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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 Computational Complexity
Six degrees of separation has been proven. Really?
There is a paper (see here for an article about the paper, the link to the paper itself is later) that claims to PROVE that, on average, the distance (for someMy...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Economic Fallout from Falklands Halting Squid Fishing
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From insideHPC
NTT: All-Photonics Network Activated between Taiwan and Japan
NTT Corp. and Chunghwa Telecom announced they have activated the first all-photonics network between Taiwan and Japan with approximately 17 msec on an approximately...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: NSF and NIH to Hold AI and Menopause Workshop
In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity to attend a workshop centered around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and...
From The Noisy Channel
Hallucinating a Post-Search World
When I first heard about 3D printing, I imagined something like a Star Trek replicator that could synthesize arbitrary objects — or at least meals — on demand.generative...
From Yoshua Bengio
Bounding the probability of harm from an AI to create a guardrail
As we move towards more powerful AI, it becomes urgent to better understand the risks, ideally in a mathematically rigorous and quantifiable way, and use… L’article...
From insideHPC
NSF Issues $39M in Quantum Science and Engineering Grants
Aug. 29, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $39 million to help grow quantum research activities at U.S. institutions through the NSF Expanding...
From insideHPC
Accenture Wins $75M AI Contract with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 28, 2024 – Accenture Federal Services has won a $75 million, five-year contract to scale the use of artificial intelligence and modernizeAccenture...
From Computational Complexity
My Quantum Summer
Rendering of PsiQuantum's facility in Chicago I wasn't looking for quantum this summer but it found me. At various events I ran into some of the most recognized...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Weisong Shi Awarded Two NSF Grants for Autonomous Research
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share that council member Weisong Shi was awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to...
From insideHPC
CIQ Releases Fuzzball Computing and Data Management Platform for HPC and AI
RENO, Nev. — August 28, 2024 — Software infrastructure company CIQ today released the Fuzzball computing and data management platform for performance-intensive...
From insideHPC
AWS Parallel Computing Service Available for HPC, Scientific Computing
SEATTLE–Aug. 28, 2024– Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Parallel Computing...
From insideHPC
Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Google Debut Chips in MLPerf Inference v4.1 Benchmark for Generative AI
Today, MLCommons announced new results for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v4.1 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performanceNvidia...
From insideHPC
TACC Selects Sabey Data Centers as Colo for Horizon HPC System
Aug. 26, 2024 — The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced it has chosen Sabey Data Centers (SDC Austin) as its colocation...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
London: Celebrating Science – free event (with @CS4FN) tomorrow (Thur 29th) at Centre of the Cell
CS4FN is taking part in the Centre of the Cell's "Celebrating Science" family-friendly event in Whitechapel, London tomorrow afternoon 12-4pm (free).
From insideHPC
Cerebras Claims Fastest AI Inference
AI compute company Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is the fastest AI inference solution. Cerebras Inference delivers 1,800 tokens per second for Llama3...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: Weisong Shi Educates Researchers on Vehicle Computing in New Book
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to announce the publishing of Weisong Shi’s book on Vehicle Computing. We spoke with him to discuss the process...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome to the New ACM-W Co-Chairs!
We are delighted to welcome Bushra Anjum and Rukiye Altin, two exceptional women, as our Co-Chair(s) of ACM-W. Both women, no strangers to ACM-W, bring a wealth...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Highlights from the 2024 ACM-W Global Executive Committee Meeting in Madrid
The ACM-W Global Executive Committee held this year’s annual meeting from June 26-28, 2024, in Madrid, Spain. The committee members representing our diverse regions...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing