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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
Indexing by Intent
Search developers mostly focus on mapping queries to results. This perspective is natural, insofar as search starts with the user formulating a query and (hopefully)...
From Schneier on Security
Police Get Medical Records without a Warrant
More unconstrained surveillance: Lawmakers noted the pharmacies’ policies for releasing medical records in a letter dated Tuesday to the Department of Health and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Much Hardware Knowledge do CS Students Need
Back to the basics! Get students close to the hardware! Really? Just how much hardware knowledge do students need today? This post was prompted by a post getting...
From Computational Complexity
Archimedes, Pi, and Pickelball
I typed 3,1,4,1,5,9 into OEIS and, as expected, I found that these are the first few digits of \(\pi\). See here.I then read on the page:\(\pi\) is sometimes refereed...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 17: pocket-switching networked reindeer
Gosh, Christmas is just around the corner! It’s Day 17 of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar and we’ve posted a blog post every day since 1 December,...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 16: candy cane or walking aid: designing for everyone, human computer interaction
Welcome to Day 16 of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar in which we’re posting a blog post every day in December until (and including) Christmas Day....
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Numbers Too Big for Our Universe
Starting from games and models that look like child’s play Ben Brubaker is a staff writer covering computer science for Quanta. He previously covered physics as...
From Putting People First
What does it mean to trust a technology?
Trust depends on perceptions of whether sociotechnical systems are seen as beneficial and well-governed as well as whether they work as their designers expect.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Underwater Sculptures Use Squid Ink for Coloring
The Molinière Underwater Sculpture Park has pieces that are colored in part with squid ink. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From insideHPC
At SC23: Achronix Talks Turnkey FPGA Solutions for Generative AI
We caught up with Achronix at SC23, the FPGA company that touts its turnkey solutions for generative AI workloads – automatic speech recognition in particular.At...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Chair Review of 2023
It is great to look back on the year to see just how far we have come. This year, new people joined our groups, working groups, and standing committees. The ACM...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Quantum Computing: Potential, Practicality and Perils
The latest episode of Celebrating Technology Leaders focused on Quantum Computing, a relatively new yet fascinating career track. Our panelists How did our panelists...
From Schneier on Security
A Robot the Size of the World
In 2016, I wrote about an Internet that affected the world in a direct, physical manner. It was connected to your smartphone. It had sensors like cameras and thermostats...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 15: a candle: optical fibre, optical illusions
After yesterday’s tinsel image inspiring a cable / broadband speeds themed post, today’s CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar picture of a candle has of course...
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance Cameras Disguised as Clothes Hooks
This seems like a bad idea. And there are ongoing lawsuits against Amazon for selling them.
From insideHPC
Intel Announces AI-Oriented 5th Gen Xeon, Gives Gaudi3 GPU Accelerator Sneak Peak
Gearing up for what it intends to be a multi-horse race in the exploding AI chip sector, Intel today announced a next-generation Xeon enterprise and data center...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 14: Why is your internet so slow + a festive kriss-kross puzzle
Today’s CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar is showing a picture of shiny tinsel, which reminds me a bit of computer cables. At least, enough to theme this...
From insideHPC
How HPC Centers Can Start the Move to Quantum Now
By Mark Mattingley-Scott, Quantum Brilliance -- To get started, it's best HPC center and their customers to go with a small and incremental quantum strategy. AHow...
From Geeking with Greg
Extended book excerpt: Computational propaganda
(This is a long excerpt about manipulation of algorithms by adversaries from my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet...
From Computational Complexity