Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2024
From Schneier on Security
Dan Solove on Privacy Regulation
Law professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: “I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade, and I think I finally made a breakthrough with this article.” His mini…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Announcing Rendering History – The Women of ACM-W
We are delighted to announce the newly published book Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W, edited by Gloria Childress Townsend. Townsend was active with the ACM Women’s Council (ACM-W) for 17 years, having played leadership…
From insideHPC
CINECA Selects E4 Computer with Dell and Vast for Galileo 100 HPC Upgrade
April 23, 2024 — E4 Computer Engineering has won the contract to upgrade Galileo 100, CINECA Interuniversity Consortium’s supercomputer and Tier-1 cloud system for public scientific research capable of serving over 5000 users…
From insideHPC
Pasqal and Welinq Partner to Develop Quantum Interconnects
Paris – April 23, 2024 – Neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal and Welinq, a quantum networking company, today announced a partnership intended to to address challenging problems in neutral atom quantum computing. The…
From insideHPC
atNorth Names New Chief Development Officer
Reykjavík, Iceland – April 23, 2024 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced the appointment of Anna Kristín Pálsdóttir as Chief Development Officer…
From insideHPC
Xinnor and Versatus Partner on HPC and AI Storage Solutions
Haifa, Israel and San Paulo, Brazil – April 23, 2024: Xinnor, a provider of high-performance software RAID solutions, and Versatus HPC, an advisor and integrator of high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence…
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Announces DXi All-Flash Backup Appliances
SAN JOSE, April 23, 2024 — Data management and storage company Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced DXi T-Series all-flash backup appliances to accelerate data protection processes to protect and recover IT operations…
From insideHPC
HPC MARKET UPDATE PRE-ISC24
Registration is now open for Hyperion Research’s annual HPC market update (virtual) session held immediately prior to the ISC24 conference. The annual event is free of charge. The presentations will be shown at two stream times…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An Open Problem
Richard Feynman and Gian-Carlo Rota worked on different parts of science during their separate careers. Feynman of course was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century—see here. His work in theoretical physics…
From Schneier on Security
Microsoft and Security Incentives
Former senior White House cyber policy director A. J. Grotto talks about the economic incentives for companies to improve their security—in particular, Microsoft:
Grotto told us Microsoft had to be “dragged kicking and screaming…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Designing for autistic people
by Daniel Gill and Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London What should you be thinking about when designing for a specific group with specific needs, such as autistic people? Queen Mary students were set this task and on…
From Schneier on Security
Using Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware
Interesting social-engineering attack vector:
McAfee released a report on a new LUA malware loader distributed through what appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft GitHub repository for the “C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Can you trust a smile?
You're probably pretty good at spotting a fake smile, but how might we teach robots to do the same...
From Computational Complexity
Intelligent Comments on Bill's G.H. Hardy/Avi W post that we did not post.
I posted (see here) about Avi Wigderson being a counterexample to two of G.H. Hardy's opinions:
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How do you recognize an expert?
Go back to the roots: experience. An expert is someone who has repeatedly solved the concrete problem you are encountering. If your toilet leaks, an experienced plumber is an expert. An expert has a track record and has had to…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How quickly can you break a long string into lines?
Suppose that you receive a long string and you need to break it down into lines. Consider the simplified problems where you need to break the string into segments of (say) 72 characters. It is a relevant problem if your string…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Trackers
A new bioadhesive makes it easier to attach trackers to squid.
Note: the article does not discuss squid privacy rights.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t …From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Women in Math Research
Peter Gerdes is a mathematician working in computability theory a.k.a. recursion theory, a branch of mathematical logic studying what computers (aka Turing machines) could in principle compute. Or more accurately when does being…
From insideHPC
SK hynix Partners with TSMC on HBM
Seoul, April 19, 2024 – Memory company SK hynix Inc. announced today a memorandum of understanding with TSMC to produce next-generation HBM and enhance logic and HBM integration through advanced packaging technology. The company…
From insideHPC
CONTACT Software Presents AAS Applications at Hannover Messe 2024
April 19, 2024 — CONTACT Software is pushing the use of the Asset Administration Shell with its Elements platform. In Hannover, the company and its partners will showcase several new AAS applications for the digital twin. As
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From insideHPC
Lenovo and NVIDIA Partner on New Hybrid AI Solutions
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Lenovo unveiled the expansion of its ThinkSystem AI portfolio designed for the most demanding AI, data analytics and HPC workloads, featuring two powerful 8-way NVIDIA GPU systems combining massive
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From insideHPC
Panasas in Manufacturing and Fulfillment Partnership with Avnet
SAN JOSE, April 18, 2024 — Data solutions company Panasas and Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT) today announced an agreement enabling Panasas to use Avnet Integrated, the systems integration arm of Avnet, as its primary manufacturing and fulfillment…
From insideHPC
Quantum: D-Wave Introduces Anneal Feature
PALO ALTO, Calif – April 18, 2024 — Quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today launched the fast-anneal feature, available on all of D-Wave’s quantum processing units (QPUs) in the Leap real-time quantum…
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $16M for Traineeships in Accelerator Science & Engineering
April 18, 2024 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for four projects providing classroom training and research opportunities to train the next generation of accelerator scientists and…
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Quantum Provers
For our next favorite theorem, we look at the surprising power of provers who share entangled bits. If you can prove something to an arbitrarily computable verifier, then two entangled provers can convince a polynomial-time verifier…
From Schneier on Security
Other Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects
After the XZ Utils discovery, people have been examining other open-source projects. Surprising no one, the incident is not unique:
The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails with similar…From insideHPC
Eviden Delivers 104 Pflops Nvidia-Powered EXA1-HE Supercomputer for CEA
Paris – April 17, 2024 – CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and Eviden, the Atos advanced computing business unit, today announce the delivery of the EXA1 HE supercomputer, based on Eviden’s BullSequana…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Opportunity to Respond to U.S. Air Force RFI on Countering Bias in AI/ML Datasets
Earlier this month The U.S. Air Force Chief Scientist’s inter-agency working group sent out a request for information (RFI) on unintended Artificial Intelligence (AI) bias. The group is delving into the critical issue of bias…
From insideHPC
eFlows4HPC Delivers European HPC Workflow Platform
Barcelona, 16 April 2024 – The eFlows4HPC project announced it has delivered a workflow platform and an additional set of services facilitating the integration of high-performance computing (HPC) simulation and modeling with
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From insideHPC
CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux
RENO, Nev.—April 17, 2024—CIQ today launched supported, upstream kernels for Rocky Linux via the CIQ Enterprise Linux Platform, designed for enhanced performance, hardware compatibility and security. CIQ said the new offering…