Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2023
From BLOG@CACM
Cybersecurity Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs
Preventing unauthorized access or misuse of confidential data.
From insideHPC
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre Announces 3 New Board Members
Perth, Australia — March 9, 2023 — The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has announced three new members to its board of directors: Sonya Walker and Mark Bazzacco join Pawsey’s board as independent members, while Professor…
From insideHPC
Intel Launches Intel Agilex 7 FPGAs
March 6, 2023 — Intel has launched new FPGAs, the Agilex 7 FPGAs with F-Tile, equipped with what the company said are the fastest FPGA transceivers on the market. Designed to address bandwidth-intensive environments such asdata…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Submits Response to the OSTP Request for Information on Digital Assets Research and Development
On Friday of last week, the CCC submitted a response to the Request for Information on Digital Assets Research and Development, which was released in January by the OSTP and NSF’s interagency Fast Track Action Committee (FTAC)…
From insideHPC
DARPA to Sponsor April 11 Webinar on Hybrid Quantum/Classical HPC
March 8, 2023 — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said today it is sponsoring a live webinar on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, to highlight an Advanced Research Concept (ARC) topic called Imagining Practical Applications…
From BLOG@CACM
Twiddler: Configurability for Me, but Not for Thee
Online platform businesses have a distinctly more abusive and sinister character than brick-and-mortar retail chains.
From insideHPC
Vertiv Introduces Chilled Water Thermal Wall for Slab-Floor Data Centers in EMEA
London — March 07, 2023 — IT infrastructure vendor Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has introduced the Vertiv Liebert CWA, a thermal management system for slab floor data centres. For decades, hyperscale and colocation providers have used…
From BLOG@CACM
The Urgency of the Technological, Geopolitical, and Sustainability Races
The HiPEAC Vision 2023.
From Schneier on Security
BlackLotus Malware Hijacks Windows Secure Boot Process
Researchers have discovered malware that “can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled and running on fully updated versions of Windows.”
Dubbed BlackLotus, the malware…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The Life of a Star
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London The first computers transformed the way research is done. One of the very first computers, EDSAC*, contributed to the work of three Nobel prize winners: in Physics, Chemistry and…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: The AI Gold Rush, Virtual Quantum, an Advance for Silicon Photonics
In what may become a regular segment of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug cover important recent developments in HPC and AI that signal changes in markets and policies. Always, we keep an eye on where these developments fit into…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protecting AI From Hackers or can AI Provide Better Threat Protection?
Big problem. It has been suggested too that AI methods can be used to provide smart protection, but early results seem to indicate this is harder than expected.
These Experts are Racing to Protect AI from Hackers. Time is Running…From The Eponymous Pickle
The AI Future of Front-End Development
Communications of the ACM
@CACM mag By Medium
The embrace of #ArtificialIntelligence #tools such as #ChatGPT have made it easier than ever to outsource #programming work, and this has significant implications for the future of…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sygic Better than Google Maps?
A better Replacement for Google Maps?
Interesting but ultimately not free. An alternative with potential features and coverage differences?
Also can they beat the vast data and features that Google has? Will take a look,
Google…From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Dives Into Digital Innovation and Data Strategies
My former employer Announces
P&G Dives Into Digital Innovation and Data Strategies
Liz Dominguez, Managing Editor in Consumergoods.com
P&G TECH PILOTS IN THE WORKS
Paper/Family Care: Using machine learning and data storage platforms…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Looks beyond Health Research
Google outlines some of their research, including the use of AI methods.
Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Health in the GoogleBlog
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Posted by Greg Corrado, Distinguished Scientist, and Yossi Matias, VP…From insideHPC
ClearML Certified to Run NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software Suite
Tel Aviv — March 7, 2023 – ClearML, an open-source MLOps platform, today announced it has been certified to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end platform for building accelerated production AI. ClearML said the certification…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series: Programming Uncertain Computations by Michael Carbin
CIFellows Mentor, Michael Carbin is holding a lecture on “Programming Uncertain Computations” as a part of the NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture will take place online on March 23 from 11am-12:30pm ET. Carbin…
From insideHPC
Databricks Launches Real-Time Machine Learning on Lakehouse Platform
SAN FRANCISCO – March 7, 2023 – Data management company Databricks today announced Databricks Model Serving designed to provide simplified production machine learning (ML) natively within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. The…
From Schneier on Security
Prompt Injection Attacks on Large Language Models
This is a good survey on prompt injection attacks on large language models (like ChatGPT).
Abstract: We are currently witnessing dramatic advances in the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). They are already being adopted…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The Devil is in the Detail: Lessons from Animal Welfare? (Temple Grandin)
What can Computer Scientists learn from Temple Grandin and the improvements she made to animal welfare?
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
STACS 2023
The Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science—STACS—will take place from 7th March to 9th March 2023 in Universitat Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. It starts right away—tomorrow. I cannot go to this one, but it has been…
From insideHPC
Green Revolution Cooling Onboards Castrol to ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program for Immersion Cooling
AUSTIN and LEWISTON, NY – March 6, 2023 – Immersion cooling company GRC (Green Revolution Cooling) announced today that lubricant company Castrol will join GRC’s ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program, a platform designed to advance…
From insideHPC
Human Brain Project Spin-off SpiNNcloud Wins Grant for Energy-efficient AI
March 6, 2023 — The European Innovation Council (EIC) has recently announced that it will award a Transition grant to SpiNNcloud Systems GmbH, a deep-tech startup based in Saxony, Germany. The team from SpiNNcloud, a spin-off…
From Computational Complexity
Peer Review
I ran into a partner of a computer scientist at a social event who asked me "Is the publication system in CS screwed up or really screwed up?" If you don't know my response you haven't been reading this blog long.
From Schneier on Security
New National Cybersecurity Strategy
Last week the Biden Administration released a new National Cybersecurity Strategy (summary >here. There is lots of good commentary out there. It’s basically a smart strategy, but the hard parts are always the implementation details…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Ingrid Daubechies: Wiggly lines help catching crime
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London from the cs4fn women are here special issue. Computer scientists rely on maths a lot. As mathematicians devise new mathematical theories and tools, computer scientists turn them…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Mark Dean: An Inspiration
Black Girls Code aims to teach one million Black girls to code before 2040.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Go Stores Close
The fully automated checkout stores will close, unclear if this is general abandonment of the concept or just cost cutting.
Amazon Go stores to close in cities coast to coast
8 Amazon Go stores to close April 1
By Julia Musto FOXBusiness…From The Eponymous Pickle
EU Digital Strategy
So many directions to regulate. Note considering the influence US Law
The EU digital strategy: The impact of data privacy on global business
McKinseu: March 1, 2023 | Commentary
By Daniel Mikkelsen, Sebastian Scheurle, Henning…