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After Anne Elster meeting almost weekly with her international collaborators on-line throughout 2024, the main authors together with some of our PhD students produced a 20-page review paper, Scheduling languages: A past, present, and future taxonomy that was submitted to the journal ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (a.k.a. TACO), the most prestigious journals in this field at the end of 2024. In 2025 we did further refinement of this seminal paper and the final version entitled Scheduling language chronology: Past, present, and future was published in September 2025

Johannes Lenfers from Universität Münster in Germany, who is a PhD student in the same group as the co-authors Dr. Ari Rasch and Schultze, all part of Prof. Dr. Sergeu Gorlatch research group, visited CGF/HPC-Lab on May 5, 2025.

Congratulations to Maren Wessel-Berg for having her paper accepted to this year´s HCW workshop at IPDPS. She is a former master student of Anne C. Elster, as is Janc Christian Meyer, who also was PhD student with Elster.

It is great to see the next generation prosper!

Elster gave an invited talk at BLDL-15 in Bergen yesterday and served as the second opponent with Bjarne Stroustrup (father of C++) at Benjamin Chetioui's PhD defence this afternoon. Dissertation title: "Towards Practical High-Quality Software". Benjamin is now working in Google's ML team in Switzerland.

Now annouced as a Keynote speaker at IEEE CCGrid 2025 to be held in Tromsø, Norway coming May. Great place to be that time of year, right after May 17, and midnight sun already out!

Professor Anne C. Elster – CCGrid2025 Professor Anne C. Elster Personal Page HPC and Geophysical Forecasting Abstract Geophysical forecasting offers the opportunity to leveraging some of the cutting-edge technologies from the oil and gas sector to improve, for instance, geohazard monitoring and forecasting sudden events along roads and....

Cool to find out from my co-author that our article is now featured in IEEE Edge, a curated journal featuring selected articles from 12 IEEE Computer Society magazines.

https://ieeecs-media.computer.org/media/marketing/cedge_digital/ce-aug24-final.pdf

Anne Elster is featured in the recent issue on “Women in non-traditional professions in Soroptima, the Norwegian magazine associated with Soroptimist International. The latter is a non-governmental organization (NGO) for women, represented in the UN and also credited by the European Council.

Small erata detail: My BSc is in Computer Engineering, my professorship in Computer Science/datateknikk.

Texas hitting back at Meta/Facebook..

Meta to pay $1.4 billion to settle Texas facial recognition data lawsuit Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent.

Good!

Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe due to Irish request Meta Platforms will not launch its Meta AI models in Europe for now after the Irish privacy regulator told it to delay its plan to harness data from Facebook and Instagram users, the U.S. social media company said on Friday.

Niice write-up (in Norwegian, but understandable with translator) on nteh hsitory of NTNU HPC -- supercomputing at NTNU.

Ryktene sier at væpnet politi voktet maskinen til den kom i hus i Trondheim Hold deg oppdatert med Midt-Norges og Trondheims største regionavis. Vi gir deg alltid de siste nyhetene innen innenriks, utenriks, sport og kultur.

This morning I attende a virtual talk by my NTNU AI colleague Keith Downing on the dagers of AI, now this... The unhibited use of AI by totalitarian regimes is at least as big of a concern, including consumer devices such as smart vacuums, doorbells etc.

Elon Musk sues OpenAI accusing it of putting profit before humanity Lawsuit says chief executive Sam Altman’s deal with Microsoft has broken organisation’s mission