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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 Schneier on Security
Using AI for Political Polling
Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious...
From insideHPC
Ayar Labs Names Intel Veteran Pooya Tadayon VP of Packaging and Test
SAN JOSE – June 11, 2024 – Optical interconnect company Ayar Labs today announced the appointment of Pooya Tadayon as its Vice President of Packaging and Test.Ayar...
From insideHPC
Oak Ridge Lab: Researchers Use AI for Autonomous Discovery and Optimization of Materials
Researchers are developing ways to accelerate discovery by combining automated experiments, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. A novel tool...
From insideHPC
Viridien Joins with Ranch Computing on Digital Media
Paris | Jun 11, 2024 — Viridien, formerly CGG, has announced a high-performance computing (HPC) agreement with Ranch Computing, a French rendering farm based in...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Pamela Wisniewski Appointed to DARPA ISAT Study Group
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) continues to be amazed by the accomplishments of our council members. On May 31, Pamela Wisniewski was appointed to the...
From Schneier on Security
LLMs Acting Deceptively
New research: “Deception abilities emerged in large language models“: Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are currently at the forefront of intertwining AI systems...
From insideHPC
Quantum: OTI Lumionics Selects Nord Quantique to Test Materials Science Applications
TORONTO and SHERBROOKE, Quebec (June 11, 2024) – OTI Lumionics, developer of advanced materials for consumer electronics, and Nord Quantique, a quantum computing...
From The Noisy Channel
Bags of Documents and the Cluster Hypothesis
My writing on AI-powered search promotes the “bag-of-documents” model, which represents a search query as a distribution of vectors for relevant documents. When...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: A Deep Dive into the Stanford AI Index Report
For an analysis of the state of AI, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) produces an annual AI Index that breaks down the industry into key thematic...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC responds to National Institute of Justice on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Imagine a situation where an AI system labels someone as high risk without taking into account important factors like their low income, family responsibilities,...
From insideHPC
Sigma2 Collaborates with Iris.ai on Research through Access to HPC in Europe
Trondheim, Norway June 10 – Sigma2 AS, Norway’s official provider of national e-infrastructure resources for research, has announced its collaboration with Iris...
From insideHPC
Synopsys Announces PCIe 7.0 IP for HPC-AI Chip Design
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 10, 2024 — Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced what it said is the industry’s first PCIe 7.0 IP solution consisting of controller, IDE...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240610: Clinical Trials for HPC-Discovered Drug, New Liquid Cooling Technique, CHIPS Act Update, Low Memory-Low Power AI
Good June morning! It’s been an interesting week in HPC-AI, here’s a quick (6:53) review of the latest news and trends: Clinical trials for cancer fighting drug...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcoming Suzhou ACM-W Professional Chapter
As we celebrate the establishment of the new ACM-W professional chapter, we are all thrilled to envision what lies ahead for the founders and members in the coming...
From Schneier on Security
Exploiting Mistyped URLs
Interesting research: “Hyperlink Hijacking: Exploiting Erroneous URL Links to Phantom Domains“: Abstract: Web users often follow hyperlinks hastily, expecting them...
From Computational Complexity
CFG-Kolm-complexity is singleton sets with Lance and Bill
For this post all Context Free Grammars (henceforth CFGs) are assumed to be in Chomsky Normal Form. The size of a CFG \(G\) is the number of rules. We denote this...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions: Chrome edition
Modern processors have instructions to process several bytes at once. Effectively all processors have the capability of processing 16 bytes one once. These instructions...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Catch Quotas in Peru
Peru has set a lower squid quota for 2024. The article says “giant squid,” but that seems wrong. We don’t eat those. As usual, you can also use this squid posthere...
From Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2024
This week, I hosted the seventeenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is the first workshop since our co-founder, Ross...
From insideHPC