HPCwireIBM on Thursday announced the establishment of its first IBM Quantum education and research initiative for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), led by Howard University and 12 more HBCUs. The IBM-HBCU Quantum Center will provide access to its quantum computers, and collaborate on academic, education, and community outreach efforts. The initiative aims to prepare and cultivate talent at HBCUs from all science, technology, engineering, and math fields for the quantum era. […]

NC State NewsArtificial intelligence researchers at North Carolina State University (NC State) have enhanced deep neural network performance by integrating feature normalization and feature attention modules into a hybrid attentive normalization (AN) module. This module improves system accuracy, while consuming negligible additional computation power. The team tested the AN module by plugging it into four popular neural network architectures: ResNets, DenseNets, MobileNetsV2, and AOGNets. […]

The HillThe U.S House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Election Technology Research Act, which would establish and fund a Center of Excellence in Election Systems at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This center would test the security and accessibility of election-related hardware. The legislation also authorizes NIST and the National Science Foundation to research further securing election technology, focusing on and addressing cybersecurity and other issues […]

Australian National UniversityResearchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have developed a method that uses machine learning to generate a close-to-perfect optical hologram in near-darkness. Three-dimensional (3D) holograms typically appear grainy in low light due to the shot noise limit, but ANU’s Holo-UNet was trained over thousands of learning cycles to master the appearance of an ideal hologram. Once trained, the researchers would show the Holo-UNet a hologram with missing […]

NISTResearchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the Phish Scale, which could help organizations better train their employees to avoid being deceived by seemingly trustworthy emails. The scale is designed to help information security officers better comprehend click-rate data, in order to gauge phishing training programs' effectiveness more accurately. NIST's Michelle Steves said, "The Phish Scale is intended to help provide a deeper understanding […]