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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 The Noisy Channel
Handling Facets With Many Values
The previous post addresses the challenge of selecting which facets a search application should present to searchers as query refinements. However, there is another...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: ECP Software Leader Mike Heroux on Building and Sustaining Exascale-Class Codes
The @HPCpodcast is delighted to have Dr. Mike Heroux as special guest to discuss HPC software in general and, in particular, his work as the Exascale Computing@HPCpodcast...
From Computational Complexity
The Levin Translation
Earlier this summer I attended a Celebration for Leonid Levin who recently turned 75. To prepare my talk I wanted to go back to Levin's 1971 two-page Russian masterpiece...
From Schneier on Security
Story of an Undercover CIA Agent who Penetrated Al Qaeda
Rolling Stone has a long investigative story (non-paywalled version here) about a CIA agent who spent years posing as an Islamic radical. Unrelated, but also in...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
5 Ways to Build Resilience to Disinformation
In 2020, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) published the quad paper “An Agenda for Disinformation Research,” where seven researchers came together to share...
From insideHPC
Academic Supercomputing Community Gathers at TACC Frontera User Meeting
Aug. 19, 2024, Austin, TX — More than 50 scientists gathered in Austin for the 2024 Frontera User Meeting held at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), August...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Questions Keeping Me Awake Tonight
It’s about 2:45 AM as I start this post. Why am I writing at this hour? Well, it’s because some things are keeping my mind from shutting down and maybe by writing...
From insideHPC
TSMC Joint Venture Breaks Ground on Dresden Fab
DRESDEN, Germany, August 20, 2024— ESMC – a joint venture between TSMC, Robert Bosch GmbH, Infineon Technologies AG and NXP Semiconductors N.V. – today held aTSMC...
From insideHPC
DDN Wins Tier-1 Performance Data Platform Certification for Nvidia Partner Network Cloud Partners
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Aug. 20, 2024 – Data intelligence platform company DDN today announced it has been certified as a tier-one performance data solution for NVIDIA...
From insideHPC
NTT Demonstrates Optical Fiber Monitoring Technology for All-Photonics Network
TOKYO – August 20, 2024 – NTT Corporation (NTT) has developed technology to visualize the state of end-to-end fiber-optic links without using measuring equipment...
From insideHPC
Aug. 21 Argonne Webinar on chipStar: a HIP implementation for Aurora Exascale
Aug. 20, 2024 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar tomorrow from 11 am to noon Central Time covering chipStar, a HIP implementation for...
From insideHPC
Diraq Says It Drives 2-Qubit Gate Accuracy in CMOS above 99%
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – AUGUST 20, 2024 – Quantum computing company Diraq announced it has demonstrated consistent and repeatable operation with above 99 percent fidelity...
From insideHPC
Female-led Swiss Start-up Apheros Secures $1.85M for Data Center Cooling Systems
Zurich – August 19, 2024: Deep tech startup Apheros is today announcing a $1.85m funding round the company will use to introduce its metal foam technologyfor data...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: A Look into the CAR Lab with Founder Weisong Shi
CCC spoke with one of its council members, Weisong Shi about his passion for autonomous research which led him to start the Connected and Autonomous Research (CAR)...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Wireless Bicycle Shifters
This is yet another insecure Internet-of-things story, this one about wireless gear shifters for bicycles. These gear shifters are used in big-money professional...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240819: Adding AI-Centric Servers, Post Quantum Cryptography, Liberal Arts Profs Look at Exascale
Good August day to you! Here's a quick (5:43) review of recent goings on in the world of HPC-AI, including: AI-centric servers from non-traditional HPC suppliers...
From insideHPC
Upping the AI Ante: AMD to Acquire Data Center Server Company ZT Systems for $5B
In a vertical integration move, AMD today announced an agreement to acquire data center and hyperscale systems supplier ZT Systems for nearly $5 billion. The acquisition...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Michela Taufer Speaks at 53rd International Conference on Parallel Processing
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to announce that council member Michela Taufer was a keynote speaker at the 53 International Conference on Parallel...
From insideHPC
Fabric Cryptography Raises $33M for Cryptography Chip
August 19, 2024: Silicon Valley hardware startup Fabric Cryptography announced a $33 million Series A funding round to build computing chips, software and cryptographic...
From Schneier on Security