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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
IBM's long, slow climb back into advanced computing prominence took a turn yesterday with news from the University at Albany that it will be the first academicIBM...staff From insideHPC | February 7, 2024 at 03:58 PM
A European research consortium has announced progress in the development of sustainable fuels. CoEC reported what it said is a “notable breakthrough” linked toEuropean...staff From insideHPC | February 7, 2024 at 02:07 PM
We start our favorite theorems of the last decade with a blockbuster improvement in a long-standing problem. Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time by László...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | February 7, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Interesting research: “Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training“:
Abstract: Humans are capable of strategically deceptive behavior...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 7, 2024 at 07:04 AM
Drawing on interviews in Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States as well as extensive survey data, the book explains why and how so many people consume...Experientia From Putting People First | February 7, 2024 at 06:34 AM
By the UASG 2023 was a milestone year for Universal Acceptance (UA). From local awareness and training sessions around the world to the inaugural UA Day, global...UASG From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | February 6, 2024 at 07:00 PM
The CCC, on Friday of last week, responded to a Request for Information to assist NIST with executing the tasks assigned to them in the Executive Order on Safe,...Catherine Gill From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | February 6, 2024 at 04:53 PM
February 6, 2024 — Cisco and NVIDIA today announced plans to deliver AI infrastructure solutions for the data center designed to be easy to deploy and manage. “AI...staff From insideHPC | February 6, 2024 at 03:58 PM
The opening keynote at the ISC 2024 conference in Hamburg will be delivered by Kathy Yelick, cice chancellor for research and the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished...staff From insideHPC | February 6, 2024 at 02:50 PM
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 6, 2024 — Tenstorrent and Blue Cheetah Analog Design today announced that Tenstorrent has licensed Blue Cheetah’s die-to-die interconnect...staff From insideHPC | February 6, 2024 at 11:09 AM
In a context of economic and geopolitical flux and volatility, a more in-depth human-centered design approach is now more necessary than ever, as it helps forward...Experientia From Putting People First | February 6, 2024 at 06:03 AM
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has published the shortlisted events for the second annual Universal Acceptance (UA) Day, which will be held from...UASG From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | February 6, 2024 at 03:30 AM
BOSTON, February 5th, 2024 – Neutral-atom quantum company QuEra Computing has announced that the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) at Harwell, Oxfordshire...staff From insideHPC | February 5, 2024 at 02:42 PM
A deepfake video conference call—with everyone else on the call a fake—fooled a finance worker into sending $25M to the criminals’ account.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 5, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | February 5, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | February 4, 2024 at 03:29 PM
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...gasarch From Computational Complexity | February 4, 2024 at 02:38 PM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | February 4, 2024 at 07:26 AM
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.Experientia From Putting People First | February 3, 2024 at 09:44 AM
Would an AI-powered meta-prediction be smarter? Cropped from video source Punxsutawney Phil is our populace’s perennially perspicacious prognosticator. Every February...KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | February 2, 2024 at 11:52 PM