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
India Spending Billions on AI
India is getting into AI in a big way. The Indian government announced yesterday it has budgeted more than Rs 10,300 crore (US$1.24 billion) for India’s AI ecosystem over the next five years. The IndiaAI Mission includes standing…
From Schneier on Security
Essays from the Second IWORD
The Ash Center has posted a series of twelve essays stemming from the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2023).
Aviv Ovadya, Democracy as Approximation: A Primer for “AI for Democracy” Innovators…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How many political parties rule Canada? Fun with statistics
Canada has several political parties with elected member of parliament: the Liberals, the Conservatives, the Bloc Québecois, de NDP and the Green. But do the behave as distinct political parties when voting, or are they somehow…
From Schneier on Security
A Taxonomy of Prompt Injection Attacks
Researchers ran a global prompt hacking competition, and have documented the results in a paper that both gives a lot of good examples and tries to organize a taxonomy of effective prompt injection strategies. It seems as if …
From The Noisy Channel
Making Sense of Null and Low Results
With rare exception, searchers are unhappy when a search query returns zero results. Businesses — especially ecommerce businesses trying to sell products to searchers — do not like zero-result searches either. So it is tempting…
From insideHPC
Core Scientific to Provide CoreWeave up to 16 MW of Data Center Infrastructure for AI and HPC
AUSTIN, Texas– Core Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq: CORZ), a bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure company, and CoreWeave, a GPU cloud provider, today announced a multi-year contract for Core Scientific to supply up to 16 MW of…
From insideHPC
Vultr Expands Cloud Nvidia H100 GPU Capacity
March 5, 2024 — Cloud hosting and cloud servers company Vultr announced the expansion of our Seattle cloud data center region at Sabey Data Centers’ SDC Columbia location in East Wenatchee, Washington. This expansion includes…
From insideHPC
Gates and CoolIT Systems Announce Liquid Cooling Collaboration
DENVER, March 6, 2024 – Gates (NYSE: GTES), a manufacturer of power transmission and fluid power solutions, announced its collaboration in data center cooling market with CoolIT Systems. CoolIT Systems is the world leader in
…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA CUDA-X to Be Integrated with HP AI Workstations
March 7, 2024 — NVIDIA and HP Inc. today announced that NVIDIA CUDA-X data processing libraries will be integrated with HP AI workstation solutions to turbocharge the data preparation and processing work that forms the foundation…
From insideHPC
Qumulo Launches a Cloud Native Solution for Cold File Data
SEATTLE– March 5th, 2024 – High performance data management and storage company Qumulo has announced the availability of Azure Native Qumulo Cold (ANQ Cold), part of Qumulo’s Scale Anywhere platform for the hybrid enterprise.…
From insideHPC
DCS Corporation Names Brian Wood Vice President of Robotic Systems Division
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 7, 2024 — DCS Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Wood to vice president and division manager of the Robotic Systems Division. Wood brings 24 years of experience in software development…
From insideHPC
Jérôme Denigot Named EVP, Sensing & Monitoring, at CGG
CGG announced today the appointment of Jérôme Denigot as Executive Vice President, Sensing & Monitoring, effective February 26, 2024. In this new position, he will lead CGG’s global Sensing & Monitoring business line (SMO), marketed…
From Schneier on Security
How Public AI Can Strengthen Democracy
With the world’s focus turning to misinformation, manipulation, and outright propaganda ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we know that democracy has an AI problem. But we’re learning that AI has a democracy problem…
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Sensitivity
Our next favorite theorem gave a relatively simple proof of the sensitivity conjecture, a long-standing problem of Boolean functions.
