Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2023
From insideHPC
Aug. 21-23: 11th Annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) Conference, Columbus, OH
The 11th annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) conference will be held Monday-Wednesday, Aug. 21-23 at the Ohio State Univeersity Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI), Pomerene Hall, Room #320 in Columbus, OH. Registration…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Adds 192-Core AmpereOne ARM-Based Servers
SAN JOSE, July 19, 2023 — Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) has announced servers incorporating the new 5nm Arm-based AmpereOne CPU with up to 192 single-threaded cores and up to 4TB of memory capacity. Applications such as databases…
From Schneier on Security
Practice Your Security Prompting Skills
Gandalf is an interactive LLM game where the goal is to get the chatbot to reveal its password. There are eight levels of difficulty, as the chatbot gets increasingly restrictive instructions as to how it will answer. It’s a …
From Computational Complexity
More on Psuedodeterminism
Back in May I posted about a paper that finds primes pseudodeterministically and Quanta magazine recently published a story on the result. Oddly enough the paper really isn't about primes at all.
Consider any set A such that
…From insideHPC
Industry Heavyweights Form Ultra Ethernet Consortium for HPC and AI
SAN FRANCISCO – July 19, 2023 – A host of industry heavyweights have formed the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), intended to promote “industry-wide cooperation to build a complete Ethernet-based communication stack architecture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Evolution Tackles Tough Tasks
Automating Evolution
Automated Evolution Tackles Tough Tasks
By R. Colin Johnson.July 13, 2023
The intersection of natural and evolutionary computation in the context of machine learning and natural computation.
Credit: Evolutionary…From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbot Tutors Will Revolutionize Education
AI Expert Predicts Personalized Chatbot Tutors Will Revolutionize Traditional Education And Benefit Students By Ev Richard On Jul 13, 2023
AI-powered chatbot tutors have the potential to revolutionize traditional education and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Stable Doodle AI
Interesting thought ...
Stable Doodle AI turns your scribbles into sketches
Yes, more AI-generated art.
By Meera Navlakha on July 18, 2023
If you have sub-par artistic skills, it may be your time to shine. Artificial intelligence…From The Eponymous Pickle
How Unilever Is Preparing for the Future of Work
How Unilever Is Preparing for the Future of Work
Launched in 2016, Unilever’s Future of Work initiative aimed to accelerate the speed of change throughout the organization and prepare its workforce for a digitalized and highly…From The Eponymous Pickle
Claude 2 Chat GPT rival launches chatbot that can summarise a novel
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starlink Satellites Changed Course to Avoid Collisions 25,000 Times in the Past 6 Months
Still concerned about the process near the earth.
Half of all Starlink avoidance maneuvers have come between Dec. 1, 2022 and May 31, 2023.
By Ryan Whitwam July 12, 2023 in the WSJ via ExtremeTech
When SpaceX began launching its…From Schneier on Security
Disabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone
You can disable a self-driving car by putting a traffic cone on its hood:
The group got the idea for the conings by chance. The person claims a few of them walking together one night saw a cone on the hood of an AV, which appeared…From The Eponymous Pickle
Your School's Next Security Guard May Be a Robot
Likely direction forbroad security.
Your School's Next Security Guard May Be a Robot
By The Wall Street Journal
July 14, 2023
A security robot from Team 1st Technologies on patrol at Santa Fe High School.
Using artificial intelligence…From Putting People First
GPT detectors biased against non-native English writers
If you're a non-native English writer, you should know GPT detectors are biased against you.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generative AI Tools Quickly 'Running Out of Text' to Train Themselves?
Could easily be tracked to confirm.
Generative AI Tools Quickly 'Running Out of Text' to Train Themselves?
By Business Insider
July 17, 2023
A Berkeley professor said AI's strategy behind training large language models is "starting…From insideHPC
Report: NVIDIA in Talks to Become Arm Anchor Investor, Intel May Join in
UK chip design company Arm is in negotiations with NVIDIA to be an anchor investor in Arm’s initial public offering, The Financial Times reported last week. The news comes nearly 18 months after NVIDIA ended its attempted acquisition…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Celebrating Technology Leaders Episode 13: Inspiring Women of DevOps
DevOps engineering is a relatively new career focused on building bridges between the developmental and operational sides of software development. An effective DevOps engineer possesses a diverse technical skill set, such as…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Cyber Security at the movies: Rogue one (Part II: Authentication)
In a galaxy far, far away cyber security matters. So much so, that the whole film Rogue One is about it. Part of the key to keeping the Death Star plans secret is good authentication.
From BLOG@CACM
Why They're Worried
Summarizing experts' motivations for signing the 'Pause Letter.'
From The Noisy Channel
Search Result Snippets, Revisited
Search result snippets, also known as query-biased summaries, are the additional context included with each result on the search results page. They are an essential tool to help searchers find what they’re looking for.
Snippets…From The Eponymous Pickle
3 ways AI is already transcending hype and delivering tangible results
3 ways AI is already transcending hype and delivering tangible results
Peter Evans, Xtract One Technologies in Vneturebeat
@XtractOne, July 15, 2023 8:20 AM
Google search trends for AI have soared since the service launched,At…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Building a More Inclusive Future: Highlights from the CRA Accessible for All Report
Written by Helen Wright – Originally posted on the CRA-I Blog In a rapidly digitizing world, ensuring accessibility for all individuals is crucial. In February 2023, the Computing Research Association (CRA) held a workshop on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Do We Know How Smart AI Systems Are?
Measuring is good, but create useful model and run them.
How Do We Know How Smart AI Systems Are?
ACM NEWS
By Science, July 13, 2023
It is difficult to conclude from the evidence that AI systems, now or soon, will match or exceed…From insideHPC
September HPC User Forum: AI in HPC, Sustainability and Cloud Computing
ST PAUL, Minn., July 17, 2023 — The HPC User Forum has published an updated agenda spotlighting featured speakers for its upcoming meeting, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 6-7, 2023, in Tucson, Arizona at the Loews Ventana Canyon…
From BLOG@CACM
Is Bard Better than ChatGPT?
A test should show whether Bard is more powerful than ChattGPT or AI-powered Microsoft Bing.
From The Eponymous Pickle
As Businesses Clamor for Workplace A.I., Tech Companies Rush to Provide It
Considering the future....
As Businesses Clamor for Workplace A.I., Tech Companies Rush to Provide It
By The New York Times, July 10, 2023
On the other hand, using generative A.I. in workplaces has risks.
Tech companies are racing…From insideHPC
GigaIO Introduces 32 GPU Single-Node Supercomputer
Carlsbad, California, July 13, 2023 – GigaIO, provider of workload-defined infrastructure for AI and technical computing, recently announced that it successfully configured 32 AMD Instinct MI210 accelerators to a single-node
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From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes: SC23, China Tech Export Controls, Linux Wars Expand, Chiplet Scale-out, Quantum
Happy Monday! Here's this week’s HPC News Bytes podcast for 20230717, a quick compendium of the most important news in HPC, AI, quantum and other advanced technologies. This week, Shahin and Doug discuss: SC23 registration opens…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Happy World Emoji Day –
“Emoji didn’t become so essential because they stand in for words – but because they finally made writing a lot more like talking.” Gretchen McCulloch (see Further reading below) The emoji for ‘calendar‘ shows the 17th July
From Schneier on Security
Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records
Interesting forensics in connection with a serial killer arrest:
Investigators went through phone records collected from both midtown Manhattan and the Massapequa Park area of Long Island—two areas connected to a “burner phone…