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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
Visioning Workshop Preview: Information Retrieval in the Age of Generative AI
Ever thought about what it would look like to have a personal assistant with domain-specific knowledge discovery? At the speed of Information Retrieval and Generative...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240708: Low Yield Huawei AI Chip, AI ROI Questions, ASIC AI Chip
A good July morning to you! It was a short Fourth of July holiday week in the (U.S.) world of HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (6:04) run-down of news highlights: China’s...
From insideHPC
EuroHPC JU FFplus Project: Open Call for Business Experiments and Innovation Studies Using HPC and AI
Stuttgart, Germany – July 8, 2024 – The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s FFplus project, established earlier this year to provide SMEs resources to test new applications...
From insideHPC
Zapata AI and D-Wave Quantum Announce Expanded Partnership for Generative AI
BOSTON and PALO ALTO, CA — July 8, 2024 — Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. (“Zapata AI”) (Nasdaq: ZPTA), an industrial generative AI software solutions company, and...
From insideHPC
SC24: Technical Program Leaders Discuss Their Role and Scientific Vision
Science lies at the heart of the annual Supercomputing conference, and the Technical Program is one of the most important aspects of the conference. To learn more...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Gordon Bell
Sadly Gordon Bell died May 17 at the age of 89, see this. Bell died in Coronado, California from pneumonia. He was a true visionary in the world of computing who...
From Computational Complexity
The combinatorics of picking a Vice President
Trump is pondering who to pick for his vice president. For a recent podcast about it go here. Spoiler alert: Doug B or Mario R or J.D. Vance. In 2008 I did a blog...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Newly Discovered Vampire Squid
A new vampire squid species was discovered in the South China Sea. Blog moderation policy.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions: .NET/C# Edition
Recently, the two major Web engines (WebKit and Chromium) adopted fast SIMD routines to scan HTML content. The key insight is to use vectorized classification (Langdale...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: NSF, NEH and International Agencies Fund Climate Initiative
In another installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting funding opportunity for climate change adaptation and mitigation. NSF, NEH and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Holly Yanco Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Advance Robot Manipulation
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share that council member Holly Yanco and a team of researchers are leading an ambitious project called Collaborative...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Gutta-Percha: how a tree launched a global telecom revolution
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
From Schneier on Security
New Open SSH Vulnerability
It’s a serious one: The vulnerability, which is a signal handler race condition in OpenSSH’s server (sshd), allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Welcomes New Leadership and Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is thrilled to announce new leadership. Nadya Bliss will assume the role of Chair, while Katie Siek will take on the position...
From insideHPC
PCIe 7.0: Enabling Next Gen AI Accelerator Interconnects in HPC Data Centers
Scaling data centers for evolving AI models will help alleviate data bottlenecks by distributing workloads across thousands of GPUs. This scaling extends beyond...
From Computational Complexity
Why is called the Turing Award (revisited)?
Avi Wigderson gave his ACM Turing Award lecture last week, and instead of telling his own story, he focused on Alan Turing and his influence on complexity. If you...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Even the dolphins use pocket switched networks!
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Extends Warm Welcome to New Council Members
CCC is thrilled to announce that the following six computing researchers have joined the CCC Council: Weisong Shi, University of Delaware Rayid Ghani, Carnegie...
From insideHPC
MSBAI Secures DOE ASCR Frontier Aurora HPC Allocation
LOS ANGELES, July 1, 2024 — AI company MSBAI has been awarded an allocation on the Department of Energy’s leadership-class supercomputers through the ASCR Leadership...
From insideHPC