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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 insideHPC
Lenovo Unveils Hybrid GenAI Solutions in Collaboration with NVIDIA
March 18, 2024 – At NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference, Lenovo announced new hybrid AI solutions, built in collaboration with NVIDIA, designed to deliver the power...
From insideHPC
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Debuts AI-Native Portfolio for Generative AI
SAN JOSE, March 18, 2024 – Today at NVIDIA GTC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced updates to its AI-native portfolios to advance the operationalization...
From Computational Complexity
Can you feel the machine?
In the recent academy award winning movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr tests a young Oppenheimer. Bohr: Algebra's like sheet music, the important thing isn't canOppenheimer...
From Schneier on Security
Cheating Automatic Toll Booths by Obscuring License Plates
The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a variety of techniques drivers are using to obscure their license plates so that automatic readers can’t identify them...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2024: Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls Recap – Part Two
CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we will be recapping each session...
From Schneier on Security
AI and the Evolution of Social Media
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2024: Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls Recap – Part One
CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we will be recapping each session...
From Schneier on Security
Drones and the US Air Force
Fascinating analysis of the use of drones on a modern battlefield—that is, Ukraine—and the inability of the US Air Force to react to this change. The F-35A certainly...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Leprechauns Sue Over AI
For domain infringement and IP violations By GP4 after conversation Neil L. was angry. I had expected him to be bored. Dick and Kathryn were on planes last night...
From insideHPC
HPC User Forum Updates Speaker Lineup for April 9-10 Meeting in Reston, VA
March 17, 2024 — The HPC User Forum has updated its agenda spotlighting speakers at its upcoming meeting, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9-10, 2024, at the HyattHPC...
From Computational Complexity
Grad Student Visit Day: That was then, this is now.
(Harry Lewis helped me with this post.) March 15 was UMCP Computer Science Grad Student Visit Day. I suspect many of my readers are at schools that had their Grad...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Operation Squid
Operation Squid found 1.3 tons of cocaine hidden in frozen fish. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news thathere...
From insideHPC
Ardian Acquires Verne Global
London – 15 March 2024 – Private investment firm Ardian has completed the acquisition of the entire share capital of Verne (formerly Verne Global), a data center...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former CCC Council Chair Gregory D. Hager Announced as Next NSF CISE AD
We are excited and proud to pass on the news that former CCC Chair and long time Council member Gregory D. Hager was selected by the National Science Foundation...
From insideHPC
Survey: 94% of IT Leaders Rely on Immutable Storage for Ransomware Protection
SAN FRANCISCO – Data storage company Scality recently announced the results of a survey of 500 IT decision-makers across France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.Survey...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Do something computationally funny for money
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London It is Red nose day in the UK the day of raising money for the comic relief charity by buying and wearing red noses...
From Schneier on Security
Improving C++
C++ guru Herb Sutter writes about how we can improve the programming language for better security. The immediate problem “is” that it’s Too Easy By Default™ totype...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Does Pi Conspire?
With integers like 222, perhaps his site James Franklin is a mathematician and philosopher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He wrote an article in...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Calculating Pi for Pi Day
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Today is Pi Day (14 March: 3.14) so we should look at how on earth you compute a number like Pi (3.1.4159….). It...
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