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Is Similarity Objective?
From The Noisy Channel

Is Similarity Objective?

Some search problems have binary answers. We often frame these problems in terms of matching or equivalence. A simplistic formulation of relevance is that a canonicalized...

Diraq Quantum Adds Deeptech and Venture Investors to $22M Investment Round 
From insideHPC

Diraq Quantum Adds Deeptech and Venture Investors to $22M Investment Round 

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – JUNE 24, 2024 – Quantum computing company Diraq today announced the expansion of its investment round, bringing the total raised to USD $22Diraq...

CEA-Leti Announces Launch of FAMES Pilot Line As Part of EU Chips Act
From insideHPC

CEA-Leti Announces Launch of FAMES Pilot Line As Part of EU Chips Act

GRENOBLE, France – June 24, 2024 – CEA-Leti announced the kick-off meeting today of the FAMES Pilot Line, a project aimed at advancing semiconductor technologies...

From Computational Complexity

Soliciting open problems in honore of Luca T for my Open Problems Column

As you all know Luca Trevisan, a Giant in our field, passed away at the too-young age of 52. See Lance's post on Luca HERE. As the editor of the SIGACT News Open...

Welcome to our new ACM-W Rising Star Committee Chair!
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Welcome to our new ACM-W Rising Star Committee Chair!

Silvia is Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain. She is also Director of the Master’s Degree in Software...

Performance tip: avoid unnecessary copies
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Performance tip: avoid unnecessary copies

Copying data in software is cheap, but it is not at all free. As you start optimizing your code, you might find that copies become a performance bottleneck. Let...

Advice To First Timers at #ISTE24 or #CSTA2024
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Advice To First Timers at #ISTE24 or #CSTA2024

Summer conference season is coming up. ISTE starts this weekend (without me) and CSTA (with me) is in July. Over the years I have been to scores of conferences...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Nebula
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Nebula

Beautiful astronomical photo.

GENCI to be Site of 2nd EuroHPC Exascale HPC System
From insideHPC

GENCI to be Site of 2nd EuroHPC Exascale HPC System

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a hosting agreement with the French national research organization GENCI for its next exascale supercomputer, called Alice...

Wave Photonics Secures £4.5M Investment Round
From insideHPC

Wave Photonics Secures £4.5M Investment Round

June 20, 2024 — Wave Photonics, a Cambridge-based start-up, has received £4.5 million to develop on-chip photonics designs for quantum technologies, sensors, and...

IQM Quantum Opens Data Center in Germany
From insideHPC

IQM Quantum Opens Data Center in Germany

Munich, 21st June 2024 – IQM Quantum Computers today announced the opening of its first quantum data center in Munich to support industry applications, with plans...

Coordinate conundrum puzzles and vector graphics
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Coordinate conundrum puzzles and vector graphics

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One way computers store images is as a set of points (as coordinates) that make up lines and shapes. This is the...

Validating gigabytes of Unicode strings per second… in C#?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Validating gigabytes of Unicode strings per second… in C#?

We have been working on a fast library to validate and transcode Unicode and other formats such as base64 in C++: simdutf. We wondered: could we achieve the same...

Classiq Teams with BMW Group and Nvidia for Quantum Applicability in Electrical Systems
From insideHPC

Classiq Teams with BMW Group and Nvidia for Quantum Applicability in Electrical Systems

TEL AVIV | June 20, 2024 — Classiq today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA and the BMW Group to optimize mechatronic systems. The initiative is focused on solving...

WEKA Grows IP Portfolio to More Than 100 Patents 
From insideHPC

WEKA Grows IP Portfolio to More Than 100 Patents 

CAMPBELL, Calif., June 20, 2024 – WekaIO, the AI-native data platform company, today announced its IP portfolio has been awarded more than 100 patents by the United...

Robotics Meets Workforce Shortage
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Robotics Meets Workforce Shortage

In recent years, industries have been struggling with a significant challenge: a shortage of skilled labor. This issue spans various fields, from manufacturing...

From Computational Complexity

Luca Trevisan (1971-2024)

Complexity theorist Luca Trevisan lost his battle to cancer yesterday in Milan at the age of 52. A terrible loss for our community and our hearts go out to hisTCS4All...

Recovering Public Keys from Signatures
From Schneier on Security

Recovering Public Keys from Signatures

Interesting summary of various ways to derive the public key from digitally signed files. Normally, with a signature scheme, you have the public key and want to...

Aged 11-16? Share your views on Computing education in England.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Aged 11-16? Share your views on Computing education in England.

Deadline tomorrow for the Young People's Advisory Group on Computer Science - have your say on how computing is taught in England.

New Blog Moderation Policy
From Schneier on Security

New Blog Moderation Policy

There has been a lot of toxicity in the comments section of this blog. Recently, we’re having to delete more and more comments. Not just spam and off-topic comments...
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