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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 Schneier on Security
How AI Could Write Our Laws
By Nathan E. Sanders & Bruce Schneier Nearly 90% of the multibillion-dollar federal lobbying apparatus in the United States serves corporate interests. In somepours...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Recommendations for CS People
tl;dr Book recommendations: Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American...
From insideHPC
Hyperview Appoints Bill Kleyman to Advisory Board
VANCOUVER — March 14, 2023 Hyperview, a cloud-based data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platform provider, has named award-winning industry analyst Bill...
From Schneier on Security
NetWire Remote Access Trojan Maker Arrested
From Brian Krebs: A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Is Pi Informative?
Some musings on the meanings of information content SF Exploratorium tribute Frank Oppenheimer was a physicist who made pioneering studies of cosmic rays via high...
From insideHPC
Microsoft Introduces Generative AI VM on Azure with Scaling up to Thousands of GPUs
Microsoft today introduced the ND H100 v5 VM on the Azure cloud, a virtual machine for development generative AI applications. The VM can scale from eight to thousands...
From insideHPC
Sutharshan Named ORNL Deputy for Operations
March 13, 2023 — Oak Ridge, TN — Balendra Sutharshan has been named chief operating officer for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He will begin serving as ORNL’s deputy...
From Computational Complexity
Problems we assume are hard. Are they?
We think SAT is hard because (1) its NPC, and (2) many years of effort have failed to get it into P. Imagine a world where we didn't have the Cook-Levin Theorem...
From insideHPC
CSC (Home of LUMI) to Host Data Lake for Destination Earth Initiative
The CSC data center in Kajaani, Finland, will host a 30-petabyte data lake for the European Meteorological Satellite Agency EUMETSAT and the Destination Earth initiative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ideal EV Batteries for Automotive
Very nice piece, below a bare intro ... The EV Battery Wish List Which automakers most want what in their ideal electric powertrain? by Lawrence Ulrich in IEEEElectric...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT in Cars?
MS Chat Virtual Assistants in cars?ChatGPT could power voice assistants in General Motors vehiclesThe automaker is reportedly using Microsoft’s Azure cloud service...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do We Need a National Algorithms Safety Board?
Safety is yes, means of determining that is the issue. Especially with regard to transportation and related supply chain decisions and risks. Do We Need a National...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Responds to RFI on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan
CCC submitted a response to a Request for Information (RFI) released by Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), National Coordination...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Inspiring Wendy Hall
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London This article is inspired by a keynote talk Wendy Hall gave at the ITiCSE conference in Madrid, 2008. What inspires...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optical Algorithm Simplifies Analog AI Training
Thinking this, possibilities and implications. Optical Algorithm Simplifies Analog AI Training When backpropagation loses its bite, this approach may substitute...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VR Headset Gives you X-Ray Vision!
Possibilities are considerable in VRworldMIT researchers invented an augmented reality headset that gives humans X-ray vision. The invention, dubbed X-AR, combines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fashion and Generative AI
Did some work in fashion as it related to clothing care, possible connection here. Generative AI: Unlocking the future of fashion McKinseyMarch 8, 2023 | Article...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Barbara Liskov: Byzantine birthdays
You may not think of computers as argumentative, but some of them do bicker quite a lot, and for good reason. They often need to, including to get things right...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 11 2023)
In 1500, China was the largest economy in the world, followed by India and France. The USA did not exist yet. In 1700, 4% of human beings lived in France. In the...
From The Eponymous Pickle