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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
Atom Computing Adds Former Sec. of the Navy to Board
August 30, 2023 — Berkeley, CA – Atom Computing has appointed Ken Braithwaite, former Secretary of the Navy, to its board of directors. He served as Secretary of...
From insideHPC
Gartner Reports Composable Infrastructure Increases Market Penetration up to 10x
August 24, 2023 – Technology industry analyst firm Gartner has issued four new “Hype Cycle” reports for 2023 in which composable infrastructure is given a “high...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Food Labeling Laws
This article talks about new Mexican laws about food labeling, and the lengths to which food manufacturers are going to ensure that they are not effective. There...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The 3rd Innovation Forum on Intelligent Computing: How intelligent computing will enable intelligent systems
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is teaming up with the Zhejiang Lab for a hybrid forum on The 3rd Innovation forum on Intelligent...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Distributed Prize
And a ‘new’ computing ‘blog’ with over 1,300 sizable ‘posts’ unearthed Edsger Dijkstra contributed to many aspects of computing. His name is attached to Dijkstra...
From Computational Complexity
Transcripts for the 21st Century
When I start a new academic job, I need to prove that I actually have a PhD. I have to log in my MIT alumni page, pay my $10 and they email my graduate transcript...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Get Ready for womENcourage™ 2023: Europe Gears Up to Celebrate Women in Computing
The 10th ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage™ 2023 will be hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Celebrating Technology Leaders Episode 13: Inspiring Women of DevOps
In episode 13 of “ACM-W Celebrating Technology Leaders,” our host, Bushra Anjum, spoke with three technologists with successful DevOps careers to learn from their...
From Schneier on Security
Parmesan Anti-Forgery Protection
The Guardian is reporting about microchips in wheels of Parmesan cheese as an anti-forgery measure.
From insideHPC
VMware and NVIDIA Partner on Generative AI for Enterprises
August 22, 2023 — VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced the expansion of their partnership with a focus on generative AI. The companies...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Solicitation – Research Security and Integrity Information Sharing Analysis Organization
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through the Office of the Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy (OCRSSP), is seeking to establish an independent...
From Schneier on Security
Applying AI to License Plate Surveillance
License plate scanners aren’t new. Neither is using them for bulk surveillance. What’s new is that AI is being used on the data, identifying “suspicious” vehicle...
From insideHPC
Harvard Uses Google Cloud to Clone Supercomputer for Medical Research Runs
A Harvard scientist used Google Cloud Platform compute resources to construct an HPC clone to conduct heart disease study, according to a Reuters story, “a novel...
From Computational Complexity
Why I have some sympathy for the Simulation Theory (We are all characters in a video game.)
There are some people who believe that we are all characters in a video game written by Abisola (this is sometimes called The Simulation Hypothesis). I first dismissed...
From insideHPC
Ikigai Labs Raises $25M to Bring Generative AI for Tabular Data
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24, 2023 -- Ikigai Labs, a company focused on generative AI for tabular data, today announced $25M of new capital by Premji Invest with participation...
From Schneier on Security
White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge
At Black Hat last week, the White House announced an AI Cyber Challenge. Gizmodo reports: The new AI cyber challenge (which is being abbreviated “AIxCC”) will have...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
How far can you hear? Modelling distant birdsong.
by Dan Stowell, Queen Mary University of London How do we know how many birds there are out there: in the countryside, and in the city? Usually, it’s because people...
From Geeking with Greg
AI letter signers not worried about doomsday AI
An article in Wired, "A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren't Actually AI Doomers": A significant number of those who signed were, it seems...
From Geeking with Greg
Challenges using LLMs for startups
Someone (not an AI expert) was asking me about applying large language models (LLMs, like ChatGPT) to a particular product. In case it's useful to others, here's...
From Schneier on Security