Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2023
From Schneier on Security
Spaf on the Morris Worm
Gene Spafford wrote an essay reflecting on the Morris Worm of 1988—35 years ago. His lessons from then are still applicable today.
From insideHPC
Optical I/O Takes Center Stage at SC23
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Integration of optical I/O with an FPGA is the tip of the iceberg of a new vision to enable new HPC/AI architectural advances through ubiquitous optical interconnects for every piece of compute silicon…
From insideHPC
Gina Tourassi Named Oak Ridge Associate Lab Director for Computing and Computational Sciences
Gina Tourassi has been named associate laboratory director for Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She replaces Shaun Gleason, interim ALD since the departure of Doug Kothe…
From BLOG@CACM
Social Protest, War, and the Organizational Culture of the Israeli Science and Engineering Academia
Our institution's organizational culture has changed; social and political issues now constitute a vital part of the discourse taking place on campus and on the Technion's social media.
From BLOG@CACM
That Was The Week That Was
The last week of October in the year 2023 may be remembered as the week when lawmakers made a real effort to outpace technology.
From BLOG@CACM
The Perils of 'Stay In Your Lane'
That phrase translates roughly to "do your job and let others do theirs," but in our division, it was intended to stifle troublesome question-asking.
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20231106: UK AI HPC Push, White House EO on AI, Ungaro Speaks, Market Update on HPC-AI
Here’s a dash (5:24) through the latest in HPC-AI, including: new AI UK supercomputers, the White House Executive Order on AI and its national security implications, Pete Ungaro's appearance on the @HPCpodcast, interesting findings…
From Schneier on Security
Crashing iPhones with a Flipper Zero
The Flipper Zero is an incredibly versatile hacking device. Now it can be used to <a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/flipper-zero-gadget-that-doses-iphones-takes-once-esoteric-attacks-mainstream/"crash iPhones …
From Computational Complexity
In the bad old days we had Punchcards. How did people deal with that?
In the fall of 1976 I started as a Freshman at SUNY Stony Brook intending to major in Math and Computer Science. I took Honors Calculus I and CS 1. The CS course was in Pascal (which I still think is a fine teaching language…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Eating Dancing Squid
It’s not actually alive, but it twitches in response to soy sauce.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Pete Ungaro Sounds Off on the State of HPC-AI
In this episode, the second in our “Industry View” series (see our conversation with Alain Andreoli), we are delighted to speak with Pete Ungaro, long-time luminary and respected industry leader in HPC-AI. Ungaro, a globally
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From Schneier on Security
New York Increases Cybersecurity Rules for Financial Companies
Another example of a large and influential state doing things the federal government won’t:
Boards of directors, or other senior committees, are charged with overseeing cybersecurity risk management, and must retain an appropriate…From insideHPC
atNorth Joins Finnish Data Center Association
Reykjavik, Iceland – November 2, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, today announced it joined the Finnish Data Center Association (FDCA). The association…
From insideHPC
Researchers in Japan Announce Room-Termperature Quantum Advance
Tokyo, November 2, 2023 — In a study published in Volume 20, Issue 4 of the journal Physical Review Applied on 16 October 2023, a team of researchers from Japan, led by Associate Professor Kaoru Sanaka from Tokyo University of…
From insideHPC
Dell and Intel Deploy UK AI Supercomputer at Univ. of Cambridge
UK AI supercomputers are breaking out all over. Today, Dell, Intel and the University of Cambridge have announced the deployment of the co-designed "Dawn" Phase 1 supercomputer. Claiming the system to be the U.K.’s fastest AI…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Accepting Applications for Director of Research Community Initiatives
The Computing Research Association (CRA) is seeking high-achieving applicants for the position of Director of Research Community Initiatives. This role is responsible for managing the internal Computing Community Consortium…
From insideHPC
Summer Interns Gain Hands-On Experience with Argonne Supercomputers
This summer, the ALCF hosted over 40 college students to work on real-world computing projects in areas ranging from scientific visualization to materials science to digital twins. Every summer, the Argonne Leadership Computing…
From insideHPC
ALCF Team Wins First Place and Best Workflow at 2023 IEEE SciVis Contest
The team’s VisAnywhere application enables researchers to interact with brain plasticity visualizations across multiple display platforms. Researchers from the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), the University of
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From insideHPC
Panasas Announces New Leadership Appointments
SAN JOSE, October 24, 2023– High performance data storage company Panasas has announced the appointment of four new senior executives, following the recent appointment of Ken Claffey as CEO. “Panasas is uniquely positioned to…
From Computational Complexity
The Loop Graph
From insideHPC
Datasaur Launches LLM Lab for ChatGPT and Similar Models
Oct. 27, 2023 — Datasaur, a natural language processing (NLP) data-labeling platform, today launched LLM Lab, an interface designed for data scientists and engineers to build and train custom LLM models like ChatGPT. The product…
From Schneier on Security
Spyware in India
Apple has warned leaders of the opposition government in India that their phones are being spied on:
Multiple top leaders of India’s opposition parties and several journalists have received a notification from Apple, saying that…From CERIAS Blog
Reflecting on the Internet Worm at 35
Thirty-five years ago today (November 2nd), the Internet Worm program was set loose to propagate on the Internet. Noting that now to the computing public (and cybersecurity professionals, specifically) often generates an "Oh…
From insideHPC
HPE to Build NVIDIA-Powered 21 ExaFLOPS AI Supercomputer in UK
HPE will build an NVIDIA-powered £225 million supercomputer at the University of Bristol in the UK that is expected to deliver "well over" 200 petaFLOP/s using the Top500's LINPACK benchmark, and more than 21 ExaFLOP/s of AI
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From BLOG@CACM
All Photos are Fake Until Proven Real
The blurred lines of photographic reality in the AI Era.
From insideHPC
PASQAL Donates $500,000 for Quantum Research Chair at Université de Sherbrooke in Canada
Sherbrooke, Canada October 31, 2023 — Neutral atom quantum computing company PASQAL announced it is supporting the Faculty of Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS) to open a faculty position in Applied Quantum Computing…
From insideHPC
Taming the Exascale Beast: Challenges and Solutions in Architecting JUPITER
In this sponsored article, Crispin Keable PhD., senior solution architect developing HPC, AI and quantum systems for Eviden (an Atos business), discusses how his philosophy is and always has been to help customers achieve their…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Announces Call for Proposals for UA Day 2024
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is calling for event proposals for the second annual Universal Acceptance (UA) Day to be held on 28 March 2024. Organized by the volunteer-led UASG and the Internet Corporation for…