From insideHPC
Argonne: ATPESC Training Application Deadline Extended to March 10
The application deadline for the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) program has been extended to Sunday, March 10. This year marks the 12th year for ATPESC, which provides intensive, two-week training…
From insideHPC
Tenstorrent Founder and Engineers Say Taalas AI Chip Outperforms a Small GPU Data Center
TORONTO, March 5, 2024 — AI chip startup Taalas Inc., has announced it has exited stealth mode and raised $50 million over two rounds of funding led by Pierre Lamond and Quiet Capital. Taalas was founded by Tenstorrent founder…
From insideHPC
AI Startup Partners with Princeton on DARPA In-Memory AI Chip Project
An AI startup co-founded by a Princeton University professor has won an $18.6 million DOD grant to develop an in-memory chip built to deliver faster, more efficient AI inference processing. AI technology company EnCharge AI
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From Schneier on Security
Surveillance through Push Notifications
The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Apple and Google without a warrant.
The investigative…From insideHPC
Exascale: E4S Software Deployments Boost Iindustry Acceptance of Accelerators
Last November at SC23, industry leaders reflected on successful deployments of the Exascale Computing Project’s Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S). They highlighted how E4S at Pratt & Whitney, ExxonMobil, TAE Technologies…
From insideHPC
LiquidStack Opens Manufacturing Facility and Global HQ in Texas
CARROLLTON, TX–March 5, 2024– Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced its new U.S. manufacturing site and headquarters in Carrollton, Texas. The new facility supports LiquidStack’s mission to deliver liquid…
From Schneier on Security
The Insecurity of Video Doorbells
Consumer Reports has analyzed a bunch of popular Internet-connected video doorbells. Their security is terrible.
First, these doorbells expose your home IP address and WiFi network name to the internet without encryption, potentially…From insideHPC
AMD Hires Former Oak Ridge Director Thomas Zacharia
AMD today announced that Thomas Zacharia, former director of Oak Ridge National Laborary, has joined AMD as senior vice president of strategic technology partnerships and public policy. Zacharia spent 35 years at Oak Ridge, leaving…
From insideHPC
Women in HPC Launches Call for Submissions for 2nd Annual ISC Solution Forum Takeover
Now in its second year, Women in HPC will partner with ISC 2024 to present a diverse and inclusive event on the exhibition floor coinciding with the May 13th Exhibitor Gala in Hamburg, Germany. March 4, 2024 – Edinburgh, Scotland…
From insideHPC
Groq Acquires Definitive Intelligence to Launch GroqCloud
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 1, 2024 — AI technology company Groq has acquired Definitive Intelligence to launch GroqCloud, “a new developer playground with fully integrated documentation, code samples, and self-serve access.…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Research Visioning for Positive Impact of Automated Systems
As automated systems become increasingly integrated into society, so do the number of people they impact. This means creators of these systems need to exercise extreme caution when designing, creating, and implementing systems…
From Schneier on Security
LLM Prompt Injection Worm
Researchers have demonstrated a worm that spreads through prompt injection. Details:
In one instance, the researchers, acting as attackers, wrote an email including the adversarial text prompt, which “poisons” the database of…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The Social Machine of Maths
by Ursula Martin, University of Oxfordand Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London In school we learn about the maths that others have invented: results that great mathematicians like Euclid, Pythagoras, Newton or Leibniz…
From Computational Complexity
The letter to recommend John Nash was ``The Best Recomendation Letter Ever''- I do not think so.
There is an article about the letter Richard Duffin wrote for John Nash that helped John Nash get into Princeton: here. The title of the article is
The Best Recommendation Letter Ever.
The article appeared in 2015.
The letterThe…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Extinct Species of Vampire Squid Discovered
Paleontologists have discovered a 183-million-year-old species of vampire squid.
Prior research suggests that the vampyromorph lived in the shallows off an island that once existed in what is now the heart of the European mainland…From insideHPC
NERSC Call for Proposals: Generative AI for Science, April 1 Deadline
NERSC is inviting proposals for projects that will leverage NERSC’s Perlmutter supercomputer to push the state of the art in Generative AI (GenAI) and deep learning for science and produce novel science outcomes. We are specifically…