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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
New Open SSH Vulnerability
It’s a serious one: The vulnerability, which is a signal handler race condition in OpenSSH’s server (sshd), allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Welcomes New Leadership and Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is thrilled to announce new leadership. Nadya Bliss will assume the role of Chair, while Katie Siek will take on the position...
From insideHPC
PCIe 7.0: Enabling Next Gen AI Accelerator Interconnects in HPC Data Centers
Scaling data centers for evolving AI models will help alleviate data bottlenecks by distributing workloads across thousands of GPUs. This scaling extends beyond...
From Computational Complexity
Why is called the Turing Award (revisited)?
Avi Wigderson gave his ACM Turing Award lecture last week, and instead of telling his own story, he focused on Alan Turing and his influence on complexity. If you...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Even the dolphins use pocket switched networks!
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...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Extends Warm Welcome to New Council Members
CCC is thrilled to announce that the following six computing researchers have joined the CCC Council: Weisong Shi, University of Delaware Rayid Ghani, Carnegie...
From insideHPC
MSBAI Secures DOE ASCR Frontier Aurora HPC Allocation
LOS ANGELES, July 1, 2024 — AI company MSBAI has been awarded an allocation on the Department of Energy’s leadership-class supercomputers through the ASCR Leadership...
From insideHPC
Rescale Receives Success Memorandum from Defense Innovation Unit for HPC Modernization Program
San Francisco – June 27, 2024 – Cloud HPC company Rescale announced the successful completion of an HPC Modernization Program prototype evaluation for the Department...
From insideHPC
DOE ASCR July 22 Call for Papers: Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science
The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program in the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science is organizing a Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing...
From insideHPC
TII Quantum Technology Symposium January 27-29 in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, UAE – 2nd July 2024: The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a scientific research center and the applied research pillar of the Abu Dhabi’s Advanced...
From Schneier on Security
Public Surveillance of Bars
This article about an app that lets people remotely view bars to see if they’re crowded or not is filled with commentary—on both sides—about privacy and openness...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Beyond computing careers: Expanding measures of persistence and success
By Melissa (Mez) Perez & Patricia Garcia In April 2023, our article “Tracing Participation Beyond Computing Careers: How Women Reflect on Their Experiences in Computing...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Book on AI and Democracy
If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ve noticed that I have written a lot about AI and democracy, mostly with my co-author Nathan Sanders. I am pleased to announce...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Chair Daniel Lopresti Transitions to Chair Emeritus and Several Council Members Rotate Off
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) wishes Dan Lopresti well as his 2-year term as Council Chair comes to a close. June 30th marks the end of Lopresti’s term...
From insideHPC
Altair to Acquire EDA Company Metrics Design Automation
TROY, Mich., July 1, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced it has agred to acquire the outstanding capital stock of Metrics Design Automation Inc. (Metrics), a...
From insideHPC
DDN Wins 2024 AI Breakthrough Award
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – July 1, 2024 – AI and multi-cloud data management solutions company DDN announced it has won its fourth “AI Hardware Innovation Award,” resulting...
From Schneier on Security
Model Extraction from Neural Networks
A new paper, “Polynomial Time Cryptanalytic Extraction of Neural Network Models,” by Adi Shamir and others, uses ideas from differential cryptanalysis to extract...
From Computational Complexity
Technology: 1966, 2006, 2023.
In 2013 I wrote a blog to celebrate Lance's 50th birthday by contrasting what things were like when Lance was 10 to when he was 50. That post is here.But lifeThe...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Rising Star Award Recipient: Dr Eva Tuba
ACM-W would like to announce Dr. Eva Tuba as this year’s recipient of the ACM-W Rising Star Award! The ACM-W Rising Star Award recognizes a woman whose early-career...
From Schneier on Security