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AMPER: AI helping future you remember past you
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

AMPER: AI helping future you remember past you

Research to develop a new AI tool to help people with dementia to remember, and gain confidence. Also includes some suggested classroom activities and examples...

How fast is rolling Karp-Rabin hashing?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

How fast is rolling Karp-Rabin hashing?

A hash function maps values (e.g., strings) into a fixed number of strings, typically smaller than the original. It is useful to compare quickly two long strings...

From Computational Complexity

The advantage of working on obscure things

 I got an email from an organization that wants to publicize one of my papers. Which paper did they want to publicize? 1) If the organization was Quanta, they...

Lego Computer Science: Turing Machines Part 2: the controller
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Lego Computer Science: Turing Machines Part 2: the controller

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Last time we started to build a working computer out of Lego: a Turing Machine. So far we have seen that we canContinue...

[Book] Filterworld: how algorithms flattened culture
From Putting People First

[Book] Filterworld: how algorithms flattened culture

From New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Predictions 2024

Would an AI-powered meta-prediction be smarter? Cropped from video source Punxsutawney Phil is our populace’s perennially perspicacious prognosticator. Every February...

Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid in Argentina Waters
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid in Argentina Waters

Argentina is reporting that there is a good population of illex squid in its waters ready for fishing, and is working to ensure that Chinese fishing boats don’t...

David Kahn
From Schneier on Security

David Kahn

David Kahn has died. His groundbreaking book, The Codebreakers was the first serious book I read about codebreaking, and one of the primary reasons I entered this...

A Self-Enforcing Protocol to Solve Gerrymandering
From Schneier on Security

A Self-Enforcing Protocol to Solve Gerrymandering

In 2009, I wrote: There are several ways two people can divide a piece of cake in half. One way is to find someone impartial to do it for them. This works, but...

Lego Computer Science: Turing Machines Part 1: the tape
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Lego Computer Science: Turing Machines Part 1: the tape

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London It it possible to make a working computer out of lego and you do not even have to pay for an expensive robot Mindstorm...

Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing to Install Lenovo HPC Cluster
From insideHPC

Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing to Install Lenovo HPC Cluster

Lenovo announced it has won a contract for the joint construction of an AMD/NVIDIA-powered HPC cluster with the University of Paderborn in Germany. The system will...

Last Call for CCC Council Member Nominations
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Last Call for CCC Council Member Nominations

Thank you to everyone who has nominated a colleague or self-nominated for the opportunity to be a CCC Council member for the three-year term beginning July 1, 2024...

Integrated Research Infrastructure: Argonne Combines HPC and Experiments to Speed Discovery
From insideHPC

Integrated Research Infrastructure: Argonne Combines HPC and Experiments to Speed Discovery

For over a decade, Argonne has been working to develop tools and methods to connect its powerful computing resources with large-scale experiments. Merging ALCFIntegrated...

WEKA Partners with NexGen Cloud on AI Supercloud
From insideHPC

WEKA Partners with NexGen Cloud on AI Supercloud

CAMPBELL, Calif., January 31, 2024 – AI-native data platform provider WekaIO (WEKA) announced today it is partnering with NexGen Cloud, a sustainable infrastructure...

Qumulo and Superna Partner on Ransomware Protection
From insideHPC

Qumulo and Superna Partner on Ransomware Protection

SEATTLE – January 31, 2024 – High performance data storage company Qumulo announced the availability of Superna Data Security Edition for Qumulo. The Data Security...

From Computational Complexity

University Challenges

Seems like US universities have been in the news quite a bit recently. You'd think for the great academics and research. Alas, no.I decided to make a list of the...

Cequel III-Led Investor Group Acquires Controlling Interest in DDC Cabinet Technology
From insideHPC

Cequel III-Led Investor Group Acquires Controlling Interest in DDC Cabinet Technology

ST. LOUIS, January 31, 2024 – Following an initial investment last year, Cequel III announced today that it, with Thompson Street Capital Partners, has taken aCequel...

Amidata Deploys Quantum ActiveScale Object Storage
From insideHPC

Amidata Deploys Quantum ActiveScale Object Storage

SAN JOSE, Jan. 30, 2024 – Unstructured data storage and data management company Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) announced that Amidata, a managed services provider...

MIT, Applied Materials and Northeast Microelectronics Coalition Hub Combine on 200mm Research Capabilities for MIT.nano 
From insideHPC

MIT, Applied Materials and Northeast Microelectronics Coalition Hub Combine on 200mm Research Capabilities for MIT.nano 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — MIT and Applied Materials, Inc., announced an agreement today that, together with a grant to MIT from the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition...

Korea Quantum Computing and IBM Collaborate
From insideHPC

Korea Quantum Computing and IBM Collaborate

BUSAN, South Korea, Jan. 29, 2024 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Korea Quantum Computing (KQC) has engaged IBM to offer IBM’s AI software and infrastructure...
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