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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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Scientists Using Frontier Supercomputer Win 2022 Gordon Bell Prize, Another Frontier Team Named Prize Finalist
[SPONSORED CONTENT] How many researchers can say they’ve not only run their scientific job on the AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer, the world’s no. 1 ranked...
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At SC22: ACM Gordon Bell Prize Awarded for Particle-In-Cell Simulations on Frontier, Fugaku, Summit and Perlmutter Supercomputers
New York, NY, November 17, 2022 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named a 16-member team drawn from French, Japanese, and US institutions as recipient...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cuddly Human Interface
Interesting look at new user interfaces, from the ACM, which has long looked at Human Consumer Interfaces (HCI) Featured ACM Member: Yuta SugiuraYuta Sugiura is...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Track Winners at ICMI 2022
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the ICMI 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart's New, Wealthier Customers
Has been happening for a while:Can Walmart hold onto the new, wealthier customers it is picking up?by George Anderson in RetailwireWalmart’s savings message is...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Rounding modes: std::from_chars versus strtod/strtof
A recent C++ standard (C++17) introduced new functions to parse floating-point numbers std::from_chars, from strings (e.g., ASCII text) to binary numbers. How should...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology for Textiles
Lately have had several questions regarding related tech. Here an overviewTechnology Transforms Textiles By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, November...
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Towards Fusion-Nuclear Military Aircraft
As mentioned, not a new thing.LOCKHEED MARTIN HAS A PATENT FOR FUSION-POWERED FIGHTERS AND BOMBERSAlex Hollings | October 25, 2022Back in 2018, Lockheed MartinThis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Modalities
Useful intro ...Quantum Computing Modalities – A Qubit Primer Revisited in QuanTumtechIn December 2021, in an early iteration of this Blog, I described the various...
From insideHPC
Penguin Solutions Launches Cloud-Native HPC/AI Control Plane and Announces Partnership with Google Cloud
Fremont, Calif., – November 15, 2022 – Penguin Solutions, an SGH brand (Nasdaq: SGH) that provides HPC, AI, and IoT technologies for edge, core, and cloud, today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LIDAR and Trucking Safety
HOW LIDAR TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES TRUCKING SAFETY in LIDAR NewsOctober 30, 2022 Trucking is a lifeline between consumers and products. The logistics industry helps...
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AI Inference Company d-Matrix Announces Collaboration with Microsoft
SANTA CLARA – Today, d-Matrix, a AI-compute and inference company, announced a collaboration with Microsoft using its low-code reinforcement learning (RL) platform...
From Computational Complexity
Fall Jobs Post 2022
In the fall I try to make my predictions on the faculty job market for the spring. The outlook this year is hazy as we have two forces pushing in opposite directions...
From Schneier on Security
Failures in Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication System
Twitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system: Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Make Your Systems UA-Ready with Our New Code Samples!
By Satish Babu, Chair, UA Technology Working Group The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), in partnership with Cofomo Inc., have developed Universal Acceptance...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A fast function to check your floating-point rounding mode
For speed, we use finite-precision number types in software. When doing floating-point computations in software, the results are usually not exact. For example,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Italy Bans Facial, Non Policing Related AI
The breadth of this is interesting, more strict than EU it seems?Italy Outlaws Facial Recognition Tech, Except to Fight CrimeReutersBy Elvira Pollina; FedericoNovember...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cemvitafactory Producing Carbon Neutral Hydrogen
For extraction of carbon neutral hydrogen from oil drilling wells: Brought to my attention: https://www.cemvitafactory.com/'Gold Hydrogen'Gold Hydrogen is a novel...
From insideHPC
Altair PBS Professional Deployed on Polaris Supercomputer at Argonne
SC22, Dallas, TX. November 14, 2022 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory announced the use of the on-demand...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog