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 Schneier on Security
Criminal Gang Physically Assaulting People for Their Cryptocurrency
This is pretty horrific:
…a group of men behind a violent crime spree designed to compel victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency savings. That announcement and the criminal complaint laying out charges against St.…From insideHPC
U.S. in Preliminary $400M Deal with GlobalWafers to Build 300mm Silicon Wafer Fabs
The U.S. Department of Commerce yesterday announced a proposed $400 million CHIPS + Science Act investment to build what the agency said would be the first domestic fab for 300mm silicon wafers and expand ....
The post U.S. in…
From Computational Complexity
The Story of Shor's Algorithm
From insideHPC
Crusoe to Build 200MW AI Data Center, Then Expand at 1.2 GW Lancium Clean Campus
SAN FRANCISCO and Abilene, TX — July 18, 2024 — Crusoe Energy Systems LLC announced it is building a 200 MW data center at the Lancium Clean Campus outside Abilene, Texas. Crusoe, a vertically-integrated AI infrastructure company…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Day Two
Day two starts with sessions for ALL attendees. I started proctoring a session called Classroom To Career – CS Curriculum With a Purpose. This was a session presented by Oracle Academy. Oracle presents these teaching resources…
From insideHPC
Argonne Lab Unveils Upgraded Advanced Photon Source
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) Argonne National Laboratory has emerged from a year-long shutdown ready for its second act. “Together with Argonne's new exascale supercomputer, Aurora, the (APS) will empower scientists to make…
From The Noisy Channel
Is Search Trying Too Hard?
Last year, the emergence of ChatGPT and its ability to generate volumes from short prompts led me to speculate about the compressibility of thought. In a related vein, I have advocated for an approach to AI-powered search that…
From insideHPC
LightSolver Announces Management Changes
TEL AVIV, Israel – July 16, 2024 – Laser-based computing company LightSolver today announced the appointment of Amir Oz as Chief Operations Officer and Miki Sapir as Vice President of Product Management. The company said Oz and…
From insideHPC
Riverlane Partners with Atlantic Quantum on Error Correction
July 17, 2024 — Quantum error correction technology company Riverland and Atlantic Quantum, a developer of scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computers, today announced a partnership to work on quantum error correction. The partnership…
From Schneier on Security
Cloudflare Reports that Almost 7% of All Internet Traffic Is Malicious
6.8%, to be precise.
From ZDNet:
However, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be cybercriminals’ weapon of choice, making up over 37% of all mitigated traffic. The scale of these attacks is staggering. In…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Day One
From insideHPC
Open Innovation AI and Nscale Partner for AI GPU Cloud Services
July 16, 2024 — Open Innovation AI, a GPU orchestration platform, and Nscale, an AI cloud service provider, today announced a partnership designed to deliver AI Cloud services and AI workloads at scale. This alliance will combine…
From insideHPC
Chilldyne Launches Liquid Cooling Starter Kit AI in Data Centers
CARLSBAD, Calif., July 16, 2024 – Chilldyne, a provider of direct-to-chip liquid cooling solutions, has released its data center liquid cooling starter kit designed to prepare data centers for the workloads being driven by AI…
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing: What You Need to Know to Get Started
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Eviden’s approach to quantum computing involves developing a quantum emulator, Qaptiva™ solution, to focus on algorithm and application development for quantum processors. This allows industry and research…
From insideHPC
Micron Says its MRDIMMs Deliver up to 256GB Capacity at 40% Lower Latency
BOISE, Idaho, July 16, 2024 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced it is now sampling its multiplexed rank dual inline memory module (MRDIMMs) designed for applications requiring more than 128GB of memory per…
From insideHPC
DOE and DARPA in Quantum Research Agreement
July 16, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to coordinate efforts to move the needle on quantum computing. The MOU…
From insideHPC
SMART Global Holdings to Become Penguin Solutions
NEW YORK – July 16, 2024 – Today, at its Nasdaq MarketSite Analyst Day event, SMART Global Holdings, Inc. (“SGH”) (NASDAQ: SGH) announced its intention to become Penguin Solutions, Inc. This rebranding is a continuation of the…
From insideHPC
DOE Announces AI for Science Roadmap
Washington, DC, July 16, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy announced a roadmap for the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security, and Technology (FASST) in which the agency and its 17 national labs “aims to…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Planar Graphs—Again
Professors Yin Tat Lee and Thomas Rothvoss are faculty at the Allen School of the University of Washington. Lee has the A.W. Tucker Prize that recognizes the best doctoral thesis in optimization in the past three years. Rothvoss…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Chair Nadya Bliss Discusses How Technology Can Be Manipulated to Cause Harm
In a Q&A with Arizona State University News, CCC Chair Nadya Bliss spoke about national security challenges, where she shared her contributions to the “Addressing the Unforeseen Harms of Technology” white paper. “As technologists…
From insideHPC
Women in Networking at SC24: SCinet Chair Angie Asmus
The Women in Networking at SC, or WINS, program was created to celebrate and expand the opportunities for early- to mid-career women to participate in advancing technology through SCinet, the most powerful temporary computer
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From insideHPC
Women in HPC Issues Call for Lightning Talk Proposals at SC24 Workshop, Aug. 16 Deadline
July 15, 2024 — Women in HPC has issued a call for submission for Lightning Talks at the WHPC workshop to be held at the SC24 supercomputing conference on Monday, Nov. 18 in Atlanta. Deadline for submissions is Friday, August…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Chandra Krintz Shares Takeaways from NSF Sustainable Computing Workshop
Last week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released an early version of their final report for their workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability. One of CCC’s council members Chandra Krintz was on the steering…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Scientific Citations
Some scholars are inflating their reference counts by sneaking them into metadata:
Citations of scientific work abide by a standardized referencing system: Each reference explicitly mentions at least the title, authors’ names…From insideHPC
QuEra Names Ory Acting CEO
Boston, July 15, 2024 — Neutral-atom quantum computing company QuEra announced today that Alex Keesling will transition from CEO to take on a new role in leading QuEra’s efforts to achieve higher-volume production and “enhance…
From insideHPC
IQM Says It Has Set Quantum Milestones
Espoo, Finland, 15th July 2024 – IQM Quantum Computers said it has reached milestones in superconducting quantum computing, demonstrating improvements in two key metrics characterising the quality of quantum computer. A record…
From Writing
Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery is now available as an early release!
Today, I’m excited to announce my new book! It’s called Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery, and it’s a comprehensive, hands-on guide to deploying and managing software in production, written for practitioners.
From Computational Complexity
The Term Quantum Being Misused ... Again
In a post from 2015 I noted that the word quantum is often misused (see here). Have things gotten better since then? I think you know the answer. But two uses of the word quantum caught my attention
1) The episode Subspace Rhapsody…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA At 20 Looking Back #CSTA2024
CTSA turns twenty and as I write this I am about ready to fly out to Las Vegas for the annual CSTA conference. I’m in the mood to look back a bit. After the conference I think I’ll try looking forward.
The creation of CSTA was…From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking on “Reimagining Democracy in the Age of AI” at the Bozeman Library in Bozeman, Montana, USA, July 18, 2024. The event will also be available via …