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 insideHPC
Zapata AI and D-Wave Quantum Announce Expanded Partnership for Generative AI
BOSTON and PALO ALTO, CA — July 8, 2024 — Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. (“Zapata AI”) (Nasdaq: ZPTA), an industrial generative AI software solutions company, and D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced a expansion to…
From insideHPC
SC24: Technical Program Leaders Discuss Their Role and Scientific Vision
Science lies at the heart of the annual Supercomputing conference, and the Technical Program is one of the most important aspects of the conference. To learn more about what this program does and the scientific vision ....
The…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Gordon Bell
Sadly Gordon Bell died May 17 at the age of 89, see this. Bell died in Coronado, California from pneumonia. He was a true visionary in the world of computing who helped design some of the first minicomputers in the 1960s. Much…
From Computational Complexity
The combinatorics of picking a Vice President
Trump is pondering who to pick for his vice president. For a recent podcast about it go here. Spoiler alert: Doug B or Mario R or J.D. Vance.
In 2008 I did a blog post titled I would bet on INTRADE that INTRADE will do badly…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Newly Discovered Vampire Squid
A new vampire squid species was discovered in the South China Sea.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions: .NET/C# Edition
Recently, the two major Web engines (WebKit and Chromium) adopted fast SIMD routines to scan HTML content. The key insight is to use vectorized classification (Langdale and Lemire, 2019): you load blocks of characters and identify…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: NSF, NEH and International Agencies Fund Climate Initiative
In another installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting funding opportunity for climate change adaptation and mitigation. NSF, NEH and partner funding agencies announce the winners of the Canada-led…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Holly Yanco Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Advance Robot Manipulation
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share that council member Holly Yanco and a team of researchers are leading an ambitious project called Collaborative Open-source Manipulation Performance Assessment for…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Gutta-Percha: how a tree launched a global telecom revolution
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
New Open SSH Vulnerability
It’s a serious one:
The vulnerability, which is a signal handler race condition in OpenSSH’s server (sshd), allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as root on glibc-based Linux systems; that presents a significant…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Welcomes New Leadership and Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is thrilled to announce new leadership. Nadya Bliss will assume the role of Chair, while Katie Siek will take on the position of Vice Chair. Both Nadya and Katie bring a wealth of experience…
From insideHPC
PCIe 7.0: Enabling Next Gen AI Accelerator Interconnects in HPC Data Centers
Scaling data centers for evolving AI models will help alleviate data bottlenecks by distributing workloads across thousands of GPUs. This scaling extends beyond the capabilities of individual accelerators or processors to encompass…
From Computational Complexity
Why is called the Turing Award (revisited)?
Avi Wigderson gave his ACM Turing Award lecture last week, and instead of telling his own story, he focused on Alan Turing and his influence on complexity. If you didn't see it live, you can watch on YouTube or below.
I want to…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Even the dolphins use pocket switched networks!
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
CCC Extends Warm Welcome to New Council Members
CCC is thrilled to announce that the following six computing researchers have joined the CCC Council: Weisong Shi, University of Delaware Rayid Ghani, Carnegie Mellon University Sebastian Elbaum, University of Virginia Rachel…
From insideHPC
MSBAI Secures DOE ASCR Frontier Aurora HPC Allocation
LOS ANGELES, July 1, 2024 — AI company MSBAI has been awarded an allocation on the Department of Energy’s leadership-class supercomputers through the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) program. This grant will accelerate…
From insideHPC
Rescale Receives Success Memorandum from Defense Innovation Unit for HPC Modernization Program
San Francisco – June 27, 2024 – Cloud HPC company Rescale announced the successful completion of an HPC Modernization Program prototype evaluation for the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). As a result…
From insideHPC
DOE ASCR July 22 Call for Papers: Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science
The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program in the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science is organizing a Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science (EECS). Key dates: July 22, 2024: Deadline for…
From insideHPC
TII Quantum Technology Symposium January 27-29 in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, UAE – 2nd July 2024: The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a scientific research center and the applied research pillar of the Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), will host researchers and…
From Schneier on Security
Public Surveillance of Bars
This article about an app that lets people remotely view bars to see if they’re crowded or not is filled with commentary—on both sides—about privacy and openness.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Beyond computing careers: Expanding measures of persistence and success
By Melissa (Mez) Perez & Patricia Garcia In April 2023, our article “Tracing Participation Beyond Computing Careers: How Women Reflect on Their Experiences in Computing Programs” was published in ACM Transactions on Computing…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Book on AI and Democracy
If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ve noticed that I have written a lot about AI and democracy, mostly with my co-author Nathan Sanders. I am pleased to announce that we’re writing a book on the topic.
This isn’t a book about…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Chair Daniel Lopresti Transitions to Chair Emeritus and Several Council Members Rotate Off
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) wishes Dan Lopresti well as his 2-year term as Council Chair comes to a close. June 30th marks the end of Lopresti’s term and CCC is grateful for his leadership. He remains on the Council…
From insideHPC
Altair to Acquire EDA Company Metrics Design Automation
TROY, Mich., July 1, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced it has agred to acquire the outstanding capital stock of Metrics Design Automation Inc. (Metrics), a Canadian company with a simulation as a service (SaaS) business
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From insideHPC
DDN Wins 2024 AI Breakthrough Award
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – July 1, 2024 – AI and multi-cloud data management solutions company DDN announced it has won its fourth “AI Hardware Innovation Award,” resulting in five consecutive annual award recognitions in the AI Breakthrough…
From Schneier on Security
Model Extraction from Neural Networks
A new paper, “Polynomial Time Cryptanalytic Extraction of Neural Network Models,” by Adi Shamir and others, uses ideas from differential cryptanalysis to extract the weights inside a neural network using specific queries and …