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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Some Fun Today

Today is a double NFL day. The main game for us is the Detroit Lions against the San Francisco 49ers. My dear wife, Kathryn Farley, is a dedicated fan of the Lions...

Brain Candy, STS Opportunities, and Girl Scouts
From Apophenia

Brain Candy, STS Opportunities, and Girl Scouts

I know I’ve been doing a crap job of sharing updates or juicy blog posts. Sorry! Here are some varied updates. And hopefully I’ll pen a proper commentary shortly...

From Computational Complexity

Certifying a Number is in a set A using Polynomials

 (This post was done with the help of Max Burkes and Larry Washington.)During this post \(N= \{0,1,2,\ldots \}\) and  \(N^+=\{1,2,3,\ldots \}\).Recall: Hilbert's...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

A Talk at TTIC on Experiment Design

Jessica Hullman of Northwestern University is visiting TTIC this coming Monday. She is giving a talk at 10am Central Time (11am Eastern) on “Hypothesizing About...

Friday Squid Blogging: Footage of Black-Eyed Squid Brooding Her Eggs
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Footage of Black-Eyed Squid Brooding Her Eggs

Amazing footage of a black-eyed squid (Gonatus onyx) carrying thousands of eggs. They tend to hang out about 6,200 feet below sea level. As usual, you can alsohere...

VAST Data and Genesis Cloud Partner for AI Cloud Infrastructure
From insideHPC

VAST Data and Genesis Cloud Partner for AI Cloud Infrastructure

NEW YORK – January 26, 2024 – AI data platform company VAST Data today announced a strategic partnership with Genesis Cloud, an  iInfrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)...

Eviden and Microsoft Announce 5-Year Cloud & AI Partnership
From insideHPC

Eviden and Microsoft Announce 5-Year Cloud & AI Partnership

Paris – January 25, 2024 – Eviden, the Atos Group business leading in digital, cloud, big data, and security, and Microsoft today announced a five-year strategic...

Kao Data Completes £206M Debt Raise with Deutsche Bank for Data Center Expansion
From insideHPC

Kao Data Completes £206M Debt Raise with Deutsche Bank for Data Center Expansion

London, 24th January 2024  – AI and advanced computing data center company Kao Data announced it has completed a new, £206 million debt raise, with an accompanying...

Chatbots and Human Conversation
From Schneier on Security

Chatbots and Human Conversation

For most of history, communicating with a computer has not been like communicating with a person. In their earliest years, computers required carefully constructed...

CCC Releases the 5 Year Update to the Next Steps in Quantum Computing Workshop Report
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Releases the 5 Year Update to the Next Steps in Quantum Computing Workshop Report

Quantum computing has captured the public’s attention due to its incredible theoretical applications, but the intensely complicated underlying physics make it difficult...

IonQ Announces Quantum Technical Achievement a Year Ahead of Schedule
From insideHPC

IonQ Announces Quantum Technical Achievement a Year Ahead of Schedule

COLLEGE PARK, MD – January 25, 2024 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced that it hit its target technical milestone of 35 algorithmic qubits...

Forward Networks Unveils GenAI Features
From insideHPC

Forward Networks Unveils GenAI Features

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2024 — Forward Networks has launched AI Assist, a generative AI feature integrated into its platform, Forward Enterprisethat aimsForward...

Intel Opens Advanced Fab in New Mexico
From insideHPC

Intel Opens Advanced Fab in New Mexico

Intel said Fab 9 will help fuel the next era of Intel’s advanced packaging technologies. “As the semiconductor industry moves into the heterogeneous era that uses...

Quantum Computing Skeptics
From Schneier on Security

Quantum Computing Skeptics

Interesting article. I am also skeptical that we are going to see useful quantum computers anytime soon. Since at least 2019, I have been saying that this is hard...

[Paper] Why people still fall for phishing emails
From Putting People First

[Paper] Why people still fall for phishing emails

This paper features an in-depth investigation on how people make email response decisions while reading their emails. The authors proposed five concrete enhancements...

HPE Breached by Russia-Backed Hackers
From insideHPC

HPE Breached by Russia-Backed Hackers

HPE disclosed that its email system was hacked by a Russia-sponsored actor called Midnight Blizzard, also Cozy Bear. In a regulatory filing, HPE reported it was...

HPE Announces Neil MacDonald as Leader of HPC and AI Business Segment
From insideHPC

HPE Announces Neil MacDonald as Leader of HPC and AI Business Segment

HOUSTON — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced an expanded leadership role effective February 1, 2024 for Neil MacDonald, pictured here, who has...

NSF to Launch Advanced Computing National AI Research Resource Pilot
From insideHPC

NSF to Launch Advanced Computing National AI Research Resource Pilot

January 24, 2024 — Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation and collaborating agencies launched the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR)...

From Computational Complexity

Learning Complexity on Your Own

The following request came from a comment earlier this month (shortened) Could you give some advice on how to study complexity theory on one's own, and/or to follow...

SnapLogic Announces GenAI Builder
From insideHPC

SnapLogic Announces GenAI Builder

SAN MATEO, Calif. – Jan 24, 2024 – SnapLogic today unveiled GenAI Builder, a no-code generative AI application development product for enterprise applications and...
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