Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2024
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
A Thank You Note from the Past Chair, Ruth Lennon
I have never been one to highlight myself on this website as I think it is better to highlight others. That is why we are here – to advocate for women in computing. This month, however, as I move from the role of Chair to Past…
From insideHPC
Lambda Launches Nvidia-Based Cloud Clusters for AI Model Training
SAN JOSE, July 24, 2024 — GPU cloud company Lambda has unveiled Lambda 1-Click Clusters, designed for AI engineers’ and researchers’ short-term access to multi-node GPU clusters in the cloud for large-scale AI model training.…
From insideHPC
Hitachi Vantara Announces General Availability of Hitachi iQ and New AI Discovery Service to Help Businesses Become AI-Ready
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 25, 2024 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced the general availability of initial offerings of the…
From Schneier on Security
Data Wallets Using the Solid Protocol
I am the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc., the company that is commercializing Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid open W3C standard for distributed data ownership. This week, we announced a digital wallet based on the Solid…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Celebrating Technology Leaders: Generative AI in Enterprise Software
Date: 07 August 2024 Time: Noon Pacific Register: Zoom Link We are at the forefront of a technological revolution where generative AI is redefining the boundaries of what’s possible within enterprise environments. In this…
From insideHPC
Graphene Plasmon: NTT and Univ. of Tokyo Control THz-Region for High-Speed Signal Processing
NTT Corporation and The University of Tokyo announced they have generated and controlled graphene plasmon wave packets with a pulse width of 1.2 picoseconds. They said this offers a novel approach to THz signal processing by
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From Schneier on Security
Robot Dog Internet Jammer
Supposedly the DHS has these:
The robot, called “NEO,” is a modified version of the “Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle” (Q-UGV) sold to law enforcement by a company called Ghost Robotics. Benjamine Huffman, the director of DHS…From Computational Complexity
Complexity in Michigan
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| Invited Speaker Nutan Limaye, Conference Chair Valentine Kabanets, 2024 PC Chair Rahul Santhanam, myself, 2025 PC Chair Srikanth Srinivasan and 2025 Local Arrangements chair Swastik Kopparty enjoy some tapas. |
From insideHPC
Nvidia AI Foundry for Custom Llama 3.1 Generative AI Models
Nvidia today announced its AI Foundry service and NIM inference microservices for generative AI with Meta's Llama 3.1 collection of models, also introduced today. The company said its AI Foundry allows organizaations to create…
From insideHPC
Micron Introduces PCIe Gen5 Data Center SSD
BOISE, Idaho, July 23, 2024 — Micron Technology, Inc. today announced availability of the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD – which Micros said is the fastest data center SSD for AI performance and power efficiency.1 The SSD integrates its…
From Schneier on Security
2017 ODNI Memo on Kaspersky Labs
It’s heavily redacted, but still interesting.
Many more ODNI documents here.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Does C++ allow template specialization by concepts?
Recent versions of C++ (C++20) have a new feature: concepts. A concept in C++ is a named set of requirements that a type must satisfy. E.g., ‘act like a string’ or ‘act like a number’. When used in conjunction with templates…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: A High Performance Computing Researcher Explains Sustainable AI
CCC spoke with one of its council members, Michela Taufer about her work in high performance computing (HPC) and her contributions to sustainable AI. Taufer has profoundly shaped the landscape of HPC through pioneering contributions…
From Putting People First
July/August 2024 edition of Interactions magazine is out
The latest issue of Interactions magazine, published by ACM, contains five feature stories, four of which are about AI and interaction design.
From Schneier on Security
Snake Mimics a Spider
This is a fantastic video. It’s an Iranian spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides). Its tail looks like a spider, which the snake uses to fool passing birds looking for a meal.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Post CSTA 2024 Thoughts
The 2024 CSTA conference was the best one ever for me. It was wonderful to catchup with old friends and to talk to many people I had never met before. CSTA is about community for me so an in-person conference is the dream for…
From Computational Complexity
FLT solution annouement had its 31's anniv was about a month ago. Some poems about FLT NOT from ChatGPT
On June 21, 1993, at the Issac Newton Institute for Mathematical Science, Andrew Wiles announced that he had proven Fermat's Last Theorem. That wasn't quite right- there was a hole in the proof that was later patched up withJune…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Scan HTML even faster with SIMD instructions (C++ and C#)
Earlier this year, both major Web engines (WebKit/Safari and Chromium/Chrome/Edge/Brave) accelerated HTML parsing using SIMD instructions. These ‘SIMD’ instructions are special instructions that are present in all our processors…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Peru Trying to Protect its Squid Fisheries
Peru is trying to protect its territorial waters from Chinese squid-fishing boats.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Day Four
Last day of the conference and I woke up to news of a global network outage that was causing delays in thousands of flights. Including my trip home. Oh well. I wonder if I will need this fan that was in the conference bag atMy…
From Schneier on Security
Brett Solomon on Digital Rights
Brett Solomon is retiring from AccessNow after fifteen years as its Executive Director. He’s written a blog post about what he’s learned and what comes next.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: NERVE Center Summer Camp Welcomes Middle School Students to the Field of Robotics
In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity for middle school students to explore the diverse field of robotics. Summer camp introduces young students to the broad field of robotics…
From insideHPC
CoreWeave and Bloom Energy Partner on AI Data Center Power
SAN JOSE, July 19, 2024 — Solid oxide fuel cell technology company Bloom Energy Corporation (NYSE: BE) and GPU cloud services company CoreWeave have formed a partnership to deploy Bloom’s fuel cells for CoreWeave at a high-performance…
From insideHPC
WHPC Announces 20th International Women in HPC Workshop: Lightning Talk Submissions Aug. 16 Deadline
Bicester, England, July, 2024 – The WHPC Executive Committee and Volunteers for SC24 have announced the launch of the 20th International Women in HPC Workshop: Diversity and Inclusion for All! As part of this all-day event, we…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Day Three
Before I start on my day three report, I want to suggest people look at Mike Zamansky’s Day Two report on his blog. We attended mostly different sessions and he takes really good notes.
My first session of the day - Keep Calm…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2024 Exhibit Hall
The exhibit hall was impressive this year. I believe three are something like 80 exhibitors. Below is a snapshot of s few of them that caught my eye. The usual suspects are here of course. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. You'd…
From insideHPC
TSMC Reports Second Quarter YoY Revenue Jump of 40%, Income up 36%
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Jul. 18, 2024 — TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced consolidated revenue of NT$673.51 billion, net income of NT$247.85 billion, and diluted earnings per share of NT$9.56 (US$1.48 per ADR unit)…
From insideHPC
Full Circle: Cornelis Names Intel Veteran Lisa Spelman CEO
Interconnect company Cornelis Networks today said it has named Lisa Spelman its new CEO. Spelman joins the company from Intel, which made a major push into the HPC fabric market in 2015 with Omni-Path, which became the flagship…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Joyce Weisbecker: the first indie games developer?
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a big impact: a program that allowed binary email attachments.
From insideHPC
Exascale: Frontier Supercomputer Used in Molecular Dynamics Simulation of 2M Electrons
The exascale- class Frontier supercomputer set a new standard for calculating the number of atoms in a molecular dynamics simulation 1,000 times greater in size and speed than previous simulations of its kind, according to Oak…