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DOE and DARPA in Quantum Research Agreement
From insideHPC

DOE and DARPA in Quantum Research Agreement

July 16, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to coordinate...

SMART Global Holdings to Become Penguin Solutions
From insideHPC

SMART Global Holdings to Become Penguin Solutions

NEW YORK – July 16, 2024 – Today, at its Nasdaq MarketSite Analyst Day event, SMART Global Holdings, Inc. (“SGH”) (NASDAQ: SGH) announced its intention to become...

DOE Announces AI for Science Roadmap
From insideHPC

DOE Announces AI for Science Roadmap

Washington, DC, July 16, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy announced a roadmap for the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security, and Technology...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Planar Graphs—Again

Professors Yin Tat Lee and Thomas Rothvoss are faculty at the Allen School of the University of Washington. Lee has the A.W. Tucker Prize that recognizes the best...

CCC Council Chair Nadya Bliss Discusses How Technology Can Be Manipulated to Cause Harm
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Council Chair Nadya Bliss Discusses How Technology Can Be Manipulated to Cause Harm

In a Q&A with Arizona State University News, CCC Chair Nadya Bliss spoke about national security challenges, where she shared her contributions to the “Addressing...

Women in Networking at SC24: SCinet Chair Angie Asmus
From insideHPC

Women in Networking at SC24: SCinet Chair Angie Asmus

The Women in Networking at SC, or WINS, program was created to celebrate and expand the opportunities for early- to mid-career women to participate in advancing...

Women in HPC Issues Call for Lightning Talk Proposals at SC24 Workshop, Aug. 16 Deadline
From insideHPC

Women in HPC Issues Call for Lightning Talk Proposals at SC24 Workshop, Aug. 16 Deadline

July 15, 2024 — Women in HPC has issued a call for submission for Lightning Talks at the WHPC workshop to be held at the SC24 supercomputing conference on Monday...

CCC Council Member Chandra Krintz Shares Takeaways from NSF Sustainable Computing Workshop
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Council Member Chandra Krintz Shares Takeaways from NSF Sustainable Computing Workshop

Last week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released an early version of their final report for their workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability....

Hacking Scientific Citations
From Schneier on Security

Hacking Scientific Citations

Some scholars are inflating their reference counts by sneaking them into metadata: Citations of scientific work abide by a standardized referencing system: Each...

QuEra Names Ory Acting CEO
From insideHPC

QuEra Names Ory Acting CEO

Boston, July 15, 2024 — Neutral-atom quantum computing company QuEra announced today that Alex Keesling will transition from CEO to take on a new role in leading...

IQM Says It Has Set Quantum Milestones
From insideHPC

IQM Says It Has Set Quantum Milestones

Espoo, Finland, 15th July 2024 – IQM Quantum Computers said it has reached milestones in superconducting quantum computing, demonstrating improvements in two key...

Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery is now available as an early release!
From Writing

Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery is now available as an early release!

Today, I’m excited to announce my new book! It’s called Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery, and it’s a comprehensive, hands-on guide to deploying and...

From Computational Complexity

The Term Quantum Being Misused ... Again

In a post from 2015 I noted that the word quantum is often misused (see here). Have things gotten better since then? I think you know the answer. But two uses of...

CSTA At 20 Looking Back #CSTA2024
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CSTA At 20 Looking Back #CSTA2024

CTSA turns twenty and as I write this I am about ready to fly out to Las Vegas for the annual CSTA conference. I’m in the mood to look back a bit. After the conference...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements
From Schneier on Security

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking on “Reimagining Democracy in the Age of AI” at the Bozeman Library in Bozeman, Montana...

Art Touch and Talk Tour Tech
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Art Touch and Talk Tour Tech

Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...

Friday Squid Blogging: 1994 Lair of Squid Game
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: 1994 Lair of Squid Game

I didn’t know: In 1994, Hewlett-Packard released a miracle machine: the HP 200LX pocket-size PC. In the depths of the device, among the MS-DOS productivity apps...

CCC Weekly Computing News: A Groundbreaking NSF Facility Project
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Weekly Computing News: A Groundbreaking NSF Facility Project

In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing the exciting announcement of a leader-class computing facility project from The U.S. National...

SoftBank Acquires AI Chip Company Graphcore
From insideHPC

SoftBank Acquires AI Chip Company Graphcore

July 12, 2024 — Graphcore has confirmed that the Japan-based SoftBank investment firm has acquired the specialty AI chip company. Terms were not disclosed, butSoftBank...

July 28 Deadline for Office of Science Digital Twins RFI
From insideHPC

July 28 Deadline for Office of Science Digital Twins RFI

July 12, 2024 — The Digital Twins Fast-Tracking Committee of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office...
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