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From Computational Complexity

A Trip Down Memory Lane: Desc comp, Constant Round Sorting, Division Breakthrough, Derandomization.

I  came across (by accident) the link to all of the BEATCS complexity columns from 1987 to the 2016. See HERE. (If you know a link to a more recent webpage then...

Indian Fishermen Are Catching Less Squid
From Schneier on Security

Indian Fishermen Are Catching Less Squid

Fishermen in Tamil Nadu are reporting smaller catches of squid. Blog moderation policy.

More on My AI and Democracy Book
From Schneier on Security

More on My AI and Democracy Book

In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. My co-author and collaborator Nathan Sanders and I are...

IronNet Has Shut Down
From Schneier on Security

IronNet Has Shut Down

After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet...

HPE Launches ProLiant System Powered by AMD for AI
From insideHPC

HPE Launches ProLiant System Powered by AMD for AI

HOUSTON – October 10, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 for complex AI model training tasks, poweredHPE...

Dell Technologies Adds AMD-Powered PowerEdge Servers
From insideHPC

Dell Technologies Adds AMD-Powered PowerEdge Servers

San Francisco, Oct. 10, 2024 — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) expanded it generative AI (GenAI) solutions portfolio with Dell AI Factory additions tailored forDell...

HPE Announces Fanless Direct Liquid Cooling Systems Architecture
From insideHPC

HPE Announces Fanless Direct Liquid Cooling Systems Architecture

HOUSTON – Oct. 10, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced what the company said is the industry’s first 100 percent fanless direct liquid...

AMD Launches CPU, GPU and DPU Chips Aimed at Big AI
From insideHPC

AMD Launches CPU, GPU and DPU Chips Aimed at Big AI

Today in San Francisco AMD announced updated versions of its chips portfolio and moved to position itself as an across-the-board provider of data center technology...

Deebot Robot Vacuums Are Using Photos and Audio to Train Their AI
From Schneier on Security

Deebot Robot Vacuums Are Using Photos and Audio to Train Their AI

An Australian news agency is reporting that robot vacuum cleaners from the Chinese company Deebot are surreptitiously taking photos and recording audio, and sending...

HF Sinclair Launches Immersion Cooling Fluids
From insideHPC

HF Sinclair Launches Immersion Cooling Fluids

Oct. 9, 2024 — HF Sinclair’s Lubricants & Specialties business annoiunced a line of single-phase immersion cooling fluids. INNOVATE is a series of dielectric thermal...

Airbus Selects Multiverse for Gesture Recognition Control Systems for Fighter Pilots 
From insideHPC

Airbus Selects Multiverse for Gesture Recognition Control Systems for Fighter Pilots 

DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIÁN, SPAIN – October 9th, 2024 – Multiverse Computing, a quantum AI software company, today announced it will work with Airbus​ Defence and Space...

From software to reality?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

From software to reality?

Both the Physics and Chemistry Nobel prizes were awarded to computer scientists in 2024. Computer scientists are emerging as leading figures in the natural sciences...

From Computational Complexity

Fall Jobs Post 2024

In the fall, I write a jobs post predicting the upcoming CS faculty job market and giving suggestions and links. In the spring I used to crowdsource a list of where...

Auto-Identification Smart Glasses
From Schneier on Security

Auto-Identification Smart Glasses

Two students have created a demo of a smart-glasses app that performs automatic facial recognition and then information lookups. Kind of obvious, but the sort of...

Supermicro Introduces 3U Server for Edge AI
From insideHPC

Supermicro Introduces 3U Server for Edge AI

San Jose, October 8, 2024 – Supermicro announced a high-density infrastructure platform optimized for AI inferencing at the network edge. Supermicro’s system delivers...

Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of Deep Learning, wins Nobel Prize in Physics!
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of Deep Learning, wins Nobel Prize in Physics!

So… in 2024, the Physics Nobel prize was awarded to a Computer Scientist. Is Physics out of ideas? The Nobel Committee just gave a Physics award to a COMPUTER SCIENTIST...

China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor
From Schneier on Security

China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors...

Foxconn Orders Blackwell-Powered 90 AI Exaflops Supercomputer
From insideHPC

Foxconn Orders Blackwell-Powered 90 AI Exaflops Supercomputer

Nvidia and  Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn are building what the companies said is Taiwan’s largest supercomputer. The system, to be housed at the Hon...

Nov. 14 Deadlinefor 2 DOE ASCR Scientific Computing Review Panels
From insideHPC

Nov. 14 Deadlinefor 2 DOE ASCR Scientific Computing Review Panels

Oct. 7, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program has announced that Thursday, Nov. 14 is the deadline for two...

Nov. 11 Deadline: ASCR Announces 2025 Leadership Computing Challenge
From insideHPC

Nov. 11 Deadline: ASCR Announces 2025 Leadership Computing Challenge

Oct. 7 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is an allocation program for projects of interest to DOE, with emphasis...
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