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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
AI Debuggers?
A meme was posted (by Doug Peterson I believe) asking why if the computer knows there is a semi colon missing that the computer doesn’t add it? It’s a good question...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
New Methods Solve Old Problems
Really old ones, in this case Ben Cohen writes the “Science of Success” column for The Wall Street Journal. It is about what makes people, teams and ideas work...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Vegan Squid-Ink Pasta
It uses black beans for color and seaweed for flavor. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered...
From insideHPC
AI Governance Proposal: Control AI by Controlling Compute
To control compute – to squeeze or open the spigot of processing power – is to control AI. In doing so, AI can be steered toward beneficial results while avoiding...
From insideHPC
VIAVI Xgig Exerciser Approved for CXL 1.1 Compliance Testing
Chandler, Ariz., February 15, 2024 – VIAVI Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV), a provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions, today announced...
From insideHPC
NSF to Hold Feb. 21 Webinar on National AI Research Resource
Feb. 15, 2024 – The National Science Foundation will hold a webinar on Wednesday, Feb. 21 from 3-4 pm ET for researchers and educators to learn about the National...
From insideHPC
Lenovo and Anaconda Partner to Accelerate AI Development
February 15, 2024 – Today, Lenovo announced a partnership with Anaconda Inc., a provider of source code for artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science...
From insideHPC
Lambda Raises $320M to Build NVIDIA GPU Cloud for AI
SAN JOSE, Feb. 15, 2024 — Lambda, the GPU cloud company powered by NVIDIA GPUs, today announced it has raised a $320 million Series C led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative...
From The Noisy Channel
Precision, Recall, and Desirability
Recent developments in AI have created opportunities across the search stack. But before building solutions, it is important to clearly identify the problems they...
From Computational Complexity
Focusing on the Outcomes
An academic field often organizes itself pulling ideas from its own field. For example, students on the economics faculty job search can signal at most two schools...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Reveals Eos Supercomputer: 4,600 H100 GPUs for 18 AI Exaflops
NVIDIA Thursday released a video that offers the first public look at Eos (pictured here), a monster 18.4 exaflops FP8 AI supercomputer powered by 576 DGX H100NVIDIA...
From Schneier on Security
On the Insecurity of Software Bloat
Good essay on software bloat and the insecurities it causes. The world ships too much code, most of it by third parties, sometimes unintended, most of it uninspected...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Participation: Envisioning Computer Science Futures and Frontiers
The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Grand Challenges task force is engaging in a new visioning activity to identify the next grand challenges that will shape...
From insideHPC
EuroHPC JU Issues Procurement Call for LUMI-Quantum
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a call for tender for the installation of LUMI-Q, a new EuroHPC quantum computer...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) 2024 in Munich, Germany, on Friday, February...
From insideHPC
IQM Quantum Announces Co-CEO
Espoo, Finland, 14th February 2024 – IQM Quantum Computers announced it is implementing a dual leadership structure, appointing two Co-CEOs. Former sole CEOIQM...
From insideHPC
Quantum: PASQAL Announces New Chairman, Deputy CEO
PARIS – February 13, 2024 — PASQAL, a company focused on neutral atoms quantum computing, today announced the appointment of Wasiq Bokhari as chairman of its board...
From Schneier on Security
Improving the Cryptanalysis of Lattice-Based Public-Key Algorithms
The winner of the Best Paper Award at Crypto this year was a significant improvement to lattice-based cryptanalysis. This is important, because a bunch of NIST’s...
From insideHPC
VAST Data and Run:ai Announce AI Solution with NVIDIA Accelerated Computing
NEW YORK – February 13, 2024 – VAST Data, the AI data platform company, today announced a partnership with Run:ai, a company focused on compute orchestration for...
From insideHPC