User Forum: 2 Full Days in Tucson of HPC and AI
This week saw HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research host the HPC User Forum, a supercomputing conference with an end-user emphasis held four times a yearAt...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Glass Squid Video
Here’s a fantastic video of Taonius Borealis, a glass squid, from NOAA. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From insideHPC
Quantum Internet Alliance Launches Quantum Internet Application Challenge
DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS—The Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) has announced the launch of its first ever Quantum Internet Application Challenge, an initiative encouraging...
From Schneier on Security
LLMs and Tool Use
Last March, just two weeks after GPT-4 was released, researchers at Microsoft quietly announced a plan to compile millions of APIs—tools that can do everythingbest...
From insideHPC
atNorth Shortlisted for 14th Annual Energy Awards
Reykjavík, Iceland – September 6th, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, today announced...
From insideHPC
DE-CIX and DCX Partner to Power AI and HPC
Phoenix – September 07, 2023 – DE-CIX, an Internet Exchange (IX) operator and home to a carrier and data center-neutral interconnection ecosystem, announced its...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Applications Now Open: 2024 Jefferson Science Fellowships
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2024 Jefferson Science Fellowships (JSF). Established...
From Schneier on Security
The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus
The new site 404 Media has a good article on how hackers are cheaply getting personal information from credit bureaus: This is the result of a secret weapon criminals...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy Birthday 77
With brief musings on AI and the blog Richard Lipton has turned 77 today. He and Kathryn are back in Manhattan after spending much of the summer in Harbor Springs...
From insideHPC
Gen AI Chip Startup d-Matrix Announces $110M in Series B Funding
Santa Clara, Calif. – September 6, 2023 – Gerative AI chip startup d-Matrix has closed $110 million in a Series-B funding round led by Singapore-based global investment...
From insideHPC
Quantum Software Company Classiq Expands to Boston
Sept. 6, 2023 — Quantum computing software company Classiq Technologies today announced its expansion into the Boston area and the relocation of Shai Lev, viceQuantum...
From Computational Complexity
Books to Inspire Math
Two of my colleagues and co-authors from my early days at the University of Chicago have released books over the past few months designed to excite people withMathematical...
From insideHPC
Panasas Appoints Ken Claffey CEO, Shea to Remain as COO
SAN JOSE, September 6, 2023 – High performance data storage vendor Panasas has announced that Ken Claffey, former SVP/GM of Enterprise Systems at Seage Technology...
From insideHPC
Open Source Hardware Startup Arduino Announces $22M in Series B Funding, Arm Participates in Round
LUGANO, Switzerland—Sept. 6, 2023— Open source hardware company Arduino today announced the closing of an additional $22 million in funding for a total of $54 million...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptocurrency Startup Loses Encryption Key for Electronic Wallet
The cryptocurrency fintech startup Prime Trust lost the encryption key to its hardware wallet—and the recovery key—and therefore $38.9 million. It is now in bankruptcy...
From Schneier on Security