Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2023
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The CCC Announces New Council Members for 2023
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed five new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Kevin Butler, University of Florida Daniel…
From insideHPC
GPU Cloud Provider CoreWeave Secures $200M Series B Extension
ROSELAND, N.J. — May 31, 2023 — CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider built for large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, today announced an additional $200 million in funding from Magnetar Capital (“Magnetar”), a leading alternative…
From insideHPC
PCI-SIG Certifies Achronix VectorPath Accelerator Card for PCIe Gen5 x16 @ 32 GT/s
Santa Clara, Calif., May 22, 2023 – Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, a maker of FPGAs and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, today announced that its VectorPath accelerator card featuring a Speedster7t FPGA has been certified by PCI…
From insideHPC
Alces Flight and Deep Green Partner on UK HPC Carbon Output
Bicester, UK and London — May 23, 2023 — The teams at Alces Flight and Deep Green have announced a partnership focused on the use of micro data centres to power HPC and edge workloads. Deep Green’s “data furnace” technology is…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
A Godlike Heart
A short story by Rafael Pérez y Pérez of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México translated from the original Spanish
From The Eponymous Pickle
City Council Votes to Accept Controversial LAPD Robot Dog
Not what I expected, but very much needed, but how long will it last?
City Council Votes to Accept Controversial LAPD Robot Dog
Los Angeles Times
Brittny Mejia; Libor Jany; David Zahniser, May 23, 2023
The Los Angeles City Council…From BLOG@CACM
Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners – Part 4
We believe programming experience is crucial for human resources practitioners in the data and tech era.
From The Eponymous Pickle
TeslaBots Emergent Next year?
Just watched an interview with Musk. Using come of the tech from the car.
Tesla Robot: News, Rumors, and Estimated Price, Release Date, and Specs
Yes, it's real. Here's the prototype of the $20,000 Tesla robot. Companions,By…From BLOG@CACM
Navigating the 2023 Cybersecurity Landscape
The importance of information security technologies cannot be overstated, given how deeply integrated gadgets have become in our lives.
From Schneier on Security
Chinese Hacking of U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Everyone is writing about an interagency and international report on Chinese hacking of US critical infrastructure.
Lots of interesting details about how the group, called Volt Typhoon, accesses target networks and evades …From The Eponymous Pickle
Statement on AI Risk
Considerable statement and agreement, Signed by many worldwide. top academics in China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f20wXjWHh2o
Statement on AI Risk
Hassabis, Altman and AGI Labs Unite - AI Extinction Risk Statement [ft…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Mary Clem: getting it right
Mary Clem was a pioneer of dependable computing long before the first computers existed. She was a computer herself, but became more like a programmer.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Wireless Sensor System for Continuous Monitoring of Bridge Deformation
Towards infrastructure sensing, monitoring and maintenance.
Researchers develop wireless sensor system for continuous monitoring of bridge deformation by Drexel University
Researchers in Drexel University's College of Engineering…From insideHPC
At ISC 2023: Addison Snell on the Return of Healthy, Pre-Pandemic Growth for HPC-AI
At ISC 2023, we talked with Addison Snell, CEO of HPC-AI industry analyst firm Intersect360 Research, about the firm’s latest market update, released before the conference. Snell said the top-line finding from Intersect360’s …
From insideHPC
At ISC 2023: Intel on its Support for Multi-Architecture Computing and the oneAPI Standard
At ISC 2023, we caught up with Joe Curley, Intel vice president and general manager, Software Products and Ecosystem, who updated us on Intel’s strategic support for multi-architecture computing. Our discussion highlighted the…
From insideHPC
HSBC and Quantinuum Explore Quantum Computing in Financial Services
CAMBRIDGE, UK and BROOMFIELD, CO, May 30, 2023 – Quantum computing company Quantinuum and London-headquartered bank and financial services group HSBC have announced exploratory projects looking at potential benefits of quantum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA and ServiceNow
Good direction.
ServiceNow and NVIDIA Announce Partnership to Build Generative AI Across Enterprise
Built on ServiceNow Platform With NVIDIA AI Software and DGX Infrastructure, Custom Large Language Models to Bring Intelligent…From insideHPC
AlixPartners and NAX Group Partner on AI and Corporate Data Sets
NEW YORK, May 30, 2023 — AlixPartners, a global consulting firm, and AI software company NAX Group, today announced a partnership to build a platform designed to unlock the value of AI and corporate data sets. The partnership…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Integrating LLM into the Wolfram Language
Outline of examples of
LLM interaction as
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/05/the-new-world-of-llm-functions-integrating-llm-technology-into-the-wolfram-language/
Examples of computational Chemistry
https://blog.wolfram…From insideHPC
ArangoDB Announces Release of ArangoDB 3.11 for Search, Graph and Analytics
SAN FRANCISCO – May 30, 2023 – Graph data and analytics platform company ArangoDB today announced the GA release of ArangoDB 3.11 to accelerate its performance across search, graph, and analytics use cases. ArangoDB 3.11 includes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Will Augment SEO
AI Will Augment SEO, By R. Colin Johnson
Commissioned by CACM Staff, May 24, 2023
"I fully expect that future personalized AI-enhanced search engines will allow you to query any corpus of information by requesting that the results…From The Eponymous Pickle
Want to Keep AI From Sharing Secrets? Train It Yourself
Have come up with companies thinking this.
Want to Keep AI From Sharing Secrets? Train It Yourself MosaicML delivers a secure platform for hosted AI MATTHEW S. SMITH
On 11 March 2023, Samsung’s Device Solutions division permitted…From The Eponymous Pickle
Now Modern Males Are Behind
Good piece from Irving, I thought I was the only one who noticed this, excerpt with many links within.
Why Men and Boys Are Falling Behind
A few weeks ago, Richard Reeves was Ezra Klein’s guest in his NY Times podcast “The…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former CCC Council Member, Kevin Fu, Appointed to White House PCAST Working Group
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) recently created a working group on physical resilience. The working group is made up of cyber-security experts from across academia, government and industry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
LangChain intro at Work
Taking a look at LangChain, see below, with link to detail.
Getting Started with LangChain: A Beginner’s Guide to Building LLM-Powered Applications
A LangChain tutorial to build anything with large language models in Python
From…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Advantage
Quantum Advantage
Disentangling Hype from Practicality: On Realistically Achieving Quantum Advantage
By Torsten Hoefler, Thomas Häner, Matthias Troyer
Communications of the ACM, May 2023, Vol. 66 No. 5, Pages 82-87 10.1145/3571725…From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers from UC Berkeley Introduce Gorilla LLM
And more implementations.
By Tanya Malhotra
A recent breakthrough in the field of Artificial IntelligenceThough…From insideHPC
NWP Development with Nearly 10x Higher Performance Provided by Huawei OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage
ISC is an annual global event in which high performance computing (HPC) users and technology providers come together to discuss the prospects of HPC in different areas. One particular area that concerns us all is weather forecasting…
From Schneier on Security
Brute-Forcing a Fingerprint Reader
It’s neither hard nor expensive:
Unlike password authentication, which requires a direct match between what is inputted and what’s stored in a database, fingerprint authentication determines a match using a reference threshold…From The Eponymous Pickle
WPP Partners With NVIDIA to Build Generative AI-Enabled Content Engine for Digital Advertising
Despite all pausing and hand wringing, AI enabled Generation Ad production goes on. All resonsibe?
WPP Partners With NVIDIA to Build Generative AI-Enabled Content Engine for Digital Advertising
Groundbreaking Engine Built on…