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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 insideHPC
McKinsey on the Future of Compute: The Rise of Domain-Specific Architectures
There’s more to the rise in HPC and AI of domain-specific architectures (DSAs), starting with GPUs, than the superior throughput they can deliver. Yes, the deceleration...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Committees Respond to NSF Request for Information on New Technology, Innovations, and Partnerships Directorate: Seek Additional Community Input
In April 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) published a Request for Information (RFI) to inform the development of a roadmap for the recently established...
From Computational Complexity
The College Visits
My wife's cousin and her daughter came and visited Chicago. The daughter, between junior and senior year of high school, is on the tail end of college tour season...
From insideHPC
PCI-SIG Exploring PCIe over Optical Interconnects
BEAVERTON, OR. – August 2, 2023 – PCI-SIG today announced the formation of a workgroup to deliver PCI Express (PCIe) technology over optical connections. The PCI...
From insideHPC
ISC 2024 Announces Contributed Program Categories and Committee Leaders
HAMBURG, August 2, 2023 – The ISC 2024 HPC conference has announced the contributed program categories for next year’s event (May 12-16) in Hamburg along with committee...
From insideHPC
Sylabs Partners with Carahsoft on Software Container Services for the Public Sector
Reno, Nv. – August 2, 2023 – Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for high performance container technologies, announced a partnership with Carahsoft Technology...
From insideHPC
QuEra Expands Access to Quantum Computers
BOSTON, August 2, 2023 – QuEra Computing, a developer of neutral-atom quantum computers, today announced it now supports new ways of accessing its quantum computers...
From Schneier on Security
New SEC Rules around Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures
The US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules around the disclosure of cybersecurity incidents. There are two basic rules: Public companies must...
From insideHPC
Livermore Lab Team Boosts Trust in AI for Science by Making Machine Learning Explainable
As machine learning techniques become increasingly used in the sciences, a team of researchers in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Computing and Physical...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for White Papers for the 2024 Robotics Roadmap
The US National Robotics Roadmap was first created 14 years ago. It has since been used by government agencies, universities and companies as a reference about...
From insideHPC
CIQ Names 5 New VPs
RENO, Nev., August 1, 2023 — CIQ, a company building software infrastructure for enterprises running data-intensive workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise Linux...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font
The Washington Post is reporting on a hack to fool automatic resume sorting programs: putting text in a white font. The idea is that the programs rely primarily...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Composing from Compression
by Geraint Wiggins, Queen Mary University of London Computers compress files to save space. But it also allows them to create music! Music is special. It’s oneContinue...
From insideHPC
Oak Ridge Scientists Use Quantum Computer for Solar Cell Research
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced that researchers at the lab used the Quantinuum H1-1 quantum computer to not only demonstrated best practices for scientific...
From insideHPC
Chemours Announces Development of Specialty Fluid for Two-Phase Immersion Cooling: Opteon 2P50
Wilmington, Del., July 31, 2023 – The Chemours Company (“Chemours”) (NYSE: CC), a global chemistry company, recently announced advancements in the development and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Vice Chair, Nadya Bliss, Named One of The Top 50 Women Leaders of Arizona for 2023
Dr. Nadya T. Bliss, CCC Council Vice Chair and Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative (GSI) at Arizona State University (ASU), was just recognized...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $13.1M for Environmental Systems Science
July 31, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $13.1 million in funding for 17 new projects to universities, academic institutions, federal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complying with Microdirectives
Schneier makes makes some useful thoughts, AI and MicrodirectivesImagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws.All day and every day,Imagine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI-Powered Brain Surgery Becomes A Reality In Hong Kong
ACM NEWSAI-Powered Brain Surgery Becomes A Reality In Hong KongBy South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)July 14, 2023, Robotic surgery equipment.Robotics are being...
From Schneier on Security