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One of the oldest distinctions in information access is between searching and browsing. Does a user initiate an information-seeking…
Daniel Tunkelang| December 1, 2023
Print and colour in (optional) a HexaHexaFlexagon then see if you can uncover all of Father Christmas' presents...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 3, 2023 at 03:43 AM
Day 2 of our Christmas computing advent calendar and we're already seeing double.Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 2, 2023 at 03:22 AM
Scientists have found Strawberry Squid, “whose mismatched eyes help them simultaneously search for prey above and below them,” among the coral reefs in the Galápagos...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 1, 2023 at 05:05 PM
(This is an excerpt from my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It")
Amazon is the place peoplewrote...Greg Linden From Geeking with Greg | December 1, 2023 at 03:56 PM
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced at HPE Discover Barcelona 2023 the next series of AI-native and hybrid cloud offerings for machine learning development, data...staff From insideHPC | December 1, 2023 at 12:36 PM
A stock-trading AI (a simulated experiment) engaged in insider trading, even though it “knew” it was wrong.
The agent is put under pressure in three ways. First...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 1, 2023 at 07:03 AM
Hooray it's December! We have lots of fun Christmas- and computing-themed stuff we hope you will enjoy. First up: the links between knitting and coding.Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 1, 2023 at 02:15 AM
Along with his article to be found on this site, technology analyst Adrian Cockcroft of OrionX (and former AWS vice president) joins Shahin and Doug after SC23@HPCpodcast...staff From insideHPC | November 30, 2023 at 09:10 PM
By Adrian Cockcroft, Partner & Analyst, OrionX Last year the UCIe chiplet standard had just been launched, and since then just about everyone has joined it, about...staff From insideHPC | November 29, 2023 at 08:30 PM
What is the difference between engineering and computer science? CS is not an engineering field, though there is some overlap. It's not the digital versus physical...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | November 29, 2023 at 10:43 AM
They’re not that good:
Security researchers Jesse D’Aguanno and Timo Teräs write that, with varying degrees of reverse-engineering and using some external hardware...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 29, 2023 at 07:09 AM
(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It")
Incentives matter...Greg Linden From Geeking with Greg | November 28, 2023 at 05:48 PM
Soon we will be able to unlock and start our cars from our phones. Let’s hope people are thinking about security.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 28, 2023 at 03:19 PM
Suppose that you want to parse quickly 8-bit integers (0, 1, 2, …, 254, 255) from an ASCII/UTF-8 string. The problem comes up in the simdzone project lead by Jeroen...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | November 28, 2023 at 03:17 PM
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services announced the next generation of two AWS-designed chip families — AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2 — that the company...staff From insideHPC | November 28, 2023 at 02:36 PM
HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has announced the recipients of the 19th round of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. The 2023 winners are: FedData Technology...staff From insideHPC | November 28, 2023 at 01:47 PM
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with enabling the pursuit of innovative, high-impact computing research that aligns with pressing national and...Haley Griffin From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | November 28, 2023 at 12:16 PM
Tim O'Reilly, Mariana Mazzucato, and Ilan Strauss have three working papers focusing on Amazon's ability to extract unusual profits from its customers nowadays....Greg Linden From Geeking with Greg | November 27, 2023 at 08:50 PM
Modern web applications often use the http/https protocols. However, when the server and client needs to talk to each other in a symmetrical fashion, the WebSocket...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | November 27, 2023 at 07:16 PM