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
In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024
Last week I posted a short memorial of Ross Anderson. The Communications of the ACM asked me to expand it. Here’s the longer version.
From insideHPC
MIPS Adds 3 Managers from NVIDIA, Google and SiFive
SAN JOSE – April 09, 2024 – MIPS, a developer of efficient and configurable IP compute cores, today announced the addition of three technology and semiconductor industry professionals dedicated to driving MIPS’ technical differentiation…
From insideHPC
Vermont Tech Hub to Manufacture Gallium Nitrade Chips
Berlin, Vt. – The state of Vermont announced its Tech Hub V-GaN will produce Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductors. GaN advocates say the chips are more efficient, lighter, smaller and more durable than silicon. Applications
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From Computational Complexity
Rance Cleaveland passed away on March 27, 2024. He will be missed
My friend and colleague Rance Cleaveland passed away on March 27, 2024 at the age of 62. He was a professor at The University of Maryland at College Park in the Computer Science Department. He worked in Software Engineering…
From Schneier on Security
US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack
US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. It was a serious attack that
From the executive summary:
The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never…From insideHPC
TSMC in the USA: Up to $6.6B in CHIPS Act Funding for 3rd (2nm or More) Arizona Fab
TSMC announced it has signed a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Commerce for up to $6.6 billion under the CHIPS and Science Act. TSMC also announced plans to build a third fab at its TSMC Arizona site in Phoenix
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visioning Workshop Teaser: The Future of Research on Social Technologies
In a world where social technologies dominate our daily interactions, it is crucial to understand their profound impact on our lives. Last year, CCC brought together information, computing, and social scientists, communication…
From The Noisy Channel
AI-Powered Search: Embedding-Based Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
When search application developers consider replacing a traditional search architecture with AI-powered search, they usually have two things in mind. The first is replacing bag-of-words representations with embeddings. The second…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240408: Chips Ahoy! …and Quantum Error Rate Progress
A good April morning to you! Chips dominate the HPC-AI news landscape, which has become something of an industry commonplace of late, including: TSMC’s Arizona fab on schedule, the Dutch government makes a pitch to ASML, Intel…
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerability of HTML Emails
This is a newly discovered email vulnerability:
The email your manager received and forwarded to you was something completely innocent, such as a potential customer asking a few questions. All that email was supposed to achieve…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Computers that read emotions
We can add emotion to our text communication using symbols but will computers be able to work out what we're saying?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
C++ web app with Crow: early scalability results
Last year, I looked at writing small “hello world” web applications in various programming languages (Go, JavaScript, Nim…). Go, using nothing but the standard library, did well. In these benchmarks, I am just programming anContinue…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: SqUID Bots
They’re AI warehouse robots.
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
Quantum Corp. Announces ActiveScale All-Flash Object Storage for AI, Data Lakes and Storage Clouds
SAN JOSE, April 2, 2024 — Data management and storage company Quantum Corporation today announces ActiveScale Z200 all-flash object storage, designed to help customers accelerate mission-critical AI pipelines and massive data…
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies and Northwestern Medicine Adopt Generative AI for Patient Diagnosis
ROUND ROCK – April 5, 2024 — Dell Technologies and Northwestern Medicine are using AI to innovate and strengthen patient care to deliver advancements in medicine, including the development and evaluation of a generative multimodal…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Neurodiversity and what it takes to be a good programmer
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London People often suggest neurodiverse people make good computer scientists. For example, one of the most famous autistic people, Temple Grandin, an academic at Colorado State University…
From insideHPC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Unveils IBM Quantum System One
TROY, NY, April 5, 2024 — Today, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and IBM unveiled the first IBM quantum computer on a university campus. Building on RPI’s bicentennial celebration of 200 years of firsts, the university…
From Schneier on Security
Maybe the Phone System Surveillance Vulnerabilities Will Be Fixed
It seems that the FCC might be fixing the vulnerabilities in SS7 and the Diameter protocol:
On March 27 the commission asked telecommunications providers to weigh in and detail what they are doing to prevent SS7 and Diameter…From insideHPC
Quantinuum and Microsoft Report Advance in Fault Tolerant Quantum
BROOMFIELD, CO, and LONDON, April 3, 2024 – Quantinuum and Microsoft report they have achieved a breakthrough in making fault tolerant quantum computing a reality, by demonstrating the most reliable logical qubits with active…
From insideHPC
Classiq and Quantum Intelligence Partner on Drug Development
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA and TEL AVIV, ISRAEL | April 04, 2024 — Quantum computing software company Classiq and Quantum Intelligence Corp. today announced the launch of joint research for drug development by applying quantum computing…
From insideHPC
RAVEL Announces Orchestrate GenAI Software and Support for AMD GPU Accelerators
Seattle – April 4, 2024 – RAVEL Inc (formerly StratusCore) today announced the release of RAVEL Orchestrate GenAI, built to provide IT and DevOps administrators with a single-screen interface for managing the assembly and deployment…
From insideHPC
Former Microsoft Data Center Executive Joins Iceotope as Senior Advisor
London, 04 April, 2024: Liquid cooling technology company Iceotope Technologies announced that Christian Belady has been named senior advisor to the company. Iceotope said Belady is an established data center executive known
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From insideHPC
SiMa.ai Raises $70M for Generative Edge AI Platform
SAN JOSE, Calif.– SiMa.ai, the software-centric, embedded edge machine learning system-on-chip company, today announced it has raised an additional $70M of funding led by Maverick Capital, with participation from Point72 and
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsored AI/OR III workshop: Exploiting the Synergies of the AI and OR Communities
An interdisciplinary group of 50 researchers attended the third Artificial Intelligence/Operations Research (AI/OR) workshop in late March in Washington, DC. Presentations ranging from the opioid epidemic to integrating OR and…
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App
The ProtonMail people are accusing Microsoft’s new Outlook for Windows app of conducting extensive surveillance on its users. It shares data with advertisers, a lot of data:
The window informs users that Microsoft and those …From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Members featured in AAAS article
The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) annual meeting brought together a community of leading scientists, educators, policymakers and journalists in February. Among those individuals were CCC council…
From insideHPC
SK hynix to Invest $3.9B in Indiana HBM Fab and R&D with Purdue
Memory chip company SK hynix announced it will invest $3.87 billion in West Lafayette, Indiana to build an advanced packaging fabrication and R&D facility for AI products. The project, which the company said is the first of its…
From Computational Complexity
Answer to Question. MetaQuestion remains unsolved
In a prior post I asked the following question:
find x,y,z positive natural numbers such that the following is true:
$$ \frac{x}{y+z} + \frac{y}{x+z} + \frac{z}{x+y} = 4. $$
I first saw the question in a more fun way:
From insideHPC
Hailo Closes $120M Funding Round and Debuts Hailo-10 Chip for Edge AI
TEL AVIV, Israel, April 2, 2024 — Edge AI chip maker Hailo announced it has extended its series C fundraising round with an additional investment of $120 million and also announced the introduction of its Hailo-10 high-performance…
From insideHPC
Reports: TSMC Advanced Chip Fab Back on Schedule in Arizona; Dutch Government Announces Support for ASML
A news report from a Chinese news outlet states that chip producer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) may have overcome earlier problems at its Ariona advanced-chip fabs....
The post Reports: TSMC Advanced Chip…