Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2024
From insideHPC
PINQ² and Hydro Québec Form Partnership Utilizing IBM Quantum
Montreal, March 25 th, 2024 — Hydro Québec is now a partner of the Platform for Digital and Quantum Innovation of Quebec (PINQ²). As the administrator of Canada’s first IBM Quantum System One located at IBM ’s facility in Bromont…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Virtual Registration Open for the NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability
The NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability has just released a virtual registration link to attend the workshop remotely on April 16-17, 2024. This workshop, which the CCC’s own Chandra Krintz is on the steering…
From Computational Complexity
I know what A-B-C-D-F mean but what about V? X? HP?
I am looking at LOTS of transcript of students who applied for my program REU-CAAR so I sometimes come across grades that I don't understand. The transcript does not have a guide to them, and I have been unable to find the meaning…
From Schneier on Security
Licensing AI Engineers
The debate over professionalizing software engineers is decades old. (The basic idea is that, like lawyers and architects, there should be some professional licensing requirement for software engineers.) Here’s a law journal …
From The Noisy Channel
Learn to Rank = Learn to be Humble
As a search consultant, I work with lots of organizations that strive to improve their search applications. I tend to emphasize query understanding and content understanding as target-rich areas with high potential returns. But…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The top 10 bugs
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (updated from the archive) Bugs are everywhere, but why not learn from the mistakes of others. Here are some common bugs with examples of how they led to it all going terribly wrong…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Species of Squid Discovered
A new species of squid was discovered, along with about a hundred other species.
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…From insideHPC
Hitachi Vantara to Collaborate with Nvidia on Industrial AI
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 18, 2024 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to create a new generation…
From insideHPC
LBNL Researchers Win 2024 Hans Meuer Award
Hamburg, Germany, March 22 – This year’s Hans Meuer Award recipients are a team of five researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for their evaluation of the classical HPC hardware requirements for large-scale…
From insideHPC
Advancing AI with Microsoft Azure at NVIDIA GTC
At GTC 2024, we spoke with John Lee, Microsoft Azure’s Principal Lead, AI Platforms & Infrastructure, about the incorporation of NVIDIA’S new Blackwell GPU architecture within Azure’s AI capabilities portfolio. John is not only…
From insideHPC
Advancing AI with Microsoft Azure at NVIDIA GTC
At GTC 2024, we spoke with John Lee, Microsoft Azure’s Principal Lead, AI Platforms & Infrastructure, about the incorporation of NVIDIA’S new Blackwell GPU architecture within Azure’s AI capabilities portfolio. John is not only…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Passing recursive C++ lambdas as function pointers
In modern C++, as in many popular languages, you can create ‘lambdas’. Effectively, they are potentially anonymous function instances that you can create on the fly as you are programming, possibly inside another function. The…
From Schneier on Security
Google Pays $10M in Bug Bounties in 2023
BleepingComputer has the details. It’s $2M less than in 2022, but it’s still a lot.
The highest reward for a vulnerability report in 2023 was $113,337, while the total tally since the program’s launch in 2010 has reached $59…From insideHPC
LightSolver Announces LPU100 Laser Computing System
TEL AVIV, Israel – March 19, 2024 –Laser-based computing company LightSolver announced what the company said is a breakthrough in quantum-inspired high-performance computing. Its LPU100 system utilizes the power of 100 lasers…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2024: Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls Recap – Part Four
CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference. This week, we will summarize the highlights of the session, “Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls.” This panel, moderated by Dr. Matthew…
From Schneier on Security
Public AI as an Alternative to Corporate AI
This mini-essay was my contribution to a round table on Power and Governance in the Age of AI. It’s nothing I haven’t said here before, but for anyone who hasn’t read my longer essays on the topic, it’s a shorter introduction…
From insideHPC
Dell Offers NVIDIA-Powered AI Factory Solutions
NVIDIA GTC 2024 – SAN JOSE – March 18, 2024: Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is strengthening its collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises adopt AI technologies. By expanding the Dell Generative AI Solutions portfolio, including…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2024: Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls Recap – Part Three
CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we will be recapping each session. This week, we will summarize the highlights of the session, “Generative…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Unveils Hybrid GenAI Solutions in Collaboration with NVIDIA
March 18, 2024 – At NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference, Lenovo announced new hybrid AI solutions, built in collaboration with NVIDIA, designed to deliver the power of tailored generative AI applications to enterprises and cloud…
From insideHPC
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Debuts AI-Native Portfolio for Generative AI
SAN JOSE, March 18, 2024 – Today at NVIDIA GTC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced updates to its AI-native portfolios to advance the operationalization of generative AI (GenAI), deep learning, and machine learning…
From Computational Complexity
Can you feel the machine?
In the recent academy award winning movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr tests a young Oppenheimer.
Bohr: Algebra's like sheet music, the important thing isn't can you read music, it's can you hear it. Can you hear the music, Robert…
From Schneier on Security
Cheating Automatic Toll Booths by Obscuring License Plates
The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a variety of techniques drivers are using to obscure their license plates so that automatic readers can’t identify them and charge tolls properly.
Some drivers have power-washed paint …From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2024: Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls Recap – Part Two
CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we will be recapping each session. This week, we will summarize the highlights of the session, “Generative…
From Schneier on Security
AI and the Evolution of Social Media
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed with stories of social platforms’ role in misinformation,conspiracy…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2024: Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls Recap – Part One
CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we will be recapping each session. This week, we will summarize the highlights of the session, “Generative…
From Schneier on Security
Drones and the US Air Force
Fascinating analysis of the use of drones on a modern battlefield—that is, Ukraine—and the inability of the US Air Force to react to this change.
The F-35A certainly remains an important platform for high-intensity conventional…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Leprechauns Sue Over AI
For domain infringement and IP violations By GP4 after conversation Neil L. was angry. I had expected him to be bored. Dick and Kathryn were on planes last night returning from Northern Michigan, so Neil had to come to me. The…
From insideHPC
HPC User Forum Updates Speaker Lineup for April 9-10 Meeting in Reston, VA
March 17, 2024 — The HPC User Forum has updated its agenda spotlighting speakers at its upcoming meeting, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9-10, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA. The full agenda and registration information…
From Computational Complexity
Grad Student Visit Day: That was then, this is now.
(Harry Lewis helped me with this post.)
March 15 was UMCP Computer Science Grad Student Visit Day. I suspect many of my readers are at schools that had their Grad Student Visit Day recently, or will have it soon.
In 1980 I got…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Operation Squid
Operation Squid found 1.3 tons of cocaine hidden in frozen fish.
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.