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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
Former CCC Council Member Maja Matarić Receives ACM Athena Lecturer Award
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share that former council member Maja Matarić received the 2024-2025 Association for Computing Machinery...
From Schneier on Security
Personal AI Assistants and Privacy
Microsoft is trying to create a personal digital assistant: At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft revealed a new AI-powered feature called “Recall” for...
From Computational Complexity
Peer Review
Daniel Lemire wrote a blog post Peer Review is Not the Gold Standard in Science. I wonder who was claiming it was. There is whole section of an online Responsible...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum Computers on Wall Street
Bob Henderson is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Like other reporters he also has a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Rochester, an MFA...
From Schneier on Security
Unredacting Pixelated Text
Experiments in unredacting text that has been pixelated.
From insideHPC
At ISC 2024: Andrew Whitmore on Motivair, Exascale Cooling and Innovations in Thermal Management
At ISC 2024 we caught up with Andrew Whitmore, Vice President of Sales at Motivair, whose cooling technology is at the heart of the first three U.S. exascale-class...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
5 key takeaways from the 2024 Robotics Roadmap
A recent roadmap document notes that the field of robotics, which was once pioneered in the United States, has seen a significant shift in global leadership over...
From insideHPC
Meta VR Project Developers Turn to Liqid UltraStack for NVIDIA GPU-Packed Dell Servers
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Meta (formerly Facebook) has a corporate culture of aggressive technology adoption, particularly in the area of AI and adoption of AI...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Malicious Trackers
From Slashdot: Apple and Google have launched a new industry standard called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” to combat the misuse of Bluetooth trackers....
From insideHPC
Consortium for Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) to Hold 11 Virtual Sessions June 11-13
WASHINGTON, DC. — The recently established Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) has announced 11 virtual sessions on scientific software...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
4 Ways Computing Can Positively Affect Society
Computing stands as the cornerstone of modern technological progress, holding immense promise to reshape society for the better. At its essence, it provides a robust...
From insideHPC
At ISC 2024: Steve Conway of Intersect360 on Navigating HPC-AI Whitewater
Intersect360 Research Senior Analyst Steve Conway talked with us at the recent ISC 2024 conference in Hamburg on the struggles organizations around the world are...
From insideHPC
Pasqal Signs Quantum Computing Agreement with Aramco
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia, May 20, 2024 – Energy and chemicals company Aramco has signed an agreement with neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal to installPasqal...
From insideHPC
Torsten Hoefler Named ISC 2025 Program Chair
The ISC supercomputing conference announced that Torsten Hoefler (pictured here) will be program chair for ISC 2025, to be held in Hamburg next June 10-13. Well...
From Schneier on Security
IBM Sells Cybersecurity Group
IBM is selling its QRadar product suite to Palo Alto Networks, for an undisclosed—but probably surprisingly small—sum. I have a personal connection to this. Inbought...
From Computational Complexity
I don't do that well when the Jeopardy category is Math
Bill and Darling are watching Jeopardy.DARLING: Bill, one of the categories is MATH TALK. You will kick butt!BILL: Not clear. I doubt they will have the least number...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Emotional Support Squid
When asked what makes this an “emotional support squid” and not just another stuffed animal, its creator says: They’re emotional support squid because they’re large...
From insideHPC
ClearML Announces AI Infrastructure Orchestration and Compute Management
May 17, 2024 — Open source AI platform company ClearML today announced the release of an AI orchestration and compute management capabilities, making it the first...
From insideHPC
CGG Changes Name to Viridien
Paris – May 16, 2024: At its annual general meeting on May 15, 2024, shareholders approved the resolution to change CGG’s corporate name to Viridien. The new ticker...
From Schneier on Security