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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 …
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Dell HPC Strategist Jay Beausseau to Leave Company
Jay Boisseau, a senior HPC strategist at Dell Technologies for more than eight years, has announced on LinkedIn that he is leaving the company “to get back to my...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Interfaces are not free in Go
We are all familiar with the concept even if we are not aware of it: when you learn about arithmetic in school, you use the same mathematical symbols whether you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: Natural General Intelligence: How Understanding the Brain can Help us Build AI
Brain Building AI Natural General Intelligence: How understanding the brain can help us build AIby Christopher Summerfield (Author)Since the time of Turing, computer...
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Photonics and AI
Fiber Optics and computingLinking Chips With Light For Faster AI IEEE Spectrum's semiconductor expert Samuel K. Moore and the race to put fiber optics inside computers...
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Digi Dogs back in NYC
I had mentioned that the 'DigiDogs robotic police had been rejected by big city police. Now they are being brought back in.ACM NEWS'Digidog Is Out of the Pound'...
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D-Wave Quantum Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2022 Results
BURNABY, British Columbia & PALO ALTO, Calif.– Quantum computing systems and software company D-Wave Quantum Inc., (NYSE: QBTS) today announced financial results...
From Schneier on Security
Gaining an Advantage in Roulette
You can beat the game without a computer: On a perfect [roulette] wheel, the ball would always fall in a random way. But over time, wheels develop flaws, which...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS Panel Recaps: Sustaining Computing Research Communities in a Hybrid World
Continuing in our AAAS panel recaps, the CCC hosted a panel titled, “Sustaining Computing Research Communities in a Hybrid World”. The panelists were Brent Hecht...
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Samsung Joins OpenMP Architecture Review Board
Beaverton, Oregon — The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) today announced that Samsung has joined the board. The OpenMP ARB is a group of hardware and software...
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Sony Makes Edge AI Investment in Raspberry Pi
TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, UK, April 12, 2023 — Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (“SSS”) and Raspberry Pi Ltd. (“RPL”) today announced the agreement by SSS to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Effectiveness of Security Measures
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTSTechnical Perspective: The Effectiveness of Security MeasuresBy Nicolas ChristinCommunications of the ACM, September 2022, Vol. 65 No. 9, Page...
From Computational Complexity
My Week at Simons
This week finds me at the Simons Institute for Theoretical Computer Science in Berkeley California. Simons started about the same time I joined the administrative...
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DDN and Helmholtz Munich Host May 4 Life Sciences Field Day
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – April 13, 2023 – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management company, today announced its 2023 Life Sciences Field...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT and Bard
Nicely done piece which illustrates a number of existing tools , Open-Source examples, Several I have not heard of. Instructive.8 Open-Source Alternatives to ChatGPT...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Knowledge Connecting Language and Computation
Machine Learning Street Talkhttps://youtu.be/z5WZhCBRDpU132,828 views Mar 23, 2023 Episode #110CHATGPT+WOLFRAM! You saw it HERE first!ChatGPT + Wolfram: The Future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Expectations for GPT-5?
Ongoing expectationsGPT-5 could soon change the world in one incredible wayBy Alex Blake, March 28, 2023 in DigitalTrendsGPT-4 may have only just launched, but...
From Schneier on Security
Bypassing a Theft Threat Model
Thieves cut through the wall of a coffee shop to get to an Apple store, bypassing the alarms in the process. I wrote about this kind of thing in 2000, in Secrets...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
ACM Prize to Yael Kalai
Plus evocations of the roles of complexity and verification in crypto and human relations Yael Kalai has just been named the winner of the 2022 ACM Prize. She works...
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NOAA, ORNL Launch 10 PFLOPS HPE Cray HPC System for Climate Research
April 12, 2023 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is launching a supercomputer dedicatedNOAA...
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