Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512
Though most strings online today follow the Unicode standard (e.g., using UTF-8), the Latin 1 standard is still in widespread inside some systems (such as browsers)...
From Schneier on Security
Bots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs
Interesting research: “An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs“: Abstract: For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAS have been widely used as a means of protection...
From insideHPC
ADLINK Announces COM-HPC Module
SAN JOSE, Aug. 15, 2023 — The ADLINK COM-HPC-cRLS Client type Size C module based on 13th Gen Intel Core processor is available for order with: o up to 13th...
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $16M for Particle Accelerator Research
Aug. 17, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for research projects in particle accelerator science and technology. Total...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting “Violations of Social Norms” in Text with AI
Researchers are trying to use AI to detect “social norms violations.” Feels a little sketchy right now, but this is the sort of thing that AIs will get better at...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
How Smartphones and Watches are Revolutionizing Global Health
Previous CCC Council Member Shwetak Patel’s research was recently featured in a ZME Science article “Can we screen the world? How smartphones and watches are revolutionizing...
From Schneier on Security
UK Electoral Commission Hacked
The UK Electoral Commission discovered last year that it was hacked the year before. That’s fourteen months between the hack and the discovery. It doesn’t know...
From insideHPC
Los Alamos Reports Hardware Approach Offers New Quantum Computing Paradigm
Aug. 15, 2023 — Los Alamost National Laboratory reported today that a potentially game-changing theoretical approach to quantum computing hardware avoids some of...
From insideHPC
AI Startup Portkey.ai Secures $3M Funding
San Francisco – August 23, 2023: Portkey.ai is today announcing a $3m seed funding round empowering engineering teams to build and launch generative AI apps faster...
From insideHPC
Quantum Physicists from Quantinuum and Chubu University Team on Quantum AI and Cognition Research
Oxford and Kasugai, Japan, August 23, 2023 – Quantum computing company Quantinuum and Chubu University in Japan have announced a partnership, co-led by Professors...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Announces Performance of New Quantum Hybrid Solver
BURNABY, B.C., PALO ALTO, Calif. — August 22, 2023 — Quantum computing systems and software company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced an update to...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces AI-Ready Servers from Dell, HPE and Lenovo for Generative AI
August 22, 2023 — NVIDIA today announced system manufacturers will deliver AI-ready servers that support VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, announced separately...
From insideHPC
Groq Selects Samsung Foundry
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 15, 2023 — AI systems company Groq today announced it has contracted with Samsung’s US-based foundry business to be its silicon partner...
From insideHPC
Zadara Partners with Node4 to Support Veeam BaaS Offering
IRVINE, Calif. August 21, 2023 – Edge cloud services company Zadara today announced it has partnered with Node4, a leading digital transformation and managed services...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $70M in Research Training for Students and Faculty from Historically Underrepresented Institutions
Aug. 21, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $70 million in funding to support research by historically underrepresented groups in science, technology...
From insideHPC
Lenovo and VMware Partner on NVIDIA-Powered Generative AI and Multi-Cloud Solutions
August 22, 2023 — Today at VMware Explore 2023, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced a turnkey solution from their joint EdgeLenovo...
From insideHPC
Cornelis Partners with Penguin and Panasas on New HPC-AI Reference Design
WAYNE, PA. — August 22, 2023 – Cornelis Networks, a provider of high-performance networking solutions for data-intensive technical computing (HPC and AI) applications...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $112M for Research on Computational Projects in Fusion Energy Sciences
Aug. 15, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science (SC), announced $112 million in funding for 12 projects that focus on collaborations...
From insideHPC
atNorth Names Erling Gudmundsson COO
Reykjavík, Iceland – August 15th, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced the...
From Computational Complexity