Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2023
From The Noisy Channel
Upcoming Search Classes this Fall
I hope that everyone has been enjoying the summer. I took a sabbatical from teaching, but I’m looking forward to new students this fall.
Are you excited to learn more about search?
If so, you’re in luck! Hopefully one of theseCoRise…From insideHPC
Hyro Survey: Generative AI to Transform Healthcare Sector
NEW YORK – August 3, 2023 — Healthcare conversational AI company Hyro today announced the publication of a report, “State of Healthcare Call Centers, 2023.” The report, based on a survey of call center managers, directors and…
From Schneier on Security
The Need for Trustworthy AI
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Keeping secrets on the Internet – encryption keeps your data safe
How do modern codes keep your data safe online? Ben Stephenson of the University of Calgary explains When Alan Turing was breaking codes, the world was a pretty dangerous place. Turing’s work helped uncover secrets about airContinue…
From insideHPC
McKinsey on the Future of Compute: The Rise of Domain-Specific Architectures
There’s more to the rise in HPC and AI of domain-specific architectures (DSAs), starting with GPUs, than the superior throughput they can deliver. Yes, the deceleration of Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling are the primary reasons…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Committees Respond to NSF Request for Information on New Technology, Innovations, and Partnerships Directorate: Seek Additional Community Input
In April 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) published a Request for Information (RFI) to inform the development of a roadmap for the recently established Technology, Innovations, and Partnerships (TIP) Directorate. This…
From Computational Complexity
The College Visits
From insideHPC
PCI-SIG Exploring PCIe over Optical Interconnects
BEAVERTON, OR. – August 2, 2023 – PCI-SIG today announced the formation of a workgroup to deliver PCI Express (PCIe) technology over optical connections. The PCI-SIG Optical Workgroup intends to be optical technology-agnostic…
From insideHPC
ISC 2024 Announces Contributed Program Categories and Committee Leaders
HAMBURG, August 2, 2023 – The ISC 2024 HPC conference has announced the contributed program categories for next year’s event (May 12-16) in Hamburg along with committee leaders: Research Paper – Jeff Hammond, NVIDIA Finland Research…
From insideHPC
Sylabs Partners with Carahsoft on Software Container Services for the Public Sector
Reno, Nv. – August 2, 2023 – Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for high performance container technologies, announced a partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as Sylabs’ public…
From insideHPC
QuEra Expands Access to Quantum Computers
BOSTON, August 2, 2023 – QuEra Computing, a developer of neutral-atom quantum computers, today announced it now supports new ways of accessing its quantum computers to meet the computing, compliance and security requirements
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From Schneier on Security
New SEC Rules around Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures
The US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules around the disclosure of cybersecurity incidents. There are two basic rules:
Public companies must “disclose any cybersecurity incident they determine to be material…From insideHPC
Livermore Lab Team Boosts Trust in AI for Science by Making Machine Learning Explainable
As machine learning techniques become increasingly used in the sciences, a team of researchers in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Computing and Physical and Life Sciences directorates are trying to provide a reasonable…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for White Papers for the 2024 Robotics Roadmap
The US National Robotics Roadmap was first created 14 years ago. It has since been used by government agencies, universities and companies as a reference about where robotics is going. The first roadmap was published 2009, then…
From BLOG@CACM
Coaxing Performance from the Complexity of HPC
Network latency and HPC performance.
From insideHPC
CIQ Names 5 New VPs
RENO, Nev., August 1, 2023 — CIQ, a company building software infrastructure for enterprises running data-intensive workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise Linux distribution — has expanded its leadership team, announcing today…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font
The Washington Post is reporting on a hack to fool automatic resume sorting programs: putting text in a white font. The idea is that the programs rely primarily on simple pattern matching, and the trick is to copy a list of relevant…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Composing from Compression
by Geraint Wiggins, Queen Mary University of London Computers compress files to save space. But it also allows them to create music! Music is special. It’s one of the things, like language, that makes us human, separating usContinue…