Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2023
From Schneier on Security
Hacking the High School Grading System
Interesting New York Times article about high-school students hacking the grading system.
What’s not helping? The policies many school districts are adopting that make it nearly impossible for low-performing students to fail…From insideHPC
Harvard University, MIT and QuEra Report 99.5% Two-Qubit Gate Fidelity on 60 Neutral Atom Qubits
BOSTON, October 12, 2023 – Neutral-atom quantum company QuEra Computing today announced that a team of researchers from Harvard, MIT and QuEra successfully demonstrated two-qubit entangling gates with an unprecedented 99.5 percent…
From insideHPC
MEGA International Announces Udpated AI-driven Enterprise Architecture Platform
BOSTON/PARIS, October 12, 2023 – MEGA International, an enterprise architecture SaaS software company, announces the launch of HOPEX Aquila, an AI-driven solution for digital transformation. Leveraging a partnership with Microsoft…
From insideHPC
SiFive Announces RISC-V Products for GenAI and ML
Santa Clara, Calif., Oct. 11, 2023 –- RISC-V computing company SiFive, Inc. today announced two products designed to address new requirements for high performance compute. The SiFive Performance P870 and SiFive Intelligence X390…
From insideHPC
Women in HPC Announces SC23 Travel Fellowship Award Winners
The WHPC Executive Committee, the WHPC SC23 Volunteer Committee and the staff of DoITNow! have announced two Travel Fellows for this year’s Supercomptuing Conference being held in Denver. Application to these fellowships was…
From Computational Complexity
Measuring Quantum Progress
In August the Google Quantum AI Team posted a blog post How to compare a noisy quantum processor to a classical computer to measure progress in building quantum computers.
So far quantum advantage (a term that has thankfullyBoson…From insideHPC
Achronix Announces FPGA-Powered Automatic Speech Recognition Solution
Santa Clara, CA – October 11, 2023 – Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, maker of FPGAs and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, announcedin partnership with Myrtle.ai an accelerated automatic speech recognition (ASR) solution based on
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From insideHPC
Eviden Expands Partnership with CryptoNext Security
Paris – October 11, 2023 – Eviden, an Atos Group business, today announces its Trustway IP Protect IPSec network security solution will soon support post-quantum algorithms, and expands strategic partnership with CryptoNext Security…
From insideHPC
AMD MI300 Accelerators Expected to Bring Choice to GPU Market
[Sponsored Guest Article] If you agree that generative AI signifies a new chapter in IT, then you may also agree there’s a major storm gathering among GPU accelerator chip vendors vying for position in the GenAI market. It’s…
From insideHPC
D-Wave and Satispay Announce Quantum-hybrid Application for European Payment Network
PALO ALTO, Calif., BURNABY, B.C., MILAN — October 11, 2023 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) and Satispay, an Italian fintech company focused on mobile payments, today said they have built a quantum-hybrid application designed…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The CCC Responds to White House Request for Information on Open-Source Software Security: Areas of Long-Term Focus and Prioritization
In September 2023, the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the…
From insideHPC
China Intends to Exceed 300 Exaflops Aggregate Compute Power by 2025
The People's Republic of China, so cagy in recent years regarding its leadership-class supercomputing resources, on Sunday declared its intent to exceed 300 exaflops of aggregate computing power within two years, a 50 percent…
From BLOG@CACM
Jost Bürgi and the Discovery of Logarithms
A forgotten universal genius.
From insideHPC
atNorth Announces 30MW Data Center in Copenhagen for HPC, AI
Reykjavík – October 10th, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation for HPC and AI, has announced its expansion into Denmark with a new data center in Ballerup, Greater Copenhagen. The first phase will go live in Q4 2024 following…
From insideHPC
Hitachi Vantara Launches Hybrid Virtual Cloud Storage Platform
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – October 10, 2023 – Hitachi Vantara, an infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One a single hybrid
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From insideHPC
AMD Acquires Open-Source AI Software Nod.ai
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 10, 2023 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Nod.ai, intended to expand the company’s open AI software capabilities. AMD said the addition of Nod.ai “will…
From Schneier on Security
Model Extraction Attack on Neural Networks
Adi Shamir et al. have a new model extraction attack on neural networks:
Polynomial Time Cryptanalytic Extraction of Neural Network Models
Abstract: Billions of dollars and countless GPU hours are currently spent on training…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Generating Functions and Singularities
Sharpening an analytic tool for regular languages IEEE source for Book, Even, Ott photos Ronald Book, Shimon Even, Sheila Greibach, and Gene Ott proved a fact that may escape attention nowadays. Everyone knows the equivalence…
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: The problem is not the algorithm
(This is an excerpt from the draft of my book. Please let me know if you like it and want more of these.)
“The Algorithm,” in scare quotes, is an oft-attacked target. But this obscures more than it informs.
It creates the…
From insideHPC
AD Little on Quantum: 4 Myths and 5 Ways to Get Started
Quantum systems will potentially be exponentially more powerful than other forms of computing. That’s a good thing, of course, but it’s also true that quantum is proportionately more complicated than other technologies, making…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
FY23 Report Captures Current State of UA-Readiness in Technology
This article was originally published on icann.org By Sarmad Hussain, Sr Director IDN & UA Programs and Seda Akbulut, Universal Acceptance (UA) Program Manager Since 2015, ICANN and the volunteer-led Universal Acceptance Steering…
From Schneier on Security
AI Risks
There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. Reading the headlines, one would hope that the rapid gains in AI technology have also…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Why the Romans were pants at maths
In case you've ever wondered how on earth the Romans multiplied numbers using Roman numerals...
From Computational Complexity
Young Sheldon gets two things spot-on/Am I more famous than.../Might YS become TS?
Young Sheldon is a TV show that I used to only watch on airplanes, but then i got into it and am now up to date. The wonders of technology! Note that catching up on a show would have been harder when I was a kid. (This is NOT…
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: Metrics chasing engagement
(This is an excerpt from the draft of my book. Please let me know if you like it and want more.)
Let’s say you are in charge of building a social media website like Facebook. And you want to give your teams a goal, a target…
From insideHPC
TSMC September Net Revenue Down 13% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Oct. 6, 2023 – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for September 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for the month was approximately …
From insideHPC
Revolutionizing Bioscience Research: Creating an Atlas of the Human Body
Making healthcare and life science (HCLS) discoveries is time-consuming and requires considerable amounts of data. HPC enterprise infrastructure with AI and edge to cloud capabilities is required for biomedical research to make…
From Schneier on Security
Deepfake Election Interference in Slovokia
Well designed and well timed deepfake or two Slovokian politicians discussing how to rig the election:
Šimečka and Denník N immediately denounced the audio as fake. The fact-checking department of news agency AFP said the audio…From insideHPC
Infratil and L&G Capital Increase Investment in Kao Data
London, October 5th, 2023 – Kao Data, developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has announced that infrastructure investment firm, Infratil and Legal & General Capital, the alternative…
From Schneier on Security
Political Disinformation and AI
Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence.
Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched…