Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2023
From insideHPC
Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Tens of Thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs
If a computer’s intelligence can be anthropomorphized, then an AI supercomputer that can scale to 26,000 GPUs (26 exaFLOPS AI throughput) is at the head of the class. That’s the case with Google’s new A3 GPU supercomputers for…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Fran Allen: Smart Translation
Computers don't understand the instructions they are given in programs. They have to translate them in to actual computer languages first. Fran Allen won the top prize in computing for work on how to do this in a smart way that…
From insideHPC
NTT, MIT and Other Researchers Demonstrate Optically Accelerated Edge Computing
Sunnyvale, Calif. – May 9, 2023 – Researchers from NTT Research, Inc., the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and several optical computing companies have demonstrated an approach to optically driven deep neural networks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Job is (probably) Safe from Artificial Intelligence
Surprised a bit by the Economist opinion. True prediction of that future is hard.
ACM NEWS
Your Job is (probably) Safe from Artificial Intelligence
By The Economist, May 11, 2023
No one can predict with any certainty where a technology…From insideHPC
Digital Realty Equips Paris Data Center with Liquid Cooling for HPC
PARIS, May 11, 2023 – Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, today expanded its service offering to customers with a new high-performance computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sample Virtual Worlds Examined
For an upcoming effort I have been asked for an overview of Virtual-Meta worlds and their potential uses in areas like retail and beyond. Recall we worked with IBM on an experiment with 'Second Life' in the 80s. Below are a…
From insideHPC
Eviden Announces Quantum Application Development Platform
Paris – May 11, 2023 – Eviden, an Atos business in digital, cloud, big data and security, today launched Qaptiva for quantum application development. Eviden said it is enabling a software and hardware partner ecosystem to use…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT
Important and becoming more important issue.
ACM NEWS
How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT, By Wired, May 10, 2023
Sending data to the trash.
OpenAI has introduced tools and processes that allow people more control over at least…From insideHPC
Kao Data Invests £350M in 40MW Manchester HPC-AI Data Center
London, 11th May, 2023 – Kao Data, developer and operator of high-performance data centers for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has today announced a 40 megawatt (MW) data centre in Manchester, UK. Following the acquisition of…
From Computational Complexity
Winter is Coming
I fear we are heading to a computer science winter. Now why would I say that when CS enrollments are at record levels and AI is driving incredible excitement in the field? Back in 2016 I wrote
We won’t see a decline in demandWith…From The Eponymous Pickle
Jeff Goldstein of Acupoll Sends this, Of interest
Contact Jeff for more related input.
ACUPOLL uncovers 8 drivers of decision-making (vs. ChatGPT’s 6)
Jeff Goldstein via s17.avl3.acemsrvc.com May 9, 2023, 10:17 AM (2 days ago) to me Acupoll
Dear Franz,
As humans we are often…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI-Powered Diagnostic Tool Predicts Pancreatic Cancer Up to 3 Years in Advance
Given how difficult pancreatic cancer can be to diagnose, the tool could be life-saving.
AI-Powered Diagnostic Tool Predicts Pancreatic Cancer Up to 3 Years in Advance
By Adrianna Nine in Extremetech
Pancreatic cancer might beA…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft releases Copilot for Viva, as it continues to roll out generative AI to apps
MS continues a forward push.
Microsoft releases Copilot for Viva, as it continues to roll out generative AI to apps
Sharon Goldman, @sharongoldman
April 20, 2023 8:00 AM
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear…From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Glasses Dim Bright Objects
ACM TECHNEWS
Smart Glasses Dim Bright Objects
By New Scientist, May 3, 2023, Comments
These glasses can dim bright objects by restricting light in selective parts of the field of view.
The glasses feed the input from a camera through…From The Eponymous Pickle
AssemblyAI: LLM
The Full Story of Large Language Models and RLHF Human Feedback
Large Language Models have been in the limelight since the release of ChatGPT, with new models being announced seemingly every week. This guide walks through theThe…From Schneier on Security
Building Trustworthy AI
We will all soon get into the habit of using AI tools for help with everyday problems and tasks. We should get in the habit of questioning the motives, incentives, and capabilities behind them, too.
Imagine you’re using an AI…From insideHPC
MIT: Machine Learning Models Too Judgmental on Rule Violations
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 10, 2023 — In an effort to improve fairness or reduce backlogs, machine learning models are sometimes designed to mimic human decision making, such as deciding whether social media posts violate toxic content…
From insideHPC
Helmholtz Munich Selects DDN for AI-Driven Workloads
German scientific research center Helmholtz Munich has selected DDN AI data management solutions to accelerate the organization’s AI-driven workloads. The research integrates AI methodologies and spans multiple data-intensive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Machines to Learn More Like Humans Do
Computer Vision Models.
Training Machines to Learn More Like Humans Do By MIT News May 10, 2023
The researchers found a specific training technique can enable certain types of computer vision models to learn more stable, predictable…From insideHPC
ETH Zurich Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Mechanical Correlation at Distance
Researchers at ETH Zurich say they have succeeding in demonstrating that quantum mechanical objects that are far apart can be much more strongly correlated with each other than is possible in conventional systems. For this experiment…
From Schneier on Security
FBI Disables Russian Malware
Reuters is reporting that the FBI “had identified and disabled malware wielded by Russia’s FSB security service against an undisclosed number of American computers, a move they hoped would deal a death blow to one of Russia’s…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed
A space we worked for Coffee smells and tastes
How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed
After decades of frustration, researchers have determined how an airborne scent molecule links to a human smell receptor.
WynneFor…From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP is now into AI as well, Using IBM Tools
https://news.sap.com/2023/05/ibm-watson-artificial-intelligence-in-sap-solutions/
https://community.sap.com/topics/machine-learning
SAP to Embed IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence into SAP Solutions
And linking with Watson
Press…From The Eponymous Pickle
How does Quantum Computing Impact the Finance Industry?
Intriguing connection ...
How does Quantum Computing Impact the Finance Industry?
By Cointelegraph May 5, 2023
QCs in banking can be a game changer due to the potential of multiplying the speed and volume of calculations and transactions…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM AI Joins in with WatsonX
Saw some hints at this earlier, IBM had to come up with some related capabilities. We had worked with some of their Watson spin offs for Corporate knowledge directions. Was not impressed at the time. But here we go again…
From insideHPC
QScale Announces Financing Round
Lévis, Québec, Canada – May 9, 2023 – QScale, a sustainable computing infrastructure company, today announced a strategic investment by Aligned Data Centers, with support from existing shareholders, including the government of…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Article Featuring CCC Council Member David Danks on AAAS Session
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member David Danks was recently featured on ACM News for his involvement in a CCC-sponsored scientific session at AAAS 2023 “Maintaining a Rich Breadth for Artificial Intelligence.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Jumps into Generative AI
We used Tableau extensively. Here another integration of analytics with question asking interaction. Akin to Wolfram APIs, comparison?
May 9, 2023
Tableau Jumps Into Generative AI with Tableau GPT
Alex Woodie
Tableau hopes to democratize…From insideHPC
Q-CTRL Names Dave Kielpinski Principal Quantum Control Scientist
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, May 9, 2023 — Q-CTRL, a developer of quantum control infrastructure software, announced the addition of Dave Kielpinski as principal quantum control scientist. Kielpinski has spent the last 25 years in scientiic…
From insideHPC
IBM Unveils Watsonx Generative AI Platform
Though long gone from the HPC systems business, IBM is asserting itself in the HPC-AI and generative AI markets with its announcement today of IBM watsonx, a genAI and data platform. Announced at its annual Think conference
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