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 Putting People First
From nudge to sludge: a book, and now an academy and an audit
Sludge is friction through unnecessary red tape. Cass R. Sunstein wrote a book about it and the OECD is currently exploring the contribution that behavioural science can make to service design by partnering with the Government…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA, Intel and Google Alums Form Lemurian Labs, Raise $9M for 20X AI Throughput Boost
Toronto – October 4, 2023 — Lemurian Labs today announced it has secured $9 million in seed funding to develop an accelerated computing platform tailored for AI applications. The company said its platform will leverage a novel…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Heidelberg Laureates Warn Against a False Sense of Security with Current Encryption Methods
During the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum last week, I had the opportunity to interview several of the laureates to hear their perspectives on current and future challenges in computing. Two of these laureates that I was fortunate…
From insideHPC
Keshav Pingali to Receive ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
New York, October 4, 2023 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE Computer Society have named Keshav Pingali, the W.A.”Tex” Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing at the University of Texas at Austin…
From insideHPC
Dell Teams with NVIDIA on Generative AI
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced today it is partnering with NVIDIA and its Tensor Core GPUs -- including the coveted H100 -- to expand its generative AI portfolio for public cloud, on-premises and edge environments.…
From Schneier on Security
Malicious Ads in Bing Chat
Malicious ads are creeping into chatbots.
From Computational Complexity
The Lyadov Lesson
I've seen many brilliant students, those who flew though high school and undergrad with great grades and little effort. As PhD students, they often feel they still don't need to try, that success will continue to come to them…From insideHPC
New Open Source Event: AI.dev, Dec 12-13 in San Jose, Co-located with Cassandra Summit
Oct. 3, 2023 — The McEnery Convention Center in San Jose will be the site of a new conference, the AI.dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit, Tuesday and Wednesday, December 12-13 in San Jose and co-locating with Cassandra Summit…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Gas Pumps via Bluetooth
Turns out pumps at gas stations are controlled via Bluetooth, and that the connections are insecure. No details in the article, but it seems that it’s easy to take control of the pump and have it dispense gas without requiring…
From Schneier on Security
NSA AI Security Center
The NSA is starting a new artificial intelligence security center:
The AI security center’s establishment follows an NSA study that identified securing AI models from theft and sabotage as a major national security challenge…From insideHPC
IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and ISC Join on Access to ISC Research Papers
By Nages Sieslack, ISC Communications Team Oct. 2, 2023 — I had the opportunity to talk with Prof. Michela Taufer, the ISC 2024 Program Chair, to get an update on the event’s progress. Prof. Taufer has been in this position for…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20231002: Lisa Su on AMD-NVIDIA GPU Competition; ASML EUV at Intel Fab in Ireland; AI Job Elimination; SC23 Coming up
A happy October morning to you! Our lineup of quick (4:36) commentary on recent HPC news includes: AMD's Lisa Su on the AMD-NVIDIA GPU competition; ASML EUV at Intel-4 fab in Ireland starts volume production; AI's job elimination…
From BLOG@CACM
Can AI Be Fair?
The ideology or impartiality of artificial intelligence.
From insideHPC
HPC, AI, ML and Edge Solutions Drive Duos Railcar Inspection System Powered by Dell Technologies and Kalray
Industries such as railways are moving from traditional inspection methods to using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to perform automated inspection of railcars. Data streaming from the edge at high rates…