Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2024
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former CCC Council Member Maja Matarić Receives ACM Athena Lecturer Award
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share that former council member Maja Matarić received the 2024-2025 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Athena Lecturer Award. Matarić, who also serves as a Principal…
From Schneier on Security
Personal AI Assistants and Privacy
Microsoft is trying to create a personal digital assistant:
At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft revealed a new AI-powered feature called “Recall” for Copilot+ PCs that will allow Windows 11 users to search and retrieve…From Computational Complexity
Peer Review
Daniel Lemire wrote a blog post Peer Review is Not the Gold Standard in Science. I wonder who was claiming it was. There is whole section of an online Responsible Conduct in Research we are required to take on peer review which…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum Computers on Wall Street
Bob Henderson is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Like other reporters he also has a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Rochester, an MFA in writing from Columbia University, degrees in electrical engineering…
From Schneier on Security
Unredacting Pixelated Text
Experiments in unredacting text that has been pixelated.
From insideHPC
At ISC 2024: Andrew Whitmore on Motivair, Exascale Cooling and Innovations in Thermal Management
At ISC 2024 we caught up with Andrew Whitmore, Vice President of Sales at Motivair, whose cooling technology is at the heart of the first three U.S. exascale-class systems: Frontier, Aurora and El Capitan. That said, Motivair…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
5 key takeaways from the 2024 Robotics Roadmap
A recent roadmap document notes that the field of robotics, which was once pioneered in the United States, has seen a significant shift in global leadership over the past few decades. While the country initially excelled in industrial…
From insideHPC
Meta VR Project Developers Turn to Liqid UltraStack for NVIDIA GPU-Packed Dell Servers
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Meta (formerly Facebook) has a corporate culture of aggressive technology adoption, particularly in the area of AI and adoption of AI-related technologies, such as GPUs that drive AI workloads. Members…
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Malicious Trackers
From Slashdot:
Apple and Google have launched a new industry standard called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” to combat the misuse of Bluetooth trackers for stalking. Starting Monday, iPhone and Android users will receive…From insideHPC
Consortium for Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) to Hold 11 Virtual Sessions June 11-13
WASHINGTON, DC. — The recently established Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) has announced 11 virtual sessions on scientific software, scheduled for June 11 – 13, 2024. The virtual sessions, labeled…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
4 Ways Computing Can Positively Affect Society
Computing stands as the cornerstone of modern technological progress, holding immense promise to reshape society for the better. At its essence, it provides a robust framework for problem-solving, automation, and groundbreaking…
From insideHPC
At ISC 2024: Steve Conway of Intersect360 on Navigating HPC-AI Whitewater
Intersect360 Research Senior Analyst Steve Conway talked with us at the recent ISC 2024 conference in Hamburg on the struggles organizations around the world are having putting in place the right hardware-software strategies
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From insideHPC
Pasqal Signs Quantum Computing Agreement with Aramco
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia, May 20, 2024 – Energy and chemicals company Aramco has signed an agreement with neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal to install what the companies said is the first quantum computer in Saudi Arabia…
From insideHPC
Torsten Hoefler Named ISC 2025 Program Chair
The ISC supercomputing conference announced that Torsten Hoefler (pictured here) will be program chair for ISC 2025, to be held in Hamburg next June 10-13. Well-known throughtout the HPC-AI community, Hoefler is a Professor of…
From Schneier on Security
IBM Sells Cybersecurity Group
IBM is selling its QRadar product suite to Palo Alto Networks, for an undisclosed—but probably surprisingly small—sum.
I have a personal connection to this. In 2016, IBM bought Resilient Systems, the startup I was a part of. …From Computational Complexity
I don't do that well when the Jeopardy category is Math
Bill and Darling are watching Jeopardy.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Emotional Support Squid
When asked what makes this an “emotional support squid” and not just another stuffed animal, its creator says:
They’re emotional support squid because they’re large, and cuddly, but also cheerfully bright and derpy. They make…From insideHPC
ClearML Announces AI Infrastructure Orchestration and Compute Management
May 17, 2024 — Open source AI platform company ClearML today announced the release of an AI orchestration and compute management capabilities, making it the first AI platform to support Kubernetes, Slurm, PBS and bare metal for…
From insideHPC
CGG Changes Name to Viridien
Paris – May 16, 2024: At its annual general meeting on May 15, 2024, shareholders approved the resolution to change CGG’s corporate name to Viridien. The new ticker symbol for Viridien shares listed on Euronext Paris will be
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From Schneier on Security
FBI Seizes BreachForums Website
The FBI has seized the BreachForums website, used by ransomware criminals to leak stolen corporate data.
If law enforcement has gained access to the hacking forum’s backend data, as they claim, they would have email addresses…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Addressing harms through design
The following blog post was written by CCC’s Addressing the Unforeseen Deleterious Impacts of Technology (AUDIT) Task Force This article is the second of two related blog posts on proactively addressing the unforeseen harms of…
From insideHPC
JetCool Expands into European and Asian Markets
LITTLETON, Mass. – May 16, 2024 — JetCool, a liquid cooling company for AI-driven and high-density data centers, today announced its expansion into the European and Asian markets. This significant development is due in part to…
From insideHPC
ISC 2024 Annouces Winners of Student Cluster Competition
The ISC 2024 Student Cluster Competition welcomed 19 virtual and eight in-person teams. The in-person teams competed at ISC 2024, while the virtual teams competed using the Bridges-2 supercomputers at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing…
From Schneier on Security
Zero-Trust DNS
Microsoft is working on a promising-looking protocol to lock down DNS.
ZTDNS aims to solve this decades-old problem by integrating the Windows DNS engine with the Windows Filtering Platform—the core component of the Windows …From insideHPC
Cerebras: Wafer Scale Engine Outperforms Frontier on Molecular Dynamics Simulations
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – May 15, 2024 – Accelerated generative AI chip company Cerebras Systems, in collaboration with researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, said it has acheved a breakthrough…
From insideHPC
GigaIO and SourceCode Launch Suitcase-sized Edge AI System
Kissimmee, Florida, May 6, 2024 – GigaIO and SourceCode today announced the launch of the Gryf mobile AI platform for tactical edge environments. The system is designed to engineer complex customer solutions, combining GigaIO…
From Computational Complexity
Jim Simons (1938-2024)
From insideHPC
HPE Delivers 2nd Exascale Supercomputer, Aurora, to Argonne National Laboratory
HAMBURG – At ISC High Performance 2024, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced that it has delivered the world’s second exascale supercomputer, Aurora, in collaboration with Intel for the United States Department of…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA and Google DeepMind Collaborate on LLMs
Intended to make it easier for developers to create AI-powered applications with world-class performance, NVIDIA and Google today announced three new collaborations at Google I/O ’24. Using TensorRT-LLM, NVIDIA is working with…
From insideHPC
Asperitas Announces South Korea Immersion Cooling Partnership with Kiturami Bumyang
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – May 15th, 2024 – Datacentre thermal management specialist Asperitas announced a partnership with Kiturami Bumyang Air Conditioning Co. Ltd, a technology company based in South Korea. This partnership…