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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
How do you recognize an expert?
Go back to the roots: experience. An expert is someone who has repeatedly solved the concrete problem you are encountering. If your toilet leaks, an experienced...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How quickly can you break a long string into lines?
Suppose that you receive a long string and you need to break it down into lines. Consider the simplified problems where you need to break the string into segments...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Trackers
A new bioadhesive makes it easier to attach trackers to squid. Note: the article does not discuss squid privacy rights. As usual, you can also use this squid post...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Women in Math Research
Peter Gerdes is a mathematician working in computability theory a.k.a. recursion theory, a branch of mathematical logic studying what computers (aka Turing machines)...
From insideHPC
SK hynix Partners with TSMC on HBM
Seoul, April 19, 2024 – Memory company SK hynix Inc. announced today a memorandum of understanding with TSMC to produce next-generation HBM and enhance logic and...
From insideHPC
CONTACT Software Presents AAS Applications at Hannover Messe 2024
April 19, 2024 — CONTACT Software is pushing the use of the Asset Administration Shell with its Elements platform. In Hannover, the company and its partners will...
From insideHPC
Lenovo and NVIDIA Partner on New Hybrid AI Solutions
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Lenovo unveiled the expansion of its ThinkSystem AI portfolio designed for the most demanding AI, data analytics and HPC workloads, featuring...
From insideHPC
Panasas in Manufacturing and Fulfillment Partnership with Avnet
SAN JOSE, April 18, 2024 — Data solutions company Panasas and Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT) today announced an agreement enabling Panasas to use Avnet Integrated, the systems...
From insideHPC
Quantum: D-Wave Introduces Anneal Feature
PALO ALTO, Calif – April 18, 2024 — Quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today launched the fast-anneal feature, available on all of D-Wave...
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $16M for Traineeships in Accelerator Science & Engineering
April 18, 2024 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for four projects providing classroom training and research opportunities...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Quantum Provers
For our next favorite theorem, we look at the surprising power of provers who share entangled bits. If you can prove something to an arbitrarily computable verifier...
From Schneier on Security
Other Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects
After the XZ Utils discovery, people have been examining other open-source projects. Surprising no one, the incident is not unique: The OpenJS Foundation Cross...
From insideHPC
Eviden Delivers 104 Pflops Nvidia-Powered EXA1-HE Supercomputer for CEA
Paris – April 17, 2024 – CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and Eviden, the Atos advanced computing business unit, today announce...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Opportunity to Respond to U.S. Air Force RFI on Countering Bias in AI/ML Datasets
Earlier this month The U.S. Air Force Chief Scientist’s inter-agency working group sent out a request for information (RFI) on unintended Artificial Intelligence...
From insideHPC
eFlows4HPC Delivers European HPC Workflow Platform
Barcelona, 16 April 2024 – The eFlows4HPC project announced it has delivered a workflow platform and an additional set of services facilitating the integrationeFlows4HPC...
From insideHPC
CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux
RENO, Nev.—April 17, 2024—CIQ today launched supported, upstream kernels for Rocky Linux via the CIQ Enterprise Linux Platform, designed for enhanced performance...
From insideHPC
Riverlane Wins DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Program Grant
April 17, 2024 — Quantum computing company Riverlane has been selected for Phase 2 of the Quantum Benchmarking program funded by the Defence Advanced Research Projects...
From Schneier on Security
Using AI-Generated Legislative Amendments as a Delaying Technique
Canadian legislators proposed 19,600 amendments—almost certainly AI-generated—to a bill in an attempt to delay its adoption. I wrote about many different legislative...
From insideHPC
LBNL Leads Quantum Data Storage, Visualization Project
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced that national lab and university researchers recently released two papers introducing new methods of data storage...
From insideHPC