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Request open problems in honor of Luca Trevisan

 Request for Open Problems In Memory of Luca TrevisanLuca Trevisan passed away on June 19, 2024 at the age of 52, of cancer.I am putting together an open problems...

2 English Professors Win NSF Grant to Open Aurora Exascale Black Box
From insideHPC

2 English Professors Win NSF Grant to Open Aurora Exascale Black Box

English professors at Clemson University and Portland State University have been awarded a six-figure research grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct...

Faster random integer generation with batching
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Faster random integer generation with batching

We often generate random integers. Quite often these numbers must be within an interval: e.g., an integer between 0 and 100. One application is a random shuffle...

Friday Squid Blog: The Market for Squid Oil Is Growing
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blog: The Market for Squid Oil Is Growing

How did I not know before now that there was a market for squid oil? The squid oil market has experienced robust growth in recent years, expanding from $4.56 billion...

SandboxAQ Adds Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Dr. Lawrence H. Summers to Board
From insideHPC

SandboxAQ Adds Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Dr. Lawrence H. Summers to Board

Aug. 16, 2024 — AI and quantum technology company SandboxAQ announced that Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, has joined SandboxAQ’s...

CCC Weekly Computing News: Using Minecraft to Teach AI Social Intelligence
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Weekly Computing News: Using Minecraft to Teach AI Social Intelligence

In this installment of CCC Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an interesting relationship between Minecraft and Arizona State University (ASU) as a part of the...

New Windows IPv6 Zero-Click Vulnerability
From Schneier on Security

New Windows IPv6 Zero-Click Vulnerability

The press is reporting a critical Windows vulnerability affecting IPv6. As Microsoft explained in its Tuesday advisory, unauthenticated attackers can exploit the...

Dec. 15 Nomination Deadline for ACM Award to Recognize Researchers from Historically Underrepresented Communities
From insideHPC

Dec. 15 Nomination Deadline for ACM Award to Recognize Researchers from Historically Underrepresented Communities

New York, Aug. 13, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that it has initiated the Luiz André Barroso Award to recognize researchers...

[On Demand] Celebrating Technology Leaders: Generative AI in Enterprise Software
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

[On Demand] Celebrating Technology Leaders: Generative AI in Enterprise Software

On August 7th, 2024, Bushra Anjum hosted the 15th episode of “ACM-W Celebrating Technology Leaders” with our esteemed panel of experts to discuss the current trends...

Quantum Circuits Closes $60M Series B Investment
From insideHPC

Quantum Circuits Closes $60M Series B Investment

August 15, 2024 – New Haven, CT –  Quantum Circuits announced it has secured a final Series B investment round of more than $60 million. The company said the funds...

NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms
From Schneier on Security

NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms

From the Federal Register: After three rounds of evaluation and analysis, NIST selected four algorithms it will standardize as a result of the PQC Standardization...

Facets, But Which Ones?
From The Noisy Channel

Facets, But Which Ones?

This post dives into a particular challenge of faceted search, exploring the challenge of selecting which facets a search application should present to searchers...

Now Recruiting: Website Editors
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Now Recruiting: Website Editors

The ACM-W Communications Committee is seeking a volunteer to maintain the ACM-W website (women.acm.org). The successful candidate will work directly with the ACM...

Ke Fan and Daniel Nichols Win ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships
From insideHPC

Ke Fan and Daniel Nichols Win ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships

New York, August 14, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the IEEE Computer Society announced today that Ke Fan of the University of Illinois...

SiFive Announces RISC-V Datacenter Processor
From insideHPC

SiFive Announces RISC-V Datacenter Processor

Santa Clara, Calif., Aug. 14, 2024 – Today RISC-V computing company SiFive announced its SiFive PerformanceTM P870-D datacenter processor for highly parallelizable...

Texas Sues GM for Collecting Driving Data without Consent
From Schneier on Security

Texas Sues GM for Collecting Driving Data without Consent

Texas is suing General Motors for collecting driver data without consent and then selling it to insurance companies: From CNN: In car models from 2015 and later...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements
From Schneier on Security

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at eCrime 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The event runs from September 24 through...

From Computational Complexity

Favorite Theorems: Random Oracles

July EditionThis months favorite theorem is a circuit result that implies the polynomial-time hierarchy is infinite relative to a random oracle, answering an open...

Much ado about nothing
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Much ado about nothing

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London The nurse types in a dose of 100.1 mg [milligrams] of a powerful drug and presses start. It duly injects 1001 mg...

NSF: Call for Nominations for $1M Alan T. Waterman Award, Sept. 20 Deadline
From insideHPC

NSF: Call for Nominations for $1M Alan T. Waterman Award, Sept. 20 Deadline

Aug. 13, 2024 — The National Science Foundation said it is seeking nominations for candidates that represent the diversity of the U.S. Nominations for the AlanNSF...
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