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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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Reflection-based JSON in C++ at Gigabytes per Second
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a popular format for storing and transmitting data. It uses human-readable text to represent structured data in the form of...
From The Noisy Channel
Searching for Discovery
Search and DiscoveryIf search has one job, it is to help searchers find what they are looking for. However, many search application developers feel that searchHippocratic...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Guess Which Way?
Math problems get solved from time to time. Today I wonder if they are solved the way we guessed they were going to be solved? For example do most feel that P vs...
From insideHPC
IBM-Developed Algorithms Accepted for Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Aug. 13, 2024 — Two IBM-developed algorithms have been formalized within the world’s first three post-quantum cryptography standards, which...
From Schneier on Security
On the Voynich Manuscript
Really interesting article on the ancient-manuscript scholars who are applying their techniques to the Voynich Manuscript. No one has been able to understand the...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Double or nothing: an extra copy of your software, just in case
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London If you spent billions of dollars on a gadget you’d probably like it to last more than a minute before it blows up...
From insideHPC
EU Launches Cryogenic Quantum Project
Aug. 12, 2024 — The ARCTIC (“Advanced Research on Cryogenic Technologies for Innovative Computing”), an EU project, is intended to establish a European supply chain...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240812: UK Cuts Exascale, Big Round for AI Inference, Llama 3.1 and Open AI, SC24 the Biggest Ever?
A good mid-August morn to you! Here's a rapid (6:30) romp through recent HPC-AI developments, including: the UK government cuts more than £1 billion for an exascale...
From insideHPC