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 CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Art Touch and Talk Tour Tech
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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 1994 Lair of Squid Game
I didn’t know:
In 1994, Hewlett-Packard released a miracle machine: the HP 200LX pocket-size PC. In the depths of the device, among the MS-DOS productivity apps built into its fixed memory, there lurked a first-person maze game…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: A Groundbreaking NSF Facility Project
In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing the exciting announcement of a leader-class computing facility project from The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF announces groundbreaking Leadership…
From insideHPC
SoftBank Acquires AI Chip Company Graphcore
July 12, 2024 — Graphcore has confirmed that the Japan-based SoftBank investment firm has acquired the specialty AI chip company. Terms were not disclosed, but news reports estimate the acquisition at roughly $600 million. Graphcore…
From insideHPC
July 28 Deadline for Office of Science Digital Twins RFI
July 12, 2024 — The Digital Twins Fast-Tracking Committee of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO) of the National Science Foundation, on behalf of the Office…
From insideHPC
Research from Vultr on AI Maturity ROI
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.– Cloud computing platform Vultr has released an industry report, The New Battleground: Unlocking the Power of AI Maturity with Multi-Model AI. The groundbreaking new study reveals a clear correlation between…
From insideHPC
Eviden and the IOTA Foundation Announce Digital Product Passport
Paris – July 12, 2024 – Eviden today announced ,in partnership with the IOTA Foundation, the Eviden Digital Passport solution (EDPS), “powered by IOTA” technology. This is one of the first ready-to-use blockchain-based Digital…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
FOCS 2024
Foundations of Computer Science 2024 is coming this fall: October 27-30, 2024 at Wolf Point Plaza, Chicago. A Bit of History The cover of the FOCS proceedings is: It was designed by Alvy Ray Smith—many years ago. See his comments…
From Schneier on Security
The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper
The NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far) refusing to release it.
Basically, the recording is in an obscure…From insideHPC
HPE-Nvidia 6 AI Exaflops Supercomputer to Be Installed at AIST Research Organization in Japan
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research organization will integrate thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs into its HPE-Cray AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure 3.0 supercomputer…
From Schneier on Security
Apple Is Alerting iPhone Users of Spyware Attacks
Not a lot of details:
Apple has issued a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users across 98 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attacks. It’s the second such alert campaign from the company this year…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Accessible Technology in the Voting Booth
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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Benchmarking ARM processors: Graviton 4, Graviton 3 and Apple M2
The world of commodity processor is roughly divided in two: x64 chips for servers and PCs, and ARM processors for mobile devices. However, ARM chips increasingly common on servers and laptop. My own favorite laptop is an Apple…
From insideHPC
July 22 Deadline for ASCR Call for Papers: Workshop on Neuromorphic Computing for Science
July 10, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program has announced a Monday July 22 deadline (11:59 pm ET) for position papers for a workship on neuromorphic computing for science…
From insideHPC
Exascale: SUPERLU/STRUMPACK Solvers Get Frontier Upgrade
“Before (the Exascale Computing Project), both packages had very little support for GPUs. We could get some benefit from running on a single GPU, but without updating the code, even 10 GPUs wouldn’t make it run much faster. We…
From insideHPC
AMD in $665M Acquisition of Silo AI
AMD announced it will acquire Helsinki-based Silo AI, which AMD said is the largest private AI lab in Europe, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $665 million. AMD said the acquisition is part of its efforts to…
From Schneier on Security
RADIUS Vulnerability
New attack against the RADIUS authentication protocol:
The Blast-RADIUS attack allows a man-in-the-middle attacker between the RADIUS client and server to forge a valid protocol accept message in response to a failed authentication…From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Extracting Ramsey Graphs
Two decades ago, I named the recently departed Luca Trevisan's paper connecting extractors to psuedorandom generators as one of my favorite theorems from 1995-2004. I'm dedicating this month's favorite theorem toSuppose…From insideHPC
Qumulo Names Former Arista Executive Douglas Gourlay CEO
SEATTLE – Jul. 9, 2024 – Data management company Qumulo today announced the appointment of Douglas Gourlay as president and chief executive officer. Gourlay will also join Qumulo’s Board of Directors. Under the leadership of
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From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast Industry View: Penguin Solutions on Getting AI Infrastructure Right
The @HPCpodcast's “Industry View” feature takes on major issues in advanced technologies through the lens of industry leaders. In this episode, we dig into the design and deployment of large-scale AI infrastructures with Jonathan…
From insideHPC
NetBrain Launches NetBrain User Conference to Support Increasing Demand for Network Automation
Boston, July 9, 2024 – NetBrain Technologies, Inc., a provider of no-code network automation and dynamic mapping solutions for hybrid cloud-connected networks, today announced that registration has opened for NetBrain LIVE, its…
From insideHPC
Altair Named Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem Partner
SEOUL, July 9, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational intelligence, has been selected as an electronic design automation (EDA) partner for the Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE). Through this collaboration…
From insideHPC
HPC-AI User Forum to Be Held September 4-5 at Argonne
ST PAUL, Minn., July 9, 2024— The HPC User Forum has opened registration for its upcoming meeting, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 4-5, at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. Featured speakers at the event: Rick Stevens…
From Yoshua Bengio
Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously
About a year ago, a few months after I publicly took a stand with many other peers to warn the public of the dangers related…
L’article Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously est apparu en premier sur …From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Launches Three Coolant Distribution Units
Calgary, AB, July 9, 2024 – CoolIT Systems (CoolIT) announces the launch of three new models in its lineup of Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs): AHx240, AHx180 and CHx500. These CDUs are engineered to meet the most demanding
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From insideHPC
Riverlane Announces 3-Year Quantum Error Correction Roadmap
July 9, 2024 — Quantum error correction technology company Riverlane has released a three-year roadmap for its quantum error correction stack, Deltaflow, starting in 2024 and culminating in a system where quantum computers can…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The basics of Quantum Computing: Qubits
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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visioning Workshop Preview: Information Retrieval in the Age of Generative AI
Ever thought about what it would look like to have a personal assistant with domain-specific knowledge discovery? At the speed of Information Retrieval and Generative AI collaboration, this could be a reality in 10 years. CCC…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240708: Low Yield Huawei AI Chip, AI ROI Questions, ASIC AI Chip
A good July morning to you! It was a short Fourth of July holiday week in the (U.S.) world of HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (6:04) run-down of news highlights: China’s SMIC wafer yields for Huawei AI chip yield to sanctions, Goldman…
From insideHPC
EuroHPC JU FFplus Project: Open Call for Business Experiments and Innovation Studies Using HPC and AI
Stuttgart, Germany – July 8, 2024 – The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s FFplus project, established earlier this year to provide SMEs resources to test new applications of HPC and AI, has invited proposals from companies interested…