Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2024
From insideHPC
DOE and NNSA in Effort to Harness AI National Security Mission
WASHINGTON, D.C.—This week, the White House issued a national security memorandum (NSM) on artificial intelligence. “Recognizing that advances at the frontier of AI will have significant implications for national security and…
From insideHPC
AIST and QuEra in Quantum Collaboration
October 25, 2024, Boston – Neutral-atom quantum company QuEra Computing today announced that on September 6th, it signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
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From Schneier on Security
Watermark for LLM-Generated Text
Researchers at Google have developed a watermark for LLM-generated text. The basics are pretty obvious: the LLM chooses between tokens partly based on a cryptographic key, and someone with knowledge of the key can detect those…
From insideHPC
Codasip Donates CHERI RISC-V SDK to CHERI Alliance
Munich, October, 2024 – RISC-V company Codasip announced it has donated its Software Development Kit (SDK) for CHERI to the community-interest organization CHERI Alliance, which makes the SDK freely available for download on
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From insideHPC
Quantum Software Company Multiverse Opens San Francisco Office
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24, 2024 — Quantum AI software company Multiverse Computing announced its expansion to the U.S. with the opening of an office in San Francisco. The company said its entry into the U.S. enables it to accelerate…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
New Report Highlights UA Readiness of Top Websites, Email Tools, Programming Languages and More
Authors: Seda Akbulut, UA Program Manager; Sarmad Hussain, ICANN IDN/UA Programs Director; For nearly a decade, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the volunteer-led Universal Acceptance Steering…
From insideHPC
Pain of Porting: The Limitations and Costs of GPU-Driven HPC-AI
By Elad Raz, Founder and CEO, NextSilicon The surging demand for supercomputing power, driven by the insatiable appetite of AI/ML, big data analytics, and scientific research, has driven the HPC industry to push the boundaries…
From insideHPC
F5 Announces BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes with Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs
SEATTLE, OCTOBER 23, 2024 – F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced the availability of BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, an AI application delivery and security solution that equips service providers and enterprises with a centralized control…
From Schneier on Security
Are Automatic License Plate Scanners Constitutional?
An advocacy groups is filing a Fourth Amendment challenge against automatic license plate readers.
“The City of Norfolk, Virginia, has installed a network of cameras that make it functionally impossible for people to drive anywhere…From Computational Complexity
Family Feud vs Pointless
From insideHPC
Lenovo @ SC24: Smarter Creates Cooler HPC
SC24, the industry’s leading HPC technical conference, is taking place next month, and Lenovo will be there. HPC enthusiasts, influencers, and experts will gather in Atlanta, Georgia from November 17 – 22nd at the Georgia World…
From insideHPC
IDTechEx: Chiplet Market Growth Forecast to $411B by 2035
Oct. 23, 2024 — A new IDTechEx report, “Chiplet Technology 2025-2035: Technology, Opportunities, Applications,” highlights the transformative potential of chiplets. It predicts the market will reach US$411 billion by 2035, driven…
From insideHPC
Nord Quantique Announces Partnerships for Quantum Semiconductor Supply Chain
SHERBROOKE, Canada (October 23, 2024) – Nord Quantique, a quantum error correction company, today announces two partnerships to secure its long-term chip fabrication supply chain for its quantum computers. Both partners are
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From insideHPC
University of Houston Researchers Awarded Superconductivity Project Funding
HOUSTON, Oct. 22 – Researchers at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston have received second-year funding from Intellectual Ventures, a global leader in the business of invention, to continue their…
From insideHPC
Optical I/O: Celestial AI Acquires Rockley Photonics Portfolio
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – October 23, 2024 – Photonic fabric company Celestial AI today announced the acquisition of silicon photonics intellectual property from Rockley Photonics (Rockley), including worldwide issued and pending…
From Schneier on Security
No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer
The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.”
No, it’s not true.
This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have come from this news article, which…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Rising Star Award 2024-25: Nominations open!
With the ACM-W Rising Star Award, ACM-W recognizes women whose early-career research has made a significant impact in the field of computing. The award is a tribute to early-career women making waves in computing and contributing…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
A message from the ACM-W Global Co-Chair, Bushra Anjum
Being appointed as the Global Co-Chair of ACM-W is not only an honor but also carries a deep sense of responsibility. I have been a part of the academic and professional computing world for years, and this is a chance for me…
From insideHPC
IBM Introduces Granite 3.0 AI Models
ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2024 — Today, at IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the release of what it said is its most advanced family of AI models, Granite 3.0. The company said its third-generation Granite flagship language models can outperform…
From insideHPC
Nominations Open for 2025 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award
HAMBURG, Germany, October 21, 2024 – The ISC Conference announced that nominations are open for the 2025 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award. The confeerene encourages community members to nominate early-career researchers they…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20241021: Exascale Day Shift, Quantum in China, the Great Grace Hopper, Awards and Conferences
A happy peak foliage (for some) day to you! Here’s a quick (5:44) jaunt through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: a shift in Exascale Day focus, did a Chinese quantum computer crack military grade encryption?, the…
From insideHPC
Oriole Networks Raises $22M for Photonics to Cut LLM Energy Use
London, 21st October: Oriole Networks – a company using light to train Large Language Models with low energy consumption – has raised an additional $22 million from investors to scale its “super-brain” solution. The round was…
From Schneier on Security
AI and the SEC Whistleblower Program
Tax farming is the practice of licensing tax collection to private contractors. Used heavily in ancient Rome, it’s largely fallen out of practice because of the obvious conflict of interest between the state and the contractor…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Claude Shannon: Inventing for the fun of it
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London. Claude Shannon, inventor of the rocket powered Frisbee, gasoline powered pogo stick, a calculator that worked using roman numerals, and discoverer of the fundamental equation of…
From Computational Complexity
Contrast an Episode of Columbo with the recent Nobel Prizes
I quote Lance's blog post (here) about Computing and the Nobels
a) On Wednesday October 9th half of the Chemistry Nobel was awarded to computer scientists Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for the protein-folding prediction algorithm…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The logic of Queens
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Queens is a fairly simple kind of logic puzzle found for example on LinkedIn as a way to draw you back to the site. Doing daily logic puzzles is good both for mental health andContinue…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award
The NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award is an amazing program for young women THe students I have had who earned these awards have found it very useful. And yes, it looks great on a college application. Encourage…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Scarf
Cute squid scarf.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Opportunity to Respond to NITRD RFI on a National Plan for Cyber-Physical Systems Resilience
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) would like to encourage you to consider responding to the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Request for Information (RFI) on a National Plan for Cyber…
From Schneier on Security
Justice Department Indicts Tech CEO for Falsifying Security Certifications
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the CEO of a still unnamed company has been indicted for creating a fake auditing company to falsify security certifications in order to win government business.