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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 Noisy Channel
Bags of Documents and the Cluster Hypothesis
My writing on AI-powered search promotes the “bag-of-documents” model, which represents a search query as a distribution of vectors for relevant documents. When...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: A Deep Dive into the Stanford AI Index Report
For an analysis of the state of AI, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) produces an annual AI Index that breaks down the industry into key thematic...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC responds to National Institute of Justice on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Imagine a situation where an AI system labels someone as high risk without taking into account important factors like their low income, family responsibilities,...
From insideHPC
Sigma2 Collaborates with Iris.ai on Research through Access to HPC in Europe
Trondheim, Norway June 10 – Sigma2 AS, Norway’s official provider of national e-infrastructure resources for research, has announced its collaboration with Iris...
From insideHPC
Synopsys Announces PCIe 7.0 IP for HPC-AI Chip Design
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 10, 2024 — Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced what it said is the industry’s first PCIe 7.0 IP solution consisting of controller, IDE...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240610: Clinical Trials for HPC-Discovered Drug, New Liquid Cooling Technique, CHIPS Act Update, Low Memory-Low Power AI
Good June morning! It’s been an interesting week in HPC-AI, here’s a quick (6:53) review of the latest news and trends: Clinical trials for cancer fighting drug...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcoming Suzhou ACM-W Professional Chapter
As we celebrate the establishment of the new ACM-W professional chapter, we are all thrilled to envision what lies ahead for the founders and members in the coming...
From Schneier on Security
Exploiting Mistyped URLs
Interesting research: “Hyperlink Hijacking: Exploiting Erroneous URL Links to Phantom Domains“: Abstract: Web users often follow hyperlinks hastily, expecting them...
From Computational Complexity
CFG-Kolm-complexity is singleton sets with Lance and Bill
For this post all Context Free Grammars (henceforth CFGs) are assumed to be in Chomsky Normal Form. The size of a CFG \(G\) is the number of rules. We denote this...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions: Chrome edition
Modern processors have instructions to process several bytes at once. Effectively all processors have the capability of processing 16 bytes one once. These instructions...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Catch Quotas in Peru
Peru has set a lower squid quota for 2024. The article says “giant squid,” but that seems wrong. We don’t eat those. As usual, you can also use this squid posthere...
From Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2024
This week, I hosted the seventeenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is the first workshop since our co-founder, Ross...
From insideHPC
Taking Liquid Cooling to Next Level: Sandia Researchers Say Direct Immersion Technique May Cut Power Use by 70%
.... by directly submergining electrical circuits and components in fluid that does not conduct electricity, Sandia National Laboratories researchers are taking...
From Schneier on Security
The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet
The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet: According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged...
From insideHPC
Livermore Lab and BridgeBio Announce Human Trials for HPC-Discovered Cancer Drug
In what Lawrence Livermore National Lab said is "a substantial milestone for supercomputing-aided drug design," LLNL and BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics todayLivermore...
From Schneier on Security
Espionage with a Drone
The US is using a World War II law that bans aircraft photography of military installations to charge someone with doing the same thing with a drone.
From insideHPC
Pete Ungaro Named to Simr Board
LOS ALTOS, Calif., June 6, 2024 — Simr, formerly known as UberCloud, which provides a platform for using compute resources with simulation tools, today announced...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Extends Agreement with Aramco Europe to Explore Quantum-Powered Optimization of Geophysical Problems
PALO ALTO, Calif. – June 6, 2024 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) announced today that it has extended its agreement with energy company Aramco to manage geophysical...
From Computational Complexity
The Godzilla Moment
On the plane earlier this week I got around to watching the Academy Award winning movie Godzilla Minus One, one of the best monster movies I've seen set in Japan...
From insideHPC