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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
CCC Q&A: Weisong Shi Educates Researchers on Vehicle Computing in New Book
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to announce the publishing of Weisong Shi’s book on Vehicle Computing. We spoke with him to discuss the process...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome to the New ACM-W Co-Chairs!
We are delighted to welcome Bushra Anjum and Rukiye Altin, two exceptional women, as our Co-Chair(s) of ACM-W. Both women, no strangers to ACM-W, bring a wealth...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Highlights from the 2024 ACM-W Global Executive Committee Meeting in Madrid
The ACM-W Global Executive Committee held this year’s annual meeting from June 26-28, 2024, in Madrid, Spain. The committee members representing our diverse regions...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
“I Can Figure This Out”: Bushra Anjum in Rendering History
The newly released book Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W by Gloria Townsend is a powerful tribute to the pioneering women who have shaped the landscape of...
From Schneier on Security
The Present and Future of TV Surveillance
Ars Technica has a good article on what’s happening in the world of television surveillance. More than even I realized.
From Computational Complexity
Whats worse for a company: being hacked or having technical difficulties? I would have thought being hacked but...
At the Trump-Musk interview:1) There were technical difficulties which caused it to start late and have some other problems.2) Musk and (I think) Trump claimedhere...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240826: Hot Chips, NM Senate Race and LANL, Underground Nuclear Power for AI, AMD Buys ZT Systems
A good August morning to you! Shahin and Doug offer a quick (5:32) round-up of HPC-AI news: Hot Chips 2024, LANL power needs enters NM Senate race, undergroundHPC...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing tiny and very large floating-point values: a programming-language comparison
Most programming languages support floating-point numbers. You typically have the ability to turn a string into a floating-point number. E.g., “3.1416” could be...
From insideHPC
Red Hat Announces Availability of OpenStack Services on OpenShift
RALEIGH, N.C. – August 26, 2024 — Open source software company Red Hat today announced the availability of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, the next release...
From insideHPC
ALCF In-Person HPC Workshop, Oct. 29-31
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an in-person hands-on HPC workshop from Tuesday, Oct. 29 to Thursday, Oct. 31, at the TCS Conference CenterALCF...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Global Internet Community Encouraged to Submit Event Proposals for UA Day 2025
Event proposals are now being accepted for the third annual Universal Acceptance (UA) Day, to be held on or around 28 March 2025 (between 1 March and 30 May 2025)...
From Schneier on Security
US Federal Court Rules Against Geofence Warrants
This is a big deal. A US Appeals Court ruled that geofence warrants—these are general warrants demanding information about all people within a geographical boundary...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Bank holiday fun: website whimsy, and try your hand at making 3D pictures
Happy Summer bank holiday from CS4FN!
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Inaugurates the Luiz André Barroso Award
It has been almost a year since computer scientist Luiz André Barroso passed away. On September 16, 2023, he left a huge legacy behind. Barroso was a distinguished...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Self-Healing Materials from Squid Teeth
Making self-healing materials based on the teeth in squid suckers. Blog moderation policy.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: NCSA Gives Students Opportunities to Learn About Machine and Deep Learning
In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity for undergraduate students across the country to work on cutting-edge...
From Schneier on Security
Take a Selfie Using a NY Surveillance Camera
This site will let you take a selfie with a New York City traffic surveillance camera.
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance Watch
This is a fantastic project mapping the global surveillance industry.
From insideHPC
Sandia and Arizona State to Integrate Photonics and Light-Wave Frequency for Quantum Processing
Aug. 22, 2024 — SandiaNational Laboratories and Arizona State University are collaborating to combine quantum technology and large-scale optical systems into integrated...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog